Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-18

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TWO sRKAr MaGAxixEs IN ONE.
sOiOOe COPIES THE FIRST MONTH
MAeElFloENr PROGRAMME FOR 1858.
$4,000 In Splendid Works of Art.
FIVE DOLLAR ENGRA VING
10 EVERY SUBSCRIBER.
The GFeat library Off,
A GEN is GETTIN RICHll
1--WE union Of EmersOns Magazue and Put.
L nams Monthly has given to the eonsolida,
ted work a circulation second to but one SINH.
lar publication IN the county, and has secured
for II a combination Of literary and artistic tai.
eut probably unriyaled by any other magazine
In the world. During the first month, the
sale in the trade and demand from subscribers
exceeded 10000 copies, and the number al.
ready issued of the consolidated work are uni.
veIsally conceded to have surpassed, 10 the
richness OF their literary contents, and the
beauty and protuseness 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 Ianua.
ry with sill additional attractions, and to offer
such inducements to subscribers as cannot fail
to place it, in circulation, at the head Of Amer
lean magazines. With this view they now an.
nounee the following splendid programme
They have purchased that superb and costly
steel-plate engraving,
1.-THE LAST SUPPER"
and viii present copy Of it to every three.
dollar subscriber for the year 1858. 1t was
engraved at a cost OF over 5000 dollars, by
the late celebrated A. L. Dick, from the ori-
-, IL II De- al n, 4
is the largest steel plate engraving ever exc.
cuted ia this country, being three times the
size of the ordinary three dollar engravings.
We shall commence striking of the engra.
wings Immediately, yet It can hardly be ex,
| peCted that impressions o. so large 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 engra.
wings early, and from the. first impressions,
should send in their subscriptions without de.
lay. 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 Tho
Last Supper" which viii be presented TO eve.
ry three dollar subscriber for 1888, the publish.
ers have completed arrangements for the dis.
tributon on the 25th day Of December, 1858,
a series of splendid works of art, consisting OF
one hund ed rich and rare Oil Paintings valt.
cd at from 100 to 900 dollars each, Also,
1000 magnificent Steel Plate Hngravings,
worth from to dollars each, and $50 choice
Holiday Books, worth from | to dollars each,
making,i in all, over Three Thousand Gifts worth
Twenty Thousand Dollars.
Inclose three dollars to the Publishers AID
you will commence receiving the Magazine by
return mail. You will also rceiye with the
first copy numbered subscrpiiO receipt eli.
titlpg you to the engraving of
1.-THE LAST SUPPER
and a chance 10 draw one Of these Three Thcu.
sand Prizes.
! Reasons WHY you SHOULD SUBSCRIBE FOR
Il EIsS SONS E AGLX ZINE
For 1858 .F.
First: Because its literary contents will, du-
ring the year, embrace contributions from over
ose hundred different w,itOs and thinkers,
numbering among them tue most distinguish,
ed Of American authors.
! Second Because its editorial departments,
"Our Studio, '"Our Window, and Our OGo,'
will each be conducted by an able edtor-a aad
il will surpass, in the variety and iichuess II
its editorial contents, any other magazine.
Third: Because it will contain, during the
year, nearly six hundred original pictorial illus.
uatiOns flOm designs by the fret American su.
thors.
Fourth: Because for the sum OF IS you
will receive this splendid monthly, more
richly worth that sum than any other maga.
zine, aud the superb engraving of "The
| I oct Cupnau ~
Fihh Because you will very likely draw
one of The three thousand prizes to DO DIS
tributed on the 25th of December, 1865
perhaps one that is worth 81 900.
Notwithstanding that thesU extraordinary
inducements can hardly fail to accomplish The
objects of the publishers without farther el.
through the year
THE GREAT LIBRARY OFFER.
To any person who will get up club Of
twenty.fouT subscribers, either at one or more
post Offices, we will present sp!en did Libra.
ry, consisting Of over Forty Large Bound Vol
umes, embracing the best works in the mar
ket. The club may be formed at the club
price, 50 a year, without the engraving or
at the full price, 81 with the engraving of the
last supper to each subscrib, r. List and de,
scription of the Library, and specimen copy
OF the Magazine will he forwarded on receipt
of 25 cents. Over 2J0 Libraries, or 5000
volumes, have already been distributed in ac.
cordance with this offer, and We should be
glad of an opportunity to furnish Library to
every clergyman, to every schoo! 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 the
field: .s.r..
~ have now been at work canvassng on
your Magazine one week, and am delighted
with the business. 1t is different from can,
vessing for anything else ever tried. | am
cure to get 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 engrs-
wing before | let anybody know what am af.
ter, and thus l get them interested before they
know what a 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 Mega.
zine one year for three dollars they are pera
fectly astonished. | did not get to going wcll
for the first two or three days:
The lst day got 2 subscribers.
The I'd day | got subscribers,
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