Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-02-04
Gbt STANDARD.
:. smH: WEDNESDAY. FEB. ~ 1858.
Advance In Price.

Advance In Price. D..
After the. 18th day of this month, (FebruaryD
.,o nr;ce of the Weekly Standard will be IS per
.,rnm and Of the Semi Weekly, 50. 4
We regret to have to. advance the price OF our
u.ner but We feel sure, when we show the greatly I
increased cost of furnishing the paper, that our
subscribers and friends will the necessity for IL
and cheerfuily approve it.
We are now paying thirty cents per pound for
paper; formerly we paid from ten to WE'VE cents
Ink now costs from seventyhv cents 70 TWO DOL
,.rs ner bound; formerly it cost from twenty-five
to iftv cents We are now paying our journeymeu
fifteen dollars per week; formerly we paid them
ten. We deem it necessary to mention only these,
the main items Of expense, as our readers must
know tkat everything else which We use in our
Office is high in proportion. These high prices are
owing, partly to the abundance and cheapness Of
paper money, and partly to the scarcity Of the ar
ticles themselves. We have held out as long as We
could against these high prices in the hope that We
might be able to go through the war without in
creasing rates; but we find cannot do SO and
deal justly BY those in our employment snot to
sneak of what is due to ourselt Our friends expect
and desire us to realize q living profit from our
business, xnd that is all We propose to do by this
advance an price. When the war is over, and
business resumes its accustomed channels we will
take pleasure iu returning to our former prices.
The Latest News.
The late bad weather has settled the question of
an advance of the enemy by the way of Fredericks-
burg. Burnside had resigned the command, and
Gen. Hooker has been appointed Sumner and
franklin commanding the right and left corps, hive
been relieved from their commands, because Of their
refusal to fight under Hooker.
On Friday last. the enemy under Gen. Peck at
lacked Gen. Pryor's command about miles from
Suffolk, and after severe fight of four hours, Peck
was repulsed at every point, and Gen. Pryor re-
uausd in possession of the field. The enemy is
reported to have had IL 600 men, and to have suf-
fsred severely. Our loss, Gen. Pryor reports, to
have been less than fifty. Among them was Col.
POage and Capt Dobbin, of Virginia ;:
On the Slst ult the Confederate gunboats Pal
metto State and Chicora, with three small steamers
all under command of Com. Ingrahsm, left Charles
ton and attacked the blockaders. The Palmetto
State struck the Mercidia, when she sent her boat
aboard and surrendered. Another account is that
she sunk in fathoms water. Capt Tucker, Of the
Chicora thinks he sunk one vessel and set another
on fire. The rest of the blocksding feet escaped.
Soon after the return Of our vessels to Charleston
four of the blockaders returned to the o6ing.
The Secretary of State, Mr.. Benjamin, mas mott.
fed Foreign Consus of the opening Of the blockade
Of Charleston.
Gen. Wheeler's cavalry destroyed five more trans
ports on the Cumberland river on Friday last de
stroyed an engine and train on the Nashville ant
Chattanooga Road and took 80 prisoners
The Yankee gunboat j. T. Smith, With II guns
surrendered on the 3Oth to Lieut. Col. Yates ate,
snort essassment With siege rife guns on The
toRo river. =
The attack upon Genesis Point below Savannah
had not been renewed.
The sensation rumors of a commission from Hi
pois and Indiana at Richmond, and that the Gov
rnor Of Kentucky had called out 60, 900 volunteer
resist Lincoln, seem to have vanished. Sue
tatenents are gotten up to make the newspaper
e. So far as we know the whole affair is withou
foundation.