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THE NEW ILLUSTRATED | Allen, of Lowell, upon the "Population of ANNUAL OF PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOG- Massachusetts, and Changes in the Phys. NOMY FOR 1868 contains: Marriage of ical Organization of Women in Relation to the Laws of Human Increase." He preCousins, its effects; Whom and When to Marry; Right Age; Jealousy in all its sented a large collection of statistics, Phases, with causes and cure; Distin- showing among other things that there is guished Characters, with portraits; Bis- but a small increase of the purely native marck, D'Israeli, Victor Hugo, the Hon. population. Formerly large families were Henry Wilson, Miss Braddon, Kings and the rule, now they are the exception. A Queens; Two Paths in Womanhood, illus. comparison made between Vermont and trated; How to Read Character;" eighty England, showed that the birth-rate in pages, handsomely printed; is having a very large sale. It is a capital campaign document-full of instruction and valuable suggestions. Those interested in the dissemination of the principles we teach should place copies within the reach of all. Single copics, prepaid by post, 25 cents. Five copies for a dollar. A still larger discount to agents who buy to sell again.

REGISTER YOUR LETTERS.When post-office orders--which are best to remit can not be obtained, it is safer to have money letters registered.

GREENBACKS are now our national currency, and we prefer them to the old-style bank notes. When fractional currency is remitted, let it be clean and genuine.

FOR SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA.-Mr. E. J. C. Wood, of Aiken, S. C., has published a pamphlet with map, giving a full account of lands there for sale, including a description of the soil, productions, climate, society, and all that one may wish to know in regard to that

locality. Those seeking homes in the South should inclose stamp, and address

to Mr. Wood, of Aiken, as above.

General Items.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.READER, the year on which we now enter will be just what we ourselves make it. If we seek our own selfish ends; if we get from others more than we give to others, we shall come far short of that fullness of happiness which comes of a generous spirit. If we do good-if we put the unfortunate in a way to improve and help themselves-we thereby add to our own happiness. It is not the prodigal or indiscriminate giver who does the most good, but the one who gives wisely-advice, ser

vice, or money.

Again, if we form good resolutions in regard to our habits, and hold to them; if we "swear off" from vices; if we pledge ourselves in the interest of mercy, justice, faith, and devotion; if we resolve to do

right, to do good, and to walk humbly, and keep the resolutions, doing our duty, resisting all temptations, it will indeed be to me what I would have it to you, dear render, and to all mankind, A Happy New Year. Let us one and all try to make it so.

it a qualification for voting. No man
should vote who uses no soap!

SHORTHAND WRITERS
WANTED.-The demand for phonographic
reporters is steadily increasing. We often
receive applications like the following,
and only regret there are not enough
experts to meet the demand.

MR. S. R. WELLS-My Dear Sir: Can you recommend to me a shorthand writer, who writes a rapid and legible business hand; who can read his notes with facility and transcribe them with accuracy; who writes not less than one hundred words per minute: who has naturally good busiess tact, and who would like a permanent situation in an express office at a salary of about $1.500 per year?

E. T. D.

To a desirable party I can give a situation.
Yours very truly,
[Here is an advertisement from one of
the New York daily papers on the same
subject.]

ANTED-A BOY FROM 15 TO 18
years of age who can write phonog.
raphy and a handsome longhand; must
live with his parents in New York. Ad-
dress Box No. —,
New York Post-office.

Vermont was one in forty-nine against
one in twenty-nine in England. As the
primary purpose of the marriage institu-
tion is the continuance of the race, and
statistics generally show that married
women are more healthy and longer-lived
than those that are single, it shows that
efforts, more or less reprehensible, are
resorted to to prevent an increase of family.
As a general thing, in proportion as women
become intelligent, learned, and mental in
their habits, there is a tendency to a de- WA
crease in the number of their children.
This is perhaps partly physiological, show-
ing that if a great deal of nerve-force be
employed in thought and study, the con-
stitution becomes less robust and healthy,
and, of course, less prolific. But with in-
formation comes the knowledge as to the
means of preventing that which, to men
and women with right feelings, should not
be a burden, but a blessing- namely,
healthy, happy children. Recently in New
York a meeting of this Association was
held, and subjects of a similar nature dis-
cussed.

There are no other openings for young men which promise so rapid promotion and so liberal remuneration as this. Our advice to young men is, to learn phonography.

HOW TO HELP. "Where there is a will there is a way." Would you add to the comfort or the means of a poor widow? A little, even a very little aid from each one's store would place her above immediate want. A cord of wood, a ton of coal, a sack of flour or meal, a barrel of

worldly or indifferent to attend some place of worship; form the young men and women into singing schools, reading, spelling, debating, or other self-improvement societies. Do one or any of these things to call out the faculties and develop character. If dormant or not used, both mind and muscle become weak, effeminate, helpless. If used with vigor and kept growing, we shall culminate into something near to what the Creator intended us to be self-helpful and well-developed human beings.

Personal.

PHRENOLOGY IN PHILADEelPHIA. Our long-tried friend and former colleague, Mr. John L. Capen, is giving courses of popular lectures this winter in the Quaker City and vicinity. He will promptly respond to calls for lectures not too far from home. His office is at No. 722 Chestnut Street, where those who wish may obtain any of our publications and correct examinations, with charts and written descriptions of character.

SETHI P. NORTON, Esq., the business agent of the Collius Manufacturing Company, at Collinsville, Ct., died on the 29th of October, aged 44. He was the original of Frank Uptor," the benevolent and worthy young man, a character in Mrs. Hubbell's Shady Side of a Pastor's Life." We knew Mr. Norton for twenty-five years, and have known few more worthy than he. He leaves a wife and four children.

MRS. S. W. GRISWOLD, of

LOOK OUT FOR IMPOSTORS.-
Swindling is not confined to lottery dealers, potatoes, a small assortment of groceries, Hartford, Conn., died October 27th. She

gift enterprises, mock auctions, quack

medicine manufacturers who rob and
poison "indiscreet young men," cheap
Jewelers, counterfeiters,
makers, and scores of others; but the
rascals may be found canvassing for news-

bogus-money

papers and magazines. [We give no cer-
tificates of agency to any, preferring to
depend on newsmen and on the club sys-
tem.] They are also to be found in adver-
tising agencies, offering splendid chances,
with immense circulations to those who
would find it more profitable to attend to
their own advertising, selecting their own
mediums. We repeat, it will be well for all
honest people to beware of the swindlers.

SIGNS OF LONGEVITY.-Dr.
J. V. C. Smith, of Boston, and Dr. J. H.
Griscom, of this city, were yesterday ad-
judged the successful competitors for the
"Prize Essay on the Physical Signs of
Longevity," for which $500 was offered
some time ago by the American Popular
Life Insurance Company. The essay of
each of the gentlemen was so good that
the committee could not determine which
was the better, and the prize was awarded

to each.

[When published, our readers shall have the benefit of these prize essays.]

materials for clothing, and WORK TO DO.
by which money can be earned, would
beget for the givers such heartfelt thanks
as would be always gratefully remembered.
Rich men may educate the sons and
daughters of the poor, fitting them for
greater usefulness. They may also estab-
lish, or aid in establishing public libraries,
reading-rooms, and open halls for instruc-
tive lectures. They may present scholar-
ships to young men and women for scien-
tific and literary institutions. There are
many young ladies who, after attending a
normal school for two or three terms,
would be fitted to teach; others would
study art and turn their knowledge to good
account; still others would attend medical
lectures and fit themselves for the practice
of medicine, and to take charge of asylums
and bospitals.

But even the poor may do good, and help
to set the world ahead. They may live
temperately, and so appropriate their spare
'time, when not at work, as to greatly im-
prove themselves and others. Instead of
idling, loafing, and lying around bar-rooms,
oyster saloons, stables, stores, and stations,
smoking, chewing, and spitting, they
should read and learn. If mechanics, they
may study up a useful labor-saving inven-
tion which would benefit the world and
enrich themselves. If one is so very poor

had many excellences of head and heart, and her departure in the mid-day of life must make a large gap in the friendly circle of which she was the light and ornament.

Ex-Gov. JOHN A. ANDREW, of Mass., died October 30th, of apoplexy. He had a full habit and a florid complexion, just the look for apoplexy; just the man who ought to have refrained from the use of coffee, spices, stimulants, and tobacco.

OBITUARY. - Died on the 17th of November fast, at his residence in Chicago, Colonel Alfred Clark Hills, one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune. Ho was a gentleman of quiet demeanor and retiring habits, but nevertheless an earnest and forcible writer, and possessed of extensive information. Some years ago, when we published Life Illustrated, Colonel Hills was one of the most acceptable contributors to its columns.

LOVELL DOnge.

-It gives

us pleasure to state that Mr. Lovell Dodge, a recent pupil of ours, has prepared several interesting lectures. One is entitled "Temperance," another "Waking Up; or, How to Get Along in the World." He also proposes to give several lectures on phrenological and kindred sciences.

Mr. Dodge's lectures have been very

SOAP.-Large quantities of that he can not contribute cash for benevo- favorably mentioned by the New Haven

soap are every year imported into America from Europe. Now there is no more necessity for this than for importing corn and wheat. There are as fine soaps made here as anywhere, and may be had as AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE cheaply-soaps plain and soaps perfumed. ASSOCIATION.-The third annual meeting If there be a doubt on the point, ask your of this Association was held on the 8th of druggist, groceryman, or storekeeper for October, at the Old South Church, in the best, and he will probably refer you to Boston, Ex-Governor Washburne in the the sorts made by the COLGATES. At all chair. Many interesting subjects were events, in our way of thinking, they are introduced, and discussed by persons of good enough, and we may save to our wide reputation and intelligence. Among country the amounts paid for a no better the most important topics treated, was foreign article. We believe in good soap; one presented in an essay by Dr. Nathan I think more should be used; would make

papers, and he has commendatory letters from the mayor of that city and other influential citizens. We bespeak for Mr. Dodge a cordial reception.

LIVINGSTONE NOT DEAD.— Dispatches containing the gratifying intelligence of the safety of Dr. Livingstone, the celebrated African traveler and ex

lent objects, let him contribute ideas or
services. No one who can work is so
poor that he may not contribute something
to the general good. Americans are a
nation of workers, not paupers nor beggars.
Reader, will you not act on these sugges-
tions, and set some useful ball in motion?
Do not wait to become rich before you
begin to give and to do good. Our Saviour,
the Apostles, all philanthropists and bene-plorer, have been received. The particu-
factors commenced to do good on a very
small capital. Can you not follow their
example? Induce a profane man to stop
his bad habit; persuade a drinking man
to sign the pledge-he needs it; invite the

lars received are few, but the Doctor is known to have been safe and well in April last. He was then exploring the wastes of Africa, hundreds of miles from the seacoast.

Business.

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Containing the best Reviews, Criticisms, Tales. Fugitive Poetry, Scientific, Bio-
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Periodical Literature, and forming four handsome volumes every
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[Under this head we publish, for a consideration, such matters as rightfully belong to this department. We disclaim responsibility for what may herein appear. Matter will be LEADED and charged according to the From the late President of the United States, space occupied, at the rate of 50 cents a line.]

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THE MOVEMENT - CURE. Chronic Invalids may learn the particulars of this mode of treatment by sending for Dr. Geo. H. Taylor's illustrated sketch of the Movement-Cure, 25 cents. Address 67 West 38th Street, N. Y. city. Aug., tf.

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Of all the periodicals devoted to literature and science, which abound in Europe and this country, the LIVING AGE has appeared to me the most useful.

From N. P. Willis. "Tenderloin," "foie gras," are phrases, we believe, which express the one most exquisite morsel. By the selection of these from the foreign Reviews-the most exquisite morsel from each-our friend Littell makes up his dish of LIVING AGE. And it tastes so. We recommend it to all epicures of reading.

From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1867. Were I, in view of all the competitors MRS. E. DE LA VERGNE, M.D., that are now in the field, to choose, I should

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NEW NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PAPER.-A national religious newspaper, to be called "THE ADVANCE," will be published weekly, from the first of September onward, in the city of Chicago. It will represent Congregational principles and polity, but will be conducted in a spirit of courtesy and fraternity toward all Christians. The form will be what is popularly termed a double sheet of eight pages, of the size and style of the New York Evangelist. The pecuniary basis is an ample capital furnished by leading business men and others, to be expended in the establishment and improvement of the paper, which is intended to be second to none in

the country, in its literary and religious character. The purpose of its projectors is indicated in the name: their aim being to ADVANCE the cause of evangelical religion, in its relations not only to doctrine, worship, and ecclesiastical polity, but also to philosophy, science, literature, politics, business, amusements, art, morals, philanthropy, and whatever else conduces to the glory of God and the good of man by its bearing upon Christian civilization. No expense has been spared in providing for its editorial management in all departments, while arrangements are in progress to secure the ablest contributors and correspondents at home and abroad. The city of Chicago has been selected as the place of publication, because of its metropolitan position in the section of the country especially demanding such a paper, and the fact that it is nearly the center of national population, and in a very few years will be the ecclesiastical center of the Congregational Churches. Issued at the interior commercial metropolis, "THE ADVANCE" will contain the latest market reports, and able discussions of financial subjects, such as will make it a necessity to business men in all parts of the country. The editor-in-chief will be Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., who resigns the pastorate of the leading church of the denomination at the West for this purpose, and who has had many years' experience in editorial labor. The subscription price will be $2.50 in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. Address THE ADVANCE COMPANY, P. O. Drawer 6,374, Chicago, S.6t.

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certainly choose the LIVING AGE.

Nor is there in any library that I know of, so much instructive and entertaining reading in the same number of volumes.

From the New York Times.

The taste, judgment, and wise tact displayed in the selection of articles are above all praise, because they have never been equaled.

From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. We can do those among our readers who love sound and pure literature no better service than by referring them to this sterling weekly. It is decidedly the best magazine of the class published in the United States, if not in the world.

From the New York Independent.
No one can read, from week to week, the

selections brought before him in the LIVING AGE, without becoming conscious of a quickening of his own faculties, and an enlargement of his mental horizon. Few private libraries, of course, can now secure

the back volumes, sets of which are limited and costly. But public libraries in towns and villages ought, if possible, to be furnished with such a treasury of good reading; and individuals may begin as subscribers for the new series, and thus keep pace in future with the age in which they live.

From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Journal, 1867.

The cheapest and most satisfactory magazine which finds its way to our table. It is a favorite everywhere. From the Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register, June 30, 1867.

Of all the periodicals ever issued in America, probably none has ever taken so strong a hold upon the affections and interest of the more cultivated class of people, none has done so much to elevate the tone of public taste, none has contributed so much genuine enjoyment to its thousands of readers, as LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. From the Round Table, New York, Aug.

10, 1867.

There is no other publication which gives its readers so much of the best quality of the leading English magazines and reviews. From the Chicago Journal of Commerce, July 4, 1867.

We esteem it above all price. From the Illinois State Journal, Aug. 3, 1867. It has more real solid worth, more useful information, than any similar publication we know of. The ablest essays, the most entertaining stories, the finest poetry of the English language, are here gathered together.

From the Richmond Whig, June 1, 1867.

If a man were to read Littell's magazine regularly, and read nothing else, he would be well informed on all prominent subjects in the general field of human knowledge. From the Daily Wisconsin, Milwaukee, June 15, 1867.

The best reprint of foreign literature issued in this country. From the Church Union, New York, Aug. 10. 1867.

Its editorial discrimination is such as ever to afford its readers an entertaining résumé of the best current European magazine literature, and so complete as to satisfy them of their having no need to resort to its original sources. In this regard, we deem it the best issue of its kind extant.

From the Boston Journal. The weekly issues of the LIVING AGE make four octavo volumes of about eight hundred pages each, yearly; and we venture to say that few volumes published in this country comprise so great an amount and variety of good reading matter of permanent value.

From the Congregationalist, Boston. No better present can be made for the enjoyment of a family circle through the year than a year's subscription to LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. It is always well filled with instructive articles on science, philosophy, theology from the reviews, stories by the most popular writers from the magazines, choice poems, brief biographies, and a selection of tid-bits of the most entertaining character. The bound volumes for the past year (1866) are among the most valuable books on our shelves.

From the Philadelphia Press,
The volume for October, November, and

December, 1866 (being the third quarterly of the fourth series, and the ninety-first of the whole), fully sustains the high character of the work. It contains the following serials: Nina Balatka," and "Sir Brook Fossbrooke," from "Blackwood;" "Madonna Mary," from "Good Words:" "Village on the Cliff," from the "Cornhill Magazine:" and "Old Sir Douglas," from

Macmillan." The LIVING AGE, we repeat, is a library in itself, worthy of its high repute.

From the New York Home Journal, June 12, 1867.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, long distinguished as a pioneer in the republication of the choicest foreign periodical literature, still holds the foremost rank among works of its class. Its standard of selections is a high one, and its contents are not only of interest at the present moment, but possess an enduring value. Its representation of the foreign field of periodical literature is ample and comprehensive; and it combines the tasteful and erudite, the romantic and practical, the social and scholarly, the grave and gay, with a skill which is nowhere surpassed, and which is admirably suited to please the cultivated reader. From the Protestant Churchman, June 27,

1867.

Age and Life are alike its characteristics. It is linked with our memories of the old library at home, and it seems to grow fresher and better in matter as it grows older in years. Once introduced into the family circle, it can not well be dispensed with; and the bound volumes on the library shelves will supply a constant feast in years

to come.

From a Clergyman in Massachusetts, of much literary celebrity.

In the formation of my mind and character, I owe as much to the LIVING AGE as to all other means of education put together.

Published every Saturday, at $8 a year, free of postage, by LITTELL & GAY, 30 Bromfield Street, Boston.

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MUNSON'S MONTHLY PHONOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE for January, 1868, will be ready about December 25th. There is no other periodical in America that is printed in Phonography. Terms, $2 a year, or 20 cents a number.

MUNSON'S "NEW CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF PHONOGRAPHY" is now ready. Every teacher and learner of Phonography should have it. Price, post-paid, 15 cents. Address JAMES E. MUNSON, 41 Park Row, New York. Jan. 1t.

THE CHURCH UNION.-The largest and best Religious Family Newspaper in the world.

Owing to the unprecedented reception of this paper, it is now enlarged to twice its original size.

It is devoted to Liberty and Union in the whole Church of Christ, opposes Ritualism and Rationalism, and advocates Radical Doctrines in both Church and State.

It favors universal suffrage, and equal rights for every man and woman of every nationality.

It is the organ of no sect, but will endeavor to represent every branch of the Church, and every society organized for the purpose of converting the world to Christ.

It is Trinitarian in creed, but favors free discussion by all Religionists of every faith.

It will advocate a free communion table for all the Lord's people, and a free pulpit for all his ministers.

It will print a sermon from Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in every issue. This sermon, published at twelve o'clock every Monday, will be selected from one of the day before publication. It is not copytwo sermons preached by Mr. Beecher the righted, nor is it prepared for the press by Mr. Beecher.

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Terms, $250 per year. Office, No. 114 Nassau Street, New York.

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ESTABLISHED 1861-THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY

JUST RECEIVED TWO FULL

CARGOES OF THE

FINEST NEW CROP TEAS.

22,000 Half Chests by ship Golden State. 12,000 Half Chests by ship George Shotten.

In addition to these large cargoes of Black and Japan Teas, the Company are constantly receiving large invoices of the finest quality of Green Teas from the Moyune districts of China, which are unrivaled for fineness and sweetness of flavor.

To give our readers an idea of the profits which have been made in the Tea Trade (previous to the establishment of the GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY), we will start with the American Houses, leaving out of the account entirely the profits of the Chinese factors.

First. The American House in China or Japan makes large profits on their sales or shipments-and some of the richest retired merchants in this country have made their immense fortunes through their Houses in China.

Second. The Banker makes large profits upon the foreign exchange used in the purchase of Teas.

Third. The Importer makes a profit of 30 to 50 per cent. in many cases.

Fourth. On its arrival here it is sold by the cargo, and the purchaser sells it to the Speculator in invoices of 1,000 to 2,000 packages, at an average profit of about 10 per cent.

Fifth. The Speculator sells it to the Wholesale Tea Dealer in the lines, at a profit of 10 to 15 per cent.

Sixth. The Wholesale Tea Dealer sells it to the Wholesale Grocer in lots to suit his trade, at a profit of about 10 per cent.

Seventh. The Wholesale Grocer sells it to the Retail Dealer, at a profit of 15 to 25 per cent.

Eighth. The Retailer sells it to the Consumer, for ALL

THE PROFIT HE CAN GET.

When you have added to these EIGHT profits as many brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages, and waste, and add the original cost of the Tea, it will be perceived what the consumer has to pay. And now we propose to show why we can sell so much lower than small dealers.

We propose to do away with all these various profits and brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages, and waste, with the exception of a small commission paid for purchasing to our correspondents in China and Japan, one cartage, and a small profit to ourselveswhich, on our large sales, will amply pay us.

By our system of supplying Clubs throughout the country, consumers in all parts of the United States can receive their Teas at the same price, with the small additional expense of transportation, as though they bought them at our Warehouse in this city.

Some parties inquire of us how they shall proceed to get up a club. The answer is simply this: Let each person wishing to join in a club, say how much tea or coffee he wants, and select the kind and price from our Price-List, as published in the paper, or in our circulars. Write the names, kinds, and amounts plainly on the list, as seen in the club-order published below, and when the club is complete send it to us by mail, and

we will put each party's goods in separate packages, and mark the name upon them, with the cost, so there need be no confusion in their distribution-each party getting exactly what he orders, and no more. The cost of transportation the members can divide equitably among themselves.

Parties sending club or other orders for less than thirty dollars, had better send Post-office draft or money with their orders, to save the expense of collections by express; but larger orders we will forward by express, to "collect on delivery."

Hereafter we will send a complimentary package to the party getting up the club. Our profits are small, but we will be as liberal as we can afford. We send no complimentary package for clubs of less than $30. Parties getting their Teas of us may confidently rely upon getting them pure and fresh, as they come direct from the Custom-House stores to onr Warehouses.

We warrant all the goods we sell to give entire satisfaction. If they are not satisfactory they can be returned at our expense within thirty days, and have the money refunded.

The Company have selected the following kinds from their stock, which they recommend to meet the wants of clubs. They are sold at cargo prices, the same as the Company sell them in New York, as the list of prices will show.

PRICE LIST OF TEAS. OOLONG (Black), 70c., 80c., 90c., best, $1 per lb. MIXED (Green and Black), 70c., 80c., 90c., best, $1 per lb.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c., 90c., $1, $1 10, best, $1 20 per lb.

IMPERIAL (Green), 80c., 90c., $1, $1 10, best, $1 25 per lb.

YOUNG HYSON (Green), 80c., 90c., $1, $1 10, best $1 25 per lb.

UNCOLORED JAPAN, 90c., $1, $1 10, best, $1 25 per lb. GUNPOWDER (Green), $1 25, best, $1 50 per lb.

COFFEES ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY. GROUND COFFEE, 20c., 25c., 30c., 35c., best. 40c., per lb. Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-house keepers, and Families who use large quantities of Coffee, can economize in that article by using our French Breakfast and Dinner Coffee, which we sell at the low price of 30 c. per lb., and warranted to give perfect satisfaction.

Consumers can save from 50c. to $1 per lb. by purchasing their Teas of the

GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY,
31 and 33 VESEY STREET.
Post-Office Box 5,613, New York City.

THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY (established 1861) is recommended by the leading newspapers, religious and secular, in this and other cities, viz.:

American Agriculturist, Orange Judd, Editor. Christian Advocate, New York City, Daniel Curry, D.D., Editor.

Christian Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio, J. M. Reid, D.D., Editor.

Christian Advocate, Chicago, Ill., Thomas M. Eddy, D.D., Editor.

Evangelist, New York City, Dr. H. M. Field and J. G. Craighead, Editors.

Examiner and Chronicle, New York City, Edward Bright, Editor.

Christian Intelligencer, E. S. Porter, D.D., Editor.

Independent, New York City, William C. Bowen, Publisher.

The Methodist, Geo. R. Crooks, D.D., Editor. Moore's Rural New Yorker, Rochester, N. Y., D. D. T. Moore, Editor and Proprietor.

Tribune, New York City, Horace Greeley, Editor.

We call attention to the above list as a positive guarantee of our manner of doing business; as well as the hundreds of thousands of persons in our published Club Lists.

COMPLIMENTARY LETTERS FROM CLUBS. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, July 25, 1867.

GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY,

31 and 33 Vesey Street, New York. Your "Advocate" is received and circulated. Please accept my thanks. You are extending a blessing to us old tea drinkers in the West.

My profession keeps ine in my office, but the limited opportunities I have shalt be devoted to the extension of your trade. The orders I have sent have been purely from private families. I have recommended your house to our merchants, with what success you know, not I. They might not like to have their customers see the profits they make. I remain, very respectfully yours, LORENZO WESTOVER.

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