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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the West. (search)
ge amount of ammunition of a superior quality, three hundred bags of coffee, and an immense amount of commissary stores, from which the Federal army are now drawing their rations. He says, further, that he cut a canal six miles long around the island from above, four miles of which was through a heavy forest, and sawed off the trees four feet under water. He reports his capture of troops to be fragmentary portions of seven regiments, namely: The 1st Alabama, Colonel Stedman. Col. Alex Brown's regiment, Tennessee. Colonel Baker's, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Col. Clark's Tennessee. Col. Marsh Walker's Arkansas, 40th Confederate regiment. Col. Smith's Arkansas. Col. Terry's battalion, Arkansas. The total number taken is not far from eighteen hundred. He describes our guns as being but indifferently spiked; but we may say the same of Yankee work in this respect. Modern appliances for the removal of spikes are so ingenious that a si
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$2.00 to $3 per bbl.; according to quantity. Molasses — New Orleans, $1.30 to 1.40 cts. Nails — Old Dominion, 10a11 cents. Offal (mill)--Bran, 30 cents; shorts, 35 cents. Brownstuffs, 40 cents; shipstuffs, 70 cents. Oil — Tanners', $1.12a1.50; machine, $1.50a$2 per gallon. Oats — We quote 80 cents per bushel. Rye--$1.50a$2.00 per bushel. Seed — Clover Seed, $12a$14--latter by retail; Timothy, $5½a$6½. Soda — Best English, 40 cents per lb. Sugars — Brown, 24a26 cents per lb.; coffee, 27a28 cents. All qualities firm. Salt — Some sales of North Carolina Salt at $11 per sack of 100 lbs. Tallow — 15a16 cents per lb. Wheat — Red $1 10al. 20; white $1.15a1.25, and dull. Few buyers at these prices. Wool — Market firm, and arrivals light 20 a 95 cents per pound. Money matters. Specie — We quote gold at 90 to 100 per cent. premium; stiver at 70 to 75 per cent. premium. Bank notes — Nearly all S