Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-04

Two GREAr NAGAZlNEs N one.
10000 COPIES THE FIRST MONTH
MAGNIFICENT PROGRAMME FOR 1858.
$4,000 In Splendid WORKS of Art.
FIVE DOLLAR ENGRAVING
70 EVERY SUBSCRIBER.
The GTcat Library Off,
A GEN ) GETTIN RICHIl
VHE union Of Emerson's Magazine and Put.
i mans Monthly has given to the consoHda.
ted work circulation second TO but one siml.
lar publication ia the country, aud has secured
for it a combination Of literary and artistic tsI.
ept probably uuIivaled by any other magazine
IN the world During the hrst month, the
sale in the trade and demand from subscribers
exceeded 80 900 copies, aud tie number al.
ready issued OF the consolidated work are uni.
ysfsaIly conceded to have surpassed, ia the
richness Of their literary contents, and the
beauty and prUiIseness Of their pictorial illus.
trations, any magazine ever before issued from
the American press. Encouraged by these ev,
licences OF favor, the publishers have deter.
mined to commence the new volume in Janua.
nv With sill additional attraet ne, and to offer
such inducements to subscribers as cannot fall
to place it, in circulation, at the head of Amer
lean magazines. With thi, view they now an
nounce the following splendid programme
They have purchased that superb and costly
steel.p'ate engraving,
1.-THE LAST SUPPER"
aud will present a copy Of it to every three.
dollar subscriber for the year 1855. It was
engraved AG a cost Of over 5000 dollars, by
the late celebrated A. l.. Dick, from the ori-
giual Of Raphael Morghen, after Da Vnci, and
is the largest steel plate engraving ever exc.
cuted in this country, being three times the
size of the ordinary three dollar engrayings.
We shall commence striking of the engra.
wings Immediately, yet it can hardly be ez.
pected that impressions 0! sOlaIge aplate can
be taken as fast as they will be called for by
subscribers We shall, therefore, furnish them
in the or Ter in which subscriptions are receiv.
ed. Those who desire to obtain their engrs-
wings early, and hom the first impressions,
should send In their subscriptions without de-
Law. The engraving can be sent on rollers by
mail, or in any other manner as subscribers
may order
$4,000 IN WORKS OF ART.
In addition to the superb engraving Of "The
Last Supper which will be presented to eve.
ry three dollar subscriber for s :, the publishs
ers have completed arrangements for the dis
tribution on the 25th day of December, 1853,
a series of splendid works Of art, consisting of
one hund. ed rich and rare oil Paintings, vGlu-
ed at from lCO to l,UOO dollars each, Also,
1900 magnificent Steel Plate Engravings,
worth from 3 to dollars ench, and 600 choice
Holiday Books, worth lrom TO dO!lals each,
making in all, over Three Thousand Gifts worth
Twenty Thousand Dollars.
Inclose three dollars to the Publishers and
YOU will commence receiving thc hgaziHe by
return mail You will also rcyive with tho
first copy a numbered suLsCi2 ion receipt tu.
titling yOu to the eugr@jrg Of
THE LAST SUPER
and a chance to draw one If these fhige Thou.
sand PliZes.
EEAscNs WHY YOU sHoUiD sUBsC2Ips FOR
II NJ r. X SONS 40 XlN i
For 1867
First; Because is literary contents will du.
ring the year, embrace counituiOus from over
oye hundred different wIit,ts and tbmkera,
numbering among them the most distinguish
ed OF American authors.
Second: Because its editorial departments,
sour Studio, "Our Window, and "Our Oho,'
will each be conducted by an able eiitur-nad
il will surpass, in the variety and richness Il
its editorial contents, any other magrzinp.
Third: Because it will contain, DUNG the
year, nearly six hundred original pictorial illrs.
trations frCm designs hy the hrst American Gu.
thOrs.
Fourth Because for the sum of IS you
will receive this splendid monthly, mara
richly worth that sun than any other maCN.
zine, and the superb engraving OF Tho
| Last SUPPER" worth 50.
Fifth Because you will very likely draw
one OF the three thousand prizes to be dis.
trbuted on the 25th of December, 1868
| perhaps one that is worth 81 ,OuO.
Notwithstanding that these extraordinary
inducements can hardly fail to accomplish tie
| objects of the publishers without farther ci.
through the year
THE GREAT LIBRARY OFFER.
To any person who will get up club Of
twenty.louT subscribers, either at one or more
post Offices, We will present splendid ihra +.
~, consisting of over Forty large Bound Vol.
umes, embracing the bet works in the mar
ket The club may be formed at the club
price. 81 a year, without the engraving, or
at the full price, 81 with the engraving OF the
|
scription Of the Library, and specimen copy
OF the Magazine will be forwarded on receipt
or25 cents. Over 2o0 Libraries, or 8 900
volumes have already been distributed in ao-
cordance with this offer, and We should be
glad of an opportunity to furnish Library to
every clergyman, to every school teacher, or
to some one at every post Office in the coun-
try,
MAKING MONEY.
The success which our agents are meeting
with is almost astonishing. Among the ma .
ny evidences of this fact, we present the fol-
lowing from one Of our agents already in thA
field:
81 have now been at work canvassing on
your Magazine one week, and am delighted
with the business. 1t is different from can,
vessing for anything else ever tried. am
sure to get a subscriber in every family where
they can rake together three dollars, am
never received witt indifference anywhere,
for the first thing do is to unroll my engra.
wing before / let anybody know what am af-
ter, and thus get them interested before they
know what splendid offer ON going to
make them. Sometimes they ask my price for
the engraving and tell them dollars, and
when offer them the engraving and Maga-
zine one year for three dollars they are per-
fecty astonished. did not get to going we'll
for the first two or three days;
The lst day | got subscribers.
The I'd day | got subscribers.
The Sd day got 6 subscribers.
The 4th day got lS subscribers.
The 9th day got subscribers.
| The 9th day | got II subscribers,