Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 62, 22 October 1864, Page 3

: Tub NetoYorJc Jfoemtigl Post ailing attention to the mad extravagance of the _. day, ..says: — ?' A man builds a marble stable at the rear of his lot, at ft cost of 8,000d015., and fits .up , a private theatre over it. Another pays 8,000d015,. for • pair of horses to drive on the road for 'tis pleasure j and -many give from l,6CK)dol», to y 3,0Q0d018. for the same object. Another provide^ a dinner for » dozen friends— rejecting the old superstition of the* unlucky, ISt— and this, simple dinner cost* l,OOOdols. A children's, party is given in an uptown house, where every child is clad entirely ia dresses imported from Paris. An Americaa citizen pnrchases a house for over i06,006d015., and tears it down to rebuild upon ite site one yet more costly. These are signs of the tunes; at* they not evidences of a state of things unhealthfull, feverish, threatening to the honest simplicity of our political life, and threatening not less evil to the ideas and the principles of which that life, has hitherto been a fair exponent,?" The Uetr York correspondent of the JBos£6» ' Journal tayu that all sorts of manauviei are reiorted tain/ . order to obtain a first-class mansion/ "An *!► mayor of &.e city was drawn into conversatiomabout his residence by two ladies, and foolishly said he should like to see 3Q,ooodols. for it, and offered -to sell : it for 4 that sum. The offer -was snapped at directly. The next day it was "re-sold for 40,000d015. His honor has been rendered ft little unquiet by this transaction. Somebody "-hat made 10,OOOdols. out of him. . He has been turned i|ito the street. "Getting a fashionable' residence has not proved easy. Nothing remained , but the * overcrowded Fifth Avenue Hotel. He is bow with. ilia family in the ittie «t*WTj t*iti»g (it