The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-08-21
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rem, 40 cts, and yet IN Raleigh the price is
so cts. Meal sells out Of the shops at 81.
Why is this: Our people, many of them,
are as poorly able to pay exorbitan. prices for
provisions as other people, and yet the rule
appears to be, to ask all you can get. and
sellers generally get what they ask. The
Newbern Progress says, il Lncoln's block
ade continues until January, corn will sell
there at 20 cts. per bushel. Flour is selling
10 Charlotte at 81 50 to IS, and in Raeighat
90 80 to s8. Al this rate, one half Of our peo-
pie had better remove to Charlotte. and the
other hall 10 Newbern. Standard.
Coon LvIS6.-Neabern is now favored
with almost everything good 10 eat at very
moderate prices. Fruit Of various kinds
seems 10 be quite plentiful Watermelons
are lying in piles about The streets and at the
whar,es at from two cents up 10 25. Flour
aud corn are remarkably cheap for Newbern.
We noticed wheat selling here yesterday at
IS cts. for white aud 60 for red, and very
dull at that. As 10 sugar aud Molasses, and
West India fruits, they Fever were more
plentiiul-result Of Lincoln's blockade.
Let all who want good things come to
Newborn quick. Aetcben Pregrcn.
A sKlRalsH on THE Peninsula. Nor
folk Day Book OF Saturday last gives the
| following:
/ We learn, from the Peninsula, that Il
skirmish took place over there on Monday
last. One hundred and twenty Of our cav
airy were out on accommodating expedi-
/ ton, aud fell in with a company Of sixty
/ five Yankees on James river, between Smiths
and Lees places. above Newport News.
when fight ensued, which resulted in our
complete success. Out of the sixty-fve
/ Yankees engaged there were only fifteen Of
them lief, alive to tell the tale d the slasgh-
i ter.
Il is said that a great deal Of successful
/ skirmishing Is going on, on the Peninsula,
/ BY Gen. Magruders forces. accounts OF
which do not reach the press.
/ N,ssauai-Goy. Jackson. on the 5,h. al
i New Madrid. issued his Proc lamaiion. in
virtue 81 authority vested in him BY The
| Legislature, declaring the State free aud
/ independent Of the Yankee Union.
/ The aih North Carolina Regiment left
suffolk on the 10th for the vicinity 81 smith
i held. They left one hundred on the sick
i list II suffolk. We regret 10 learn that
capt. Miller, III the Townsville Rifles. il
there quite sick.
H s.Sp asa DnrSrTcrssr.-The writer has
used il Tor years a. greatly preferable 10
lime, and j. convinced of is great imp0r.
lance. II is - abundant, no expense would
BE- incurred except that Of hauling il. Put
Il abandantly over any offensive oder. 81
whatever character, even the carcass Of man
or beast. and IN SHIRT time il would be
decompo.ed without any unpleasant odor.
I se il freely at the different camp grounds.
WAR Rgsounc9s oF isgASsas. The Lit
tie Rock State Gazette, says that Arkansas
has within her limits lead enough To supply
The annie, 81 the world with bullets. ,ali.
peire enough To supply them With powder.
aad several sAlt springs. tapable Of prpIseing
get quantity VI salt.
4 R,lLsnsD teclpESr.-'fhe great rains hav-
ing washed up a portion Of the Virginia
f Central railroad, about q miles from Rich
moad. train of cars ran into a stream on
SUNDAY nigh: last. breaking several cars.
and killing one volunteer aud wounding a.
bout 80 others. They we're from Louisville.
Kentucky.
H fHg CsPruRED WAGONS - The Wagons
captured from our enemy on Sunday, Jaiy
2i.t--arr 300 10 nnmber. are said by eor-
re.ppndtnt 70 Be all new. and IL the most
substantial and costly description. They
were bait a Ballimnir. Philadelphia. New
York anil Boston. aud &c supposed 10 have
cost about $500 each. They lnn.l resemble
lie large ,ixc wagons used by The Adams
EApses. Company, but are covered. Oh
Each wagon was marked Z ~ Richmond
M u elsh me was large quantity q pro-
visions.
FaS.Iiei.a-rhe New York Daily News
saw. II was once remarked By the cclebra-
trd John Randolph u Roanoke. that /" fanst-
icl.n, whether political or religious. has no
stopping place shor, Of Heaven or hell"
The party now IN power seem emslous IS
siniirauna the fectl,ude Of MS proposition.
Il ha. rubbed inadly gnd wicksdly ints a war
policy which cannot possibly esentaate in
good either 60 individuals or 10 The nation,
but will inevitably send hundreds, and per.
. laps thousands. Of mes TO their graves. and
wreck The uatiun ~ all iis material interests.
Washington. Aug ~ Hon. Charles J..
Faulkner. late Minister Of the Unilrd States
to France. has been arrested, aud drbarrrd
the privilege Of convefsing with bis friends.
i 10 Iowa. paper quotes 20 tatoes al 2 cents
per bashel. wheat 30. cDfn 3 CENTS. butter
ceats pes ppunl. eggs cents per dozen, and
!. cheese q cent. per pound.
. The British iieet in the Gulf " Mexico is
composed Of y vessels. carrying 4ls gus.
aud numbering 1865 men.
ssrrlble accident occurred on the Cen
trail Railroad, aboui Il miles from Redmond.
Va. Eigh, cars filled with passengers were
crushed. Tso companies 81 soldiers lrpm
louisville. Ky. suffered severely, Onc man
wa, killed and many wounded.
Washington. AaF ~.
. President Lincoln has issued PrDclama.
/ ton declaring all commercial intercourse