The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-04
TWENTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY OF THE. STAR
PAPER OF eAMERICA.
January /, 1864.
THE NEW YORK MERCURY
For the Coming Year!

"A FTER more than q quarter of q century of
"A uninterrupted success, The NEW YORK
MISUNDERSTANDING first on the muster-roll of
the Literary Press in this country-points proud
~ 10 lts past career as guarantee OF new hi
umphs in the future. ~
Heretofore,;it has eclipsed all rivalry; but it
proposes to make the coming year memorable by
ecttpssng sts oscn past history, and looming up
before the world as the most marvellous speci-
men Of fascinating, brilliant, amusing, and
comprehensive Literary Newspaper that has ever
been published in either hemisphere. N
aa THE GENIUS OF EUROPE -
VIII be laid under contribution to give briliancy
to its columns, and side by side with original pro-
ductlons Of the most popular romancistsof the
Old World, viii be placed the chef d'oeupres Of
the most eminent story-writers of the New.
MISS N. q. BRADDON,
Authoress of "AuroraFloyd,n "Lady Audley's
Secret, "tiJohn Marchmont's Legacy" etc., ETC.,
who has suddenly risen, like
A STAR OF THE FIRST MAGNITUDE
in the literary horizon Of Great Britain, has been
specially engaged. to supply THE NEW YORK
MERCURY from time to time with the wonder
full creations of her genius, at a cost which no
other weekly in America could venture to incur.
a.. Among the multitude of distinguished writers
and artists who have become familiar to the masses
through the vast circulation of the STAR WEELy
OF AMERICA, may be mentioned the following,
all okwhom are still upon its'staff to ID
DrJ.H.' Robinson, Cousin May Carleton,
Margaret Blount, ". o. Eaton. :.
Ned Buntline, "a Georae Martial. ~
arthur III. Granger, Julia S. Ingrakan,
Grace Gardner, E9acard Wslleu.
Fehs 0. c. barley, Aqry Chief, g. .tt.,.
M'sS IL. II, Braddon, a George Albany. q
Scores of other distinguished laerati, under va
rious mons de plane, contribute to its columns,
while its pictorial illustrations are from the in
imitable pencil Of Felix 0. G. barley, ESQ.,, the
best dralghtsman of the age. -
| The War, which has given the coup de grace to
so many .pretentious publications and half de-
stroyed those that still survive, has added thou
sands to the circulation of THE New YORK
MERCURY. -r.,- ,s - I'm
Its heart-stirring short stories, its military
hsoriettes, its matchless serial romances its racy
burlesques, its genial wit and hurnor, its deli
cious gossip its fairy tales for little folks its rare
poetry, its fresh and vigorous editorials the in.
finite variety of its contents and the large
amount OF reading matter that it comprises, rem
deri welcome everywhere, and to all classes of
society. Containing,as itdoes, .1ts, !:
-. FORTY COLUMNS la ...-.a
OF cosely-printed matter, it may safely be pro-
nounced the cheapest, as well as the best Litera-
ny Newspaper extant. 7t 'A'
Inree laVoflte writers, Doctor j. Ii. Robinson
Cousin May Carleton, and Ned Buntlne, are
now preparing three stories for The NEW YORK
MERCURY. One of these productions was COM
menced in the Opening Number'of the New Year
The authors being aware of this fact are engaged
in an cumulative contest for precedence, and the
result will unquestonably be that the most effec-
tive story ever penned by any of the three, will
commence in the NEW YEARS NUMBER of
the great REPRESENTATIVE WEEKLY of the Western
World. .' '''' w.
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men and periodical ::dealerss in America. To
subscribers, it is regularly mailed every Saturday
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six copies for So; eight copies for $l2, with an
extra copy, free to the getter-up of the club. Six
months subscription received. Alscays sUyite
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State. We take the notes of ali solvent banks at
par. Payment must invariably be made in ad-
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Address all letters and remittances, post paid,
to CALDWELL & WHITNEY,
%. Proprietors Of the NeU York Mercury,
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