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“substitutes.” --A correspondent of the New-Orleans Crescent, at Richmond, writes as follows: “Our chief article of commerce, nowadays, is a commodity known in the market as ‘ substitutes.’
The article has risen from one hundred dollars to two hundred dollars, again to five hundred dollars, and from that to one thousand dollars and one thousand five hundred dollars. The cheapest kind now offering commands five hundred dollars readily.
A wretch, named Hill, has been making enormous sums, as much as three thousand dollars to five thousand dollars a day, by plundering substitutes, some of whom are the very scum of the earth.” --Boston Transcript, April 10.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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