White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-01-26
JANUARY I, 1866.
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TWENTY.SEvENTH Anniversary
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The NEW YORK MERCURTav8
THE PRIDE or the FlREsIDE.

In the prime Of vigorous In ellectual man
hood, the Phoenix Of the weeklies begins its
flight for the new year. over the wrecks OF. its
tagging and lifeless contemporaries. With its eye
fixed upon the sun, beneath uhich it owns 10
rivalry. :, 7sg,.o a. 81 nj, 81 .,,fsi 10 Z
The war, which has toppled down whatever
il shallow and baseless, has written no wrinkle
on the bright egis of our success. Our feat
ures for the issue of 1865 shake the pillars of
what has heretofore been deemed impe1sl in
serial literature. Both sides of the Atlantic
render US tribute. We SD III continue the thrill
ing romances of Miss ~ E. Braddon, NEGRO
mancer of the strong, dark passions, 70 whom
we pay more money annually than the entire
capital 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 January. series of his welLknoWn
inimitable comic papers, written expressly for
us, in bis irresisiibly conyulsiye vein. Harriet
E. Prescott, the most polished and imaginative
sketch.writer living; P. T. Barnum, the world
famed Snowman and autobiographer; Miss M.
A. Earle, Fairfax Balfour, Dr.. J. H. Robinson,
and "Ned Buntline," renowned and versatile
contributions of such facile poets, feuiletonistss
humorists, critics, travellers, paragraphists,
ETC., as George Arnold, w. o. Eaton, Mile
VI. Carpenter, George Alfred Townsend, Julia
8. IRgraham, Edward Willett, George Martial,
Joseph Barber, J. A. Patten, and others nu-
merous enough and clever enough to run all
the newspapers on the Continent.
The vivid pencils Of barley, Mcclellan, and
| White, the first draughtsnnen of the age, will
make the new volume pictorial; and whatever
of fugitive or meteoric note may appear during
the year, viii at once be engaged and made
available. iJ.gl -l.l...
In addition to its crisp and telling editoriais;
its delectable Gossippers' Club, in which the
| lesques Of the time first appear; and its CO..
quettish Ladies' Promenade, TO which all the
mothers, sweetbearts, daughters, wives, and
widows Of the land subscribe their experiences,
The New York Mercury will continue the
faithful and cogent -sas, ~ .-.,-r O.: ,..s.l
PHOTOGRAPHS OF POPULAR PEOPLE.
highly illustrative of the Oldest, ablest, and
artfulest folk of the era; the Great Fashion
Article, by Jennie June, whose spightly 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 of
Grotesque Adventure in Foreign Chimes Dur.
ing the War, by Alfred Temple; As well as
Hints Upon Cookery. BY Henry Gssling, the
metropolitan euisinieT. Hrs ..a..a 5G8<
The first of the year will marguerite the
thrilling original novelette, BY DR.. j. H. Robin
son, entitled: 1'F ,9Is-' IiAi.@.
ALETHE; e..a ~
or,
THE CHILD OF THE CORD,
which will be followed by q splendid new story
by Miss M. E. Braddon, written expressly tor.
The New York Mercury. BOSS i~-
Notwithstanding the upward march of every
article of luxury and consumption, and our
enormously increased outlay for the year 1865,
the Star Paper of the Republic, with its forty
columns Of sterling original matter, will con-
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by all newsmen and periodical dealers in Anne.
RIGA. Its long and honorable history insurss
subscribers against the casualties and fatalities
which have swept SO many mushroom journals
off the board. and left their patrons disconsolate
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each subscription, to pay American postage.
Subscribers should be careful to write plainly
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CAULDWELE l. WHITNEY,
Proprietors o. The Mem York Mercury,
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New York City.