Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-09-08

Relative FIic-s.
Il always pains Us when we find ourselves under The
necessity of raising rates Of subscription or a2Ter
Using We know-th these rates look high, aad yet
relatively they ere still comparatively lower than tie
railing rates Of anything which baYe to buy either
in carrying on our business Or il dcfrayng our Own
private expenses.
We recollect that last week gentleman Ir02 al 3d
joining county complained that FIVE dollars WAS yec}
high fox six months subscription to the Weekly Journal.
We asked him what lie had got fer bacon SO so per
pound for hams. lie actually got more !or enc little
pound of the hind quarter Of the uncIcan beas. h~u
he was willing to give Us for supplying him with The
products Of cur industry and the results Of cur Iabois
and our expenditures for six months for editor:
ais our kilograms, our responsiveness items,
our miscellaneous selections our poeica selections,
grave moraty-cr al these for ez months he RGudgcd
us sixteea ounces OF neg meat.
Now that thing won't Go. We cannot affogd to
work ct that rate We must have two pounds cf BIZ
cen at least ior half years subscription to the weekly
aud five pounds at least Gr half years gubScC pion
the daily.
We must get at least one pound Of c,f7o, cid r o.
for six months weekly: Or two pounds and half foH
six months Of the Gaiiy.
We have taken account Of stock in The way OF com.
pairing priceg and tie result is that We fad aga
getting comparatively nothing, OF what procarGs
nothing OF the things We and workman naad hence
in justice 10 them and ourselves NC have adopted the
new rates Which we publish to day AL other thtogs
have gone up to twenty prizes and over We asl,
only eight prices. We are not getting one half tl2
same relative value for the Journal has sc 5cicre
the war--not oae-ibird.
FEW TuEGs turn cut to be either as bad or as good
as first reports make item appear to be.
Few Of cur successes have beeD decisive Ia tLer -
suits. Few Of reVerses have been Beyond rtmady.
We have lost Atlanta, hit Cur &rmy is neither cu}
in two nor dlmoraEz-2. Atlanta perhaps had served
al the purposes that could be expected igln It. -
any rate point had becn reached wherein lis fall wac
ioregope conclusion. Il would he unjust to hold Gen
HOOD responsible for that disaster lie vas like 8
doctor called il at tie last min ute 10 take charge Ct
patient given up by all his medical advisers.
What will NIX! pyessnt its- on the military Stage il
Georgia is than We can venture to predict There
is signal want Of knowledge Of events Oh tie part CT
oil who attempt to speak Of events il that section
Everything is 80 confused and uncertain that noting
can be pTedicatcd with GDy reasonable accuracy.
The enemy will now seek 10 break up the loTer lac
ofrailroads through Georgia. correcting Savannah and
Augusta with Macon, and also with the Southwestern
system Of Railroads in Alabama and Mississippi What
measures General HooD may adopt 70 fG8tEate Or try
to Illustrate, these movements Of the enemy, We are Of
course unable to say Mucl must depend upon crcun,
stances for instance the force which may be placed
at HOODS disposathe necessity of covering the seat
of Government ct Undergraduates diversion thai
Gen. WHEELER may be able to effect, and, indeed =
number Of other things that cannot now enuuerae
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The PRIcE CT GoLD.-Mcst peogla have becn pqz-
Eled TO account fer the decline in tie price OF gold in
New York, No victorious achievement has crowned
the Yankee army, nor lave their prospects in the field
improved il any way; for the fall Of Forts Gaines,
Morgan and Powell have &. aost been forgotten and
could exert very little Uerior influence so fur 90 com
polling the evacuation CT Mobile is concerned Nohle
new il tie way of financial arrangements has trans,
pred, even if any have bse1 effected 8hich is more
than doubtful indeed, it Is generally believed that Mr..
Secretary FEssENDENs financial ma1Ce1vres have re-
suited in failure And yet il this absence OF any IL
vourabe circumstances military or f1arcia we notice
an Improvement IN GEeenbacks Gold KS recently
fallen some 20 Per cent. from about 200 to 240.
We can cny account Tor this by supposing that tie
rumours OF peace movements, however vague and m
satisfactory, have not been without their influence
among bankers AMI capitalists, who seize upon them
with avidy, in The hope that by some means the war
will be ended before the bottom has dropped cut of the
hnancla tub Any peace, or hope of peace would ap.
pear to exert favour able Influence upon Wall Street
hence the recent, otherwise unaccountabe fall il cola
WE regret to see that cur old friend JOHN W. EYsE
Esq, of the Petersburg Register is compelled to sus
pend Tor want of paper. The enemy On the Petersburg
Railroad has cut his communications with his base Ct
supplies il North Carolina. We would very much
like to see the road once more in our possession if ONLY
that we may have the Register again
MODERN HERoD.-The papers saw that the snx.
ton in Atlanta reports thirty children killed bv the
my's shells in that city. SHERMAN certainly means to
rival, if be does not out-Herod Hercd.