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HARPER'S WEEKLY.

[DECEMBER 26, 1863.

832

CONDITION OF THE "MINING BUREAU" OVER WHICH JEFF DAVIS
IS SITTING.

"The Reports from the Ordnance and Mining Bureaus are very gratifying."—(JEFF DAVIS'S Message.)

FISK & HATCH.

Bankers and Dealers in Government Securities,

AND

AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES
FIVE-TWENTY LOAN,

No. 38 Wall Street, New York.

A Gold Watch Free!

To all who act as Agents for our splendid STATIONERY PRIZE PACKETS, which contain fine Writing Materials, Paper, Envelopes, Handsome Jewelry, Novelties for the Holidays, &c., &c. Retail for only 25 cts. Worth five times as much. These Packets contain better Stationery and more than any others put up. They are in great demand; sales quick; the profits immense; and, in addition, receive as a present from us a splendid Gold or Solid Silver Watch, warranted a perfect time-keeper, worth ten times as much as the Composition Watches given with the trash sold by other parties. Please call or send for our New Circular.

G. S. HASKINS & CO., 3G Beekman Street, N. Y.

VERMILYE & CO.,

Bankers, No. 44 Wall Street,

WILL CONTINUE TO FURNISH

U. S. FIVE-TWENTY BONDS

As long as issued by Government at Par and Interest. To BANKS and BANKERS the usual commission allowed.

We also buy and sell at market rates,

U. S. One Year CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS.

U. S. COUPON BONDS OF 1881.

U. S. 7.30 TREASURY NOTES.

U. S. QUARTERMASTER CHECKS.

Maturing Certificates of Indebtedness collected on favorable terms.

VERMILYE & CO.,

BANKERS, No. 44 Wall Street, N. Y.

WELLING'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS. For sale by Druggists. Sent free for 60 cents. Depot 207 Centre St., N. Y.

The Parlor Ghost.

NOTICE TO THE TRADE.—Now is the time to send in your orders for the greatest sensation of the day.

Every body wants it, and it is just the thing for the holidays.

THE GREAT NEW HOLIDAY PRIZE
PACKET; or,

Santa Claus Christmas Casket.

PRICE ONLY TWENY-FIVE CENTS.

It contains something for all, both old and young,

And is Useful, Novel, and Amusing.

In addition to the numerous articles, it contains the receipt for producing, at triflieg expense,

THE WONDERFUL PARLOR GHOST.

For sale by all the Wholesale and Retail Stationery and News Dealers throughout the country. Circulars sent free.

THISTLE & CO., 130 Nassau St., N. Y.

THE BOWEN MICROSCOPE,

Magnifying small objects 500 times MAILED FREE everywhere for 30 CENTS. Five of different powers for ,$1.00. Apdress F. C. BOWEN, Box 220, Boston, Mass.

A Beautiful Complexion, free from Tan, Pimples and Freckles, may easily be procured by using the "BALM OF THOUSAND FLOWERS." For shaving it is unsurpassed. It is composed of palm oil, honey, and other valuable articles, highly perfumed by its own ingredients, and when used for washing, night and morning, renders the skin soft and white, and free from blemish. Price 50 cents.

The Trade supplied by HOWARD, SANGER & CO., 105 and 107 Chambers Street, N. Y., and for sale by all Druggists.

Parr's Tool Chests, fitted with complete sets of Tools, sharpened and set ready for use, and packed in cases for shipping.

Prices from $2 to $35 each, and containing from 8 to 92 Tools, according to size.

Shipped on receipt of price. Send for descriptive circular to the manufacturer.

GEO. PARR, Buffalo, N. Y.

Lands. To all Wanting Farms.

LANDS.—TO ALL WANTING FARMS.—Large and thriving settlement, mild and healthful climate, 30 miles south of Philadelphia by railroad. Rich soil, produces large crops, which can now be seen growing. Twenty and fifty acre tracts, at from $15 to $20 per acre, payable within four years. Good business opening for MANUFACTURERS and others, churches, schools, and good society. It is now the most improving place East or West. Hundreds are settling and building. The beauty with which the place is laid out is unsurpassed. Letters answered. Papers containing reports and giving full information will be sent free. Address CHAS. K. LANDIS, Vineland Post Office. Cumberland County, New Jersey.

From Report of Solon Robinson, Agricultural Editor of the Tribune:—It is one of the most extensive fertile tracts, in an almost level position and suitable condition for pleasant farming that we know of this side of the Western prairies.

FOR

Holiday Presents,

SEE

J. H. Winslow & Co.'s  Advertisement on page 831.

Learn to Skate in One Hour by using

Davis Collamore & Co., 479 Broadway, below Broome Street. Are now Opening HOLIDAY GOODS in great VARIETY and of very beautiful styles. Also DINING, TEA, and TOILET SETS. GLASS WARE, ENGRAVED with CREST or INITIAL. BLUE CANTON COFFEE CUPS, &c., &c. CHICKEN EGG DISHES.

$15 Per Day Easy $15 And a Watch Free. Agents should be careful in directing their orders to us, as several small unprincipled imitators of our styles have sprung into existence lately, who copy our advertisements, and "promise" the same Premiums that we have "given agents" for years. Those parties can not fulfill those promises; consequently, agents can not be dealt with honorably by them. Those parties who advertise those Premiums require agents to send them from $40 to $50 in cash for their poor imitations before they can receive any thing. "We" do as we have done for years, present our customers with a Beautiful Gold or Silver "Hunting-Case Watch" on the spot, or send it with their "first order." No delay, no promises. We do it, and guarantee all our watches as perfect time-keepers, OR REFUND THE MONEY AND PRESENT THE GOODS. Agents will notice that our Prize Packages must be of extra quality, and meet with a ready sale, or they could not be imitated. We are the sole importers of the beautiful watches we present to agents, and no other Houses have them. Look at the list of articles contained in each one of our popular, unexcelled, and valuable extra large size STATIONERY, RECIPES, and YANKEE NOTION PRIZE PACKAGES. Fine Writing Materials, such as Paper, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Blotters, Beautiful Emblems, Ladies' Fashion Plates, Designs for Needlework, Cottage Keepsakes, Household Companions, Camp Companions (for Soldiers), Parlor Amusements, Letter Writer's Guide, Medical Preparations, Many Ways to Get Rich, Likenesses of Military Heroes, Union Designs, Gents' Pocket Calendars for 1864, YANKEE NOTIONS of all kinds, rich and costly Presents of Fashionable Jewelry, Rare Recipes, Games, Army Advice, &c., &c., &c, the whole worth, if bought separately, many dollars. Price each Package ONLY 25 cents retail. Wholesale rates to Agents very low, from 100 TO 200 PER CENT. PROFIT ALLOWED. Our Packages stand same as ever, alone, and above all competitors, and have long been acknowledged as the leading and only real valuable and standard Articles of the kind now manufactured. Packages of all descriptions put up by the 1000 for Sutlers, Peddlers, Wholesale Dealers, &c. Goods sent by Express safe to ALL PARTS of the army South or Southwest. We want agents in every town and camp, who can easily make $15 per day, and obtain with their first order a Beautiful and Correct Time-keeper ,free. A single one of our Prize Packages contains more valuable articles than any half dozen others. Send for our Great New Circulars for 1864, containing Extra Premium inducements, free. S. C. RICKARDS & CO., 102 Nassau St., N. Y. The Great Original, Largest, and oldest Prize Package House in the World.

ation to entitle it to the public confidence. It is emphatically a household remedy; and, if kept on hand and used as occasion may require, will save much suffering, besides very sensibly diminishing the expenses for medical attendance.—Providence, R. l., Weekly Times.

SOLDIER'S GIFT. A PRESENT For his Friends at Home. THE MOST POPULAR HOLIDAY PRESENT. Beautiful Photograph Albums.. PERSONS AT A DISTANCE MAY HAVE THE FOLLOWING BEAUTIFUL STYLES OF PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS Sent by mail or express, on receipt of the prices annexed. Phot. Albums, Morocco, 12 Portraits, $1.50; by mail, $1.75 Photo. Albums, Moro., 24 Portraits, $1.75; by mail, $2.00 Photo. Albums, Moro., 30 Portraits, $2.25; by mail, $3.00 Photo. Albums, Moro., 40 Portraits, $2.50; by mail, $3.50 Photo. Albums, Turkey gilt, 40 Port., $3.50; by mail, $4.50 Photo. Albums, Mor. ant., 50 Port., $3.50; mail, $5.50 Photo. Albums, Turk. gilt, 50 Port., $4.00; by mail, $6.00 Photo. Albums, Alto Rel., 40 Port., $5.50; by mail, $7.50 Photo. Albums, beautiful, 50 Port., $9.00; by mail, $11.00 Pho. Albums, Mor., oblong, 80 Por., $5.50; by mail, $8.00 Photo. Albums, Alto Rel., 80 Port., $7.25; by mail, $10.00 Photograph Albums, magnificently ornamented, 100 Portraits, $9.25; by mail, $12.00. Albums sent 100 miles, on Express routes, at the prices in "first column, free;" at a greater distance, 25 cents for each additional 100 miles. WILLIAM W. HARDING, MANUFACTURER OF ALBUMS, AND PUBLISHER OF FAMILY AND PULPIT BIBLES, No. 326 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.

FURS. C. G. GUNTHER & SONS, FUR WAREHOUSE, 46 Maiden Lane, New York, Importers, Manufacturers, and Shippers of Raw Furs and Skins. Invite attention to their extensive Assortment of Ladies' Furs now on hand.

Musical Boxes,

For Holiday Presents Be sure and read B. T. HAYWARD'S Notice on page 830.

The best Substitutes for Natural Limbs ever invented. (Established 24 years.) 516 Broadway.

And Stuttering cured by Bates's Patent Scientific Appliances. For (New Edition of) descriptive Pamphlets and Drawings, address H. C. L. MEARS, 277 W. 23d St., N. Y.

HOLIDAY GOODS.

Schuyler, Hartley & Graham,

19 Maiden Lane AND 22 John Street,
31 Rue du Chateau d'Eau, Paris, Sands St., Birmingham,
England.

French and English Fancy

Goods.

PORCELAIN VASES. MANTEL ORNAMENTS. MARBLE CLOCKS. BRONZES. CARD RECEIVERS. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. ODEUR AND DRESSING CASES. CARVED WOOD WORK-BOXES. LIQUER CASES. OPERA GLASSES. FANS. LEATHER BAGS. Also JET AND CORAL JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, WATCHES, &c.

MILITARY GOODS—GUNS—PISTOLS—CUTLERY, &c.

FINE ENGLISH SKATES.

$35 WATCHES. $35

Genuine Full-Jeweled American Lever Watches, in 4 Ounce Coin Silver Hunting Cases, Gold Joints, for $35.

Also every variety of good Watches at equally low rates. All orders from the Army must be pre-paid, as the Express Companies will not take bills for collection on soldiers.

J. L. FERGUSON, Importer of Watches.

208 Broadway New York.

$7. WATCHES. $7.

A Beautiful Engraved Gold-Plated Watch, Lever Cap, small size, English Movements, perfect time-keeper. Sent free by mail, In neat case, for only $7. A Solid Silver, same as above, $7. Specially adapted to the ARMY. CHAS. P. NORTON & CO., 38 & 40 Ann Street, N. Y.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, of Aug. 22, says: "Messrs. NORTON & CO. have combined two very desirable things in a watch—cheapness and reliability. When it is known that for $7 a person can have an excellent timekeeper, there will be greater punctuality in all the affairs of life." 

FINE DRESS  

SHIRTS  

TO ORDER.  

UNRIVALED  

In Manufacture,  

Fitting, and Material.  

At UNION ADAMS,  

No. 637 Broadway. 

HAINES'S LEGAL ADVISER

For Lawyers, Business Men, Public Officers, and others. Gives all decisions and regulations concerning the Conscription Act and the U. S. Tax Law. Published monthly. Terms $1.00 a year. Address

E. M. HAINES, Chicago, Ills.

Remington's

Approved by the Government.

Warranted superior to any other Pistol of the kind. Also Pocket and Belt Revolvers. Sold by the Trade generally.

E. REMINGTON & SONS,

Ilion N. Y.

A Household Word.—Buy Your Housekeeping Articles at BASSFORD'S, Cooper Institute, New York.

The only enameled "Turn-over" Collar made in metals. Send $1 for a "Turn-over" or 75 cents for a "Choker," to Box 5173, and receive it by return mail. American enameled Metallic Collar Co., 94 Pine St., N. Y.

AGENTS WANTED.—$2 positively made from 20 cts. urgently needed by every person. Call and examine, dr ten samples sent free by until for 20 cts.; retails for $2, by R. L. WOLCOTT, 170 Chatham Square, N. Y.

IVORY SLEEVE BUTTONS

Engraved with initials, 75c. per pair, sent free on receipt of the price. Pearl, $1.00 per set each. WM. J. WELLING, Manufacturer of Ivory goods, 207 Centre St., N. Y., sign of the Golden Elephant.

Fogg's Double-Action Patent Lever

SKATE BUCKLE,

Manufactured and for sale on Straps, at wholesale, by F. STEVENS, Manufacturer of Skates, Strips, and Leather Goods, 215 Pearl St., New York, 68 Kilby St., Boston.

MUNN & CO.,

Solicitors of American and Foreign Patents,

And Publishers of the ILLUSTRATED SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 37 Park Row, N. Y. Pamphlets of information concerning Patents, FREE. Specimens of the Paper, FREE.