Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-03

The following items are taken from the
Richmond (V&) papers of the 2Oth ult They
are interesting at this time; f
A ouartermaster adyertises for three hun
dred able bodied negro slaves TO labor on
military roads in the army Of the Potomac,
offering $40 per month and one ration.
A dealer in Richmond advertises pianos
for sale, adding the hint, that purchasers had
better be in hurry, as such things are not
to be hereafter Obtainable in Secessis.
The demand for paper of every description
is immense in Richmond, there being none
to speak Of on hand, and hardly any pros
pectsOf getting any. Ink (printing) is quite
scarce.
The smallpox is making terrible work
with the rebel troops on Muldraugh's Hill,
KY. Large numbers are dying daily of it,
says a dispatch in the Richmond Enquirer.
Sampson Jones "agent" urges the farmers
of Virginia to make butter for the South,
now that the Northern supply is cut off.
The Richmond Christian Advocate has sus
pended from inability to procure printing
paper.
Meade & Brother, apothecaries, (Rich-
mond,) advertise that inability to procure
supplies of medicine compel them to decline
uuUSJ Vi lublI DuSlueS5s
Among the sbominations cited by Sandy
Stuart in his report, commented upon
above, is the Yankee school system that
'compels the rich to educate the children of
the poor" He denounces it as not only an
outrage, but proof of the rapid tendency
of things in the United States to agrarian-
ism
Clarkson 4 Co. advertise "twenty five
dogwood stumps"-apologie for wooden
legs-an article in demand there just now,
evidently.
The Richmond Examiner denounoes the
pay ment Of interest due on Virginia State
and other bonds purchased by Southerners
of parties in the North since the opening of
the war, as paying premium for specula-
tion and collusion with the Northern enemy
The same paper prays for the reign of an
English, French or Russian Prince over the
South before restoration CT the Union.
The State (Virginia) Convention have
| taken the liberty of eecting Alexander r
Boteler to the Confederate Congress, to rep.
resent the Winchester District in place ol
James NJ. Mason, now peeping through bars
in Fort Warren.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, for Eastern Virginia, con
vened at Norfolk on the goth instant. Sew
| ersl hundred passports were granted IL
Richmond to attend it. So, no man may
travel now any where in Virginia without
passport. Fine times there, amt theyP
Flour went up 81 per barrel in Richmond
in the course of last week.
An undertaken offers to furnish gentee
hearse and "fixins," with which to bury tn
soldiers dying in the hospitals Of Richmond
for the prices the Government allows for tn
usual furniture wagon and negro driver.
Exchange on New York in Richmond wa
selling at 6@6H per cent. premium; silver a
Is, and gold at 20 per cent; Confederat
States Bonds ($l5, ,0O0,000) 9s@9SX par be
ing Confederate money. No sale for Orang
and Alexandria Railroad 6 and per cent
Bonds
The following are the current prices @
merchandise at wholesale (the Examiner re
marking that for small quantities highe
prices are charged), viz; Bacon, hog round
23@26c Butter 45@50c., very scarce Corn
meal 8C@s5c; Candles, tallow, Zoe; Ada
mantiDe 45@49c. Coffee, none in marke
Hay, Timothy or Glover, 81 25 per 100; Ha
flax Herrings $S@l0, but none to be hat
Pig Iron $40@45, stock small; Nails II
ne; Refined English Iron $ll5@l2
Leather 60@65c, demand immense, stoc
very light (Very livelyG Lead 715@S%c
J 75c., very scarce; Salt, fine Liverpool, SO
@l0; Wool, washed Virginia (common), 8
06Oc; fine Merino do 55@60c.
The Lynchburg speculators have put sa
up to $40 per sackl '