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Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 5

Trick 01? a Speculator.—Jacob Bnvker tha iLa-^,fta^ inenJ;~ of course l)ased 0.1 "reliable Sfe 1* ii K M Ge. n' 1 Mc«Wlaa had be t n vanquished ; that the rebel anuy was m.full . ma rch on Waßhmgton, also that France ha<J recognized the Southern Confederacy. The secesh fecJiutr at once rose fever lu»h, but did not dare to show it«elf publicly. However, (be treasury notes in the hinds ot tue secesh lost reputatiou iiumediat«ly. Dawu they went m price, and the emissaries ot the cutiiiLie Jacob picked them up at very reduced rates The swindle has created-ir good deal of feeling in tha Cresirent City.- -Boston Journal.

Hakboring a Tjiaitoiu—Alexandra Dumas without knowing-it.'has teen harboring a Bourbon brigand, says a Naples letter of i lie 29tii July. Some time ago a young; man of twenty-five, mined An« Ja deCieco obtained a place in tue rather suinptuoua houseboldof that celebrated writer, under a falsenauie. Dumas still inhabits the royal palace of Chiatamone, which was assigned to him as a residence a good while si QC^. Oieco- h»s been in the habit ot holding secret poitical meetings in Dumus's palace. On Sunday last, havniff a suspicion that be was found put, he jumped upon one of his master's horses andievaiited. The police were soon upon hi* track, and arrested him on the Magdalm Bridge, oa the road to. Portici. Papers said to be of importance' were found upon him, and among others, a Jist of twenty-two persons devoted to death in pursuance of the following oath:— '< I swtar that,all the men above mentioned shall be stabbed, by n«v as being: enemies of our august Sove/eigß Francis 11. JHurrah for God! Hurrah for the Virgin! Hurrah for relK f ron !-, HurraU for our Lord Wus IX.! Hurrah raqcis lUI "-"JSuropean Times, - '