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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Escape of Robinson
The Southern Literary Messenger.
In the number for January, 1861, advance sheets of which have been furnished us, we find the following attractive list of prose and poetical articles: Prose--1.
The Union; its Benefits and Dangers.
2. Tom Hood as an Artist.
3. Faraday's third popular Lecture on the Forces of Matter.
4. A Story of Champagne.
5. The Story of a California Faro Table.
6. A Literary Peter Funk.
7. Parson Squint.
8. Chacun a Son Gont.
9. Gothic Architecture and Natural Religion.
10. The Fine Arts.
Poetry--1.
Oh ! the Sweet South ! 2.
A View from Concession.
3. The Storming of Chapultepec.
4. In Dreams Thou Still Art Mine.
5. Sonnet. 6. Autumn Leaves.
7. December. 8.
A Winter Night Among the Hills. 9.
Sonnet. 10. Never in Vain.
In all 20 articles — variety enough to suite every taste.
The editor follows up the Secession article of the last number with a letter from Washington city. Two of the articles are illustrated, and there is a very pretty Fashi
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Old Fraud Revived. (search)
Old Fraud Revived.
--Frequent complaints are made at the Mayor's office and the Police Courts of gross frauds practised by auctioneers at house furniture.
It is the revival of an old imposture.
The operator rents a house, fills it with cheap second-hand but showy furniture, and then advertises that a wealthy gentleman, about leaving the city, will sell out the contents of his house at a sacrifice.-- "Mock" bidders are in attendance, and all the "Peter Funk" humbugs are practiced.
The house is emptied in the day time, and filled up again in the night; and so the sale of the retiring wealthy gentleman's effects is kept up for a week or a month, or as long as victims continue to visit the house.
Hitherto, through some defect in the law, these sharpers have escaped punishment; and buyers have been left, as they probably will be, to rely upon their own good sense and judgment to protect themselves against deception.--N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
A Memento from Lincolndom.
--From the Norfolk correspondence to the Petersburg Express, dated 5th instant, we extract the following:
A box floated ashore at Fort Nelson, night before last, all the way from Old Point.
It contained one blanket, two watches, one silver, the other a "Peter Funk," a letter, and what do you think?
three Lincoln notes of $10 each!
In the left corner of each was a veritable likeness of the Ape himself, engraved no doubt from a picture taken the day after old Abe got the nomination of the Black Republicans for the Presidency.
The letter in the box was written in Dutch, that and the box were both directed to some person in N. York.
The letter's first page contained a well executed engraving of Fortress Monroe, Jos. Segar's Hygeia Hotel, and the surroundings.
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Cost of the "Armed Peace" of Europe . (search)