Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-21

The NEw JEwFLRY ENTEKPEIsE-PAY YoUF
DOLLAR AND TAKE YOUR cHoICE.-In all The
principal cities and towns throughout the
United States Temporary 'jewelry stores
have sprung up within the last three months
and the public are told by hand-hills, posters
and advertisements in the newspapers, tina,
they can have choice Of any article in tae es-
tabliShment for one dollar. They are told
that half dozen dealers in jewely, in PhiIa-
deiphia or New York, have recently .busIed
mp and their goods are 10 be sold immedi-
ateIy at great sacrifice. Go into one OF
these stores and you will see all sorts and
sizes of earrings, breast-pins, bracelets, lock
cts. chains, &;-, DC, and By throwing down
a dollar you can take any article you see
Indeed. rather than miss tr ide the keeper
Of the establishment will let you have two or
three of the smaller articles for one dollar.
A large quantity of this 'j-welry," when
piled Up in the sunshine, looks, at the dis
lance of seFenty-fiEe yards. very much like
the fragment of California gold-min, but
when you come to examine it from point
few yards nearer, you ind that il never saw
a gold mine, and never viii.
Hundreds Of people who are ignorant of
this new dodge Of the Peter Funks of the
Northern cities, are very willing 10 pay
dollar for the privilege of choosing from
among such a variety of valuable articles"
and do not di.eOver that they have paid three
prices for piece of ingeniously wrought
brass until it is too late 10 retrieve their folly.
This lone dollar jewelTy'' is made, accord
ing TO the Scientife 4mericuq, of the Oreiis of
gold. which Is moth ing but q superior sort oil
brass, and the best imitation Of gold that has
ben discovered. In steamboat load of
Jewelry made of il there Is not gold enough
to make a one dollar gold piece. lis value,
says the Chicago journal, may be imagined
when We sag that d dozen finely chased
tablespoons of this metal can be bought for
81 so with a profit to the retailer even at
that price, of over thirIy-three per cent.
The costliest part OF the "Oreide" opera
ton, says the same paper, is the mOulds and
forms in which the jewelry is shaped and cut.
We're they obliged to have these moulds
made expressly at each change of fashion, il
would materially reduce the profits but
they avoid this difficulty by purchasing the
moulds in which jewellers have made the real
gold jewelFy and thus also obtain the latest
patterns. Probably the most expensive look
ing piece uf this jewelry does not cost for the
metal, mouldiJ g, putting together and making
up, forty cents
These cheap jewelry stores, now establish
ed in almost every city of the United Sta les
originated Ouly some three months since, yet
the pioprietOrs already are reaping golden
harvest from the creduIous. We have deem
ed il but simple act OF duty, in these times
of mercantile stringency and financial pres
sure, to inform the public of the true charac-
ter OF what they buy at these Jewelry stores.
The proprietor we suppose has legal right
to dispose OF his wares to any one who will
purchase, and TO receive his QHid pro quo,
however large that quad may b., if he can fad
O purchaser at the same time, the buyers,
mostly from the middle feminine class, actu-
ated 10y that love of fIery which is their
principal vanity, have a most iudubitable
right 10 know exactly the character of the
article they purchase.
Suppose one Uf the regular jewellers of this
city, yielding TO the pressure of the times,
We're TO make deed OF trust and place his
stock in your hands 10 be sid for the benefit
OF bis crcditoTs-dO You think you could let
To4, DICK and HARRY take their choice Of
has jrwelry for one dollar each. or even TWEEN
ty dolIarsf Handy.