New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-16

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little doubt, should be be cashiered BY the Cor,!' NC
will be triumphany reelected as soon rs bis sentence
promulgated.
A SENSATION AMONG HoTgL-KtEPEEs-A NEW
MoDr OF ADVERTISING SMASHED uP.-An enterprising
gentleman of the name Of Latng recently invented
and applied for patent at Washington a curious,
costly desk 10 arranged as 10 exhibit 100 cards and be-
hind each card was rpring-box, capable Of holding
$50 cards of the same sort. The idea good one.
Ii was called "Lattings Hotel Advertising Cabinet,
and 80 made at a cost Of about S75 each. They
placed in 30 Of the principal hotels and no rent
charged by proprietor patenee. Ii was chlcu-
culated that "a comfortable rosewood desk would have
attractions for the guest. While induced 70 write at
the luxurious arrangement, the guest would think
while thinking, he would look up when he looked up,
lis eyes would fall upon 100 cards of different patterns
and modes of getting up. He could then leave the
address of DR.. Pulleeth the dentist, Henry, Smith 81
Townsend, dry goods, Shear & Co., Southern cloth
ers Mahogany & Co.. furniture dealers, &c. In fact,
no matter what the reader might be, his every want
could be supplied II beat newspaper advertising alto
ppther and each box cost for rent, but ~ monih.
There were 80 desks, and the anxious businesshouse
could reach the guests Of 80 hotels for $50 month, or
$500 per annum. 1t was shOcsingly cheap People
who desired to advertise thus extensively were directed
to apply to Mr. Laing, Proprietor, No. HS Broadway
Alas! the beet laid plans of mice and men don't al
WAYS succeed Mr. Lang WAS in high spirits lie
WAS on the look out for real estate, where he could in
vest his monthly cash receipts to advantage He had
30 mahogany secretaries or cabnets each cabinet had
100 boxes for merchants cards with displayed be-
hind glass Gaze This made 5000 card-boxes; each
81 month rent WAS 80 900 income month, or sa6,OOo
a year. from this little invention
Alas again. Happy but unfortunate Laitlng!
Somehow, Latting got in debt. mere trie to man
who had dead sure thing of making an income OF
$3G, 900 per annum out of advertising merchants by
bis new mode of fancy advertising and all, too, on
captal of 80 cabinets at s75 each, OF $2,2JO
For greater security he had morgaged these 30 rose
wood secretaries to Geo. Ebbinghausen, the maker.
Unfortunately, that mortgage does not come due until
Julynext.
Meanwhile Latting got in debt $3.50 to Somebody &
Co. Somebody & Co. sued. Somebody & CO. got
Judgment, and the matter placed in the hands Of
Thomas Farrell, an Eighth Ward constable. Farrell
was shrewd and like Napoleon Ill, silent man.
He poeted up the following notice in various places;
"CoysrApLys s.Lp-By virtue OF execution will
pose for sale al public Monday the 18th day Of No
aat III H. ,b tite and interest of W Lsns NTH Ear
re u not classical schoar) the following property Thirty
ROSEWOOD On''' u''A'' THOMAS FARRELL"
Underneath WIS another notice:
"The above sale is postponed until the 4th Nov r. F."
The collusive Herald also contained the following:
&c. Horror, AUcTioSEHR-By virtue Of an execution
ii o'clock at No lot of office desks ecres
"T. FARRELL, Constable"
Now comes Farrell in grand coup. He secured
the services of dozen furniture carts at O'Clock and
proceeds silly to the unsuspecting hotels. Pop goes
the warrant surrender is the cry, and without re-
sistance the investments by one that produce Lat
ting an income of $4,000 year, placed on the
furniture carts and conveyed TO the auction store just
| in time for the sae All but one desk. That hotel
| could not he found The sale commences. Lot No.
| l. hoodwinked is put up.
." How much is bid for this rosewood secretary"
:" Five dollars" saws furniture dealer whose cash
| capital doesn't exceed $50.
Five dollars is bid for this beautiful desk, with the
| privilege of % more Of same sort. Going-gone e
six" said we, and thought Of the advertising in
| come of 800 month it would produce in The TRrB-
UsI publishing Office beside being usefulto outsiders
"Seyen," said somebody else, and finally the lot was
sold to different persons at from & to sl3 each.
Then came the tug of war. Latting arrived took
ia for the auetioneere clerk and handed his card
forbidding the goods going away and showed roll of
| money.
Then arrived cart to take away the goods. A lit
tie Teutonic lawyer, who said his name was Schmidt
suffered out pre,exts in half German, Dese dngs
solen NIGHT 90. Deys de manufacture of mein CLIENT,
Herr Ebbinghausen. Dis is Mr. Ebbinghausen;" and
here he introduced pleasant, smiling face belonging
to that name.
police officer who had been sent for arrived. He
looked knowing, but said nothing. Then arrived a
| man named Brown, who stood 81 feet, clear of his
boots. He had to threaten and d--n, for he was the
| counsel of the little constable, Farrell.
At the last moment, the rosewood arrangements re-
manned al No. $50, watched by the police officer the
owner, and the mortgage, and the representative
| cards of q thousand merchants were waiting anx-
iousy to be rcpleyined by John Kelly, the sheriff.
THE SUPPOSED SLAYER CoGswELL.-An examina-
ton of the supposed slave schooner VIM L. Cogswell
has been made by the United States authorities The
following are some of the articles among her cargo:
Three tuns of vegetables two crates of plates forty
dozen water-pails one hundred casks of water eighty
barrels of bread nnetyeight barrels of rice, sixteen
hundred pieces of lumber, eight wroughron boilers,
forty cases of flint muskes nnetyhree barrels of dry
goods, and quantity of drugs and spirits. Her cap
| tain, Thomas Goodwin, who also claims to be her
owner, declares that he was bound for Loanda le-
giimate trading voyage. The crew and mate, in all
seven persons were portions of the crews of two other
captured slavers one of which, the Kate is lying
| in the Atlantic dock
| CAPT. FARsuM RIoTous.-The notorious Capt. j.
| Egbert Farnum was yesterday taken before Justice
Quackenbush, on a charge of dsorderly conduct pre-