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The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our correspondence. (search)
Our correspondence. report of the Norfolk market — alarm of fire — the New National song — local Mamers. Norfolk Sept. 11, 1861, There are here, as may be reasonably supposed, but few wholesale transaction in those leading articles of country produce of which very heavy shipments were made hence, principally to Northern markets, before the commencement of the war. Sales of corn, amounting only to about 10,000 bushels, have been made within a few weeks past. The article may now be quoted at 36 a 37 cents. Prior to the blockade, the sales averaged from eighty to one hundred and twenty thousand bushels. Corn has not been so low here for fifteen years, or since 1844-45. In 1847, the price, in consequence of the famine in Ireland, rose to $1 25; and, since that time, when the duty was taken off by the British Government, down to the present blockade, the price has averaged 65 cents; ranging from 50 to $1 25. In staves there are no transactions, while com<