THE INDEPENDENT

Is a Weekly Newspaper

FOR THE FAMILY,

Filled with interesting, valuable, and instructive reading for both old and young.

Special Contributors.

WE have concluded an arrangerent by which we now offer to any old subscriber a premium of a copy of WEBSTER'S ABRIDGED DICTIONARY, containing nearly five hundred pages, for the name of every new subscriber for one year sent us with two dollars. The price of the Dictionary alone at the book-stores is $1.50. The book will be delivered at our office, or be sent by express as desired.

Any person who will send to the office of "The Independent" the names of five new subscribers for one year, or of one new subscriber for five years, with ten dollars, (being two dollars a year for each subscription.) will receive as a gift a handsome copy of WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY, Pictorial Edition, containing 1.500 engraved illustrations. This is the best edition of the best dictionary of the English language. Its price at the book-stores is Six Dollars and a Half.

THE INDEPENDENT is published every THURSDAY, in New York. Address all letters to

JOSEPH H. RICHARDS,

No. 5 Beekman St., N. Y.

Specimen copies sent gratis to any address, or the News Agents wil supply you.

Splendid Embellishments,

Beautiful Portraits,

Cream of the Monthlies,

Cream of the Quarterlies.

1. READER! please read both sides, attentively consider, and send your order. You will be pleased, gratified, and instructed.

2. The ECLECTIC MAGAZINE for January, 1861, will be splendidly embellished with Two beautiful Plates, already engraved by JOHN SARTAIN; ready early in December.

8. The numbers each month through 1861, will be embellished with fine portraits, or beautiful and valuable historic prints.

A WORD ABOUT ITS CHARACTER AND CONTENTS.

1. The ECLECTIC, as a monthly magazine, of 144 pages, double columns, has no superior in literary merit or artistic embellishments.

2. Its letter-press is made up of the choicest articles, selected with great care from seven British Quarterlies and ten British Monthlies. It aims to give the cream of all. The portrait embellishments are engraved by John Sartain, who has no superior on this continent in artistic skill,

8. The ECLECTIC, in one year, equals in printed matter any three entire British Quarterlies. The price of them is $7. The price of the ECLECTIC, for an equal amount of reading, and far more select, is only $5, while the prints in the ECLECTIC are alone worth $5 more.

4. The variety, richness, and affluence of the ECLECTIC articles in all the departments of literature and popular science, both instructive and entertaining, stamp it as the best Magazine published. So the Press and eminent men say, in all parts of the land.

5. Every number of the ECLECTIC is splendidly embellished with one or more portraits or prints. Eight of the numbers in 1860 are embellished with double plates, worth more than the price of the number which they embellish.

6. The twelve numbers of the ECLECTIC make three volumes of 600 pages, or 1800 pages, in each year, with title-pages and indexes. Bound volumes may be had to order.

7. The ECLECTIC has acquired an established character as a standard work among literary men. It finds a place in many libraries. Its circulation has increased to three tons a month.

All lovers of choice reading and beautiful art-portraits and engravings are invited to send their orders for the coming year. Each new subscriber to the work, or any person who sends a new name, with the pay in advance, will be entitled to a choice of beautiful premium prints, worth $2.00 ouch. No intelligent family, no young lady or young gentleman, should be without the gems of art and the treasures of literature to be found in the ECLECTIC.

TERMS.

The EOLBOTIC is issued on the first of every month. Each number contains 144 large cetero pages, on fine paper, neatly stitched, in green covers, with one or more beautiful Steel Portraits, by Sartain. The twelve numbers comprise three volumes, of 600 pages each, with titles, indexen, and embellishments. Price, FIVE DOLLARS. The postage is only three cents a number, prepaid the office of delivery. The January number for 50 cents; any other for 42 cents-sent in postage-stamps.

AT REDUCED PRICES

With Glass Cloth Presser, Improved Loop-Check, New Style Hemmer, Binder, Corder, etc.

The WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE is recommended for the following qualities.

1. Beauty and excellence of stitch, alike upon both sides of the fabric sewed.

2

Strength, firmness, and durability of seam that will not rip nor ravel, and made with

3. Economy of thread.

4. Its attachments and range of application to purposes and materials.

5. Compactness, and elegance of model and finish.

6. Simplicity and thoroughness of Construction.

7. Speed, ease of operation and managment, and quietness of movement.

"This Machine makes the 'LOCK STITCH,' and ranks highest on account of the elasticity, permanence, beauty, and general desirableness of the stitching when done, and the wide range of its application."-Report of American Institute, New York.

This report was in accordance with the previous awards at
The Fair of the United States Agricultural Society:

Economy of Sewing Machines.

The WHEELER & WILSON COMPANY has prepared tables showing, by actual experiment of four different workers, the time required to stitch each part of a garment by hand, and with their Sewing Machine. Subjoined is a summary of several of the tables.

Seams of considerable length are ordinarily sewed with the best machines at the rate of a yard a minute, and that, too, in a manner far superior to hand-sewing.

Monthly, $2 per annum. Postage, 6 cents a year, Complete Sets Supplied.

BOOKS FOR SALE BY THE PUBLISHERS OF THE HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.

CHRIST CHURCH, Philadelphia.-A Stereoscopic Picture of the Interior of this ancient edifice, Chancel,
Pulpit, Font, etc., etc., with a Description of the Building, History of the Parish, Succession of Pastors, etc., etc. Price 25 cents
plain; handsomely colored, 38 cents. Sent by mail free of charge.