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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The supply of Wood — no chance for the speculators — the members of the conference Visiting the Navy-Yard — the weather. (search)
exchange for scant cartloads of crooked wood and are measuring in advance the dimensions of the "pile" which they expect to receive from the immense profits upon their wood-pile, all such gay dreams of ill-gotten gains should be no longer indulged in. There are millions of cords of wood in this section of country — mostly standing, but much of it cut, split, and piled up ready for market; and arrangements are now being made to keep this indispensable article at a reasonable advance upon the cost. A large number of the visitors who came to attend the conference have embraced opportunities to see the Navy-Yard, the fortifications, &c.; hundreds will leave to-day by the Norfolk and Petersburg road, and a large number left this morning on the Seaboard and Roanoke read. Our city is quiet now, the weather fine and an increasing interest and variety given to the numberless sounds that fill the air of the city, by heavy discharges of great guns at some of the fortifications below.