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A RTBUR ARUNDEL tale Of the English Re
II iuton-by Horae Smith, author Of I" Banbie
tye Houss"-Just published, Harpers' cheap edition,
and this day received for sale by
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Or for circulation from the Waverly Circulating
Library to its subscribers.
The Waverly Circulating Library IS regularly sup
Piled with a number Of COZ les Of every new work
Immediately on publication not combining itself to
Novels and Romances, but including Histories, Bio
graphes Voyages and Travels, and every other work
Of general interest, including both American and En-
glish perloJicas-the latter eighteen IN number)
embracing all British monthlies aud qusrterles and
coming out regularly in the mail bags Of the Atlantic
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TUCKER & son, Merchant Tailors, between
Browns and Coeman's Hotels, Pennsylvania ave-
nue., would simply announce to their customers, both
and out Of the city, well ylsIters TO the Me
tropos during the session Of Congress. that their
assortment fCLOTHS, CASSIMERES, and VEST
lNGS at present in store Is extensive and varied
that Of any former period, and that they are pre-
pared to furnish every article Of dress both as it re-
spects style and price upon satisfactory terms as
the same articles can be had elsewhere.
An examination Of our stock is respectfully invi-
ted, test Of the validity Of the above statement
nov 25--d4wif
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PUBLIC SALES AT NEW YORK.
BY WILLIAM KOBBE.
Store No III, South VI.

Store No IL, South William Street
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, Dec 10 and 20.
+ ARGE AND PEREMPTORY SALE OF
IL RICH PARIS fancy goods and house furnish
ing articles credit of months for all sums over
500.
200 cases, comprising large assortment of deco
rated China ware, fine cut and colored Bohemian
glass, Paris clocks candeabras, lamps, girandoles
with rich glass pendants, mantle ornaments, dressing
cases, writing desks, &c, of recent importation.
A so, at the commencement of the sale, large as
sortment of Paris jewelry, consisting of Bracelets,
Brooches, fancy Camae, enamelled and ruby Head
Hair, and Scarf pins and studs Fit and Fans glove
holders, with pearls and Tassals, supurb fancy side
combs turquoise, gold and pearl souvenirs surprs-
ing oranges, furnished and unfurnished.
Also, l7S large size Addison's fine gold pencil cases
patent and plain stone, being the entire balance of
this superior article in first hands.
Also, 20 fine decorated and newest shape double
French china dinner sets.
Also, large assortment OF French tea and desert
sets, vases, mantle ornaments, sc.
Also large and entire invoice of fine plated ware,
consisting Of silver mounted urns casters candlestcks
cake baskets, vegetable and oyster Dishes branches,
tea kettles, large and small walters snuIer and trays
tea sets, toast racks sc.
Also, elegant PAPER mache work. consisting of
splendid tab o., nlaid with pearl, cardplates, port
folios desks lnkstands, sc.
Also rich painted tea trays and walters Of gothic
Victoria and Sandwich shapes, richly decorated and
inIald with pearl.
Also fine ivory handle Sheffield table cutlery.
Also, so sets fine polished steel fire irons.
Also 25 fine double barrel London fowling guns,
with real twist barrel, superior article and worthy
the attention of sportsmen wishing good article.
Also, an invoice of Berlin wire fancy goods.
Also 300 specimens Of rich cut and colored Bohe-
mia glass, IRON the royal factory.
Every LOT on the catalogue will be sold without re-
serve. Catalogues three days before the sale.
AT PRIVATE SALE:
50 cases silk whaebone psrasols
20 cases silk whalcbone sunshades, newest style,
and Mays superior city make
dec 1876
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nARBY'S CAFETERIA Universal Geogra-
- phical Dictionary, containing a description Of
the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities,
Towns, Forts, Seas, HarboIs, Rivers, Lakes, Noun
tsins, Capes, Sc sc, in the known world-with the
government customs and manners Of the inhabitants
the extent, boundaries, and natural productions Of
each country, and the trade manufactures and
ositIes OF the cities and towns. BY William Darby.
Third edition, with ample additions and improve
medts-latey published in one large octave volume.
few copies just received and for sale at a
duced price, by
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PATENT OFFICE,
December ., ls4

December 2, 1Sii.
nN the petition Of William Kendall, of Bath,
~ Maine, praying for the extension of a patent
granted TO said Kendall for an improvement In the
waller wheel for yenis from the expiration of
said patent, which takes place on the 18th day Of
Januory, 1915.
1t ordered that the said petition be heard at the
Patent Office, on the fist Monday in January next
at IL o'clock, M and all persons notified to APP
pear aud show cause, if any they have why said Pc
uion ought not TO be granted.
Ordered, also, that this notice be published in the
Madisonan, printed at Washington the Sun, print
ed at Baltimore; the Sentinel and the keystone,
printed at Phade phia the Aurora, printed at New
York. and the Times printed at Boston once week
for three successive weeks previous to the first Mon
day in January next
HENRY L. ELLSWORTH
Commissioner Of Patents.
F. 5. Editors of the above papers will please COPY,
and send their bills TO the Patent Office with a paper
containing this notice.
Dec. 3-law3w
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NEW MUSIC-JUST RECEIVED.
w LILLIAN FISCHER, Pennsylvania Avenue,
w two doors east Of l2h street, has Just receiy-
ed the following new pieces; which will be solo At
one third les than the Northern prices
The Death Of Warren, by Hutchinsons
You see the Slender Spire, composed by Edward
J. Loder
With silent care and grief opprest-from opera Of
Torquato Tasso- music by Donlzette
Drawing room Polkss, by Ohenbach
Celebrated Polkss, by Julien
Danse Brilliante La Polka, by Wolf
La Polka, by Herr
Newport Polka, by Thorbecke
Drummer Poker, by l,abitzkey
Praga Polka, by Labit1key
The Polka. by Hazard.
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TRAITE THEORIQUE EFT PRACTIQUE DES
OPERATIONS DE LA GUERRE, accom-
payne dun Atlas in quarto, contensnt "A plans topo-
graphq1es, ayec sommaires ct egrndes pour seryir
Intelligence des movements; par A. Lallemans.
2 vol. in octave, ayec 6 tableaux, ct un Atlas in
quarto
Published in Paris in October last, price there IS
francs; can be imported to order by
dec II +. TAYLOR.
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P,r,vr Orr,er. Nov. %. 1874

PATENT OrFIcE, Nov IS, 1874.
On the petition Of Hiram beats, Of QuakortOwn,
administrator, Of John beats, praying for the extern
sion of patent granted to said John beats, for an
improvement in the Plough, for years from the
expiration Of said patent which takes place on the
2sth day OF December, lS45.
Its ordered that the said petition be heard at the
Patent Office, on the first Monday in March next, at
u o'clock, NJ and all persons are notified to appear
and show cause, II any they have why said petition
ought not TO be granted.
Ordered, also, that this notice be published in the
Madsonian, printed at Washington the Sun, printed
at Baltimore the Keystone and Sentinel printed al
Philadelphia the Aurora, printed at New York and
the Times, printed at Boston, week tor three
successive weeks previous to the first Monday in
March next HENRY l.. ELLSWORTH,
Commissioner of Patents.
p. s. Editors Of the above papers will please copy,
and send their bills to the Patent Office, with pa.
per containing this notice. nov 26-lsv9w
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PATENT OFFICE, December 5, 1874.

PATENT OFFICE, December 5, 1874.
nN the petition Of Edmund M. Waggoner, of Co
~ lumbia, Adair county, Ky, praying for the ex-
tension of patent granted to said Waggoner for an
improvement in the Bar Shear Plough, for seven
years from the expiration of SAID patent, which takes
place on the 10Th day Of January, lS45.
1t is ordered that the said petition be heard at the
Patent Office, on the first Monday in January next at
II O'Clock, M; and all persons notified TO appear
and show cause, If any they have, why said petition
ought not to be granted
Ordered, also, that this notice be published in the
Madisonian printed at Washington; the Sun printed
at baltimore the Keystone aud the Sentinel printed
at Philadelphia; the Aurora, printed at New York !;
the Times printed at Boston, and the Democrat print
ed at Louisville, Ky, once a week for three success
siye weeks previous to the first Monday in January
next. HENRY l.. ELLSWORTH,
Commissioner of Patents.
7. s. Editors Of the above papers will please copy
and send their bills to the Patent Office with paper
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CUPERlOR STATIONERY, &c.-W. FIS.
- CHER, Importer and Dealer in Fancy and
Staple Stationery, Parchment Drawing Materials,
Rodgers Cutlery, Perlumery, Musical instruments,
and fancy articles has just received via New York,
per schooner Frank, the balance of his assortment,
enumeration Of which will be given in subsequent
advertisements.
Members of Congress and strangers visiting the
city will find the most extensive variety of the best
articles at reasonable and uniform prices, whole
sale and retail, at Saoners Hall, second store east
of l2th street, Pennsylvania avenue.
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From Chancellor kenfs Eulogu on ht aphor.

From Chancellor hents Euiogy on the author.
The .4nerican Dictionary Of the English language,
s work Of profound investigation, and does infinite
honor to the pathological learning aud general lite
ratuie 1f this country Happy the who can
thu, honorably identity bis name with the existence
Of our vtrnscuar tongue. There IS no other way
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withstand the incessant strokes Of time The unr-
vailed Parhenon, glowing in polished marble, and
which, for more than two thousand years continued
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the coasts and headsnds of Attica, Is now crumb
ling to ruins, after being despohed Of its erqu-
size materials by savage war and heartl.ss man
Even the Pyramids of Egypt, whose origin is bidder
in the deepest recesses of antiquity and which have
alusys stood in awe-nspring solitude and grandeur,
arc now annoyed by the depredations Of curiosity,
and greatly corroded by the action Of the elements,
and gradually sinking under the encroaching sands
Of the desert This dictionary; and the language
which II embodles will also perish; but 1t will not be
With the gorgeous palaces. 1t will 20 with the solemn
tempt and The great globe Itself"
The Publishers Of the foregoing work respectfully
announce that they have made arrangements with
Mr.. r. Taylor, Bookseller, of Washington city, to
furnish the American Dictionary, in two large vo-
tunes at the very reduced price OF twelve dollars.
IL is to be understood that for this price the best
paper and type, and the hest binding will I've sup.
plied-the best copies, that IS 10 say, IN all respects.
The very valuable supplement whoh is contained
in no other edition han the present one should not be
passed unnatccd; it contains four thonsand words,
not gipen in any other dictionary; only completed
by Or. Webster in 1913 Immediately before the
sickness hioh terminated his valuable life, and has
been published and Copyrighted, since his DEATH by
his executors.
The work is now therefore in a finished and com
plete state It Is not 10 be supposed that any thing
will be added to IT, the present edition de
dning md illustrating twenty thousand more words
than the edition which, when il first issued from tbs
hands Of DR.. Webster, acknowledged by the
Engi,h philoogiss to be the best dictionary N th'
world r. =. g. C. ADAMS,
NJ Amherst, Massachusetts
Washington city 1914, dec l5-f
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NEW MUSIC.

NtW MUSIC.
WIN. FISCHER, Pennsylvania Avenue, twJ
w doors east of 18th street has u-t received The
following new pieces, which will be sold at one-thrd
less than northern prices:
The smile that plays-song music by Benedict.
Come TO the valleys L. Lavenu
The Fathers farewell " F. Buck
Love on X. CuylOtt.
BE kind TO each other C.E Phillips
Phillipina waltz, by Pedro Daumas.
Gulnsre Polka.
Krslane Hrsdecka Polka, by Hlmana.
Drummer and PfOga Polka, by Labnzkey.
dec ll-3t
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COAL DOCUMENT.

A REPORT, to the Navy Department of the U
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vigaoD and other purposes, by Walter r. Johnson
being Report of Experiments made under the au.
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Power and other Properties of the various kinds OF
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AGENCY FOR CLAIMS, CONTRACTS, Sc,
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MOS. HARPERs PICTORIAL BIBLE
~ The Jill. A novel by the author of Cousin
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THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
EDITED nv JARED SrARss
VOLUME 3 Of this series is just published and
this DAY received for sale by
TAYI Op

Life Of General John Sullivan, by Oliver w B
Peabody.
Memoir Of Nathaniel Bacon, by William Ware.
Life Of John Mason, by G.. f. Ellis.
The Administration Of Jacob Beisler. a Chapter
in American History, by Charles =. Hoffman.
nov IL