TERMS TO CLUBS. Two copies for one year,....................................Five dollars. Three copies for one year,..................................Six dollars. Six copies for one year,....................................Eleven dollars. Eleven copies for one year,.................................Twenty dollars. Twenty copies for one year,.................................Thirty-six dollars. PAID IN ADVANCE _Postage, Thirty-six Cents a year_, TO BE PAID BY THE SUBSCRIBER. SINGLE COPIES. Three Dollars a year, IN ADVANCE.--_Postage paid by the Publisher._ J.R. GILMORE, 532 Broadway, New-York, and 110 Tremont Street, Boston. CHARLES T. EVANS, 532 Broadway, New-York, GENERAL AGENT. Number 8. 25 Cents The Continental Monthly Devoted to Literature and National Policy. * * * * * AUGUST, 1862. * * * * * NEW-YORK AND BOSTON: J.R. GILMORE, 532 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK, AND 110 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON. NEW-YORK: HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY. PHILADELPHIA: T.B. CALLENDER AND A. WINCH. 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.