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WASHINGTON, D?C. Democrats.George Kittredge, Coorge Quvuit, C.; Taylor, O.; the POST j TUBUS OF WEEKLY EJtA. TEEM8. - Single copy - - - $ Ten copies . -$15 . six months 1 The National Era is published every even- Three copies Single copy VaUy ... lis months 8 ing, and contains tho ruporU of tho proceedings of Five copies H Ten copies Congress up to three o'clock. Payment in advance if uniformly re^uir. d. Tho Office of Publication is on Seventh street, be¬ Rate* *f Adptrtvdng. -Teu cents it line for the first tween D and K. lusortiou, live ceut* u lino lor ouch llbii' |Uent DM- Daily paper, for term of eight months - - - $5.00 Monny to be forwarded by mail at our risk Lurrn Katet uf Advertising in Daily. amounts may be remitted in drafts or certifies! ** of When in Hunt, notes on the hunks of - . - ERA. deposits. money one NATIONAL insertion $0.60 Ouo square, (ten lines,) DAILY ar« Now aud - . 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Democrats.George Kittredge, Coorge Quvuit, C.; Taylor, O.; THE POST. THISthree years, aud its proprietor, hn\ ing de\t<l< >1 Slavery. SENATE. W. Morrison, Harry Hibbard. ley, Ga.; VV. Smith, Va.; fc. VV. Farley. Me. ; SATURDAYJGVENING twenty-live years to the uiamigeiuout of the niak is The only journal at the scat of the Federal Tho SeuaU* consists ot two Senators from NORTH CAHOLINA. W. H. Engli.-h, la.; P. Phillips, Ala.; A. W. UNRIVALLED ARRAY OF TALENT. now enabled to judiciously select, and skillfully aj . NATIONAL KJ&A. as art* t,> PU08PKCTU8 OP THE DAILY the Anti-Hlavmry Statu. There are thirty-one States, represented by Democrats..H. H. Shaw, Thomas Ruffin, Lamb, Mo. Proprietor)! of the POST, in again cowing be¬ ply, such curative agencies bot^iHaptod Government, representing sixty two Senators. S. Burton S. Thomas L. H. Church TIIBfore the public, would return thauks for the gen- each case. I'Vnialc disease* in nil their forme, r«- I shall on the 2U of en while the Pro-Sla¬ Those mark¬ Wdi, Ashe, Creig, On Revolutionary Pensions..W. coivo attention uml thoao even who hat a issue, day January Sentiment of the Republic, Whigs, Italic; Democrats, in Koinan. Clinimmu. well, TYon.; H. A. I. Wash eorua patronage which bos pla»o«l thun far tn ad particular suing, the Daily National Era, a Political here four ed F. 8.. Kree-Soilers or AbolitiouisU; U., those elect¬ Edmnndson, Va.; vanoe of evory other literary weekly in America; and been confined to their beds from one to twenty year very Sentiment in represented by H. John Rich¬ Me. : P N. N. Middleswurth or are and Literary Newspaper. ed as Union men; S. H., tboso elected an Southern Whigs.Siou Rogers, K«t, hum, Rown, Y.; as the only suitable rot urn for such l'rue and hearty with spinal, uterine, anomalous discus.-, assur¬ advocate' the ol daily papers, nearly all of them being liberally or State Rights men. ard C. Puryear. Pa.; A. Elli*on. 0.; J. J. Lindley, Mo.; S. support, their arrangement* for 1854 have been uiade ed that there is still hope for them We okjhi-mIIt In Politics, it will Rights MEXICO. invito such to with us, as unrivalled suc- Governmental it asks President - - David It. Atchison NEW Miller, fa.; T. T. N. Y. with a degree of liberality probably unequalled in correspond Man, and the of and oppose sustained by patronage, Flagler, cess ha* us eonndenee of their I'c- Equality Rights, . Diekins. Democrat..Jouo Manuel A. Hendricks, the history of American newnpapor literature. Thoy given Durability. who in that Secretary Asbury Gallugus. On Invalid Pulsions.T. la.; o whatever violates or teuds to violate them, the Hupport of all believe, sinoerity, Term OHIO. have engaged, ati contributors for tbe ensuing year, rangemont of the nervoug system, li\ or, and digo*th Term expire*" expires. C. M. Strauh, Pa.; K. Sage, N. V.; G. Vail, : aro relieved. Teuns, from fo whether this be Involuntary Personal Servi¬ the Union was formed to secure tho blessings MISSISSIPPI. the following brilliant array of tulont and gemuH organs, generally $6 ALABAMA. Democrats..David T. Disney, Matthias H. N. J.; J. S. Chrisman, Ky.; A. Stuart, O.; W. $12 per week, accordiny to hclplcssm is or the amount tude, Civil Absolutism, curse of Beni. trick - . 185ft Adams, 1867 Mrs. Emerson Mrs. Devi- Despotism, Spiritual of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the Fitipa Stephen (U.) Nichols, Alfred P. Edgerton, Andrew Ellison, B. W. Dent, Ga.: J. VV. Edmunds, Ma.-*., W. Soutkworth, Bennett, of care requited. Address Class Legislation, the Selfishness of Capital, C. 0. Clay 1859 Vacancy I860 Thomas L. Ed- srni, Grace Greenwood, and Fanny Fern. W. W. BANCROFT, If. D AltKANSAS. MISSOURI. Frederick W. Green, Ritchie, M Tweed, N. Y. the of Combinnlion, the Oppression of Slavery. In the first paper of next, we design com¬ "Dec. 29. Granville, Licking eo., Ohio. - . January Tyranny it. W. Johnson* . 1855 David It. Atchison 1855 eon B. Wra. D. Lindwy, H. John¬ On Roads and Canals..C. L. Dunham. a or the Exactions of a in advaneo in invariably required. Olds, Hivtvey Ia; mencing ao Novelet, written expressly tor Majority, Party. Payment - - - Original OLKVKUN1I WATI k CI K B I'NTABLIMt* Wm. K. Sebastian 1859 Henry S. 1859 son, Wilt-on {Shannon, George HW Andrew G. ft. Biddle, Del.; L. D. O.; J. D. our entitleJ It will hold no with the To and loss to ourselves Geyer Campbell, columns, t fellowship Whig prevent annoyance doNNECTICDT. NEW IIA M PSH1 RE. Stuart. Pratt, Ct ; VV. A. Walker, N Y.; D. Ritchie, MKIVT. and Democratic organisations, believing that and readers, to preserve their filen unbrokon, Truman Smith . - 1855 Moses Norris, jr - - 1855 >hn Scott Harrison, Har¬ Pa.; H. M. N. C.; L. M. W. THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, above Establishment continue* in successful - - Cox, the main issues ou which have been ar¬ Isaac - 1857 Jared W. Williams- 1859 Whigs..J jAaron Shaw, Ky.; By EMERSON BENNETT, author of "Viola," the winter ns well iu> summer. they to onable us to know bow an edi¬ Touoey Moss B. John L. W. R. " " THEoperation during and large CALIFORNIA. NEW YORK. lan, Corwin, Twlor, Barksdale, Mi-^. Clara Moreland," The Forged Will," etc. Thu number treated at the Establishment against each other are obsolete or settled, " of patients rayed - to all 1855 - - 1855 Edward Ball. On Patents..B. B. Thurston, R. I.; S. A. This Novelet, the author of Claru and that are now used the Sec¬ tion of the paper iaotia, subscriptions William M.Owin Wm. U. toward Sapp, by popular has been on the increase from yesr to y«ar, for t!.o they chiefly by John B. Wellor . 1857 Pish - *1857 Democrats..L. A. B. N. Moreland," we design following by another, called tional Interest ol to the love ol should be renewed before they expire We Jlamiltoii Independent D| Campbell, Bridge*. Pa.; Traoy, Vt.; Perkins, Y.; past six years, until the Inst season, when tho de¬ Slavery, impair DELAWARE. NEW JKRHEY. Edward Wade, J. R. Giddingn. C. S. Hill, Ky. THE STEP-MOTHER, mands oi the public far exceeded our power to nc- natural to the American and to have no credit-subscribers on our books. A. - 1857 . - 1857 Liberty mind, James Bayard J. R. Thompson OREGON. \ * On Revisal and Business..W. R. By Mrs.MARY A. OENISON, author of "Home Pic commodate thorn. The increasing rupidity and pro¬ the American to its rule. Dis¬ TERMS. John. M. Clayton - 1859 William Wright - - 1859 Unfinished turos," " Gertrude Russell," etc. portion of cures, from year to year, induces the sub¬ subjugate People . W Cobb J. Pa.: J. it FLORIDA. NORTH CAROLINA. Democrat..Joseph Lane._ Ala.; MoNair, MoCullnh, We have also the of a number of scriber to believe that bis and claiming: all connection with them, will yet Single 9'2 . promise enlarged experience oopy Jackson Morton . - 1855 H. 1855 PENNSYLVANIA. Pa. : A. Stuart, O.; A. Sahin, Vt. for treatment facilities to the inva¬ those of adherents who Three ... 6 George Badger BY opportunities giro sympathize with their copies Stephen R. Mallory 1857 Vocaucy 1859 Drmocrats.Thomas B. Florence, John Rob¬ On Aaounts C P. Curtis, Pa.; A. Oliver SKETCHES GRACE GREENWOOD, lid - - - «* raroly equalled. are them to advance Five 8 aSoROlA. OHIO. Whose brilliant and versatile pen will be almost are honestly seeking through oopiea Wm. H John MoNair, Samuel N. Y.; E. B. N. T. O. ; " Diseases peculiar to females treated with a suc¬ . Morgan, Y.; Ritohey, - *- ins, jr., Witte, the Post and ber own Lit the substantial interests ofthe Tou 15 \V. - 1865 S. P. 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