The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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The prices at the markets.

--While the supply of market products in this city has increased to some extent, the prices still remain at exorbitant figures. There can be no reasonable excuse for this, as the whole trucking country from which Richmond has heretofore been supplied, and which for some time was cut off by the Yankees, is now accessible, and free intercourse is daily kept up by the market men, and we also have the assurance that there has been a very large yield of every kind of vegetable, as the quantity brought here fully attests.--We subjoin the prices which prevailed at the upper and lower markets yesterday morning. Sweet potatoes, 50 cts, per quart, Irish do., 25@30 cts. per quart, corn, 50@75 cts. per dozen; tomatoes, 25 cts. per quart to 75@$1 per dozen, cornfield pass, 50@60 cts. per quart, lima beans, 40@50 cts. per quart; cymlins, 50@75 cts, per dozen; cabbages, 75 cts. @$1 per head; onions, 30 cts, per quart and 7@9 cts. a piece; watermelons, 75c, @$1.50 a piece, muskmelons, 20@75 cts, a piece; peaches, 25@45 per quart; apples, $2.50@$3 per bushel; fresh beef, 25@35 per pound; lamb, veal, and mutton, 37½@50 per pound; salt, 75 per quart; soap, 60@90 per pound, chickens, 75 @$1.50 a piece; ducks, 75 @$1.25 a piece; butter, 75 @90 cts. per pound; lard 50 cts. per pound.