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Show "A great newspaper ia every sense of the phrase" ia the judgment of journalists and the people upon the Philadelphia Weekly Times. Not yet a year old, Ibis weekly paper has achieved a success in circulation at well as in influence that is without a parallel. It embraces eight paea or fifty-six columns, full to overflowing with readable matter gleaned from every part of the wide fie ids of politics, literature, soienco and art. The editorial page abounds in crisp comments com-ments on the news of the day, embodying em-bodying careful and independent judgment fearlessly expressed. The departments relating to home and society and the farm and garden make it welcome at every firesido, and offer from week to week temptations that are irresistible to tue Bcieaors of an editor. Fiction, poetry and tales ot travel and adventure, find a place in every number. But the great distinctive dis-tinctive feature of the Philadelphia Weekly Times is its current series of chapters on the unwritten history of the war, Erery one of these is lrom the pen of a prominent actor in the late conflict between the states, and describes seme phase of the war that came within bis own persona observation. observa-tion. No newspaper ever before presented pre-sented such an array of contributors as appear in thisdepartment. Among them are such men as Hon. .Carl Schuri, Hon. A. i, Curtin, General Joseph E, Johnetoo, General Joseph Hooker, General James Longctreet, Hon. John W. Forney, General G. T. Beauregard, General William B. Franklin, Hon. John H. Reagan, Hon. Simon Cameron, GenenU Kich-j ard Taylor, Goneral Jc hn C. Fremont, I and such womea as Mrs. Stonewall; Jackson, Mm. E. E. Brga ("Olivia"), I and Mrs. Jeeaie Benton Fremont, i |