--Vegetables of every kind continue to command
exorbitant prices in the markets, notwithstanding the large quantities
cultivated in the city and its vicinity.
Choice articles are kept high by the demand for them in eating houses
and other public places.
Just now Hanover and New Kent are not furnishing their usual supplies;
and the fact that hams are scarce, and some neighborhoods have no means
of sending to market gives the speculators a good opportunity for
keeping up prices.
The Yankees on the peninsula.
We learn by the York River train yesterday that yesterday morning
there was not a Yankee at the White House.
The Yankees who were there have embarked, and a good many more from the
other side of the Pamunkey.
An officer who was scouting near the White House on Tuesday night heard a
long train of artillery pass, to that place, accompanied by
infantry.
As this force had all disappeared yesterday morning, it is supposed to
have embarked there in transports for Washington.
A gentleman who resides in King William, and who has been a refugee
in this city since the enemy entered his county, yesterday received
information that they had left the county, moving down in the direction
of the White House.
Before they left they committed more than their usual number of thefts,
and enticed and forced off a large number of negroes.
In the neighborhood of Mangohick Church their depredations were more
extensive than in any other part of the county.
-from the Richmond
Daily Dispatch of July 9 & 10, 1863 respectively.
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