TIIE AGE OF EIUMBUGs.
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The New York correspondent of the last


Charleston Courier has the following:


What age Of hunhuS we live in; and as


am in gossiping humOr, might as well have my


say out Among all The men who make fortunes


In New orE the successful humbHg stands pre-
eminent. BRANDREFn with his pills, has risen


from poor man 10 be a man of extensive fortune.


He has now al Sing Sing three story factory for
grinding his medicines. Aloes carried into II by
the ton, and whole cargoes of the pills are des-
patched TO every part of The Union, and down
every body's throat. A few year. ago he said no
humbug could live more than six years in New


York. His pills then were at discount, but he
has changed his mind since, aud is rising higher
than ever He has expended thirty: fpe thousand
dollars in single year for advertising. CoMsTocK
be-an with nothing, but BY crowdng his patent
mt dIcines, has been able to purchase one Of the
first houses in Union Place. and gives magnificent
suirees, suppers, &C. MoFFAr adding bitters TO
pills, has up handsome fortune O: nearly
$500 000 SHERMAN, taking the lozenge line, has
e,erged from his hI:le shop in Nassau-street into
a buyer OF lois and houses by The Wholesale
need not mention SWAIN, Of Philadelphia, who, BY
pouring bis panacea into peoples stomacl's, can
afford buy single pearl headband for his daugh-
ter worth S2O0OO-to prove that pill eat
ing and bitters drinking people. Your literary man |
will starve in his garret, while your pill maker will
emerge from his garrett into palace. Perhaps |
there is no greater q1ack, in another line, tha q |
BARNCM, of the New York. Museum Owning
both the Museums of the city, he keeps them sepa-
rate, and frequently gets up furious rivalry be- !
tween the Two establishments, till the newspapers
TEEN with advertisements, pressing the claims Of
each house over The ohPr JOYCE HEATH the re-
puted nurse Of WASHINGTON he picked up m some
on; of the way place. and cheated The whole coun-
try with her. His Bohemian GVpseY which he
advertised eeks before hand as about 10 arrive in
one Of The English packets, he got out Of Con=
heclicut- poor-hUuse, where sire had been taken
from company OF strolling players"