The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Reading Room.

--There never was a time when Richmond more needed a free Reading Room for strangers, than at present. While Every vice puts on new charms, and erects new dallying places to attract and ensure the unwary thousands, it is painful to perceive that the same great cause which draws them hither--the war — has broken up some of the most important centres of moral and religious influence which our city once possessed.--Among these, we note the Library and Reading Room of the Young Men's Christian Association, once so commodious and pleasant, in Goddin's Hall, but lately ejected by the Post-Office Department, and now crippled and cramped in a little room close by, where there is no room to arrange the books, and scarcely room to sit down comfortably.