The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1857, Page 8

Anan iii HIE prluieen ana E 3 = ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, paper, Newspaper, Newspaper, Newspaper. Newspaper, Newspaper, ‘Newspaper, —— fee on ed ustrated Newspaper, * “No. 108, for this week, % a Ddeautiful Christmas number, containing thirty-five epgravings. Don’t fail to get it on Wednesday morning, aS any Dews depot.- "S, BE SURE AND GET FRANK KLESLIE’S paper for this week. It contains a description of all Mlustrated Miustrated fhe Curist games. To be had at all news depots on Wodneoday morning, ) YOU WANT TO BE AMUSED?—IF $0, GET )? eRavk TEStIF'S boautital paper for this "week, Lal at i news depots on Wrdnesday —PEAD DOPSTICKS’ CHRIET- p No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S ®AT TP YOU NEGLECT TO GET . No. 108, on Wednesday. It is a ober, with 35 engravings. NEW A CHRISTMAS CAROL, BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. WRITTEN RXPRESSLY POR FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER, I walked the streets on Chrietmas eve, Between the darkness and the light; It was a dull and lonesome night, ‘The very houses seemed to grieve. The spirit of the Christmas time, ‘The birth of Christ, was with me then; I felt what Christ had done for men, His wisdom, and His love sublime. “« Two thousand years ago,” I said, “<A child was bora at dead of night; No crowned monarch saw the sight, The child was boru where beasts were fed. No purple robe enwrapt his limbs, ‘He was but lapped in swaddling Bands; No trump was blown about the lands, Only the angels sang their bymns. A single star, a torch of light, Guided the wise men to the spot. Few saw the light, and soon forgot ‘Tho wandering meteor of the night. * This little child, so meanly born, Was Prince, was King, was King of kings, The Lord of all created things— Who came to men a man forlorn. *« ‘Good will on earth and peace to men,” His angels sung: He taught the same. “Good will and peace’—what better claim To be a God was needed then? « «Good will and peace’—the God. like words Are now the watchword of the day. ‘We mouth them when wo preach and pray, And when we whet our battle swords. ” My thoughts grew sad, and bitter too, ‘For while I walked the dreary town ‘Tue deepening night came darker down, ‘The moon was hid, and stars were few. The cold winds blew, and round and round ‘The sere leaves eddied: trees were bare, And men moved slowly here and there, ‘Trailing their shadows on the ground. “Behold ! I sneered, “the world without, An embicm of the world within; The darkness is the night of sin, And we the fools who grupe about. How royally we keep His birth Who came to-night (o save mankind | Without, dead leaves sud frosty wind, Within, the cold, unlighted hearth. It was not thne in days of yore, In brave and merry England's prime ‘Our fathers kept the Christmas time, The merry Yule that is no more. ‘The whole of this beautiful poem Be found complete in FRANK LPSLIF: AT FAW ILLUSTRATED PAPER, No. 108, to be bad this mori ‘at all nows depots. Now is the time to commence sub- scribing for this entertaining paper. Try it—you will mover regret it THE CHRISTMAS COGITATIONS oF DOESTICKS, P. B., WITH THE STORY GF HOW His LADY MUENDS, TINE WIRE MILLIRTNS, ASSISTED TO CUT HIS WIEDOM TRETH ONE MERRY CIRISTNAS MORSING—CONTAINING ALM) THE PARTICULAR ITEMS AND KAXPENSES OF THAT DELICATE DANTAL OPERATION—TO WITCH ARE ADDED SOME FEARFUL HEVELATIONS AS TO THE FATE OF ricron. A ‘Women are great speculators, but they are particularly careful to be on the safe side; they are oftentimes seem- ing*y reckless in risking sprats, but acute observation will show that this only happens when they are tolerably cer tain of catching whales ‘Now, my lady friends, the Millikens, with whom I was n my bachelor days, are ‘all expert fisher- ‘wemen, and ai Christmas time they all go into this same whale business pretty extensively. If there ever was a touch of feminine trickery that Betsy Millikens doesn’t know better than she knows her multiplication table, then Mis one of the lest arts, and it must be sought for in the tombs of the feminine branches of the Pharaob family. Mf there ever was any of bamboozling and leading by the nose unsuspecting young men, and taking advantage Of their simple heartedness to wheedle them out of their salarice and their peace of mind, that Miss Peggy Millie kins hasn't improved upon and developed to ite last per: fection, then that way bas been supplanted by some other ‘way infinitely more effective—she could shoot the bolts from Cupid’s quiver with as deadly an aim as the archer- ‘Boy himself, and if she doesn't dosit, it is only because she some set of weapons With modern improve- ere her purpose much better. kins, what she deesn't know about the pursuit of presents under ties isn't worth the trouble w learn. | was, when with this disinterested lady, caught so many times by the “Philopoena’’ trick, leugth declined eating anything in the house on of the toothache, for I am convinced that if] had Gared Wo taste even a piece of bread from the same loaf ‘with Miss Nancy, that artless girl would bave “I’hilopa- aed’ me in the presence of ladies the Gret time sbe could have inveigied me into a high priced fur store. But the Christmas prevent arrangomont was played me beautifully, and ae it is my iuitiat.ve expericuce aim sort of thing, I shall here set it down. ‘On the 16th day of December (dies ire), I remember it well, i called to have a talk at the young ladies; they casually introduced the subject of Christmas, and Miss fray aed ne Oe I was a going to “hang wp my stocking” on Chri Eve, at the same time ing me an unmistakable hint that if T did so suspend U arucle of attire by the side of the chimney I would not in the morning; for that (here she simpered ly knowing), ehe knew a young Indy who never forgot her friends on Christmas day. | took he prical hint Then Bety wok Occasion to mancuvre ber two eisters to the piano, when one proceeded to perform “The Battle of Prague,” while the other turned over the music. Thea taking advantage of “The Charge of the Cuirassiers,’’ Mine Bete y confidentially informed me that on this Christmas ‘he was yoing to remember some of her very particular wiemen friends with a slight memento, which should feithe work of ber own fair hands, and so she had insin uated out of me an inward determination to give her a present by the time her eister had got safely through the “pnrieks of the wounded”’ and the ““groans of the dying; aud we ratified the agreement with @ surreptitions squeeze of the hands just as Peggy was doing the ““shouts of ricto: ry,” by means of aerice of vicious grabs at the keys with both bande, as if the piano had béen a personal ene my that she had just got the better of, and was scoring her face with ber bails, ib defiance of the honest rules of the FR 1 then took my bat to @ masterly movement of Mi asked me if my chimney @ come down, for if it # a! verses will athe ¥ at was cut off at the door by Nancy, who simperingly for Santa Claus Intended to commission to convey to me on Christmas f her esteem, &e., &e. ng her that the exact internal dimen: y Were at that instant unknown to me, r=. would find no difficnlty in en rould squeeze his portly person Ne 1 departed, first resolving fid suo hat 'f Santa C D, hin enterpris id by @ sbilling for bin Nanoy in return. As} remarked tin that early age, and I felt me these delicate attentions, an the thing, as the common plir ase not neglect to state that | rece to the “brown” part of the trans hints of the young ladies that the niended to send me Were to be of a dainty, not would certainly have crippled y nda half, by running in debt that merciful dis on of Prev nla tratesmen from giving fash young redit without first rate security Presentation list of Doesticks to fhe Milli. cy had it not been for dence which prev ‘men unlimited Ap it was, kine was ae follow To Mise Betey Millikins, one workbox, fitted up with goid thimble ar ‘ oe AT 00 ‘To Miss leggy Millikins, one copy Moore’s Poeme elogantiy Minstrated, full gilt, & cverassey 1B OO ‘To Mine Nancy Miliikine,one set ivory carved chess men and board oe 16 % sepeses i 75 1 made no estimate of the iy parchased. | took no thought of the faney pantaloons and coats it might have buvght. 1 did not cogitate for au in stant upon the splendid return t wouldhave made pad it been invested in sevars and covblers, but dexpatched the thie som migit have articles to the Millikine' doticie with & beating heart, and took great joy to myself when I saw from « hidden corner the emiling Avriea ated as porter on this occa sion, deprsite them safely a rw out damage ja NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1857. (Betsey knows I a at From Peggy Milling, 1 brocade dresaing gown, say.#11 $9 (Peggy had heard me say I would like a dressing gown. From aeons Milliking, 1 eet of Waverley novels, say.$14 25 (Nancy knows I want them, and she hinted that better not buy them myself, for they might come to me when I don’t expect it.) $45 75 The continuation of this article, showing what Doesticks did actually receive, with the following engravings: — Young Decstcen ‘nase oF tae Tan unsuspectin, elderly gents. He hits them on the bald spots on the bac! of their heads. Doesticks takes the whole world to his bosom, including his creditors. Portraits of Betsy, Peggy and Nancy Millikins. The Millkins’ philopena trick. Doesticks being led to expect a large number of valua- ble presents, makes preparations accordingly. What he expected, and—what he got. The smiling ‘African delivering Doesticks’ presents to the illikins. —will be found in 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S GREAT FA- MILY ILLUSTRATED PAPER, ready this morning at all news depots. If you do not get this paper you miss a treat. It contains thirty-five engravings about Christmas, with beautiful tales, &, BEST FAMILY PAPER NOW PUBLISHED The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper cow publishea The best family paper now published The beet fumily pape now published ‘The best family paper now published ‘The best family pan pI ed uow published y published 0d Tho best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published Tho best family paper now published is FRANK LESLIE'S - ILLUSTRATED PAPER Get 108 on Wednesday; it is a beautiful Christmas num- der, with 35 beautiful engravings. 3 ENGRAVINGS AROUT CHRISTMAS WILL BE c. 3, found in FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER, 0. 108. Ready on Wednesday morning. ‘0 PERSON SHOULD NEGLECT TO TAKE NO. 108 OF FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER home to theirfamilies this week. It is the most beautiful paper ever issued in this country, containing thirty-five Deautiful engravings about Christmas. FAD THE TABLE OF CONTENTS AT THE FOOT OF q this column, of FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER for this weel MOST COSTLY PAPER EVER GOT UPIN THIS country is FRANK LESLIE'S NEWSPAPER, No. 108, jor this week. K contains Christmas tales, poems, anec- dotes, conundrums, and thirty-five dbgravings. Only 6 cents. Atal news depots. A BRIEF CHAT ABOUT CHRISTMAS, BY HENRY 6, WATSON. We will speak of Christmas as we have known it—of sporte in which we have been an actor, and which, though lacking that intense and general hilarity which ‘charac- terized the ancient Christmas, were more genial and moro —— the present season will offer, search where we will. We were invited by a schoolmate to spend the holidays with him at the house of his father, which was situated in one of the most beautiful portions of Kent. It was an old manor house, quaint and irregular in its proportions, and full of ghostiy galleries and mysteriously unexpected stair- cases. It was just such a place ag a city youth would feel uncomfortable in; where he would walk at the twilight with nervous trepidation, and look, with increased pulsa- tion, furtively over his shoulder to see from whence proseeded those footsteps which seemed to follow wherever he went. But the hearts in this old country house would have made cheerful the drea- nest el in the land. The ola and the young men and maidens seemed bound together by a bond of love which showed itself in a thousand gentle ways—in kindness, charity and a genuine courtesy to- wards each other, which wore the air of @ heart refine. ment that education alone couid never give. Simple in their manners but {thorough in their breeding—for the gentle blood of many generations showed iteelf in the noblest ty stranger felt the welcome offered not mereli iy utterance, but of heart xincerity, Religion with them was not more a conviction than an inheritance, for they worshij where their forefathers had wor- shipped before them, and the old church spire seemed ever to point to them the way to God. By their neigh- bors they were loved. by the poor they were blessod. As the world gocs they were oli fashioned; they delight. ed pot in Cy furniture; they followed pot the vain caprices of fashion; they thronged not their house with saucy menials; they pined not afteg routs and balls and late hours, but were content with their old oak carved furniture, thongh che chair backs were straight, and tapestried walls; their dress was rich but chaste; | their servants were almost old friends; they were su- premely happy in their own family circle, but always oon to welcome a neighbor; loved old ‘music, espe- cially Handel: danced once a year at the county ball, went to bed early, owing nothing but good will te any hiv. ing creature on the earth, and never owing to Heaven the evening or morning prayer of thankfuiness for beaetits re- ceived and mercies shown. ‘Among such people it was my bappiness to pass one Christmas time. id-fashioned as we have described them, they were the cheerfuiest bemgs we have ever Known. Ghetr checefainens sprung from goodness and content, and ihe ring of their laughter was musical in joyousness. Old 2nd young shared the sports equally, for lite pleasure would the children have found if the pa rents did not participate in it. And love made the old people Young again, levelling that distinction which age creates without destroying that reverence and affection which it should ever excite. The weather was bright, clear and bracing; the snow ‘was thick upon the ground, but it was dazzling white, bard and criep, ond ite clear musical crunching beneath our feet was a provocative to walking, and seemed to give 8 springy lightness to our tread. As soon as the tardy morn of the day before Christmas afforded sufficient light, baving made a hearty break‘ast, @ large party of us started for the woods to gather the holly and the sacred mistetoe. Such a whooping and laughing never ro- wounded through the old trees before, and a merrier party never climbed the gnarled trees, or rolled in the virgin enow with keener zest than the party there asembied. We were all too active to feel the oid; we sang while we worked, and when we had gather. ed of the green stores we marched homeward with our trophies, to decorate the old hall with the plea- sant symbols of Christmas. This afforded us employment for ofthe day. The fair daughters of our host and their young friends assisted us, and, if the truth must be told, the unaffected charms and the sweet companion- ship of our Deautiful assistants made us linger over the work, which became, to some of vs at least, a labor of love. When the evening came we were hurried from ‘our substantial tea by loud hurrahs, and on proceeding in ‘ body to learn the cause, we found the bors and te- nant! sageing sway at an enormous bole of atree, and we nrolustariy cra conclosion of this article, deseril the different games and ceremonies attending an lish Christ wil be found in FRANK LESLIF’S G! T FAMILY Th LUSTRATED PAPER, No. 108, ready this morning at all news depots. This ts the handsomest and most entertain. ing number of any paper ever ever issued in the United . Don’t fail to get it at once, before they are ail HME BEST FAMILY PAPER NOW PURLIBHED "The beet family paper now published The best family paper now published The best family paper now pubiished The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published ‘The best farnily paper now published The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family peper now published The beet family paper now published The best family paper now pudlished The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published "The best family paper now published "The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published * FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER, Get 108 on Wednesday—It is a beautiful Chrietmae num ver, with 36 beautiful engravings CHRISTMAS IN THE SOUTH, 1.8 TORPR, AUTHOR OF “TOM OWRN, TH Mt UNTER." In the Christmas holidays festivity reigns untrammelled throughout the Southern States, it may be work to the negro all the year round, but the last week of the expiring “apnual’’ is his Sabbath, and it is one of boisterous mirth and physical enjoyment. In the closing days of Decem ber the different crops are garnered. The sugar is in the hogslqgade and the cotton in the bale; the pumpkins are ripe in the field, the sweet potatoes are laid by. the pigs plethorie with fatness, and the possums, like the whale, are enveloped in blubber. The days are cool but clea ‘out-door exercise is relished with keen delight, and the longs ip their expression grow musical and full of power. It is now the seascn when the planter distributes the clothing for the current year, makes presents of calico of flaming colors to the women and children, and a of extra fineness to old patriarchal “boys” of sixty five and seventy. It ie the time when the negroes equare their ne. counts with each other and get ‘master’ and “mistress to pay up for innumerable eggs and chickens which they have Ume to time, since the Inst setting day, far. hished the “big house. ‘hort, it is a kind of jubilee, when the “poor African, is termed in pootry, has « pocket full of eils y covered with gay torgery and more time of his bands tnu he las re-oureae v9 kill otf and get clear of In these baicyon days the Midler rise suddenly inte catgut that i vit nervous eysteme of ail th Wan usually sympathetic with it tthe banjo player life. y, the eldest son of oid Cresar, the favorite house servant, has, farwugh the long summer and the passing fall, beon particularly “sweet” to Juliana, “young mis tregs’s” favorite waiting-maid, the chances are that “young mistress,” Juliana aud Pompey have hai « ts!) the subject; ‘old master” has been Conauited, anit * mistress”? ‘‘doesn't see how the thing can be he} Juliana, meanwhile, is all stiles, pearly teoth ani aifec- tion—Pompey agitated and expectant, unusnally ottontive to his household duties and the paiting out of (ho abund- ant woo! that graces the top of his head. ‘After negotiations and delays that flud no precedent ¢x- cept in royal circles, “ the day” is fixed and the affair is uly announced. ‘The “ field hands” are in a great state of admiration, while the more pretentious darkies, who domiciliate immediately under the eye of the white folks, are captions and critical, as are all peopie moving in «the exclusive circles of the best society.’” But te mar- riage gives new zest to tho festivities of the season, tt adds poundcake to corn bread, and “ chicken fixings” to ‘common doings.” It aifords amusement to the white folks at tho ‘ great house,” and the young lady visit- ers,” grow quite sentimental while suggesting ribbous for Jutfana’s new dress. Visiting is now the custom between the members of the neighboring plantations. Old “Aunt Dinah’? goes out in great state to see how “young Master Edward” gets along” now “he has sot up for himself."” She arrives at her place of destination, and is greeted by all the éarkies with a welcome that is as honest as it is boisterous. Young Master Edward condescends to help the nurse of his youth- ful foc steps off her shaggy pony, and is not content until thefaithful old domestic ® Gieposed of beneath the exllory in wcomfortabie arm chair. Her visit througout is one iJ among the “upper ciroles”” of ebon: of great stato; she deseants learnedly and ela- quent’; i her attending audience upon the wonder ful smartness evinced by“ M. ter PAwari” when he was a child, how he rua alone when only a months old,”"how he vode # dorse when no higher Than her knee, how be wade a foal of his old aunty, anc (uaily and lastly, how he now become a tine man, ali owmg to her care, dud cause “sho fotebed him up;” and, to oon- clude, 04 “Aupt Dinab’’ would give vent to various agi- . tations of the cpiglott.s and muscles of the throat, which would have produced hearty laughter, but now y suggest a predetermimation to an apoplectic tit. Her visit concluded, “Aunt Dinah’ returns to her old quarters, full of gossip and conceit, te happiest of beings, ‘@ model uperannuated servant of plantation life. But all amusements of pga on the plantation are involved in the dance. The nbgro’s soul seems to be compreed of music, and his museles made to be depend- ent for the purpose of keeping tine Nocarecan be put on his shoulders that he wont, oa the first favorable op- rtunity, kick from the ends of his heels. Nature may fave been unkind in his outwar! form, and no douct was when she exaggerated his lips, depressed his nasal organ, curved his tibial bones, crisped up his hair and stuck his ankle in the middle of his foot: but she has more than compensated for all this, ia the keen perception of plea- sure she has blessed him with, @ possession which knows no abatement. This beautiful and truthful article is accompanied by a bandsome large engraving in FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER, where you will find the cmclusion. Co!onel T. B. Thorpe is a native of Louisiana; therefore his descriptions of Southern life may be relied upenas genuine. Don’t fail to get No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER this morning, atany news depot. It contains 35 pictures aud numerous tales about Christmas. 85 ENGRAVTD ABOUT CHRISTMAS WILI, BE found’ in FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PA- FER, No. 108. Ready this Wecnesday morning. 7 O PERSON SHOULD NECLECT TO TAKE NO. 108 OF FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER home to their families this week. It is the most beautiful pena ever issued in this country, containing thirty-tive eautiful engravings about Christinas. EAD THE TABLE OF CONTENTS QF FRANK LE3- LIF’S PAPER for this veck. T= MOST COSTLY PAPE? EVER GOT UP IN THIS country is FRANK LESUE’S NEWSPAPER, No. 108, for this week. It containg Christmas tales, poems, ance dotes, conundrums, and thirty-five engravings. Only 6 cents, At all news depots, ODE TO DECEMBER, (WRITTEN FOR FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. ) By Wx. B. Wituams. Old month! thou art come like an aged man, With his locks Td and his cheeks all wan; The step of a child is tirm and bold, Compared with thee, so feeble and cold; And leaves which autmn has left all brown, On thy forehead are bung like a faded crown. Old month! thou art come like a withered hag, With trees all bare as the sea washed crag; Thy garments are made of frost and snow, And streams at thy tread refuse to flow; ‘Thy breath is keen aad thy fingers numb, And nature’s minstrels all are dumb. Old month! though now in thy —_ bowed, And over the hills is laid thy #hrond And the Joud winds wait to resound thy knell O-er the snow touched height and the drifved dell, We cannot but hail thy wrinkled form With the heart's deep feelings intensely warm. Old month! you bring to thia cold, cold earth The festal scene and the jovial mirth Exchange of smiles with good Christmas cheer, ‘And hearts right merry without a tear; Olid England! I'd fain bear thy Christmas chime, As my heart tells a tale of the olden time. Old month! though bent as becomes a sage, You offer the lore of declining ago; ‘Tho joy wreaths and the hollow green, And the sparkling berries in cluster seen, To bid us good cheer, dull care to remove, For the gloomiest seasons bring rays of love. UNFINISHED AND FORGOTTEN; A LEGEND OF COLOGNE. No stranger ever enters Cologne without going to soo the Cathedral: and nobody ever looks upon that fragment ‘of the mightiest Gothic design in Christendom without doing three things—without regretting that it never was completed, without asking who was the architect, or Without listening to the Legend of the Builder. Mighty was the Archbishop Conrad de Hochsteden, for he was lord over the chief city of the Rhine—the city of Cologne: but his thoughts were troubled, and his hoart was heavy, for though his churdhes were rich beyond compare in relics, yet other towns not half #0 large or erful as bis had cathedrals whose fame extended over rope, aud whose beauty brought pilgrims w their shrine, profit to the ecclesiastics, and business to the townspeople. After many sleepless nights, therefore, he determined to add w his city the only thing wanting to complete it, and, sending for the most faggous architect of the time, he commissioned him to complete the plan for a Cathedral of Cologne. Now the architect was a clever map, but he was more vain than clever. He had adreamy notion of magnifi- cence, which he desired to achieve without a clear con ception of how be was to do it, or without the will (o make the necessary sacrifices of labor, care and poraeverance, He received the commission with great giadvess, and gloated some days upon the fame which would be his as the builder of the structure which the archbiebop desired but after this vision of glory, when he took his crayons to sketch out the design, he was thrown into the deopest desponcency. He drew and drew, and added, and crased, and corrected, and again, but still he did not suo: ceed. Not a plan he complete. id Some were wo mean, others too extravagant, and and examined, were found to we good, but not original. Efforts of memory instead of imagination, their points of excellence were discovered to be tower from one, & spire from another, an aisle from a third, and an altar from a fourth; and one after another they were cast aside as imperfect and ‘useless, until the draughtsman, more than half crazy, felt inclined to end his troubles and perplexities by a plunge into the Rhine. In this mood of more than half despair, he wandered down to the river's side, and sitting himself upon a stone began to draw on the sand with a measuring rod, which served as a walking stick, the outlines of various parte of achurch. Ground plans, towers, finials, brackels, win dows, columns, appeared ono after another, traced by tho point of bie wand, but all, one after another, were erased ‘as uneqital and insufficient for the purpose, and unworthy to form a part of the design for a Cathedral of Cologne. Turning round, the architect war aware that another per- son was beside him, and with surprise the disappointed draughteman saw that the stranger was also busily Invent- ing a design. Rapidly on the rand he sk d the details of a most magnificent building—ite tower# rising to the clouds, ite k aisles and lofty choir stretching away be fore the eye of the wazer until he mentally confewed was indeed a temple worthy of the Most High. The win dows were enriched by tracery such as artist never bad before conceived, and the lofty columns reared their tall length towards a roof which seemed to claim kindred with the clouds, and to equal the firmament in expanse and beauty. But each’line of this long sought plan vanished the moment it was seen, and with a complete conviction of its excellence, when it was gone, not a portion of it could the architect remember. “ Your sketch is excellent,” said he to the unknown; “it ie what I have thought and dreamed of—what I have sought for and wished for, and have not been abie to tind. Give it to me on paper, und I will pay you twenty gold pieces." “Twenty pieces! ha! ha’ twenty gold pieces’ laughed the stranger. “ Look here'’’ and from a doublet that did not seem big enough to hold half the money, he drew wn that certainly held a thousand. ight bad clocod in, and the architect was despe rate. “If money cannot tompt you, fear shall force you,” and springing towards the stranger, he plucked a dagger from bis girdle, and held its point “lose to the breast of the mysterious draughtsman, in the attitude to strike. Ina moment his wrists were pinioned as with a grasp of a vice, and squeezed until he grorped his weapon, and chrieked inagony. Falling on the sande, he writhed like an ect upon the fisherman's hook, but plunged and struggled in vain. When nearly fainting, he felt himself thrown help- lees upon the very brink af the stream. “There! revive and be reasonable. Learn that gold and stee] have no power over me. You want my cathedral, for it would bring you honor, fame and profit, and you can have it if you choose.’ “ How /—tell me how.”” “ By signing this parchment with your blood.” The continuation of thie beautifal tale will be found in No. 108 of Frank Lestie’s Mlustrated paper, to be had this morning at all the news depot. It is the best family pa per now published, without any exception. ADIES, BE SURE AND GET FRANK LBSI per for thie week. It contains a description of ine Chrictmas games. To be had at all the news depots on Wednesday morning. J 0 YOU WANT TO BE AMUBED?—IF “0, GET FRANK | beantifnl paper for thie week, No ius. To be had at ali the news depots on Wolnesday morning , fur the FUNNY ARTICLE—READ DOEFSTICKS’ CHRISTMAS cogitations, in No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S paper for this woek. OU IRS A TREAT IP YOU NEGLECT 10 GET LPS 0. on ednesday. it is & te Cariatznas buraber, with thirty-five cxgravings. MRS, SQUIZZLE’S CHRISTMAS PARTY. EN WHICH SHE SHOWS THE IGNORANT NEW YORKERS HOW THEY DU THINGS UP IN KONKAPOT, After that ere swearee at Mugginses, which turned out ‘tn be nothin but a gatherin after all, I'made up my mind Td jest show em how tu du things as they ortu be dun. So jest asthe folks was alla fixinto go humI got up ina cheer, so I could be geen, and sez [:— Ladies and gentlemen, it meh give me grate pleshure tu see you all at my house the day arter to-morrow in the evenin. I kant tell you the exact number, but youll all no the plaise as soon as you get tu it, for its got Squizzle in big letters on the dore. I shall expect ev you tu bring Your children—that is, them ax hay em, and them ns it hed better borry uv their neighbors, for bein its nigh on tu Christmas, well kall it a Christmas Party; and nobody should think uv keepin Christmas without child- ren, As Toften sa tu Jabez, children is the life uv the world, os Jabez <disponds with asi, T wish we hed a When 1 got thru there was a genral cleppin uy hands and shoutin all round the room, and everybody sed theyd cum and bring their children. The next morning I got Jabez up afore lite, and told him tu go up to Konkapot ana git the fixwws. He'warnt long in gittin started, and swly Mari and 1 went tn work in good ernest. «As 1 sed afure, Lagreed I'd let tho Mugginses no what good hum kaokin was, so T made minse py, apale PY and punkin py, and then T’went into the mngerbred and snaps, and sot Sal! She allere was beet m AMfore wite over the sto uv ‘ten Tnousan F five minits. "The noxt dey Jaber settin hens, a ruseter, apair uy pigeons, a} sider, and @ bag wv bttnutte and appies. Why Sduizale, sez 1, where on aieth ait y nise fat tu Squizzle Mokt beknowninly at me: and, sez he, that is the turky the kontestible attached himself tu, and think'2 Thed the b@&t rite to the turky (bein [ had brot him up), I jest took him oph the roost and travelied. Jabez, sez 1, you did rite, we are the lawful and riteful owners of that ere turky; it is the same one we raised, T no by the gobblin. And ‘with that I oph with the fea- thers, while Sally Mari went tn pickin the hens, and in Jess than two ours everything was in reddyness fur the oven, and I went ta settin tables. By the time I’d got the dishes sot onto the table every- thing was cooked and ready tu set on, and I told Jabez tu go and tell Sally Mari tu come and insist. She allers did hey inquisitive taste in the derangement uv of a table but Jabez kouldnt find her hi nor lo, and I was obliged tu go and look for hur myself, Jest as I got mtu the hail the doore opened, and in walked Sally Mari with a big black feller karrying a grate pine tree. Good konshience! sez I. Its only a Christmas-tree, mother, sez Sally Mari; and with that she told the black feller tu set it in the parlor, and then she went to fixin on wax tapers, and after that fansy baskets, and kandies tied up with ribbins and paper dolls. [tell you what, if it didn’t look about the purtiest kind. After shed got it all dun, she went out and helped me put the fixins on the table ‘Tho turky was jest dun to anise brown, and Sally Mari thought it would look natural like tu have it stand up on a big dish in the center uv the tables So we tried tu make it stand, but the legs gin out and finally broke oph, and Jabez Was obleged to go and whittle some wooden ones. ‘At last we got it fixed to Sully Maris noshun; thero it stood as natral as life, and looking for all the world as tho it was jest reddy tu gobble. Next kum the chicken, or, mor properly, hen py and pigeon frikasee with sas, and a monument uv donuts at each end uv the table. Then we sot the pyes, gingerbred, nuts and apples on, and turned the sider out iutu glasses; for I told Sally Marl I wasent a goin tu bottle it up and’ hey sich poppin and spouting Works a6 they had tu Mugginses, spilin all the Wimmins dreases and gettin tho men ail tite; and Sally Mari sed sho thort it was better tu turn it out intu glasses and let a lectle uv the speerit git out uv it afore it got intu the men’s stomichs. T told Sally Mari I sposod the M1 es would think it ‘was orful imperlite in me not tu git soup, but I didnt kere for that,as fur gittin sich frogspittle mudturtle stuff they hed Iwarnt a goin tu duit. IfJabez had a brot some good white Konkapot beans down, I wouldnt no minded makin some bean soup; but konscience wouldnt permit me tu seteny thing afore other folks I couldut stomick myself. Sally Mari sprinkled sugar over the pyes and kakes and made em look as tho they hed been out in a snow storm, and when we got thra—I sa it boldlessly and feer- lessly—I never sot By e708 08 8 nisor lookin table. Bein about time fur the foiks tu begin to kum, we hurried oph tu dres, while Jabez went out tu engage some waiters evenin. My ashes uv lillies was entirely spilt at Mugginses Swearee; so T got me a new straw kelored satin ground, with mérygold and piny-tlowers, that lookt as natral as life, all scattered over it. It was made low neck and short sleves,and as Sally Mari sed, it was neat but not awdy. OT cpeitet Chink: wy nothin sles batan angle when Sally Mari kum down all drest and reddy tu reseave the kom- She wore a sky blu dress, trimd around the skirt With runnin pine, and a wreath’ uy the same, with wilt roses and daisies around her hed. Every body kompli- mented her taste in dress at Mugginses Swearee, and #0 she has worn short dresses and pantyletts ever sine, ‘When Jabez got home he sed her head lookt like a master big flowerpot, and be thort her dress was a heap to short, but after takin anuther look, I told her not tu make a bit uy alteration in it. Purty soon I mist Jabez, and bein it was about time fur folks ta begin bu kum in (f told em to be shure kumerly), T got into a stew about it. . je warnt gone over a quarter uv an our afore he kum back with a bran-fired new suit uy clothes on. At tirst I thort it mus be some of the kumpany kum, and 1 got up aud went kerchyin along; as soon as} see who it was I stopt kerchy in, and sez 1, Squizzic, hevent I tld you out and out you kouldent bev a new suit uv clothes? He cidnt make no aruser, but kept openin and shuttia his eves at me. Sez 1, Squizzle, where did you git them clothes? He laftat mea minit or two, and then sez he, Santa Claws gin em tu me. Mrs. Squizgle writes every week for FRANK LESLIE'S GREAT FAMILY ILLUSTRATED PAPER. Get No. 108 this morning and read the conclusion of her Christmas Party, This beautiful paper is more entertaining and in- structive than any paper now published. Tho matter that Appears on this page is only a small portion of what you will find in No, 108. Get it, by all means. FUNNY ARTICLE.—READ DOKSTICKS’ CHRIST. maa Cogitations, in No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S pa- jer for this week. Heady this morning. 0 YOU WANT TO BE AMUSED ?—IF 80, GET FRANK LESLIE'S beautiful paper for this week, No. 108. ‘to be had at all news depots this morning. ‘OU MISS A TREAT IF YOU NEGLECT To Ger LESLIF’S paper, No. 108, this morning. It is beautiful Christmas number, with 36 engravings. ON'T FAIL TO GET FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER TO- day, and take it to your family. It will amuse ‘them for a year to come. It is all about Christmas, with 3S engravings. . 5 ENGRAVINGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS WILL BE 3 found in FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER, fo, 108. Ré@ty this day at all news depots. ADIFS, BE SURE AND GET FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER for this week. Ti comtains © description of all the Chrmtmas games. To be bad at all news depots the morning. : MOST COSTLY PAPER EVER GOT UP IN THIS country is FRANK LESLIE'S NEWSPAPER, No. 108, for this week. It contains Christmas tales, poems, anec- dotes, conundrums, and thirty-Gve engravings. Only 6 cents, At all news depots. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES, ‘The men are difficult creatures to » Talk about female curiosity, indeed! With us it is a weak Lenny | compared with iia mighty developement in the nature lordly man. We imecribed the article in our last iseue expecially to ladies, we inteaded it for them exclusively, and we strictly prohibited all male creatures from pert ing & word of its contents, Tut this prohibition was only needed to arouse the curiosity of the men, and we have received more than a dozen communications from i nper tunent fellows, who against any exclusivences in ‘this our special column, on the plea that we have no nght to keop all the good things to ourselves. We fully appre- ciate the malice of this protest; they fear the mental aa. cendancy that woman is fast gaining in these United States; they know we write Dest books and the Dest poetry, they see that we are taking our place be them in all the best periodicals of the day, and iby hoped to bar us out from Frank Leslie's paper, not know- ing his gallant character and the chivalry of bis editors. They have signally failed in their endeavors, and we again iseue our mandate, “No gentlemen allowed here. ‘Gregoire, the celebrated Terpsichorean authority of Vi enna, introduced a new dance, under the name of the “Reichs Quadrille.”’ which consists of six gores, German, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Tyroleas ana Viennese; aad popular rumors says that it wit excite a furore equal to that aroused last winter by ‘Lae Lave All our huay readers who happen to bave charmue little fect and trim litle figures (and of course they all have), wilibe giad to exercise them in a new and fascinating dance Shopping ie ns fashionable a recreation a defy any obdurate old bachelor living to waik ny Br ¥ without experiencing a thrill and a thr Jeathern old heart. Just look at the loungers on of the hotels, too—did you ever eee them drop their #0- vars and stretch their n fler some divinity who had tripped past in velvet robes and a “love of a bonnet,” ‘h just covered the back of her charming little headt ings on the ladies, say we! How prettily they saun along, Whispering to one another, and looking into the shop windows, but never by any chance deigning to be stow a glance on the sighing swains who pass, arrayed in shining hate and extremely tight boots! Ah. ladies! don’t trust wo implicitly in thoee mild and dovelike looks! The moment those creatures in patent leathers and broadcloth turn from lovers to husbands they become morose and gloomy savages, who grumble if a button is off their shirts, and swear—yes, actually swear—when the dross- bill ie sent in! We taining bit of aristocratic gossip to relate to our fair readers this Week—a morceaa of scan dal which affects the higher circles, and is rumored every. where—whispered in the rose-colored shadows of Fifth boudoirs, and talked about in the stately saloons of Twenty: third street. r oF five years ago a gay New Yorker, much distinguished in fashionable circles, went to California, leaving a very lovely young wife behind Well, time crept on, and no letters arrived; the pretty wife got tired of maintaining solitary state in her brown stone mansion. and engaged apartments at a certain lary and brilliant hotel on Hroaaway. The gdiety there pro congenial to b@ pature, aud she sop reconciled hersel! to. “poor dear husband’? was deat and weeks ago she was married to a lively handsome suitor, who was only one of numerous as- irante for her smiles who had long surrounded her. ‘We behold her then at dinner in a magnificent full dress of lilac silk, with diamonds on her beautiful throat and arms, directly under tho chandeliers of the dining hall. “Her young bridegroom was at her side, very attentive, and evidently in the seventh heaven of bliss. Dinner was about over, when a stranger cn- tered and took a vacant place opposite to our newly mar- ried couple. His face was literally covered with a fino, luxuriant growth of raven hair, which left nothing visible save a pair of very black ares and a deeply brouzed forehead, How was the lovely bride to recognize in this hirsute mortal her first husband! Here was a dne position for a returned Californian. Sit ting coolly at dinner, ite his own wife, with aa im- peesineat onag dog ing all sorts of nonsense to her. jut he endured it very patiently until some one prevent addressed her as Mrs. ———, of course calling her by her new name, This was too much for our Californian, He leaped across the table in an instant, ejected.the astonish- ed bridegroom from his geat, and addressed him in a tone of thunder, “Sir, my name is ——, and this is my wife.” ‘The contipuation of this article will be found in No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER, tor be had this morning at e news depots. It is the best family Paper now published without any exception, Ladies should read the “Gossip” every week, it will intertet em. FUNNY ARTICLE—READ DOESTICKS’ CHRIST. mas Cogitations, n No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S pa- per for this week. Ready this morning. 0 YOU WANT TO BE AML LESLIE'S beantital p To bo bad at all news depot = KD —| , ONT FRANK for this week, No, 108, his moro ng. ot weer TO err Ly morning. It is a beautiful ay INES. T FA ) GET FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER TO- dey, and it to family. Jt will amuse or & yea)’ ome. It is atl about Caristinas, with ravings, « ENGRAV BOUT No. 108, Ready CHRISTMAS WILL BE SYRATED PAPER, lepots. ADIFS, BE SURE AND GET FRANK LESLIE'S PAPER for this week. It contalas a description of all the [cola cougd games. To bo had at all news depots this morning. HE MOST COSTLY PAPER EVER GOT UP IN THIS country is FRANK LESLIE'S NEWSPAPER, No. 108, for this week. It contains Christinas tales, poems, ance: dotes, connundrums, and thirty-tive engravings. ‘Only 6 cents. At all news depots. HE BEST FAMILY PAPER NOW PUBLISHED The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best ‘amily paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published ‘Tho best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published The best family paper now published The best fainily paper now published ‘The best ‘amily paper now published The best family paper now published ‘The best family paper now published Tho best family paper now published FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED PAPER. Get 108 on Wednesday ; it is a beautiful Christmas num- ber, with 35 beautiful engravinga. ‘The most beautiful and entertaining paper ever issned in this country, without any exception, is No. 108 of FRANK LESLIF'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER fer this week, to be had of all news agents this Wednesday morning. It will contain 35 exquisitely finished engravings and nu merous interesting literary articles and poems, written expressly for this great number. Amongst the contents will be found— A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, BY KICHARD HENRY STODDARD, Tilustaated by seven highly finished engravings. THE CHRISTMAS COGITA wae OF m YESTICKS, P. B. With the eve f of How his Lady Friends, the Miss Milli- kins, Assisted to Cut his Wisdom Teeth one Merry Christ mas Morning. Containing, also, the Particular Items and Expenses of that Delicate Dental Operation; to which are added some Fearful Kevelations as to the fate of Pigford. Mlustrated by eight engravings. Young Doesticks knocks off the hats of unsuspecting el- derly gents. He hits them on the bald spots on the back of their heads. Doosticks takes the whole world to hia bosom, including his creditors. Portraits of Betsy, Peggy and Nancy Millikins. ‘The Millikine’ philpgena trick. Doesticks being led to expect a large number of valu. able presents makes ms accordingly. What he expected, and—what he got. A truthful picture of Winter Holidays in the South; Plantation Frolic on Christmas Eve, occupying a full page of the paper, with a highly interesting article by Col. T. eg nny AS “Tom Owen, the Bee Hunter.’? tory of @hristmas, with thirteen engravings. Gathering the Mistletoe. oy Bringing Home the Yule Log. The Game of Snap Dragon. Christmas Carol gers. Going to Church—Christmas Morning. Game of Snow Ballin Christmas Dinner in the Old Hail. Chikiren’s party. Game of hind Man's Baft. Kissing under the Mistletoe. The Christmas Tree. Bringing in the Boar’s Head, Good Night—Going Home. Punch and Judy and the dog Toby. The Christmas Ghost. By Lucy A. Randall. With en- graving. Mrs. Squizzle’s Christmas Party, in which she shows the ignorant New Yorkers how they du things up in Kon- apo. Sally Man discuminates the forfecta. Mr. Muggins plays Blind Man's Baff, and always catches Mrs. Squizale. New Tale—The Cavaliers and the Roundheads. By Thomas Miller, With two engravings. Unfinished and Forgottea, a Legend of Cologue. “Stop Thief.”” Yoetry—Under the Mistletoe, Ode to December, By William H. Williams. Amedio Rufus, a Veracious Legend of the Rhine. ‘The Little Flower. Hy J, Hay Dobbin. A Column of Goid—Bill, — Wasn't ‘That a Waste of What's Thaty—Poetry, Powder!—A Limb of the Law— Rangs—Dobbin—Fellow Sinners—Doetor, isn t there a Di- ease Called the Singiet—Den's You Think —On Human Life in Hard Times-—What are —John—A Dry Sort ef Genfus—sir Melntosh. ‘Conundrums for Christma: ‘ages Here? Uutrageous “, i the Ladies. —A Morcean of Scaudal—A Fash. ionable Wedding. Foreign ‘ip.—The American Wife of Omar Pas! ‘ore joasip.—" fe ha How a Russian Princess Tried to Convert her Prisoner into her Husband, &e. , &e. Musico—The Drama—Literary Reviews—and all the News of the Week. Chese—Answers to Correspandenta, Problema, Games fe, This paper is the recognized medium of the chess clubs. one out for No. La FRANK LESLIF’S Let or bout exception tne family paper now published. = this Wednesday morning at all the news do- N° PERSON SHOULD NEGLECT TO TAKE NO. 108 OF FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED PAPER home to their families this week. It is the most beautiful fm A odd in this country, containing thirty five | engravings about REAT GERMAN ILLUSTRATED PAPER. Every Thursday morning is publishod, price five FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG, oa ee at ie bat =) ae tho most Important even! Y, interesting tales, tra- vela, ancedotes, &c. Thix is the movt interesting omg Ape paper pub lisbed in the United States—price five cents weekly, or two dollars ard a half yearly. « ‘This paper te supplied by carriers in New York, Iyn, Wiltamabarg and Jersey Cty, who will take their pay on delivery. reons irous of tak) ts should leave their address with WILLIAM RAD S00 Broadway, N.Y. + FUNNY ARTICLE.—READ DOPSTICKS’ CHRIST- mas Cogitations, in No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S pa- per for this week. Ready this mornin. FUNNY ARTICLE.—READ DOFSTICKS’ CHRIST. mae Cogitations, in No. 108 of FRANK LESLIE'S pa- per for this week. Ready thie moruiny FRANK LSS 7 R— Price six. cemte—th world, His aplondid weekly paper bae now eloved its fourth volun, The four volumes contains nearly two thon- sand ongravings, which have been produced at an ex- ponse of over sixty thousand dollars Tt te generally admitted that no paper has ever been produced in thie country which ean at all compare with the ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. very event of importance is illustrated with a rapidity hitherto unattempted in this country. lt has portraite of all the living celebrities. New churebes. public buildings, and arts and sciences are duly iMustrated. it also contains ‘the best ‘inal romance of the day, beautifully illustrated ; sl tales, anecdotes, chess, and the Iatest ‘foreign news up to the hour ef going to press, Without losing ite hitherto distinetive ‘aereete of a news. Paper, it will assume much more of a literary nature, Ii addition to the above features it will have thrilling Adven- tures, Novellettes, Discoveries, Inventions, usefal hints to every body, and the greatest possible variety of misceila- neous reading matter. While the edftorial force and talent of the paper will be increased, the artistic *kill will not be diminished. In every department it will be without a ri- val on this continent. TERMS TO CPUS. Five copies Ten copies, Twenty copies OF yi How did you Lose your finger? | , The Celestial Army—You Don't | ‘Tark of Jesus at Home—Unclo Robert J.—Our Old Friend | at Lacing? | y, THIS DAY, Rrar MONARCH OF THE MONTHLIES, THE CHEAPEST MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine, With which js incorporated th GAZETTE OF FASHION. CONTENTS OF NO. 1, VOL. 2, ' JANUARY, 1858, P| of the V LITERARY, ‘The Forester 1 Vosges, With five illustrations, How they kept Christiaas at Upton Manor. from ath altar to ae Secon ‘om Gibral 0 Bidasoa, it twelve ‘iMustrattons, a hing aie” ro Instances of Truth, Sagacity and Love in the Dog. An from tho Jungle. Two illustrati Costly Dinners in Ancient Rome, zeal The Blue Beetle, a Wondrous Talo of Alchemy, How shall I Escape trom Mrs. Badgery ? ‘The Death Painter. The Children of the Queen, Margaret’s Fortunes: a True Story, ‘The Bride of Death: a Legend of Switzerland. A Lover's Stratagem. Vere Egerton; or, tho Vicissitades of a Lifetime. J. Whyte Melville, author of “Digby Grand,” &. Two illustrations. Poetry ;— ‘Lines to Lilias. By Henry C. Watson. rgotten Hours. By Lucy A. Randall, ‘The Whisper of the Wind. By Albany Fonblanqne, Jr. A Provengale Ballad. by 4 Tsadel Hill. To the Rainbow. By T. Campbell. Illustrated. Gleams of Sunshine. By Henry C. Watson. A Cnarrer or Wit, ANEcpoTe AND HuMor.—A ina Stage Coach, Surprise of a Colored Clergyman, lice Officer and ghe Countryman, the way King George the Third, Coolness of a Hoosier, to w Way Raise the Wind, Spurr on Fast Driving, Stockholders may he Spitting, the Toil Keeper and the Doctor, the Cler- man and the Deacon or Tit for Tat, a Country Post ‘Ofiice, the Darkey Barber and the Hoosier, a Calculating Young Lady, an Iiustration of the Bankrupt Law, Napier and the Dottor’s Wife, the Disappointed Diner Out, None of Us Below Par, How he Proved Himself a Lunatic, Extracts froma New Dictionary, Never Teo Late to Mond, Half a Hundred Clover things, a Batch of the Nery Worst Conundrams, Me and the Tide, Irish Rela- nship, a pertinent Question, Snoring, Steering by the North Star, an Impertinent Boy, the faddie: on the Wrong Horse, Adversity, How to Open Oysters, Elec- Moneering, When Ignorance is Biss, Ft fur a Lawyer, luch to be Prous @ Question and an Answe = thusiastic baitor. bee = MiscriLaxzovs—Woman's Privil a Suttoe at ‘t Better {avestment. than Railroad Socks; @ Beaneral Faith, a Bird Clock, Snakes in Chow Chow? How. to Se- cure a Long Life, an Equivocal Compliment, Medical Annotations, Running Footmen, Indian Names) Sayings of Great Men, the Last Bet or the Bitter Bit, Education of Children, Hope, a Righteous Judge, the Twin Roses, Keep the Mouth Shut, During Cold Weather, an Awk. ward Bedfetlow, &e., &. LIST OF EwGRAVINGS. ‘Tur FORESTER OF THE VoscEs— Procession on the Shores of the Lake of Maix, The Last Load of Hay—Custom of the Vosges, Household Labor among the Vosges. Descent of the Mountain in the Sled. . ‘The Sorceress of the Vosges. FROM GIBRALTAR To THE Bipasoa— Colored Frontispiece. aca = — at Alcara de Henares. = - epe, the Zagal. The Niads of the Manzanares at Madrid. A Private Galera. Armor in the Royal Armory at Madrid. A Spanish Funeral. Asturian Nurses at Madrid. An Ox Cart in Northern Spain. A Popular Institution in Spain. Monaetery of San Loreazo del Fscorial. Catafalque of the Kings at the Escorial. Tomb of El Cid. AN Bscarr rrom THe JuNGiE— Skirmish between the Mussulmen and the Britigh Of- cere. Terror of the Wild Beasts at the Jungle deing on Fire The Dancing Lesson. By R. T. Ross, A. RS. A. The Rainbow. Ver EGExtos Vere and La Dame aux Camellias. Turkish Araba Crossing the Bridge of Para. Comie Tiusreations : Tnterestipg Epitode—Promising A Delicacy for Sapper—Domestic Happinese, GAZETTE “OF FASHION—EXCLUSIVELY FOR WHE: Wiha to Boy. and Where to Buy it. Review of 5 Styles for the Month. Description of Colored plate. General Description of Fashions. Description of Needlework. Statagem versus Strength —Concluded. / Blonde Beauty and the Rival Types. My First Court Ball. Bulbs for Spring Blooming. French Custom on New Year's Day. JLIDSTRATIONS TO THE GAZETTR. Superb colored Fashion Plate, Evening Costumes. Two Figures. Rounets. Three Designs. ‘Walking Costumes. Two Figures. Niniting Costumes. Two Figures, ra. Grape Pattern Border in Embroidery. Pattern of a lace lay Rordor for winter petticoat. Paletot for little girl. Handkerchief corners. Three designs. Collar in bugles and Guipure. Orne table cover, kuitted in moss stitch. A FEW MORE WORDS FROM THE PRESY ABOUT PRANK LisusR’s NEW FAMILY MAGAZINE. Prayk Lestin’s New Famity MaGagivt —This is a new claimant for public appreciation and support, in which that widely circulated and popular publication, the Gazette of Fashion, has been incorporated. The Family Magazine poral all — oar oases features of the Gazette, sides containing a large amount of interesting reading matter and illustrations.—N. Y. Sanday Courier. Frank Lxstig seems in the thick of es, and What is better, successful ones. No. 1 of Pronk Laie s New Family Magazine bas just »& splendid octa vo of 100 pages, the Gazette of Fashion being included. and * all for twenty-five cents.” Marvellousiy cheap, and very beautiful. We learn that his German illustrated pa- per is already a splendid success.—N. Y. Sunday Loader. New Famity MaGagine.—The first number of Lesiic's w Lage | Magazine, with which is incorporated tha Fazette of Fashion,” bas made its appearance It contains 100 pages, large octavo size, and is illustrated with over ‘Ipgs, Many of them fine specimens of art, fashion plate, It contains more mater for the same price ig) cents) than any other magazine pub- lished, will on this account alone command an im- mense sale,—Daily Chicago Times. Frask Lisuw’s New Fanny MAGAgINe POR Sgermemne. —There is an endless amount of reading in this work. A single number seems to contain a whole volume, and the Fag SES circle. is the cheapes publications. —N. . Sunday Times. Fraxk Lratin's New Tidoerraren Mowtuty, incl | his “Gazette of Fashion,”’ te \ | contains a large quantity of reading matter and seventy choice jllustrations.—Albany Times. Fraxx Leeur's Macazine.—The cheapest over published fs just out, containing over seventy Soe nee. trations, 100 of reading matter, and-a San colored plate vana, showing how the ladies do their shopping.—Albany Daily Statesman. Fravk Lasun’s New Fawity Magazine. —Leslie is full of deserves Praxk Lesum’s New Pasty MaGasivn—Under thie this publishor iamues a large and hich, Wah 0 goed Gust of Bernt, : one hundred and two imperial octavo filled with interesting reading, ‘profusel; iMustraten and the fashion department ia accompanied prise to eortamiy cheap cheap; indeed, he price yc ve) ¢ . when wo consider the amount an wartely, and the enectlonce of (se iMustrations, it seems to ji & cotemporary in pro- nouncing it “ridiculously cheap.”"—The Eastern Mail, Waterville, N. ¥. Praxk Lesur’s New Fawry of a new mammoth magazine Leslie, Frq., thie magazine is the “Gazette of i # —This is the tide ly isened by Frank at three dollars per annum. in Fashion,” a valuable fashion periodical heretofore published by this gentleman. ‘The whole comprises one of the 1 At not the largest, and beat ical now published in the . and to ad to its other attractions, is splendidly illustrated thronghout.—Chapel Hill Gazette, N. C. is I New Fasrny Mociue. We cheerfally acknowledge ‘eceipt of the first number of the new volume. Somo a of the work may be gleaned from the following facts: =The number now before us contains ninety six largo Pages. There arc over thirty ‘iterary articles, besides a Yast amount of anecdotes and miscellaneous matter ‘There are more than forty engravings, me Ly are very beautiful. The colored fromtinpioes Scene in Havana, Ladies —is superb. Last, but not least, comes the “Gazette of Fashion,” exclusively for the ladies, mind that; and yet we have mito it, notwith- standing the broad hints, and find ite contents fully equal to its high standing and widely known character, There articles fashi are thirteen on dress and ion, & ificent colored fashion plate, containing four figures, somo eighteen other illustrations. fe presume that this de- partment of the is the most perfect, full and complete Gagette of Fashion ever published in this country. ‘Mind ail this is contained ina single number. For three dollars you can obtain the work one year, which will con= tain twelye times as much as the number before us. Veril; be well called the “monarch of the fies,” ‘and the cheapest magazine in the world. — The a oe a ee FRANK LESLIE'S NEW FAMILY MAGAZINE may be obtained of all the booksellers, periodical and newsdenlers, or from the publisher, 13 Fi street at three dollars © year, or twenty-Ave cents a number Clube aa flown : Addrese FRANK LESLIE 10 Frankfort street, New York, —