Councils of administration or any other authorities, seldom interpose to regulate their prices. A hundred per cent on imperishable goods is quite common profit, and on many articles two or three hundred per cent is made. It is true that they suffered a fearful probation, while the Paymasters were yet a great way off. Day after day, the busy artists are engaged to the full extent of their abilities, and then are obliged to turn many away. Common ambrotypes that in New York cost 25 cents, are put up in Corinth for one dollar and fifty cents.
Cases sell proportionately high.
In this line, somewhat, may be included the stage, which, strange as it may appear, has been eminently successful at Corinth. The admittance fee of fifty cents will admit you to the luxury of a front seat, which is a rough pine board, supported about a foot from the floor, all innocent of any back or railway whatever. The front seats fill the foremost half of the room. It is somewhat to the credit of the discipline of the troops here, that no bad effects are traceable to these nightly amusements. Newsboys are another class of army followers that make it pay.