Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-01-20
10 COPIES A YEAR FOR $40.
The Handsomest and Cheapest Periodical
for The Young
Peter Par\ey's Youths Gazette.
TO BE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.

On SATURDAY, the eighth day of January, Pc
TER FARLEY, the old and wel-known friend of
children, will commence editing and publishing a
new weekly paper. which will be called s'PETER
PARLEY's YoUrn's GAZETTE. 1t will be of the
quarto form, containing eight pages similar to
the New York Mirror. Every number will be
embellished with
BEAUTIFUL PICTURES,
Of an instructive and pleasing character. The
contents will be, for tho ost part original, and
adapted to the wants and capacities Of youthful
readers. Not only will the exclusive services of
Peter Farley himself be given to the work, but
the talents of many popular writer's will be enlist
ed in its support.
All the new popular works for children which
appear in England will be obtained; and from
these the best articles will be chosen and publish
cd entire in the columns of the Gazette, together
with the engravngs by which they may be illus
trated. Thus, in our catalogue of contributors,
there will be many names, dear and familiar to the
young-Niiss Edgeworih, Mrs. Holland, Mary
Hewitt, Miss Martineau, Mrs. Barwell, Miss
Milford, Mrs. S. &. Hall, Joanna Baltic, Mrs.
Southey, Miss Coleridge, and others. Thus, at a
price fer less than that for which such works could
be reprinted in the shape ofbooks in this country
VIII the most excellent trcases and stories for the
young be presented.
Arrangements will also be made to obtain ORR
gnal articles by favori,e American, authors
Miss G. Nj. Sedgwick, Mrs. Lee author of Three
Experiments of Living, Mrs. Osgood, Miss Les
lie, Mrs Sigourney, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. W ellis,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Il. ii. Gallaudet, j. X.
Paulding. and others. Last, hut not least.
PETER FARLEY HIMSELF,
who, from his long absence from that field of
usefulness In which he was SO successful, has
been thought by many TO have altogether reln-
pushed his labors of love and duty-will resume
his pen, and, with fresh vigor, engage in the new
enterprise TO which he has been called by the en-
treaties OF both parents and children. Since his
young readers last heard from him, he has travel.
led the world over, and brought home budget
OF adventures, facts and incidents ard the
Youths Gazette will be the medium through
| which they will be communicated.
The name of "PETER FARLEY" will be ruar-
anty for the pure moral tone which will pervade
every sentence of the new periodical. Every
thing like sectional, sectarian or political bias will
! be sedulously avoided. The Edinburgh Review
has said of him, that, ''no other writer for the
young possesses in SO eminent degree the facul-
ty of combining the useful with the entertaining'
1t is believed that the readers Of his Gazette will
admit the Justice of this observation
PETER PARLEY's YouTH's GAZETTE will, on
aud after the eighth of January next be issued on
Saturday mornings,
ATTHE OFFICE OF THE NEW WORLD,
NO. 30 Ann street, New ork.
GER ELS.
Toplace "Petr Pqrley's Youths Gczetfe' with
In the means Of all the girls and boys in the coun-
try 1t will be sold to subscribers at the following
lew rates For one copy, sent to any part of
North America, 50 year for two copies $i3 !;
icr ionr copies 50; forten copies $i0-0i,cays Ia
0ePaid ia aacance. When copies for So or
10 copies for $40, ordered, the remittance
must he made in current money, Of New y ork or
New-Eng!and.
Letters on business, and all communications
to be addressed to '.PAaLEY' YouTu's GAZETTE
80 Ann street, Newi ork," frankcd or postpaid