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Aid To The Soldiers

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Day
27
Month
December
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Ladies of (iedcles neigtiDornooa have sent to the Sanitary Comraission, t Chicago, a box containing. Quilts, H Blankets, 4 Sheets, H Pair pillo vr cases, 6 PillowB, 23 Pnir drawers, 6 Pair ISocks, . X Nigbt Caps, 23 Shirts, 7 Etraw tieks, 5 NapkiDs, 30 Rollsbandages, 3 „ Old flannel, 1 „ „ Linen, 2 j IDried Afples ibs 8 Currant Jully „ 7 Bottles currant wine 2 Vnlued at $70 .. M -■ t Christmas Festivities. - On t 'day evening of last week the Teachers t nnd friends of the Mission Sabbath r r School of this City gave the children a c social gathering at Eogers' Hall, and g presented eaeh an appropriate Cbristrnas j ift from a beautiful Christmas Tree. - E t On Tuosday evening of this week Christtóas Trees were prepared at St. Andrews ( Ehurch for the Sabbath School of that parish, and at M. E. Churcli for the Sabbath School oonnected therewith, and in shedding their fruits made hundreds ■f little hearts glnd. Safe Insurance. - Wc iuviteattention ' to the advertisement in another column of the " Liverpool and London Life and Fire Insurance Company." This company has a capital of $6,066,585, of ] irhich $800,000 is invested in this country affording ampie protection to the American insured. This company is 'ïepfeseuted in our City by J. II. BurLESOti. 5JL"r Alexandeb Ewixo, of Öeïter, has been appointed Surgoon of he Tfcirteentb. regiment - Col. Stüart's. ',Hön. 'Posteu PttATT, of Kalamazoo, has been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the ewno regiment. SST Reniember the Social Hop at Tlangsterfer's Hall, New Year's Eve. Those who wish to 'see the old year out and thê new year in,' and have a good old fáabioned time, will of course attend. JC3E" We bave reeeived tha January ■nnm-ber of tbe Atlantic Monthly- the ■opening numbor of the 9th volume, and a numbor that promises much for the volume. Prof. Aoassiz beging a series f papers upon " The Study of Natural History," paperg which will interest both the student and general reader. " Ajriies of Sorrento " is continued ; also the powerful serial, "A Story of To-day." Then we have a pew serjal comnicneed, '' Lovo and Skates," by the late Tbeodore Winthrop, which promises well. - Wo may also name " Jefferson and Slavery," by Prof. White, of the Michigan Uniyersity ; " Autobiographical Sketches of a Strength-Seeker," by Dr. Wiftship ; 'l Fremout's Hundred Days in Missouri," by Win. Dorïhcinier; "James Fennimore (Jooper," by üeorge 8. Hiliard ; " Pilgrimago to old Boston," by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; and amoiig the Poems a ' Bigelow Paper," which disfigures thisotherwiee excellent number - Tbe Atlantic the coming year promises to excel' itself. $3 a year, postage prepaid; five copies $10. Addrcss Tick wor & Fiklds, 135 Washington street, lioston, fi?" If yon i-ut off gotting yoar w fa or Bweetheaít o Cluistmas present uu til New ïWs,- we dldaïeorne from theEmarald Isle- remerober A at J. K, Webster & Co. liavo a fine nssortment o! Gift Books, engravings, photogrnphs, frames, photographie albums, etc, etc, from vhich you can mako a iclection that will ensure yon agaínat being epeedi'y iorgotten. Go in and examine their stock, and then thank us for tliis bitof advica. CF3 E. P. Yinrri.n, Esq., one of the moet distinguifhed, writöre, essayiítá, and lecturers of the cou-.itry will commenco a courso of loctures before tho Students' Lectnro Association of thia I City, on Tuesday evoning, January Tth". These leoturea will interest, and more than that they will instraot J" Licut. Hurd, a wounded prisoner, latcly rcleased from prison at Charleston, says that Col. Corcoran and some 300 others escaped from the jail during the late Charleston fire, by leaping from the windows, and he thiuks that Col. C. escaped from the City, he having determined to attempt to reach Beaufort or tho North. - - . i L3r" Our Kcpublican cotcmporanes are still vigor jusly discnssiog the Senatorship. So far as the prcss is concerned Howartl, Wells, and Blair are the prominent candidates, but the " Kilkenny fight " bdng wagcd rnay lay tbem all out. And sucb is our bumble praycr. Preparing for Rodgii "Weatiter. - Orders írom Washington to the manufacturera of ai my teota nava bad tho effect to expedito operations in tbeir manufacture to a. large degrm, At the principal point of supp'.y írom this vieinity, tho rnammoth milis of Garsed &Bro,at Frankford, Pa., work has just been oommenoed by night as well 'as by day. The mili wai previously running fourteen hours per day. Most of i;s rnachinery will nniv run without cossation, Sundays only excepted. The canvas, mude íilmost as impermeable as sheet iron, is suturated in caoutchouc by a process which renders it irupermeable by water, and exeludes the wind as eñeetuaiy as s stono wall. The preparalion tones down the color to a drab. vorv pleasunt to the eye. -

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