Our merchants have provided themselves . 1 with ample stocks of articles that are beauti- S • ful and seasonable. Notwithstanding the ] troubles and the hardness of the times, there ; | never was a more extensive or recherche stock • of Christmas goods in the city. , As a sort of guide to the reader for things I appropriate and seasonable to the occasion, we | present below a brief directory of the cstab i lishments whose notices appear in the columns ' of the Disjxdch :