White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-02-09
THE NEW EORK MERCURY.
THE pRIDEOFT EFIREsiDE

In the prime of vigorous in ellectual mar
hood, the Phoenix of the weeklies begins its
fight for the new year, over the wrecks of its
tagging and lifeless contemporaries, with its eve
fixed upon the sun, beneath which it owns no
rivalry.
The war, which has toppled down whatever
il shallow and baseless, has written no wrinkle
on the hTigh. egis of our success. Our feat
ures for The issue of 1865 shake the pillars of
what has heretofore been deemed imperial in
serial literature. Both sides Of the Atlantic
render u, tribute. We si III continue the thrill
ing romances of Miss Al. E. Bradjon, pecro.
nancer of the strong, dark passions, to whom
We pay more money annually than the entre
captal of our imitators, and add to our Amer.
lean staff the champion jester of the cap ami
bells, Josh Billings, who will commence, with
the first of jar uary, series of his well known
inimitabie comic papers, written expressly ~
ms, in his irresistibly convulsive vein. Harriet
+. Prescott, the most polished and imaginative
sketch-writer living; P. T. Barrmm. the world
famed Snowman and autobiographer; Miss NJ.
A. Earle, Fairfax Balfour- Dr.. j. H. Robinson.
and e" Ned Bunlliue," renowned and versatile
novelette, writers. will exc out the spai king
contributions of such facile poets, feuiletoni.ts
humorisfs, critics, travellers, paragravhists,
etc., as George Arnold, w. o. Eaton, Mile
W. Carpenter, George Alfred Townsend, Julia
/ S. Ingralam; Edward Wil'ett, George Martial,
Joseph Barber, J. A. Patten, aud Others nn.
merous emo gh and clever enough to run all
the newspapers on the Continent.
The vivid pencils of barley, Mcclellan, and
White, the first draughtsmen of the age, will
make the new volume pictorial; and whatev er
Of fugitive or meteoric note may appear during
the year, will at once be engaged and made
available.
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\ its delectible GOssippers' Club, in which I'll
aptest and wiitiest poems, caricat res. and bur.
lesques of the time first appear; and its co,
quettish Ladies' Promenade. 10 which all the
mothers, sweethearts. daughters, wives, and
widows Of the land subs rlbe their experiences
The New York Mercury will continue the
faithful and cosent
PHOTOGRAPHS OF POPULAR PEOPLE,
highly Illustrative ossthe Oldest, ablest, and
artf.lest folk of the era; the Great Fashion
Article, by Jennie June, whose sprishtly notes
upon the latest and most perfect New York
modes are suggestive to leaders of society ev.
erywhere, and universally consulted both in the
metropolis and throughout the country; and
commence series of illustrated Sketches oil
Grotesque Adventure in Foreign Chimes Dur.
ing the War, by Alfred Temple: as well as
dinls Upon Cookery, by Henry Gosling. the
metropolitan cuisinier.
| The first of the year will inangurate the
thrilling original novelette, 10y DR.. ]. II. Robin
| son, entitled:
ALETNE;
OR.
THE CHILD OF THE CORD,
which will be followed by splendid new stor,
by Miss NJ E Braddon, written expressly for
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enormously increased utl, y for the year Sos,
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which have swept SO many mushi room journals
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