TUB HOUSEKEEPER, Beef Stewed with Onions.—C a t some tender beef in small pieces, and season it with pepper and salt,slice sooie onions and add to it, with water enough in the stewpan to make a gravy; let it stew slowly till the: beef is thoroughly done, then add acme pieces of butter rolled ih flour to make a rich gravy. Cold beef maybe done in the same way. only the onions siustbe stewed first and the meat added. If i the; water should stew away too much put in a little more. Veal Pot Pie.— Cut up- Sotheveal (the best part of the neck is preferable,) wash and season it with pepper and Oalt; line the sides of the pot witn r paste; put: in the veal with some, pieces : of.: paste ■ rolled out and cut in squares, cut up some pieces of butter rolled an flour and add to it, pour in as much water as will cover it, and lay a sheet.of paste on the top, leaving an opening in the centre; put the lid on the pot and put it over a moderate fire, let it 1 cook slowly till the meat is done; place the soft crust on a dish, then put the meat over it,-'and on the-top:lay the: hard crust, with the brown side up. Serve the gravy in a boat. To 'have the' crust Of'a pot pie brown, set the pot on a few coals before the.fire.and turn it frequently. , n; ,. Geblet Pie. —Wash and clean your giblets, putthemin a stew-pan, season with pepper, ,-salt : and: a' : little; batter rolled inflour, coyer, them with water, stew.them .till they- are very tender. Lipe the siaes of your pie _ dish , with , haste, ptit in the giblets, and if the gravy is not qnite thick enough, add 5 a little mope, butter rolled infioiir. Let itboil once, pour in the gravy, put on the top crust; leayingan opening,in the. centre of it in the form of a f square;; ornament this with-leayes of -the paste. Set < the Sie m thejoven; and when the crust is one take it out. . , Mint Sauce.— Choose some: young mint, pick and wash it; chop it very fine, mid pour on enough vinegar to wet it. To every gill of vinegar allow two gills of brown sugar. The sugar should be dissolved in the vinegar, then poured on the mint. ChristSias Petri Pudding for a Large Family.— Half a pound of beef suet, one pound of flour, half a pound of dried currants, half a pound of stoned raisins, two eggs, nutmeg and cinamon to the taste, half a spoonful of salt. Shred the suet, chop it fine, and rub it through the flour. Wash, piek and dry the currants; seed the raisins, mix the currants and raisins together, and dredge over them as much flour as will adhere to them. Beat the eggs till they are very thick and light, and add enough milK to form a batter—stir in the eggs, then the spices and salt, and.Jastly the fruit. Dip your pudding bag into cold water, turn it wrong side out and flour it well, then turn it back again, pour in the batter, tie the mouttrof the Dag with a strong string, but take care to leave a space sufficient to allow the pudding to swell. Have ready-a pot of boiling water with a plate in the bottom, to E revent the bag from touching the ottom .of the pot, put in the pudding and let it boil three hours and a half. Keep a kettle of boiling water to fill up the pot as may be required. When the pudding is done, take it out of the pot, dip it for an instant in cold water, untie the bag, and tom it out on a dish, To he eaten with sweet Banco. Christmas Fruit or Plum Cake. —One pound of flour, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, six eggs, one pound of dried currants, washed, picked, and wiped dry, one pound of raisins, washed, picked and stoned, a quarter of a poundof citron, cut in amaii slices,a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, one nutmeg, flavor with rose-water or lemon-juice. Stir the butter and sugar together till it is very smooth and li«ht Whisk the eggs till they are as thick as batter, and stir into them the butter and sugar alternately with the flour. Add the spice very gradually, then the fruit, which must be floured before it is put in, or it will settle at the bottom of the cake and burn. Beat the whole very hard for fifteenminutes.- If it is baked in a tin or irodaaan, butter the pan, line the bot tom anersides vith very thick or brown paper, butter the paper well, and pour in the mixture. Bake in a moderate oven five hours. Buckwheat Cakes.— One pint of buckwheat meal, one quart of water,salt just to taste,one gill of home made yeast. Mix the water—which should be luke warm if the weather is cold—with the meal, add the salt and yeast,beat it well; when light, bake them on a griddle. Grease the griddle,pour on a little of the batter, spread it so as to form a cake about the size of a breakfast plate. The cakes should be very smooth at the edges. When they are done on one side turn them, when brown on both sides put some butter on the plate, place the cake on it, butter the top, bake another and put it on, butter it and send them to the table. Buckwheat cakes are much better if they are sent to the table with only one or two on a plate. Charcoal. —All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be purified from long-retained smells of every kind, in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing 'them out well with charcoal powder, after the grosser impurities have been scoured oft with sand and potash. Rubbing the teeth, and wash ing out the mouth with fine charcoal powder will render the teeth beautifully white, and the breath perfectly sweet, where an offensive breath has been owing to a scorbutic disposition of the gums. , Putrid water is imme diately : deprived of its bad smell by eharcoal. When meat, fish, etc., tf cm intense heat or long keeping, are likely to pass into a state of corruption, a simple and pure mode of keeping them sound and healthful is, by putting a few pieces of charcoal, each the size of an egg, into the pot or saucepan wherein the flesh or fish is to be boiled. Linen Rags should be carefully saved for they are extremely useful in sickness, -ii they have become dirty, and worn bv cleaning silver, etc., wash them and scrape them into lint. t,o^lu NC?e Celery.—This,is pre- s t ? akln g/°f a fortnight a half of anint'*s? seed of celery in a quarter flavor'aniiit 3 lalldy - A f< L w drops will Ed of?ek^. fSOUp or broth, equal to a "po Clean White Ostrich Feath white soap, cut *fi oar 'J* 3 ** of water" la i h M rho f , P a .tejee basin; make thn solution into a lather. Introduce the feathers, and rub well with the hands for five or six minutes. After this soap ing, wash in clean water, as hot as the hands can bear. Shake until dry. THE DAILY EVENING BULLEfIN.—PHILADEL^HiA": I A Singular Phenomenon of Nature— B.oiUnfr springs HesewbllOK toe Gey.' sens of Icelnud—Hie mines and tbetr Yield. [Special Correspondence of the Derolt Free Press.] Stab City, Nevada,Nov.T2.—ln my letter of the 9th inst. to th&Pree Press I promised to give you a description of our boiling springs. _ These springs are situated about twenty miles from Carson : City, which is the capital of the State. They are'called “Steamboat Springs,” from the noisethey intake, which sounds like several l steamers discharging steam. These springs cover an area of about three acres.: The water-is boiling hot,- and the escaping steam can be seen for several-miles, before, sunrise,: and the atmosphere in the vicinity is- filled with the smell of sulphur. A sinful indivi dual once remarked, when ; near these springs, that he idid hot wish to approach very near, as the lower regions could hot be far.off, and he had not made his con fession, and was not ready 1 to go. At the springs : are bath -houses/ where at least two hundred patients are accom modated; There are also two fine hotels. The water cures-the Rheumatism effect ually. There- are;crevioes in the rocks where the water, can seen boiling at a depth of‘ : 30 feet Hereisalso a spring which is - called the breathing spring. ■ This spring is shaped much like a well. The water recedes to the depth of ten or t welve reet, and remains calm for five minutes, and then commences‘ttrboiL and rises until it shoots in the air aboire ten feet, and in five minutes it begins to recede. I tried its operation for at least half an hour. I have no doubt-hut years ago the whole country was subject to volcanic eruptions, for lava.can be found ;all around these springs. Steamboat Springs are becoming quite noted as one of the greatest Curiosities of the age, and they are yearly visited by-hundreds of tourists. Lady Franklin, the widow of Sir John • Franklin, has written much about: these springs.' She visited’them five years since,. There are many.other boiling springs in other portions of the State, but- none of the magnitude of Steamboat Springs. The city of Star contain a tout 6,000 inhabitants. It is in Star District, Hum boldt county, and its main street is the overland stage road. Daily the stages pass to and fro with the mails from New York to San Francisco,and the telegraph wires give us news at all hours from every accessible point on the globe. The discovery of mines in thiscountry caused thousands to visit us; towns were built, mills erected, and at this early day we arenowexportingfromHumboldtcounty alone the amount of $BOO,OOO in silver bars each month. There are at present 16 mills running at Star city, using 115 stamps. In addition to these, there are now in process of erection seven other mills,making atotal of 22mills. Scarcely a week passes in which we do not hear of tfie purchase of some mine by Eastern or English capitalists, who .invariably take steps, for the erection- of a suita ble mill on their mine. The Eothchilds own largely in our homes. The Hum phrey mill of Star City, gave as their results of crushing 693 tons of ore, $159,- 639 65, being an average of $230 36 per ton. As an evidence of the steady increase in the production of silver in Nevada, we submit the statistics of the yearly report ending Sept. Ist. 1866, of the amount produced in Star District. These statistics are obtained from the city assessment roll, amounting in round numbers to $4,168,000. The wealth of this region is almost inestimable, and the receipts of some of the mining companies put the riches of some of vour oil wells to blush. The mineral wealth of Nevada has induced the formation of many new companies in most of your leading cities on the Atlantic coast. The State of Nevada, with a population of 40,000 inhabitants or less, took out of her mines in gold and silver bullion during the year 1864, as is shown by the statis tics of exports, more than $30,000,000. Remuneration of Mechanics. —An English paper says: “The rise of wages amongst the mechanic class has been steadily going on for years, owingto the power of co-operation; ana though the consequences have not yet been so marked on the productive power of the country as might have been expected, yet causes are in active operation which must soon seriously interfere with that description of labor which has to come into active competition with the labor of other countries. Recently, orders to a large extent for locomotive engines have been executed in Belgium and Switzer land, that formerly would have beenex ecuted here; and it is believed the day iB not far distant when foreigners will un dersell us on our own soil,if they are not actually doing it now. This high rate of remuneration is telling on the Lon don shipbuilding trade, for on the Thames no fewer than 27,000 men connected with that craft are at present out of employ ment. The masters cannot compete with the low scale of wages paid to workmen in other countries, and their own men will submit to no reduction. No strong er illustration need be required of the, constant operation of that economic rule —the existence of which Trades’ Unions sometimes ignore-r-that the law of sup ply and demand regulates wages. A few years ago, on ■ the Mersey, shipwrights were paid attherateof a guineaper day, but the law in question soon worked a change. If these 27,000 men would re gard half a loaf as better than none, the English employer might still be able to keep his head above water.” -HARNESS. SADDLES. <*c JJORSE COVERS, BUFFALO ROBES, LAJP PUG**, ANGOLA. MATS, . BELOW MARKET RATE*, ' 'KNEASB&OO., Life size horee in the door. dswAs*tfs lOBIC MARKS. fk H HAMtmLBIANB, NO. «B OHEaTJICT • > PINB. EMBLEMS, Aa.dto. .stag's *V#*F awcripUm, noU-WitbAMUU WATOHEB,JEWEIBY, &C. jCLAKK & BIDDLI, 715,] ICHEBTNUT STREET. Jewelers, Silversmiths . t ' ; AND IMPORTERS OF FINE WATCHES, Invite attention to their large assortment of nseftil and h ornamental articles tor *. HOLIDAY GIFTS. JEWEUR^, iSUKOKSS, PKECIOLS STONES, •’ : BRONZES, - . ; | SJXYEBWABE, TABLE CCTLEBY, ' English and America Plated Ware. Will open on WEDNESDAY, Dewlsth, an Invoice of PINK CORAL. Which they believe superior to anything In the Phila delphia market. Also, per steamer Propontis, a fine assortment of ENGLISH PLATEB GOODS, 8 elected especially for our HOLIDAY sat.teb. deiB-6t|«........ ..... . GEORGE H.BIOHTIL. No. 716 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Kanufectorer of Solid Silver and Plated Wares. A full assortment of these superior goods always on hand. SOLID SILVER TEA SETS, Rich in design and finish, are now offered at very moderate prices. In addition, a new line of goods has just been opened, cocsliung of GORHAM'S SELVES PLATED WARE 3. These goods are the moat cbsste, select; and durable ol any m the world. ! THIRTY-DAY FRENCH CLOCKS, GQt and Bronze, with finest movements, mounted with the most artistic Groupings. 1 toa 1$ KARAT GOLD HUNTING-CASE WATCHB3, For Ladles and Gentlemen. GOLD GHATNE, WEDDING RINGS, <4O. Gold and Silver Electro Fainting, In all Us branches, promptly executed. del7oal| CHRISTMAS. HOLIDAY AND Bridal Presents. WM. WILbON & SON. I. W. cor. Fifth and Cherry Streets, MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF BUPEBIOR PLATED WARE, Have on hand a large and general assortment of Silver and Plated Ware. Of their own MANUFACTURING, suitable fir Brl dal and Holiday Gilts. Presentation Sets on hand or furnished at short no- Ooe - del-lml GOLD EYE GLASSES. GOLD SPECTACLES. SILVER spectacles: BLEED STEEL SPECTACLES. OPERA GLASSES or BARDOU’a MAKE. THERMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, Ac. : Suitable for Holiday Presents. AT -■■■■■-. I. BORHEE & SON, , OPTICIANS, deisiP 3 Chestnut Street. ga CHRISTMAS! «uaS w. w oasbidy.i NO. 12 SOUTH SECOND STREET, Offers an entirely new and moat carefully selected stock of AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE and FA NOT ARTICLES Of EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable for BRIDAL AND HOLIDAY PRESENTS. An examination will show my stock to be nnsniv passed In quality and cbeaDnees. * T Particular attention paid to repairing. devimjf FINE GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SMITH & DREER, S, B. corner ARCH and TENTH Bts Have now on band a well-selected stock of WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER, AND SILVERrPLATEDyWAHE. f./... 1 Sal table for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. A cauls respectfully solicited; . THBODOBE SMITH." rEBDINAND J, DBEEB, JR. GO TO StELLW AGEN & BRO’S. To purchase yoar Watches, (Jeweliy .and Silver Ware FOB THE HOLIDAYS, You wUI find their Goods as represented, and prices • ■ _ - .v _ . " . loy. ■.. ‘ DON’T FORGET THEIR ADDRESS, . BTBLLWAOBN ift^BßO,, No. 632 market Street. One door below Seventh, south sWe. TRIPLESHEPT. ffiATCHEB. - JEIVELBY, «fcC. Bj J2o. 819 Chestnut Street , JEWELER'S"; IMPORTERS OF English Plated Wares, j Fine Watches, Clocks. ■ i “-' ;s T • ~ ,'- 7 --• fi j London Pearl Setts, j English. Cutlery, , Bronzes, Porcelain, j Coral Jewelry, Precious Stones, I ,T - •:. Gilt Goods, &fc. WATCHES, CLOCKS, Always on hand a large assortment of jfINE ' ! jSILVER ARE , (3JIW. DESIGNS FURNISHED. AND GOODS MADE' TO ORDER, AT SHORT NOTICE. BRIDAL'.PRESENTS, HOLIDAY PRESENTS I J. TAYLOR, Jeweler,. loss CHESTNUT. Attention is invited to our elegant stock of goods suitable lor Christmas Fresen|s, OOMPBIHING Fine Watches, Elegant Jewelry, Diamonds, Faccy Silver Ware, Fancy Goods, AT 10W CASH PRICES. loss CHESTNUT. dels st JUST RECEIVED FROM GENOA, SILVER. FILIGREE JEWELRY, Also, An Invoice of Sets, Buckles, etc. KITCHEN &, CO., S. E. cor. Tenth and Chestnut streets. delS-tnthsstl Having fbr many years made a SPECIALTY of Mu sical Boxes, we are enabled by oar long' experience to (tunlsh an article snperior Is RICHNESS OP TONE, DURA BlTax x and FINISH to any-offered, the re sult of personal choice and arrangement with the Manufacturers In Europe. The prices ranging from (510 (300, and our assortment comprises such choice melodies as “Home Bwaet Home'' “The Last Bose of Bummer." “Auld Lang Syne." "Coming Through the Bye.” “Bock Me to Bleep, Mother," &c Together with - beautiful” selections horn the various Operas. ] IMPORTERS. ■ 334 CHESTNUT STREET, Below Fourth. de6-th,s,tuBt. ladomusTco^s DIAMOND DEALERS & JEWELERS^ W ITCHES, JEWELRY h SILVER WARE. WATCHES and JEWELEY RT’-PATRED. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY and BRIDAL PRESENTS hsnda large-ana beantitnl assortment of Wattes Jewely ana Silverware, suitable for Christ in as Holiday ana Bridal presents Particular attention solicited toour large assortment olj Diamonds and Watches,Gold Chains for ladles’ and gentlemen’s wear. AlsoTSleeve Battons, Studs and beal Rings, In great variety, all of the newest styles. i Fancy silverware. ' Especially suited fob bridal gifts. , We are dally receiving new goods,selected expressly for the hoUday sales. Our prices will be fbnndaslow, U not lower, than the same quality can be purchased eisewnere. .... . Purchasers Invited to'caU. ulamondß and all precious stones, also, old Gold and Silver purchased or taken ln‘exchange. ocie PHILADELPHIA, SILVER WARE- FOR IN GBIAT VABjrry. V Now Opening JET GOODS, FARR & BROTHER, 802 Chestnnt St., Phila- jQß'WjßTiltTE'a &I&ER MD PLATED WARS, j L J.TAYLOR,V DHACTR IK Diamonds, FineWatol ies Tev/el ; Silver and Plated. i ; Mnsio Boxes' lO3B Ghestnut St. , at *£Bttoa givea to Repairing oi watches and Music Boxes* se2s4a tnssna gk WATCHESi JEWELRY, &C. L. o. VOUTE, i No- 314 Market Street, ’ ; , Has 031 hand s general assortment of GOID AND SILVER WATCHES, . • ; FRENCH. MANTEL 0 LOOKS JEWELRY IN QBE AT VARIETY. V • BILVEB-AND PLATED WARE Bnltable ter Holiday Presenta, which will be disposed ol on veryreasonable terms. ■ . . . SILVER WARE MADE TO ORDER. de4,tn,thAl2t{ ■ REMOVAL. ISAAC DIXON, Watch Maker, bavins removed to No. 120 South Eleventh Street, - <5. Below Chestnut; has opened a new and care V7h Jnßy eelectgl MocXerfine Watches, Jewelry Silver and Plated. Ware. * ■ShISB N- B.—Chronometer, Dnplex, Patent Lever, ana Plain Watches careitrllyrepaired and warranted. aoifrmw m 14 to 28 leet long, assorted ari *£3xl4, abcratieo M. feet. For sale by WOHK2£Ak A CO.. 2*o. 1123 WaLnnt Btreet. “ reserved fin -sea C. M. PALMER & CO.’S FAMILY GOAL YARD, No. 721 North Front St., PHILADELPHIA. Lehigh and Blacksmiths' Coal always on hand, of the best qualities and lowest prices. d&4-tn th k ?mg P. McGARRY & SON, GOAL AND WOOD, West find of Cheatnat SC. Bridge, GOAL. GOAL. COAL. JACKSON & TEMPLETON’S Family Coal Yard, First Yard Yintb Sfc, bel. Jefferson. Lehigh, Schuylkill, Eagle Vein, Greenwood. White Ash and other brands at the lowest market pricesxea- Stal % oD g haiia aDd prepared expressly for family oaet 2050. Lehigh, ©reenwoodl and Locust Moun- Yard, 2050 Market Bt., PiuladelpM*. ftom the most approved Mines. .throngh the Tost Office will be promptly attended to. yjes img THE ABHLAND COAL COMPANY, BROAD St, . below Wood, are selling the nest ... FAMILY COAL from their own mines at prices entirely below, regular retail yards, and In all cases legal weignt, 2,240 pounds per ton. - deU-imj 3 nmosßTwn. ; josb i. shbav* INVITE ATPESmOH Tw Buck Mountain Company's Coal, , UoMgh Navigation Oompanyk Coal, aunt J hS l oo‘lffi^ OWa, ‘ ““*® Orders left with H MASON BINES, Franklin DwSS tote Building, SEVENTH street below Market, wHI be promptly attended to. sni«a «gr fvri 7” **.« troh Street WharfTiSm^l. SSwstreelE Omo>.HfriMßopagßoogpggagk^ CASTOR WHEELS. P*E HEALTH AND STRENGTH USE GAFB wiffi llke tenacity; Ho such annoyance can possibly proceed from the Glass Castor wheels, as we all know that glass is non-corrosive. There are no rough or unfin ished edges to the Glass Wheels, such as we often find in those of iron, and the latter, though smoothly ished, .will soon mst, from the dampness of the atmoa* Shere, if nothing else, producing roughness on thesuz* tee, or edge, while the former will always maintain the smoothness of glass,'just as they are finished. By sleeping upon glass wheels you retain all the elec tricity you had m your body on retiring, and you get up in the morn tug feeling as fresh , and active as «. young mas. Glass being a non-conductor, the elec tricity gained wnilein bea cannot pass off. Ask your doctor what he thinks ef the Glass Castor Wheels. Ask him if all diseases, with the exception of diseases, are not caused from the want of electricity. We have a man in bur place whom the doctors pro nounced past curing.-with rheu matism. The wheels cured him in less than fbar weeks. He Is to-day a stout healthy man. These are facts which can be proven on application at our officer No. 203 Bace street, Philadelphia, or at our Factory»afc Westyille, New Jersey where we have some sixty hands employed In the. manufacture of the Glass Cm* |lOO will be paid to any one who will soy they hava notrecelved any benefit or relief after using Gape well & Co.’s Patent Glass Castors. A sample sec (4) of tha Wheels sent to any part of the United States, on re* CeiptOf|lso, . J. B. CAPEWELL J. ALCORN, DEALER IN tain COAL, 2050.