The persons engaged in trade, like those in the learned professions, are pretty numerous. They may be classed as follows, in reference to the nature of their business. 5 Dry Goods stores, wholesale and retail. 9 Dry Goods, Grocery and Queensware stores. 6 Grocery, Liquor, and Queensware, wholesale and retail. 19 Grocery, Liquor, Queensware, Flour, Feed, &c., which stores hold licenses. 8 Oyster Cellars. 2 Bolting Cellars. 4 Confectionary stores, wholesale and retail. 6 do. retail. 4 Book and Stationery stores. l Book Bindery. 7 Shoes stores. 19 Flour, Feed, &c. 4 Hardware and Iron stores. 1 Store for the sale of Musical Instruments. 2 Feather stores. 3 Large Store Houses, nearly in the centre of the town, which do a large business by purchasing and dealing in all kinds of grain. 4 Store Houses on the wharves at the Schuylkill canal. 5 Coal and Plaster Yards. 4 Wood Yards. The following items, though not properly coming under the head of trade, may as well be inserted here. 4 Livery Stables. 3 Drovers. 4 Farmers. 5 Vineyards. There is a Green and Hot house, deservedly favored by the public; and a Nursery. This last is a truly delightful spot. The air of seclusion which it possesses, the comforts of its shady walks and bowers, and its delicious fruit, make it the favourite summer resort of the citizens of Reading. It does infinite credit to its proprietors and projectors. Those who open to the community retreats like this, for the innocent and profitable enjoyment of a leisure hour, are surely entitled to the name of public benefactors. The nursery is in the north-western part of the borough, about one quarter of a mile from the compact part of the town.
14 Wool Hat Manufactories, which manufacture about 55,000 [the last zero may have been struck out] dozen hats annually. 8 Fine Hat do., which also do a large business. 5 Windsor Chair Manufactories, 1 Comb and 2 Brush, do. 1 Plane do. 3 Glue do. 1 Blacking and Varnish, do. 3 extensive Breweries, and 1 Distillery. 1 Extensive Stone Ware Manufactory. 1 Piano Forte, do. 3 Jewellers. 9 Watch and Clock makers. 2 Blue and silk Dyers. 2 Blue Dyers. 4 Tanners. 1 White and Morocco Leather Manufacturer. 3 Curriers. 4 Saddlers. 3 Turners by hand. 1 do. by steam. 2 Gun Smiths. 2 Locksmiths. 7(?) Tinmen. 4 Coppersmiths. 7 Bakers. 26 Shoemakers. 8 Cabinet makers. 1 Mill-Wright. 6 Wheel-Wrights. 14 Butchers. 5 Tallow Chandlers. 1 Coffee-mill Manufacturer. 1 Extensive Rope Manufactory. 1 Razor and Scissors grinder. 30 House Carpenters. 3 Plasterers. 7 House Painters. 2 Sign Painters. 1 Venetian Blind Manufacturer-B. Todd. 6 Coach-makers. 3 Coach Painters. 6 Coach Trimmers. 2 Silver Platers. 2 Spring, Coach, and Blacksmiths. l4 Coach and Blacksmiths. 3 Stone Masons. 5 Stone Cutters. 17 Bricklayers. 9 Brick Kilns, *which made the last season, 2,777,000 brick. 1 Lime Kiln. 34 Tailors. 5 Slop Shops. 13 Coverlet and Carpet Weavers. 1 Weaver's Reed Manufacturer. 12 Milliners and Mantua makers. 24 Mantua makers 4 Dentists and Barbers. 6 Barbers. 3 Boat builders. 1 Pump maker. 3 Plumbers. 3 Extensive Lumber Yards. l Horse Farrier. 1 White Sweep. 4 Tobacconists and Segar Manufacturers. 2 Cedar Coopers.
J. & D. Eyrich, Tobacconists, in Penn, between 4th and 5th streets, occupy, in their business, a building 40 by 60 feet square. Have about 40 hands in constant employ. They purchase, annually, about 200,000 lbs. Tobacco, out of which they manufacture 1,000,000 segars; 50,000 lbs. of smoking Tobacco, and 30,000 lbs. for chewing. The remainder they sell in leaf. Furnish every article in the tobacco line, as cheap as in Philadelphia.
Daniel Engle, Cedar Cooper, in Bern, between 7th and 8th streets, has at all times on hand, a general assortment of Cedar Ware, and will execute orders at the shortest notice.
Samuel Fesig, Manufacturer of Rolling Screens for Mills, and a11 kinds of wove wire; and also, House Painter—4th Street, between Penn and Franklin. Executes orders in the line of his business, on short notice.
George W. Spang, French Burr Millstone Manufacturer, 5th street, between Chestnut and Spruce. Has on hand a large lot of Block, of the best quality, and is ready to execute all orders sent him, at the shortest notice; will warrant his work and sell cheaper than ever.
He is also agent for the Cocalico Chopping and Hurling Stones, of a11 sizes. Warranted, and at reduced prices.
William Stahle, East Penn street, between 7th and 8th, has at all times on hand a general assortment of Garden and Flower Seeds, from the Shaking Quakers, of New York, and of his own raising. Also: Wine, Bitters and Pepper Mint, by the gallon or less measure. A liberal discount to those who buy to sell again.
J. & C.M. Pearson, Dry Good Merchants, West Penn street, between 4th and 5th.
W. & A.H. Raiguel, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods. East Penn street, near 5th. Sign of the Golden Ball.
John Green, Wholesale and Retail Grocery and Liquor Store. East Penn, near 6th street.
Isaac M. Stelle, Ladies Shoe Manufacturer. North 5th st., No. 14.
Henry Miller, Cabinet Maker. North 5th, between Penn and Washington streets.
P.K. & H.L. Miller, Wholesale and Retail Confectionary store. West Penn, near 5th street.
Amos B. Yeager, Confectioner. Fifth, between Penn and Washington.
P.J.H. Griesemer, Tailor. Fifth, between Chestnut and Franklin.
E. & M. Wanner, Fashionable Tailors. East Penn, between Fifth and Sixth streets, North side.
John Shaffer, Tailor. Fourth street, between Franklin and Chestnut.
Frederick Lauer, Extensive Brewery. Chestnut street, between Second and Third.
Augar Manufacturing Establishment, just put in operation by Messrs. Rankin & Phillips—At present employs ten hands. The machinery is propelled by steam. Front street, between Penn and Franklin.
W. & J.H. Keim, Dealers in Hard Ware, Iron, Steel, Rifle Barrels, Paints, Oils, &c. North Fifth street, opposite the Jail.
Jacob Schoener, Portrait and Miniature Painter. North-west corner of Penn and Fifth streets.
John Bain, Comb manufacturer. W. Penn, between Fourth and Fifth streets, South side.
Helms & Sagee, Brush Manufacturers. W. Penn, between Third and Fourth streets.
N.B. All kinds of Brushes made to order.
George Newkirk, Tailor. W. Penn, between Third and Fourth streets.
Darrah & Warley, Boot Manufacturers. S. Fifth street.
Henry Kantner, Brewer. Penn street, between Fifth and Sixth.
John K. Souder, corner of Third and Penn streets. Wholesale and Retail dealer in Dry Goods, Grocery, Glass and Queensware.
John H. Danfield, Tailor and vender of ready made Clothing. Penn street, between Third and Fourth.
John Zieber, Boot and Shoemaker. Penn street, between Sixth and Seventh.
Boas & Ketrer, extensive Hat Manufacturers. Have constantly for sale a large assortment of fashionable Hats and Caps. Third door from the corner of Penn and Fifth streets.
Printing.—All kinds of Job Printing, such as Blanks, Horse Bills, Handbills, &c. &c. neatly executed at the Office of the Berks and Schuylkill Journal. Deeds and Mortgages, on Parchment paper—Parchment and Paper; and Justices Blanks of every description, of the most approved forms constantly for sale.
Also, a large assortment of School Books.
The subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received direct from Vienna, in Europe, a number of superior quality Piano Fortes, with and without metalic plates, possessing superior tones, and which he will sell lower than they can be had either in New York or Philadelphia.—Also, just received a new musical instrument, called Pianino Piccolo.
The public is most earnestly and respectfully invited to call and examine the above instrument, as it is an entire new invention, and considered superior in all respects, to the Piano Forte.
He has also constantly on hand, a great variety of Musical Instruments of every description, such as Violins, Flutes, Clarionets, Trumpets, French Horns, Trombones, &c. &c. all of which he will sell very low.
Charles L. Heizman, Importer.
Second door from the corner of Penn and Sixth streets.
Wholesale and retail hardware Store, corner of Penn and Third Street, Reading. Have constantly on hand a large and general assortment of Hardware, Cutlery, Nails, Spikes, Rifle Barrels, Guns and Pistols, Carpenters' tools, Black- Smiths' Tools, Castings, Hollow and Cedar Ware, Lamps, Looking Glasses and Glass-ware generally; Coach Lamps, Bands, handles and Trimmings of every description,—Paints, Oil, Glass and Varnish; Dye Stuffs; all kinds of House-keeping articles, and Agricultural implements. With a full assortment of superior rolled Iron, from 1 to 2 inches, Rounds Flats and Squares of every size. Also a large assortment of Hammered Iron, all warranted good,—Cast, Shear, German, English, and American Steels, &c. &c.—The above articles will be sold at the lowest prices, and orders from any part of the county promptly filled.
A Family Newspaper, neutral in politics, devoted to News, Agriculture and General Literature; Containing Domestic and Foreign Intelligence, Congressional and State Legislative News, Poetry, Tales, Biographical, Humorous and Miscellaneous Sketches, Agricultural Pieces, Hints in Rural and Domestic Economy, a Review of the Reading, Philadelphia and other Markets; a Bank Note List, exhibiting the solvency of all our Banking Institutions, and the current value of their issues, and a Counterfeit Detector, giving a true and explicit description of all Counterfeits; is published every Saturday morning on a sheet of the largest size, at Two Dollars per annum in advance.
And General Advertiser, (also a neutral paper,) will be printed on a medium sheet, and contain matter of interest to the farmer, mechanic, and business man. It will also contain weekly reviews of the Markets; a Bank Note List and a Counterfeit Detector—Terms only $1 per annum in advance.
Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted in the Gazette and Transcript at $1.50 per square for the first three times, and 37 l/2 cents for every subsequent insertion; they will be inserted in the Gazette or Transcript at the usual rates of $1 for the three first, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. Subscriptions and advertisements are respectfully solicited by
Knabb & Boyer
West Market Square, opposite the Post Office.
Hardware and Ironmongers, Opposite the Old Court House, Reading, Pa.—Have always on hand an extensive assortment of Sheffield, Birmingham and American goods, which they can sell to dealers as low as they can be purchased in the cities, viz.
Building Materials, viz:—Locks—till, cupboard, and drawer. Large brass knobs and American door bolts; round and shutter; Butts and screws; Hinges of all sorts; Glass—Boston, Crown, Baltimore and other approved make; Oil, white Lead and Paints, cast and wrought Nails, and all other articles necessary for buildings.
Varnish.-Copal, Black and Japan, and Turpentine.
Tar, Oakum, Pitch.
Wagon-boxes, English and American.
Steels.—Cast, Shear, German, English and American blister and crowly Steel; square, octagon, round and flat.
Iron.—Bar, square, round, Plough, Horse-shoe, Wagon-tree, Gun-iron, and all other kinds of Iron, embracing Russian and American Nail rods, Sheet iron.
K. & S. have made arrangements by which they can furnish all kinds of iron as low as it can be procured at Forges or Rolling-mills. Smith Tools.—viz: Bellows, Anvils, Vices, and Screw plates of the most approved make.
Castings.—viz: Mould-boards, Mill-gudgeons, Forge-hammers and Anvils, Celler-grates, Windmill-wheels, Hollowware, Cider-mills, &c. &c.
Dye Stuffs.-viz: Bengal and Spanish Indigo, Log and Red Wood, Fustic, Nicaragua and Camwood; Turmiric, Oil and Blue Vitriol Crude, Pot-ash, Pearl-ash and Salaeratus, Allum, Arnotto, &c. &c.
Saddlery.—viz: Saddle-trees, Stirrups, Bridle-bits, all sorts of Buckles, Mountings, Hames, &c. &c.
Coach Trimmings.—Viz: pat. Axles, pat. Leather, Laces and Fringe, Coach-Lamps, Coach Steps and Handles, Hubbands, concave and plain-brass and silver, Moss, &c. &c.
Planes.-Jointer, Fore, Jack, Smoothing, and all other kinds.
Edge Tools, of every description and of the most approved makes.
Guns and Pistols.—K. & S. have an extensive Rifle and Gun manufactory, and can furnish these articles at the lowest rate. Orders can be forwarded to them from any part of the country, with references, and they shall be promptly filled.
Looking Glasses.—viz: Pine, Flutes, Sconce Frame, Swing with square boxes and drawers, Pine Pillars, Mahogany, Mahogany mouldings.
Gilt Frames.—viz: Column Gilt, Gilt Tablet Frames, Gilt Cornice Mantles, comprising a complete assortment.
Cedar Ware.—viz: Bucking Tubs, Butter-Churns, Wash- Tubs, Iron-bound & Painted Buckets, Crout-Stenners, &c; &c.
House-keeping Articles.—viz: Iron Pots, Fry-pans, Dripping pans, deep-pans, Ladles in sets; brass and iron Table knives and forks, German silver and Brittania tea and table spoons, Grid and sad-irons, shovel and tones—brass and iron, Lamps, Astral, Glass, Japan and others, Candle sticks, Coffee mills, Bellows, Tea kettles, and all other articles necessary for house keeping.
Also—Plaster of Paris, Nova Scotia Tin plate, Wire, Zinc, Lead, Block tin, Lead pipe, and a large assortment of other articles.
Knabb & Boyer, Editors and Proprietors of the Reading Gazette and Transcript, having received the newest and most fashionable materials for Printing from the Type Foundries at Philadelphia and New York, are prepared, with the experience they have had in every branch of the Art of Printing, to undertake all orders in their business, which they will execute in as neat a style, and at rates as cheap as they can be furnished in any of the larger cities.
The following are among the most prominent demands (in their line of business,) of a mercantile, manufacturing, agricultural and business community, which they are prepared to furnish at the shortest notice, viz:
| Books | Cards | Receipts |
| Pamphlets | Labels | Certificates |
| Blanks | Hat-Tips | Bills of Freight |
| Circulars | Court Briefs | Funeral Notices |
| hand-bills | Bills of Lading | Invitation Cards |
| Show-bills | Way-bills | Tickets |
| Blank Checks | and Printing in Colors, Bronze and Gold |
They respectfully invite the attention of the public to the above advertisement, and solicit a liberal share of patronage.
George Getz, Bookseller and Stationer. Corner of Penn and Fourth streets.
Henry Frey, Wholesale and Retail Boot and Shoe Manufacturer. Fifth, between Penn and Washington, opposite the State House.
John S. Oliver, Clock and Watchmaker. Fifth, between Penn and Franklin.
George Heller, Jeweller and Silversmith. Penn, between Fifth and Sixth.
Joseph Klapp, Coach Manufacturer. West Penn street, opposite the Plough and Harrow Tavern. Keeps on hand and has constantly for sale, a number of Coaches, Gigs, Buggies, &c., which he will dispose of on the lowest terms.
Frederick Fox, Chair Manufacturer. Penn, between Sixth and Seventh. Keeps on hand a large assortment of Chairs, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
Gotlieb Ch. Nemert, Clock and Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silver-smith, and Fire-gilder. Fifth, between Penn and Washington.
Submitted by: Nancy.
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