The New schedule of prices.
The Commissioners appointed to fix the prices of articles in the
State of Virginia for the use of the government have abolished the schedule recently adopted and announced one more in accordance with the views of the people.
That is, they have re-adopted the schedules for May and June last, with an advance of fifty per cent. on the price of wheat, flour, corn,
corn meal, oats, hay, and mill offal, delivered in the month of August.
This makes the price of wheat $7.50 per bushel; flour — fine $33, superfine $37.50, extra superfine $39.75, family $41 per barrel; corn, $6 per bushel;
corn meal $6.30 per bushel; oats and hay, per hundred pounds, unbaled, at $6 and $7; baled east of the
Blue Ridge and delivered within the time above specified.
These variations hold only for the months of July and August; in September, the
Commissioners propose to adopt simply the former schedules for May and June, with the exception of the assessment upon
railroad iron, which they wish to continue at $190 per ton, according to the old valuation.
They also re-adopt the revision of the February and March schedule in reference to the impressment of horses, as published in the July schedule.
The Commissioners say in their report: ‘"We trust that the people in those counties who have recently, in public meetings, expressed their views in favor of Low prices, will now, since all impediments have been removed, as patriotically lead out in tendering and selling both to the
Government and to the people, all they can spare, at schedule rates."’ We hope so, too, and wish the fullest measure of success to the experiment.
