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"Family Butter at Seventy Cents, eh? Not so long's I've any cart-grease left!"
FISK
& HATCH
Bankers and Dealers in Government
Securities.
Selpho's Patent Legs
And Arms, established 24 years.
These celebrated substitutes can be had only of Wm. Selpho & Son, 516 Broadway,
N. Y. Send for Pamphlet. N. B. The Surg. - General having adopted the above
limbs for the U. S. Army and Navy, Soldiers and Seamen are supplied free on
application as above.
Davis Collamore & Co.,
479 Broadway, below Broome St.,
IMPORTERS OF FINE CHINA,
WEDGEWOOD, PARIAN, &C., &c. ENGRAVED GLASS to order in great variety. COLORED
STONE CHINA DINING SETS
Presidential Campaign Medals,
either in
Yellow or White Metal ; also
Campaign Badge Pins, likenesses correct: Workmanship superior to anything yet
offered the public. Price from $40 to $75 per 1000.
A complete set of forty different
samples. Two sizes of Medals and four forms of Pins, of each candidate, in two
kinds of metal, and a first-rate Medal of
LIEUT.-GEN. GRANT.
Sent for $5 00. Single samples 25
cents.
TRADE ORDERS SOLICITED.
Address
JOHN STANTON,
139 Fifth Street, Cincinnatti, O.
Vineland Lands. To all Wanting
Farms.
Large and thriving settlement,
mild and healthful climate, 30 miles south of Philadelphia by railroad. Rich
soil, producing large crops, which can now be seen growing. Ten, twenty, and
fifty acre tracts, at from $25 to $35 per acre, payable within four years. Good
business openings for manufactories and others. Churches, schools, and good
society. It is now the most improving piece East or West. Hundreds are settling
and building. The beauty with which the place is laid out is unsurpassed.
Letters answered. Papers giving full information will
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 parairies.
DRY
AND GROUND IN OIL
in several drab shades, For
English and Gothic Cottages, Outbuildings, &c, ROBERT REYNOLDS, Agent, No. 74
Maiden Lane.
Ivory Jewelry
BROOCHES, EAR-RINGS AND
SLEEVE-BUTTONS
—WHITE, PINK AND BLACK, $3 50 per set; beautifully engraved with Grecian
border, $5 per set. Sent free
by mail on receipt of price. Ivory Combs, $5 to $10 ; Ivory
Hair Pins, $3 ; Ivory Initial Buttons, $1; Pearl Initial Buttons, $I. 50.
WM. M. WELLING, 571 Broadway, N. Y.
SIGN, GOLDEN ELEPHANT.
U. S. Army Agency,
64 Bleecker St., N. Y., Opposite
Pay Department. Heirs of Deceased Soldiers should present their Claims at this
office for settlement. Information given when requested by letter. Legal Heirs seeking information
as to whereabouts of Soldiers killed or wounded in Battle, should apply at this
office by letter or otherwise. All just claims against the
Government unsettled should be presented at this office.
Colored Soldiers who have not
received full pay while in service, can receive the difference. They are
entitled to same pay and allowances as white soldiers ; also Pensions and
Bounty. $100 Bounty due to soldiers
discharged for wounds received in Battle. $100 Bounty due to regulars enlisting
July 1, 1861, discharged for wounds. All applications by letter, postage stamps
should be enclosed.
Gold Pens.—If you want the best
Pen ever used, send to Johnson for circular of engravings, giving exact sizes
and prices. Pens repointed at 50c. each, by mail. E. S. JOHNSON, Manufacturer, 15
Maiden Lane.
Enameled White, 50 cts. ; Pearl,
75 etc. "Snow-white," $1: "Linen Finished," Illusion Stitched, " corrugated,"
$125; Suitable Tie, $1. Jeaneret, 78 Nassau St., N. Y. Mailed on receipt of
price.
CARPET WARP.
Tobacco Twine, Twines and Paper. H. A. HARVEY,
84 Maiden Lane,N.Y.
Self-Measurement for Shirts.
Printed directions for
Self-Measurement, list of prices and drawings of different styles of Shirts and
Collars sent free everywhere.
ENAMELED WHITE,
Having the appearance and comfort
of linen, have been worn in England for the last two years in preference to any
other collar, as they are readily cleaned in one minute with a sponge.
To Military Men and Travellers
they are invaluable. Price 75 cts. each ; sent by post to any part of the Union
on the receipt of 90 cents.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
AGENTS WANTED in every Town in
the Union.
S. W. WARD, 387 Broadway, N. Y.
Army and Campaign Badges.
On the receipt of $1, I will send
either the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th. or 12th A. C. Badge, or the Soldier's Charm,
with your Name, Regt., and Co. handsomely engraved thereon ; and for $1 50 I
will send either the 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 20th, or 23d A.
C. Badge, or the new Artillery, Battery, Cavalry, Engineer, or Pontonier's Pin.
Also, for 25 cents, I will send a Campaign Badge with the likeness of either
Candidate, together with my wholesale illustrated circular.
B. T. HAYWARD, 208 Broadway, N.
Y.
Kendall's Amboline
For the Hair.
Will surely prevent hair falling
out.
The best Hair Dressing in the
market.
For sale by all Druggists.
Prepared only by
WARING & CO.,
35 Dey Street, New York.
A Good Smoke.
Army Pocket Pipe. Just out, the
most economical and best smoking pipe in market. Every Soldier and Traveller
should have one. Sample dozen sent free on receipt of $3 00. No single samples
sent. Liberal discount made to the trade. Agents and Sutlers by the gross. We
also manufacture the Magic Tobacco Boxes, Shaving Boxes, Prize Packages, &c.,
&c. Circulars sent free. Address
RICHARDS & CO., 97 William St.,
Box 3131, N. Y.
" One of Many."
A Soldier's letter to Professor
Holloway. The following letter is among the last received from the Army of Gen'l
Grant. It is only one of many hundreds of genuine letters which are kept on file
at the United States Agency for the sale of Holloway's Medicines, 80 Maiden
Lane, New York.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn,
January 31st, 1864.
Professor Holloway, Sir—I have
used a few Boxes of your excellent Pills, and now I send money for two boxes. If
the sum is not the required amount, send me one box, and let me know what is the
required sum. I think if some of your circulars, &c., were here, there would be
a great many of the boys sending to you for Pills. The Army doctors are not the
best in the world.
I am very respectfully yours.
L. T. MULCREAN,
2d Minn. Vols., Head-Quarters 3d
Division 14th Army Corps, Chattanooga, Tenn.
$15 Per Day, $15
Made easy by every Agent who
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Materials, such as Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Blotters, Emblems, Ladies'
Paris Fashion Plates, Designs for Needle-work, Cottage Keepsakes, Household
Companions, Pallor Amusements, Guide for Letter Writers, Many Ways to Get Rich,
Gents Pocket Calendars for the Year, Union Designs, YANKEE NOTIONS of all kinds,
Recipes, Games, Engravings, Rich and Costly Presents of Fashionable Jewelry,
etc., etc., etc. Agents guaranteed $15 per day. A splendid SOLID GOLD or Silver
Hunting Case LEVER WATCH (warranted) presented FREE to each Agent. Send for our
great new circulars for 1864 containing extra premium inducements, free. S. C.
RICKARDS & CO., 102 Nassau Street, N. Y.
PRESIDENTIAL
Campaign Medals. Of every description now ready in
Pin and Medal. Trade orders solicited and promptly filled at Factory prices,
Wholesale Depot Campaign Medal Co.,436 Broadway, N.Y.
A BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED GOLD PLATED
WATCH, Double
Case, Lever, Cap, small size,
white enameled dial, cut hands, "English Movements," and correct time-keeper,
with an accurate "Miniature Calendar," indicating the " Day of the Week, Month,
&c." A single one sent free by mail in
neat case, WITH A BEAUTIFIUL VEST CHAIN, for only $10. A neat SILVER WATCH, same
as above, with Miniature Calendar," &c., specially adapted to the ARMY. Sent
free by mail, for only $8. BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS' WATCH,
A STORM, HEAT, and TIME INDICATOR, With Thermometer, Compass, and
Calendar improvement, indicating day of the month, week, hour, minute, and
second, a valuable guide to the Soldier, Sailor, or Traveller, in Hunting Cases.
Price single one by mail, only $25.
Address CHAS. P. NORTON & CO.,
Sole Importers, 38 & 40 Ann Street, New York.
THE BOWEN MICROSCOPE,
Magnifying small objects 500
times. MAILED FREE everywhere for 50 CENTS, OR THREE FOR $ 1 00. Address F. C.
BOWEN, Box 220, Boston, Mass.
HARPER & BROTHERS
Have Just Published :
HARPER'S HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS
IN EUROPE AND THE EAST. Being a Guide through Great Britain and Ireland, France,
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Greece,
Switzerland, Tyrol, Spain, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden. By W. PEMBROKE FETRIDGE.
With a Railroad Map, corrected up to 1864, and a Map embracing Colored Routes of
Travel in the above Countries. Third Year. Large 12mo, Leather, Pocket-Book
Form, $5 00.
READE'S SAVAGE AFRICA. Western
Africa: being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, Southwestern, and
Northwestern Africa; with Notes on the Habits of the Gorilla; on the Existence
of Unicorns and Tailed Men; on the Slave Trade; on the Origin, Character, and
Capabilities of the Negro, and of the future Civilization of Western Africa. By
W. WINWOOD READE. With Illustrations and a Map. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00.
MAURICE DERING; or, The
Quadrilateral. A Novel. By the Author of " Guy Livingstone," "Sword and Gown,"
&c. 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.
THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF
CHILDREN in the Family, the School, and the Church. By CATHARINE E. BEECHER.
12mo, Cloth, $1 75.
CAPTAIN BRAND, OF THE "
CENTIPEDE." A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: his Loves and Exploits,
together with some Account of the singular Manner by which he departed this
Life. By HARRY GRINGO (H. A. Wise, U. S. N.). With Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $2
00; Paper, $1 50.
Any of the above Works sent by
mail, post-paid, on
receipt of price.
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