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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 26 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 22 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 8 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
from forty to fifty cents per quire; envelopes, two cents each. Overshirt of some worsted material, costing probably $1, were offered at the modest price of $3.50 and $4 according to the brilliancy of colors. Tobacco, 15 cents per paper; and so on through a long list of worthless goods that had the dust of half a century upon them. With the soldier it is Hobkin's choice, for they cannot have leave of absence to purchase elsewhere, and are forced to suffer or be outrageously swindled. John Wilkes, once an excellent Alderman of London city, made a remark in regard to capital punishment, that "the very worst use to which you can put a man is to hang him;" but that was said before the day of these army vultures, that have no more conscience than the Neapolitan beggars, who hold out one hand to receive your aims and rifle your pockets with the other. There are several store and sutler shops that are well patronize, which should be abated as nuisances, and I am glad to hear that atten