The herald., 1895-12-29

Ayres & Wade, loose as have been their
ideas of sound money, could not go so
far as 70 recognize the scrip made by
an individual The confederacy might
be totterinR, but Messrs. Ayres & Wade
would be loyal to it's currency; further
than that the publishers of literary
weekly coul' not go. Thus it was
that. although one drew pretty -four
ishes around scroll saying "WIll pay
to bearer" and had it engraved upon
the thinnest and most crackly Of bank
note paper, with his own an ograph in
the highest style of Typographical art.
he could not own years title in the
Southern Illustrated News-no, not for
carload of "individu4i' notes. In
the long run they would have been
worth as much as the "shinpla s tiers"
of the confederacy, but the inexorable
editor and publisher of the Richmond
weekly did not see it that way. From
! the "cause" to which they were pledged
they would accept worthless rage, sim
ply for the ia b they had in it's ulti-
mate triumph; from their brethren
not hing hat called itself money, unless
represented by a substantial proxy,
euch as ham, bag of meal or load
of f1rewood.
1t is unnecessary to say that the
Southern illustrated News in 1864 paid
no dividends perceptihle to the outer
senses; the stockhOlCe = surely neither
SAW nor felt them; which is not fact
to be wondered at, since, outside of the
, topsy-turvy condition OF the country
at that time, and the shakiness Of the
money question, there is only one "ad"
to be discovered in ths entire edition
of April b. and five in the succeeding
I issue. There is no reason to suppose
that lads" were any more plentiful
+ during the rest of the year than in
these two copies, as the clouds gath
cred more thickly with the opening Of
the GUNNER months, and business be-
came more paralyZad rs Johnston
weaker force ekillfully retreated before
Shtr nan' masterly movements, as
Hood made his fatal mistake, and Sher-
man marched vic oriously to the sea,
with Atlanta in ashes bahind him.
1t is a significant item that the one
advertisement referred to is that OF a
music bou e. Amid the Rroaus of the
dying and the reveroerations OF the
death-dealing cannon, the time was
prolili' Of songs, perhaps to drown the
Rroans aud shut out the noise OF the
fray. Among these pieces Of "new
music" for sale by "ali mnsi, dealers
in the confederacy." were Twinklng
Stars Are Laughing, Love; The Vacant
Chair, Make Me No Candy Chaplet,
and one piece Of instrum .ntal music,
BeaureRard's Charleston Qnickstep.
II people sang with the ruins OF re-.
beliion just about to topple upon their
heads. SO also did they go 10 plays, and
the drama ic critic found work to do
for this weekly of 1864. kichelieu and
Camille we're being played in Rich
mond. while Grant and Lee we're daily
drawing near the wilderness, and one
James Wills, comedian, was planning
benefit for that week in May when
5000 gallant fellows were to lie dying
in the trenches under the pines that
shut in five miles of the old Fredericks-
burg turnpike,
A northerner, Of course, was Distinct
lively and often lively yankee" in
those days, and I'll things of )r from
the north were quAlifi d by the same
term.
The Rivals, by M. J. H., which may
mean tn author of Lena Rivers, ct al,
is the prize story Of this weekly, and is
Que of the continued variety. It is il
Illustrated by laborious aud conven-
tional woodcuts, that show at glance
the immense. progress made in the art