CONTENTS.—No. VIII.
| Among the Pines. (Concluded,) | 127 |
| Southern Rights, | 143 |
| Maccaroni and Canvas, | 144 |
| Glances from the Senate-Gallery, | 154 |
| The Last Ditch, | 159 |
| Rewarding the Army, | 161 |
| John McDonogh, the Millionaire, | 165 |
| Helter-Skelter Papers, | 175 |
| Sketches of the Orient, | 179 |
| Witches, Elves, and Goblins, | 184 |
| A True Romance, | 190 |
| Huguenots of New-York City, | 193 |
| The Bane of our Country, | 198 |
| The Molly O'Molly Papers, | 200 |
| Wounded, | 206 |
| Astor and the Capitalists of New-York, | 207 |
| Thunder all Round, | 217 |
| Was he Successful? | 218 |
| A Merchant's Story, | 232 |
| Corn is King, | 237 |
| Literary Notices, | 238 |
| Editor's Table, | 241 |
A MERCHANT'S STORY,
By the author of 'Among the Pines,' which is begun in this number, will be continued in each issue of THE CONTINENTAL until it is completed. It will depict Southern White Society, and be a truthful history of some eminent Northern Merchants, who are largely in 'the cotton trade and sugar line.'
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by JAMES H. GILMORE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
JOHN A. GRAY, PRINTER.