The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-02
News V : from the South.
The following extracts are Fl rom Rich
mond papers of Tuesday: = =

4 The following extracts are from Rich
mond papers of Tuesday: E
4 THE NINTH MARYLAND AT RICHMOND.
i The following. from the Richmond I'm
quirsr probably refers to the 9th Maryland
- ssTwo hundred and thirty more prisoner
arrived from General Imboden's commant
+ last night, being the second installment o
| Federals recently captured by that active
| and gallant force" -
PRICES OF LABOR. ..3s
The Confederate Clothing Bureau has fix
ed the prices Of work on uniforms in that
department at So for jackets and 81 so for
pautaloons. A woman working with ma
chine will make, at this rate, from Sl 5o-te
81 per day. If the family is large and the
seamstresses are few, it is toibe commisser-
ate, or if the laborer is clone woman" may
the Lord have mercy on her, for hunger and
cold never will.-Enq.
OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN RICHMOND.
Among tho objects of interest one seesin
the streets or this city at present are some
fifty or sixty splendidly dressed mulatoes.
late ushers and attaches of gambling houses,
who have accumulated small fortunes by
their services, and are now adrift by force OF
the law against faro banks and other tenn
Piles of fortune and depravity. These hiia-
lutn swells pay but little regard to the re
gulations of outdoor etiquette, and even out
do white seoundrels i'll iUpudence and the
occupation of the sidewalks. wherever they
may happen to be loafing. There are now
thousands of honest faithful slaves at work
on various public works, and it would be
but just, as we'll as expedient and proper, to
give these fellows little wholesome exer-
clse of the same sort.-E'@aminer.
RIcHMoND..MARKEr ORDINANCE.
The ordinance Of the City Council ex-
pelliug the hucksters from the markets
went into effect yesterday. The hncksters,
like the gamblers, obeyed the law and clos
ed up; and the farmers and country produc-
ers, coming in with their wagons and carts,
supplied the vacuum most acceptably. Cab
bagss that heretofore sold at 81 per head
etailed readily at fifty cents.-Era9s''ser.
HOUSE. ROOM IN RICHMOND.
The Richmond correspondent of the At
dutd Z1ppcUJ, utluct ua1c VI w. iS'I "iiteS'
''Ths question of houseroom is beginning
to assume more serious and alarming as
pect in the capital than even the question of
ood As the season approaches when all
he summer absentees Will have returned |
% the city, and when, in addition to these,
md the very large accessions Of fugitives
rom their homes which have been made to
he population during three or four months
last, we shall have both houses of Congress
md the State Legislature in session at the
Ame time, the problem of providing them
Fithsqu4rt becomes more and more per-
,lexing Rents have gone up to an almost
Incredible figure. Houses in any conven
ent part of the town will now readily rent
or more than they would have brought at
public auction three years ago. A single
oom, unfurnished, commands one hundred
lolars month. have known of one in
tance in which a two story dwelling has
,een rented st the enormous rate of one
thousand dollars a month. Heads of iami
les are going about begging to be taking in
IS boarders at private dwellings, at any
,harge that may be dem anded.'