STODART & MORRIS, NO. 506 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK, MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED STODART' PIANO-FORTES, SQUARE, GRAND, AND PICCOLO, OR COTTAGE PIANO-FORTES, Plain and Ornamental Cases. In addition to the peculiar merits that have won for the instruments their enviable reputation, they comprise all the MODERN IMPROVEMENTS possessing any real merit. For PURITY OF TONE, DELICACY OF TOUCH, DURABILITY, and their capacity for enduring the ravages of SEVERE CLIMATES, the STODART' PIANO-FORTE stands unrivaled. The Pianos of the above manufacture have stood the test of more than a quarter of a century. For the superiority of these celebrated instruments, the manufacturers are at liberty to refer to over families who have them in use, in nearly every part of the civilized world. Parties abroad, favoring us with their orders, can rely upon being as well served as if they were to make a selection in person, and at moderate prices and satisfactory terms. THE BEST SKIRTS MADE. THOMSON'S NOVELTIES, 1862. 'LA PETITE,' House or Traveling Skirt. 'PARIS SKIRT,' Medium or Dress Skirt. 'PARIS TRAIL,' Full Dress or Promenade Skirt. Nos. 17, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. NONE BUT POLISHED AND BLUED SPRINGS USED IN PARIS SKIRT AND TRAIL. EVERY SKIRT WARRANTED. W. S. THOMSON, LANGDON & CO., 391 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK. SCHOOL FURNITURE, CHURCH AND LECTURE ROOM SETTEES, BANK AND OFFICE DESKS, CAMP STOOLS, &C., &C. MANUFACTURED BY R. PATON, 24 GROVE STREET, N. Y. To the following persons and Schools using furniture from this establishment we most confidently refer: G. C. Anthon, Classical Institute, N. Y. Rev. D. C. Van Norman, Ladies Classical Institute, N. Y. Elie Charlier, French Institute for Boys, N. Y. Rev. 0. S. St. John, Ladies Institute, N. Y. John MacMullen, Classical Institute, N. Y. Tuskegee French College, Ala. J. W. N. Mears, Greenboro, Ala. Rev. E. Rowley, Athens, Tenn Of upward of 500 Distinguished Persons. Send for list of names. ALBUMS FOR CARDS, Holding from 20 to 200 Pictures, at unusually low prices. Liberal Discount to Dealers. PHOTOGRAPHS IN INDIA-INK, WATER-COLORS, PASTEL, & OIL, From Miniature to Life Size. FRENCH GILT FRAMES, AND CASES FOR "CARTES DE VISITE." FINE FRENCH MOROCCO AND VELVET CASES, FOR MINIATURES. FINKLE&LYON Sewing Machine 538 Broadway New York Descriptive Circulars with Samples of Work THIS Company, being duly licensed, their Machines are protected from infringement and litigation. Persons desiring to procure a Sewing Mahine should purchase the FINKLE & LYON MACHINE for the following reasons: 1st. There is no Machine, making the tight or lock-stitch, which is so simple and so easily understood. 2d. There is no Sewing Machine so durable, and so easily kept in order. 3d. There is no Sewing Machine capable of doing so great a range of work; no work ever required in Family Sewing but what may be done perfectly on our Machine, from Lace to Heaviest Cloth. 4th. Wherever our Machines have been fairly exhibited, in competitiou with other first-class Machines, we have been awarded FIRST PREMIUMS. 5th. With new improvements constantly being added-with perfection of mechanical skill, obtained by long experience we aim to produce a Machine which shall be a source of profit and pleasure to the purchaser. 6th. There is no Sewing Machine so fully guaranteed as ours; for we warrant every Machine we sell to give better satisfaction than any other, or we will refund the money. 7th. We have still further reduced our prices, and when the quality of the Machine is considered, it will be readily conceded that for $40 Read the following unbought commendations. Scarcely a day passes that we do not receive similar words of encouragement. FAIRBURY, Ill., March 4, 1862. The machine was received yesterday "safe and sound." It works admirably, and meets our most sanguine expectations. Yours truly, ISAAC T. WHITTEMORE. The machine is all that can be desired in the direction of Sewing-Machine perfection. Yours truly, REV. A. A. HORTON, Lamartine, Wis. CAMDEN, April 3, 1862. The Sewing Machine I cannot praise too highly; it has been pronounced by a practical machinist to be superior to any in the market. Yours, &c., E. J. TORAM, Recorder of the city of Camden, N. J. WALTON, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1861. The machine reached me to-day in good condition, and in an hour after was in successful operation, and workiug to a charm, to the great delight and satisfaction of the purchaser. REV. J. S. PATTENGILL. AUSTINBURG, O., Jan. 20, 1862. It does its work so nicely, runs so smoothly and easily, and is so readily adjusted, and all its operations so simple and certain, that I feel perfectly safe in recommending it, &c., &c. MRS. N. J. B. BARBER. NEW YORK, Jan. 19th. My wife has now used the machine for some months, and it grows in favor every day; in fact it works like a charm, doing all that you promised it would, and giving better satisfaction than we expected. S. T. HILLMAN, 96 Chamber Street. NEW YORK, May 15, 1860. Allow me, in behalf of the Ladies of the Dorcas Society of the First Baptist Church, to tender you their thanks for the use of your Sewing Machine for the past winter. It affords me pleasure to add my testimony we furnish the best and cheapest Machine in to its perfect adaptedness, as well as labor the world. Send for a Circular, which, with price-list, and samples of work done on the Family Machine, will be sent mail free. Agents wanted who will purchase Machines. We never consign. saving qualities in the performance of family and household sewing. Yours respectfully, C. J. BOGGS, Sec. FINKLE & LYON SEWING MACHINE CO 538 Broadway, N. Y. WHEELER & WILSON'S THE WHEELER & WILSON Sewing Machine is the machine for all kinds of FAMILY SEWING, and for the use of Seamstresses, Dressmakers, Tailors, Manufacturers of Shirts, Collars, Skirts, Cloaks, Mantillas, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Corsets. Ladies' Gaiters, Linen Goods, Umbrellas, Parasols, Silk Goods, etc., Economy of Sewing Machines, The WHEELER & WILSON COMPANY has prepared tables showing, by actual experiments 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: BY MACHINE. Gentlemen's Shirts...1 With Glass Cloth Presser, Improved Loop-Check, Linen Vests...... BY HAND. Hours-Minutes. 26 .0 .0 50 27 27 37 Merino Dress.........1 Chemise.. Muslin Skirt.... Drawers.............0 Silk Apron...........0 NUMBER OF STITCHES MADE PER MINUTE. By Hand. With Machine. Ratio. Stitching fine Linen........23 640 28 Satin.............24 Seaming fine Cloth... .....38 ...33 And at hundreds of County Fairs. The LOCK STITCH made by this Machine, cannot be ravelled and presents the same appearance upon each side of the seam, a single line of thread extending from stitch to stitch. It is formed with two threads one upon each side of the fabric, and interlocked in the centre of it. In beauty and regularity, and in the firmness of the seam formed it excels hand sewing. The machine is prefered for the following qualities: 1. Beauty and excellence of stitch alike upon each side 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 wide range of application to purposes and materials. 5. Compactness and elegance of model and finish. When the machines are driven by power the ratio is much higher, 1,500 and 2,000 stitches per minute not being an unusual average. 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. -0 [From the Scientific American.] A New Improvement has lately been added to the Wheeler & Wilson machine (which we considered long ago as nearly perfect,) being an attachment for sewing braid upon cloth, silk or any other material. If any of our friends have been through the tedious operation of braiding children's dresses, they will realize the great relief that awaits them in this invention. The braid follows the needle with perfect accuracy, taking any curve desired, so that the most intricate pattern may be braided with great rapidity. Every lady may now possess one of those lovely chambray morning robes, embroidered in vines and labyrinths of white braid, which have heretofore fallen to the lot only of the most industrious and ingenious. For summer dresses nothing can be more becoming. We hail this improvement as a confirming evidence of "a good time coming" for the ladies one and all. And we may as well include the gentlemen, for there will doubtless be an imme 6. Simplicity aud thoroughness of construc-diate harvest of elaborate smoking caps, and velvet tion. 7. Speed, ease of operation and management, and quiteness of movement. slippers embroidered with gold braid. Long live the sewing machines! Of great strength and speed, particularly adapted to the navigation of Long Island Sound, running in connection with the FALL RIVER AND OLD COLONY RAILROADS, A DISTANCE OF FIFTY-THREE MILES TO BOSTON ONLY. Leave Pier 3 North River, near the Battery, The Steamer METROPOLIS, Captain Brown, On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 5 o'clock P.M., (4 o'clock in the Winter,) touching at Newport each way. The Steamer EMPIRE STATE, Captain Brayton, On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 5 o'clock P.M., (4 o'clock in the Winter,) touching at Newport each way. The Steamer BAY STATE, Captain Allen. THESE steamers are fitted with commodious state-rooms, and every arrangement for the security and comfort of passengers, who are afforded by this route a night's rest on board, and on arrival at Fall River, proceed per railroad again, reaching Boston early on the following morning. A baggage-master is attached to each steamer, who receives and tickets the baggage, and accompanies the same to its destination. A steamer runs in connection with this line, between Fall River and Providence, daily, except Sundays. Freight to Boston is taken at the same rates as by other regular lines, and forwarded with the greatest expedition, by an Express Freight Train, which leaves Fall River every morning (Sundays excepted) at 73 o'clock, for Boston and New-Bedford, arriving at its destination at about 11 o'clock A.M. For freight or passage apply on board, or at the office on Pier 3 North River, where state-rooms and berths may be secured. Hereafter no rooms will be regarded as secured to any applicant until the same shall have been paid for. For further information apply to WILLIAM BORDEN, 70 and 71 West Street, New-York. |