The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-03-30

Fiction, Neacs, Humor, agriculture, the
Marhets, dc, &c.

THE proprietors of the SATURDAY EVE
l. MING POST-"the Oldest AID best of the
weeklies"-have the pleasure to announce to the
reading public, that they have made an erclu>
src engagement with an author whose powerful
stories have OF late attracted great attention; and
that they will open the campaign of 1860 with a
noyeet, written expressly for THE POST, called
TIE EARL'S DAUGHTERS;
By the author of 'The Red Court Farm" "The
Rock" the Hester Halliwell," s'The Six Gray
Powders" "The Diamond Bracelet" &C.. Sc.
In this story, written expressly fer the Post,
this powerful writer's genius has had full SC pc
afforded it; and we are able to state--havng read
it in manuscript, for it is already il haad-that
it will make sensation, unless we are greatly
mistaken, as one of the most powerful and in
teresting stories ever published.
To enable those unacquainted with the Post
to judge of the richness aud variety Of its cener-
al contents, we may state that during the past
year We have published uovelets, stories, poems,
essays, &c, from the pens Of the following gift
ed writers:
G. P. R. James, Charles Dickens, Alfred Ten
nyson, Charles Reada, II. W. Longfellow, Chas
Mackay, Wilkie Collins, Or. 0 " Holmes, T S
Arthur, author of The Scout &c; Alexander
Dumas, John G Whittier, Owen Meredith, P J
Bailey, author of Festus'; Lieut. Habersham, Ma
~ Hewitt, author of The Red Court Farm and
Farm of Four Acres; Grace Greenwood. Miss
Pardoe, Florence Percy, Amelia b Edwards, En-
ma Alice Brown, author of The Ebony Casket';
Mrs II A Dennison, Fanny N Raymond, Nora
Perry, lisa Craig, Miss Martineau
The Post does not coDfne ITSELF however, TO
works of the imagination, as so many weeklies
now do. 1t generally devotes a fair proportion
of its ample space to the News of the Week, For.
eisn and Domestic, to Letters from Paris, to an
Agricultural Department, to Bank Note and
Stock Lists, and to a Weekly and accurate Price
Current of the Produce Markets, &c, &c.
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well known monthly magazines, Arthur's Home
Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book. Read the
following and take your choice of
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s copies of the Post, and one copy
extra or both engrav;ugs to getter
up of club, 1000 a year.
13 ditto, 1900 year
90 ditto, 5000 year
80 ditto, 5000 year
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a year. The Riddle and Problem Department
renders THE POST particularly acceptable to
the latter class.
n BE,A UIIFUL PREMIUM.
A large and beautiful engraving on steel II
by % inches, called THE Speaking Likeness"
will be sent TO every subscriber to the Post for
1860, who shall send in addition to the subscrip,
ton, the sum of % cents, to pay the expenses
of postage; mailing. &c. The retail price Of this
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~ Sample copies of the Post sent gratis
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10 To Editors Editors who will give the
above one insertion, or condense the material
portions of it for their editorial columns. shall be
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Speaking Likeness" by sending Us a marked
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or notice.