Mining the Dispatch

Education and War.

—During the last sixty years the Government of Great Britain has expended on war, and its establishments, three thousand million pounds, or $15,000,000,000—being more than two hundred and fifty millions dollars annually. During the same period they have expended six millions pounds, or thirty million dollars, for education, or an average of half a million of dollars a year.

Relative Value of Paper and Gold.

—Many people have been tussled recently in the fluctuating price of gold to calculate the relative value of paper and gold.

The relations of the two are determined, not by difference, but by ratto. It is plain that where gold is worth 200 cents in paper, the rate is as one to two; two of paper is equal to one of gold, and one of paper equals a half in gold, or fifty cents.—Similarly, if gold reach 400, paper is worth 25 cents; If it reach 1,000, paper will be worth 10 cents; and if the price of gold could ever touch 10,000, a paper dollar would be worth just 1 cent. In that once the value would be thus ascertained; As 10,000 is to 100, as 120 is to 1.

We have hence the rule—one which every schoolboy is familiar with, but which some financial writers seem to be blissfully ignorant of. As the price of gold in paper is to 100 cents. so is 100 cents to the value of one dollar in gold. To make the thing more plain, we append a table giving the value of the paper dollar for different prices of gold, which may serve for future reference:

• If gold is worth 100, paper is worth 140
• If gold is worth 120, paper is worth 93½
• If gold is worth 140, paper is worth 71½
• If gold is worth 160, paper is worth 62½
• If gold is worth 170, paper is worth 58 14 17
• If gold is worth 172½ paper is worth 58 1-6
• If gold is worth 176, paper is worth 57 1 6
• If gold is worth 186, paper is worth 56 5-9
• If gold is worth 190, paper is worth 54½
• If gold is worth 200, paper is worth 50
• If gold is worth 400, paper is worth 15
• If gold is worth 1,000, paper is worth 10
• If gold is worth 10,000, paper is worth 1

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE,
Richmond, Va, August 1, 1864.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 180.—

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all concerned, and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

—We were informed early in July that the demand for army supplies was so argent that your Department felt constrained to disregard our schedule prices then in force, and offer market rates to the farmers for their wheat, if delivered in July. This policy was deemed indispensable to insure the EARLY receipt of supplies. Concurring with the War. Department in the paramount importance of obtaining, at the earliest practicable period, an ample quantity of wheat for the support of the army, we apprehended, as so great a disparity existed between our former rates and the rates then offering in our leading cities, that unless we advanced prices our action might seriously embarrass the government in their efforts to obtain immediate supplies.

Under these circumstances, and owing to the very short, crop of wheat and unprecedented demand for breadstuffs, together with the depredation in the currency, as well as to the farther fact that the farmers were then securing the oat and hay crops, we proposed the advanced prices set forth in our July and August schedules.

But now, as the immediate wants of the army are being provided for, and vigorous efforts are initiated to reduce the currency and reinstate public credit, we are disposed to accept the recent manifestations of public opinion in regard to our prices as the strongest assurance that in future adequate supplies can be secured on very moderate terms.

As the press, the public, and the formers in part, have ALL united in condemning our rates as too high, we therefore DEFER to what seems to be the general desire and propose the following prices:

Having re-adopted the Schedules for May and June last, in accordance with the clearly manifested wishes of the people, we have thought it advisable and proper to stimulate the sale and delivery of small grain, &c, now so much needed as to be indispensable, by advancing the price of wheat, flour, corn and corn meal, oats and hay, delivered in the month of August:

Therefore we place the price of wheat at $7.50 per bushel, and a corresponding advance of 50 per cent on all the grades of flour, mill-off J, &c; and corn we assess at $6 per bushel, and corn meal at $6.30 per bushel. Oats and hay, per hundred pounds, unbaled, at $6, and at $7 per hundred pounds, baled cast of the Blue Ridge, and delivered during the month of August.

Railroad iron not being included in the Government contradts with the iron manufactories, should not have been advanced in our last Schedules. So we re-adopt our old valuation for railroad iron, and put the price at $90 per ton.

The foregoing are to be the prices of wheat, flour, mill-offal, corn and corn meal, oats, hay and railroad iron, delivered during the month of August.

In September we propose to adopt simply the former Schedules for May and June, with the exception of the assessment upon railroad iron, which we wish to continue at $190 per ton during the month of September.

We a so re-adopt the revision of our February and March Schedule in reference to the impressment of horses, as published in our July Schedule.

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.

Such an example voluntarily set before the people would exert a most sanitary influence. The public may be assured we will interpose no barrier to thwart either their benevolent intentions or generous contributions in behalf of their country.

Identified with them in all respects, we are disposed to foster every praiseworthy effort made in behalf of our common cause.

In reviewing the schedules of prices for May and June, we invited the co-operation and aid of Mr. Wm. B. Harrison, and it is just to add that the schedules received the unanimous approval of the commissioners.

We respectfully offer the accompanying schedules, A and B, with the understanding that the prices are to remain for the months of May and June, unless in the interval it should be deemed necessary to modify them.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale, and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers in future should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and so divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture.

No.	Articles.	Quality	Description	Quantity.	Price.
1	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushel of 60 lbs	$5.00
2	Flour, good	Fine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	22.00
	Flour, good	Superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	25.00
	Flour, good	Ex superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	26.50
	Flour, good	Family		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	28.00
3	Corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	4.00
4	Unshelled corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.95
5	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	4.20
6	Rye	Prime		Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.20
7	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	2.50
8	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 17 lbs	50
9	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	70
10	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	90
11	Shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	1.40
12	Bacon	Good	Hog round	Per pound	3.00
13	Fork—salt	Good	Hog round	Per pound	2.60
14	"—fresh, fat and good	Good	Hog round	Per pound net weight	2.25
15	Lard	Good		Per pound net weight	3.00
16	Horses and mules	First class or	tillery &c, average price	per head	500.00
17	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	3.00
18	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	2.00
19	Pess	Good		Per bushel	12.00
20	Beans	Good		Per bushel	12.00
21	Potatoes	Good	fresh	Per bushel	5.00
22	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	8.00
23	Onions	Good		Per bushel	5.00
24	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
25	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
26	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
27	Hay baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28	Hay baled	Good	Orchard or herdegrars	Per 100 pounds	3.90
29	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
30	Sheat oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.40
31	Sheat oats, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.50
32	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
33	Blade fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
34	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.50
35	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
36	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
37	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
38	Pasturage	Good	Interior	Per head per month	3.00
39	Pasturage	Superior	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
40	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
41	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
42	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
43	Pasturage	First rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
44	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.00
45	Soap	Good		Per pound	1.00
46	Candies	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
47	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
48	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	10.00
49	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
50	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
51	Rice	Good		Per pound	20
52	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
53	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
54	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	50
55	Pig iron	Good	No 1 quality	Per ton	350.00
56	Pig iron	Good	No 2 quality	per ton	314.00
57	Pig iron	Good	No 3 quality	per ton	278.00
58	Bloom iron	Good		per ton	715.00
59	Smiths' iron	Good	Round plate and bar	per ton	1030.00
60	Railroad iron	Good		per ton	190.00
61	Leather	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
62	Leather	Good	Sale	Per pound	3.60
63	Leather	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
64	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	20.00
65	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	25.00
66	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
67	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
68	Sheep	Fair		Per head	30.00
69	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¾yd	Good	10 ounces per yard	Per yard	5.00
70	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¾yd	Good	Pro rate as to greater or less	Width or weight
71	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¾yd	Good	20 ounces per yard	Per yard	10.00
72	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¾yd	Good	Pro rate as to greater or less	Width or weight
73	Flannels, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
74	Cotton shirting ⅔	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
75	Cotton shirting ⅞	Good	3¼ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
76	Cotton sheetings, 4-4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
77	Cotton oznaburgs, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
78	Cotton oznaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.93
79	Cotton tent cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
80	On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rate as to the greater or less width or wight.
81	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	15.00
82	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
83	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	1.25
84	Corntop fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
85	Corntop fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
86	Wheat chaff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
87	Wheat chaff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
88	Sorghum molasses	Good		Per gallon	20.00
89	Pasturage for sheep	Good	interior	Per head	40
90	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	interior	Per head	50
91	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	interior	Per head	60

In assessing the average value of first class artillery and wagon horses and mules at $500 we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common sense import. In other words, that they should be selected, and then impressed according as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the government needed at $500; but cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. Yet, under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound, and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first class wagon mules.

The terms average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, that some might be estimated at $300, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $700—thus making an average value or price for a number of good, sound, and efficient horses or mules $500 each.

In illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, be classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to thirteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first-class artillery horse, but, of course, however officiant, or able to render good service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may approximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price, and as few comparatively come up to the standard, and, therefore, are entitled to the maximum price; so of course in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first class, &c.

SCHEDULE B.

HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

Labor	Quantity a time	Price.
1. Baling long forage	Per 100 pounds,	$ 90
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by government	Per 56 pounds,	05
3. Hauting	Per cwt per mile,	08
4. Hauting grain	Per bush per mile,	04
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	5.00
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	13.00
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	6.50
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	16.00
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	8.00
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day	2.50
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	1.50
13. Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month,	50.00
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per month,	30.00
15. Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by government	Per month,	40.00
16. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by government	Per year,	300.00
17. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by owner	Per year	550.00
18. Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by government	Per year	400.00
19. Hire of ex-carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
20. Hire of name, rations furnished by government	Per day	5.00

REVISION OF THE SCHEDULES OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH LAST.

Since the adoption of our Schedules for the months of February and March, the financial bills passed by Congress taxing the currency have seriously impaired the value of the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes. At this juncture large numbers of horses and mules were impressed and paid for in a currency which was in a few days thereinto to be taxed thirty-three and one-third per cent.

The Board of State Commissioners having adjourned, and one of its members being out of the State. It could not be convened in time to review our schedules of prices. Under this state of facts, we have re-examined and re-arranged our tariff of prices, so far as we have been advised of recent impressments, proposing in this mode to render any diminution of valuation which may have resulted from the action of Congress upon the currency. Therefore, we the average value of artillery or wagon horses or mules, impressed since the passage of the currency bill of the 17th February last, at $600. This award will entitle each person to receive higher compensation, accordingly on each horse or mule recently impressed may be considered as being a first, second, or third class artillery or wagon horse or mule, whether the parties appeal to our Board or not; and the impressing agents and officers should forthwith nail on all of those persons of whom they impressed horses or mules and propose a settlement upon the foregoing basis. But allowing to each person only such prices as first, second, and third class artillery or wagon horses or mules may have been estimated at by the local or county appraisers, assuming our average appraisement, $600, as a fair medium valuation. This, then, would allow a maximum price of $300 and a minimum price of $400, making $600 the average price—thus allowing more for first-class horses or mules, and proportionately less for the interior, as they may full below the grade of first-class. Payment of whatever amount awarded to be made in the new issue of Treasury notes.

The impressing officers in these instances where there were no arbitrators or local appraisements for horses or mules impressed, should in all such cases themselves re-estimate the value of horses or mules thus impressed, and allow in each case such additional compensation as would, within the limits of our schedule rates, appear just and proper. But if, after this re-valuation and settlement, any person should not be satisfied, the party could then appeal to our Board and have the case reconsidered.

E. W. Hubard, Robt Gibbonet, Wm. B. ,
Commissions of Appraisement for the State of Virginia.
By order (Signed) S. COOPES, Adjutant and Inspector General.
General: H. L. Clay Assistant Adjutant-General
All appeals and communications for the Board of Commissioners should be addressed to D. Saunders Chilton, Secretary of the Board, Richmond, Va. au 5—1w

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, Virginia, October 24, 1864.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 252.

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by Commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all concerned; and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

As requested by your Department, we conferred with the Commissioners of North Carolina, and had the good fortune to adjust prices upon a basis calculated to harmonize the leading interests of both States. The just and enlightened views entertained by the North Carolina Commissioners were practically illustrated by the liberal spirit and wise terms upon which they agreed to co- operate with us.

In this revolutionary crisis, we should all agree to aid each other and the Government. To rescue the country and save the people from the dangers that environ both, is clearly the duty of all. Our honor, rights and independence are at stake. Let us bind all our energies to defend and secure them. To attain this invaluable end, the people must be fed and clothed. Our producers, manufacturers and tradesmen certainly can afford to work for moderato compensation while our gallant soldiers dare to confront our savage adversaries in their defence. Certainly, if our brave men throw their protecting arms around our family altars, and gallantly defend their country for a sum too insignificant to mention, those who remain at home, enjoying the benefit of their valor, can afford to clothe and feed them and their families on the most moderate terms.

The question should be, how little will you ask or take for your productions? Fidelity to all the best interests of our country points to the observance of this maxim as the best test of both our charity and patriotism. Let the watchword be, "Everything for our country, and away with money-making." In this final and desperate struggle for liberty, beware lest, in hoarding up money and neglecting the cause of the people, you exchange your birthright for a mess of pottage. Believing that our cause appeals to all parties and interests alike, we trust the people will unite and act in concert in achieving our independence. What we will to do, we can accomplish. United, we are invincible. Triumphant, what a glorious destiny opens to our view! Conquered, how abject and forlorn our condition! Who, under existing circumstances, is not willing to sacrifice a few paper dollars to gain the most enviable victory of civilization ever witnessed!

Entertaining the conviction that the popular mind is favorable to every effort calculated to advance the success of our cause, we venture to place before you the annexed Schedules of Prices for the months of October and November, which, though imperfect, because there are so many and such variant views and interests to harmonize, yet we indulge the hope, may be properly received by the people.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale; and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances, we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers, in future, should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and so divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture:

SCHEDULE A.

No.	Articles.	Quality.	Description.	Quantity.	Price.
1	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushel of 60 lbs	$7.50
2	Flour, good	Fine		Per barrel of 196 lbs	33.00
	Flour, good	Superfine		Per barrel of 196 lbs	37.50
	Flour, good	Extra superfine		Per barrel of 196 lbs	39.75
	Flour, good	Family		Per barrel of 196 lbs	42.00
3	Corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	5.00
4	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.20
5	Rye	Prime		Per bushel of 56 lbs	5.00
6	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	4.00
7	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 17 lbs	.75
8	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	1.05
9	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	1.35
10	Shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	2.10
11	Bacon	Good	Hog-round	Per pound	2.75
12	Pork—salt	Good		Per pound	2.30
13	Pork—fresh, fat and good	Good		Per pound, net weight	1.82
14	Lard	Good		Per pound, net weight	2.75
15	Horses and mules	First-class artillery, &c., average price per head			800.00
16	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	8.00
17	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	6.00
18	Peas	Good		Per bushel	5.00
19	Beans	Good		Per bushel	5.00
20	Potatoes	Good	Irish	Per bushel	4.00
21	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	4.00
22	Onions	Good		Per bushel	8.00
23	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
24	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
25	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
26	Hay, baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
27	Hay, baled	Good	Orchard or herdsgrass	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdsgrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
29	Sheaf oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	5.25
30	Sheaf oats, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.75
31	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
32	Blade fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
33	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.60
34	Shucks, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
35	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
36	Wheat straw, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
37	Pasturage	Good	Interior	Per head per month	3.00
38	Pasturage	Superior	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
39	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
40	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
41	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
42	Pasturage	First-rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
43	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.00
44	Soap	Good		Per pound	1.00
45	Candles	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
46	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
47	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	10.00
48	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
49	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
50	Rice	Good		Per pound	0.50
51	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
52	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
53	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	1.00
54	Pig iron	Good	No. 1 quality	Per ton	350.00
55	Pig iron	Good	No. 2 quality	Per ton	314.00
56	Pig iron	Good	No. 3 quality	Per ton	278.00
57	Bloom iron	Good		Per ton	710.00
58	Smith's iron	Good	Round plate and bar	Per ton	1,030.00
59	Railroad iron	Serviceable		Per ton	400.00
60	Leather	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
61	Leather	Good	Sole	Per pound	3.60
62	Leather	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
63	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
64	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	35.00
65	Beef cattle	First-rate	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	40.00
66	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
67	Sheep	Fair		Per head	35.00
68	Army woolen cloth, ¾ yard	Good	Ten ounces per yard	Per yard	10.00
69	Army woolen cloth, ¾ yard	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
70	Army woolen cloth, 6-4 yard	Good	Twenty ounces per yard.	Per yard	10.00
71	Army woolen cloth, 6-4 yard	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
72	Flannels, ¾	Good	Six ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
73	Cotton shirting, ¾	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
74	Cotton shirting, ⅞	Good	3¾ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
75	Cotton sheetings, 4-4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
76	Cotton osnaburgs, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
77	Cotton osnaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.98
78	Cotton tent cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
79	On the above-enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to greater or less width or weight.
80	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	15.00
81	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
82	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	2.00
83	Corn-top fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
84	Corn-top fodder, unbale	Good	Per 100 pounds,	1.50
85	Wheatchaff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
86	Wheatchaff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
87	Sorghum molasses	First quality		Per gallon	8.00
88	Pasturage for sheep		Interior	Per head	0.40
89	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	Interior	Per head	0.50
90	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	Interior	Per head	0.60
91	Apple brandy	Good		Per gallon	10.00
92	Peach brandy	Good		Per gallon	10.00

In assessing the value of first-class artillery and wagon horses and mules at eight hundred dollars, we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common scenes import. In other words, that they should be selected and then impressed accordingly as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the Commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the Government needed at eight hundred dollars. But cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. —Yet, under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value, are impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first-class wagon mules.

The term average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We supposed that, in impressing a number of horses, or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, some might be estimated at $600, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $1,000—thus making an average value or price for a number of good, sound and efficient horses or mules, $800 each.

In illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, be classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to eighteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first-class artillery horse, but, of course, however efficient and able to render good service for a year or two, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may approximate the standard of a first- class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as few, comparatively, come up to the standard, and are therefore entitled to the maximum price, so, of course, in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first-class, &c.

The first quality of Sorghum Molasses is the consistency of honey and free from all acidity to the taste. But second and interior qualities of molasses should be reduced in price from ten to twenty per cent., accordingly as they fall below the standard of first quality.

SCHEDULE B.
HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

No.	LABOR.	QUAN'TY AND TIME.	PRICE.
1.	Baling long forage	Per 100 pounds	$0.90
2.	Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by Government	Per 56 pounds	0.05
3.	Hauling	Per cwt. per mile	0.08
4.	Hauling grain	Per bushel per mile	0.40
5.	Hire of two-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
6.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	5.00
7.	Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	13.00
8.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	6.50
9.	Hire of six-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	16.00
10.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	8.00
11.	Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day	2.50
12.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	1.50
13.	Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month	50.00
14.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per month	30.00
15.	Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by the Government	Per month	40.00
16.	Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by the Government	Per year	300.00
17.	Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by the Government	Per year	550.00
18.	Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by the Government	Per year	400.00
19.	Hire of ox-carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
20	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	5.00

SPECIAL ORDERS, No 180.—

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are announces for the information of all concerned, and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

—We were informed early in July that the demand for army supplies was so urgent that your Department felt constrained to disregard our schedule prices then in force, and offer market rates to the formers for their wheat, if delivered in July. The policy was deemed indispensable to insure the Early receipt of supplies. Concurring with the War. Department in the paramount importance of obtaining, at the earliest practicable period, an ample quantity of wheat for the support of the army, we apprehended, as so great a disparity elated between our former rates and the rates then offering in our leading cities, that unless we advanced prices our action might seriously embarrass the government in their efforts to obtain immediate supplies.

Under these circumstances, and owing to the very short crop of wheat and unprecedented demand for broad stuffs, together with the depredation in the currency, as well as to the further fact that the farmers were then securing the oat and hay crepe, we proposed the advanced prices set forth in our July and August schedules.

But now, as the immediate wants of the army are being provided for, and vigorous efforts are initiated to reduce the currency and relastate public credit, we are disposed to accept the recent manifestations of public opinion in regard to our prices as the strongest assurance that in future adequate supplies can be secured on very moderate terms.

As the press, the public, and the farmers in part, have all united in condemning our rates as too high, we therefore DEFER to what seems to be the general desire and prepaid the following prices:

Having re-adopted the Schedules for May and June last, in accordance with the clearly- manifested wishes of the people, we have thought it advisable and proper to stimulate the sale and delivery of small grain &c, now so much needed as to be indispensable, by advancing the price of wheat, flour, corn and corn meal, oats and hay, delivered in the month of August:

Therefore we place the price of wheat at $7.50 per bushel, and a corresponding advance of 50 percents all the grades of flour, mill-offal, &c; and corn we assess at $6 per bushel, and corn meal at $6.30 per bushel. Oats and hay, per hundred pounds unbaled, at $6, and at $7 per hundred pounds, baled east of the Blue Ridge, and delivered during the month of August.

Railroad iron not being included in the Government contradts with the iron manufactories, should not have been advanced in our last Schedules. So we re-adopt our old valuation for railroad iron, and put the price at $ 90 per ton.

The foregoing are to be the prices of wheat, flour, mill-offal, corn and corn meal, oats, hay and railroad iron, delivered during the month of August.

In September we propose to adopt simply the former Schedules for May and June, with the exception of the assessment upon railroad iron, which we wish to continue at $120 per ton during the month of September.

We also re-adopt the revision of our February and March Schedule in reference to the impressment of horses, as published in our July Schedule.

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 load out in tendering and selling, both to the Government and to the people, all they can spare, at Schedule rates.

Such an example voluntarily act before the people would exert a most salutary influence. The public may be assured we will interpose no barrier to thwart either their benevolent intentions or generous contributions in behalf of their country.

Identified with them in all respects, we are disposed to foster every praiseworthy effort made in behalf of our common cause.

In reviewing the schedules of prices for May and June, we invited the co-operation and aid of Mr. Wm. B. Harrison, and it is just to add that the schedules received the unanimous approval of the commissioners.

We respectfully offer the accompanying schedules, A and B. with the understanding that the prices are to remain for the months of May and June, unless in the interval it should be deemed necessary to modify them.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale, and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers in future should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and so divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture.

No.	Articles.	Quality.	Description	Quantity.	Price.
1	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushed of 60 lbs	$5.00
2	Flour, good	Fine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	22.00
	Flour, good	Superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	25.00
	Flour, good	Ex-superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	26.50
	Flour, good	Family		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	28.00
3	Corn	Prime.	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	4.00
4	Unshelled corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.95
5	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	4.20
6	Rye	Prime	Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.20
7	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	2.50
8	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	50
9	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	70
10	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	90
11	shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	1.40
12	Bacon	Good	Hog round	Per pound	3.00
13	Pork—salt	Good		Per pound	2.60
14	"—fresh, fat and good	Good		Per pound net weight	2.25
15	Lard	Good		Per pound net weight	3.00
16	Horses and mules	First class artillery &c, average price per head	500.00
17	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	3.00
18	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	2.00
19	Poss	Good		Per bushel	12.00
20	Beans	Good		Per bushel	12.00
21	Potatoes	Good	Irish	Per bushel	5.00
22	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	8.00
23	Onions	Good		Per bushel	5.00
24	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
25	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
26	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
27	Hay, baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28	Hay, baled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.90
29	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
30	Sheat oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.40
31	Sheat oats, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.50
32	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
33	Blade fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
34	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.50
35	Shucks, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
36	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
37	Wheat straw, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
38	Pasturage	Good	interior	Per head per month	3.00
39	Pasturage	Superior	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
40	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
41	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
42	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
43	Pasturage	First-rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
44	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 ths	5.00
45	Soap	Good		Per pound	1.00
46	Candies	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
47	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
48	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	2.00
49	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
50	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
51	Rice	Good		Per pound	20
52	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
53	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
54	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	50
55	Pig iron	Good	No 1 quality	Per ton	350.00
56	Pig iron	Good	No 2 quality	Per ton	314.00
57	Pig iron	Good	No 3 quality	Per ton	278.00
58	Bloom iron	Good		Per ton	716.00
59	Smiths' iron	Good	Round plate and bar	Per ton	1030.00
60	Railroad iron	Good		Per ton	190.00
61	Leacher	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
62	Leacher	Good	Sole	Per pound	3.60
63	Leacher	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
64	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	20.00
65	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	25.00
66	Beef cattle	First-rate	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
67	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
68	Sheep	Fair		Per head	30.00
69	Ar'y woolen cloth; ½yc	Good	10 ounces per yard	Per yard	5.00
70	Ar'y woolen cloth;½yc	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
71	Ar'y woolen cloth;6 4	Good	20 ounces per yard	Per yard	10
72	Ar'y woolen cloth; 6 4	Good	Pro-rate as to greater or less
73	Flannels, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
74	Cotton shirting,	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
75	Cotton shirting, ⅞	Good	3¾ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
76	Cotton sheetings, 4-4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
77	Cotton oznaburgs, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
78	Cotton oznaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.93
79	Cotton tent Cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
80	On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to the greater or less width or wight
81	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	15.00
82	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
83	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	1.25
84	Corntop fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
85	Corntop fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
86	Wheat chaff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
87	Wheat chaff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
88	Sorghum molasses	Good		Per gallon	20.00
89	Pasturage for sheep	Good	Interior	Per head	40.
90	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	Interior	Per head	50
91	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	interior	Per head	60

In assessing the average value of first-class artillery and wagon horses and mules at $500 we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common sense import. In other words, that they should be selected, and then impressed according as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the government needed at $500; but cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. Yet. under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound, and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first class wagon mules.

The terms average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mules. we supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, that some might be estimated at $300, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $700—thus making an-average value or price for a number of good, sound, and efficient horses or mules $500 each.

In illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, he classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to thirteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first-class artillery horse, but, of course, however efficient, or able to render good service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may approximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as few comparatively come up to the standard, and, therefore, are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first class, &c.

SCHEDULE B.

HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

Labor	Quantity a time.	Price,
1. Baling tong forage	Per 100 pounds,	$90
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by government	Per 56 pounds,	05
3. Hauling	Per cwt per mile,	08
4. Hauling grate	Per bush per mile,	04
5. Hire of two-horse team wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	5.00
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	6.50
9. Hire of six horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	16.00
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government.	Per day	8.00
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day	2.50
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	1.50
13. Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month,	50.00
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per month,	30.00
15. Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by government	Per month,	40.90
16. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by government	Per year,	300.00
17. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by government	Per year,	550.00
18. Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by government	Per year	400.00
19. Hire of ox carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
20. Hire of same, rations furnished by government	Per day	5.00

REVISION OF THE SCHEDULES OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH LAST.

Since the adoption of our Schedules for the months of February and March, the financial bills passed by Congress taxing the currency have seriously impaired the value of the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes. At this juncture large numbers of horses and mules were impressed and paid for in a currency which was in a few days thereafter to be taxed thirty three and one- third per cent.

The Board of State Commissioners having adjourned, and one of its members being out of the State, it could not be convened in time to review our schedules of prices. Under this state of facts, we have re-examined re-arranged our tariff of prices, so far as we have been advised of recent impressments, proposing in this mode to render any diminution of valuation which may have resulted from the action of Congress upon the currency. Therefore, we stress the average value of artillery or wagon horses or mules, imperiled since the passage of the currency, bill of the 17th February last, at $600. This award will entitle each person to receive higher compensation, accordingly as each herro or mule recently impressed may be considered as being a first, second, or third close artillery or wagon horse or mule, whether the parties appeal to our Board or not; and the impressing agents and officers should forth-with call on all of those persons of whom they impressed horses or mule and propose a settlement upon the foregoing basis. But allowing to each person only such prices as first, second, and third class artillery or wagon horses or mules may have been estimated at by the local or county appraisers, assuming our average appraisement, $600, as a fair medium valuation. This, then, would allow a maximum price of $800 and a minimum price of $400, making $600 the average price—thus allowing more for first-class horses or mules, and proportionately less for the inferior, as they may fail below the grade of first-class. Payment of whatever amount awarded to be made in the new issue of Treasury notes.

The impressing officers in those instances where there were no arbitrators or local appraised his for horses or mules impressed, should in all such cases themselves re-estimate the value of horses or mules thus impressed, and allow in each case such additional compensation as would, within the limits of our schedule rates, appear just and proper. But if, after this re-valuation and tlement, any person should not be satisfied, the party could then appeal to our Board and have the case reconsidered.

E. W. Hebard, Robt Gibboney, Wm. B. Harrison,
Commissioners of Appraisement for the State of Virginia.
By order (Signed) S COOPER, adjutant and inspector-General.
Official: H. L Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General.
All appeals and communications for the Board of Commissioners should be addressed to D. Senaders Chilton, Secretary of the Board Richmond, Va., au 5—1w

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
Richmond, Va. August 1, 1864.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 160—

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are for the information of all concerned, and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

We were informed early in July that the demand for army supplies was so urgent that your Department felt constrained to disregard our schedule prices then in force, and offer market rates to the farmers for their wheat, if delivered in July. This policy was deemed indispensable to insure the EARLY receipt of supplies. Concurring with the War Department in the paramount importance of obtaining, at the earliest practicable period, an ample quantity of wheat for the support of the army, we apprehended, as so great a disparity existed between our former rates and the rates then offering in our lending cities, that unless we advanced prices our action might seriously embarrass the government in their efforts to obtain immediate supplies.

Under these circumstances, and owing to the very short crop of wheat and unprecedented demand for breadstuffs, together with the depreciation in the currency, as well as to the further fact that the farmers were then recurring the oat and hay crops, we proposed the advanced prices set forth to our July and August note later.

But now, as the immediate wants of the army are being provided for, and vigorous efforts are initiated to reduce the currency and reinstate public credit, we are disposed to accept the recent manifestations of public opinion to regard to our prices as the strong, at assurance that in future adequate supplies can be accrued on very moderate terms.

As the press, the public, and the farmers in part, have all united in condemning our rates as too high, we therefore to what seems to be the general desire and propose the following prices:

Having re-adopted the Schedules for May and June last, in accordance with the clearly- manifested wishes of the people, we have thought it advisable and proper to stimulate the sale and delivery of small grain &c, now so much needed as to be indispensable, by advancing the price of wheat, flour, corn and corn meal, oats and hay, delivered in the month of August:

Therefore we place the price of wheat at $7.50 per bushel, and a corresponding advance of 50 per cent on all the grades of flour, mill-off 1, &c; and corn we assess at $6 per bushel, and corn meal at $6.30 per bushel. Oats and hay, per hundred pounds unbilled, at $6 and at $7 per hundred pounds, baled east of the Blue Ridge, and delivered during the month of August.

Railroad Iron not being included in the Government contradict with the iron manufactories, should not have been advanced in our last Schedules. So we re-adopt our old valuation for railroad iron, and put the price at $90 per ton.

The foregoing are to be the prices of wheat, flour, mill-offal, corn and corn meal, oats, hay and railroad iron, delivered during the month of August.

In September we propose to adopt simply the former Schedules for May and June, with the exception of the assessment upon railroad iron, which we wish to continue at $190 per ton during the month of September.

We also re-adopt the revision of our February and March Schedule in reference to the impressment of horses, as published in our July Schedule.

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 load out in rendering and selling, both to the Government and to the people, all they can spare, at Schedule rates.

Such an example voluntarily act before the people would exert a most salutary influence. The public may be assured we will interpose no barrier to thwart either their benevolent intentions or generous contributions in behalf of their country.

Identified with them in all respects, we are disposed to foster every praiseworthy effort made in behalf of our common cause.

In reviewing the schedules of prices for May and June we invited the co-operation and aid of Mr. Wm. B Harrison, and it is just to add that the schedules received the unanimous approval of the commissioners.

We respectfully offer the accompanying schedules, A and B with the understanding that the prices and to remain for the months of May and June, unless in the interval it should be deemed necessary to modify them.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale, and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers in future should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and to divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture.

No.	Articles.	Quality	Description	Quantity	Price.
1	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushel of 60 lbs	$5.00
2	Flour, good	Fine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	22.00
	Flour, good	Superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs		25.00
	Flour, good	Ex-superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs		26.50
	Flour, good	Family		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	28.00
3	Corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	4.00
4	Unshelled corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.95
5	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	4.20
6	Rye	Prime		Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.20
7	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	2.50
8	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 17 lbs	.50
9	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	.70
10	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	.90
11	Shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	1.40
12	Bacon	Good	Hog round	Per pound	3.00
13	Pork-salt	Good		Per pound	2.60
14	"—fresh, fat and good	Good		Per pound net weight	2.25
15	Lard	Good		Per pound net weight	3.00
16	Hoses and mules	First class artillery &c, average price per head			500.00
17	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	3.00
18	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	2.00
19	Peas	Good		Per bushel	12.00
20	Beans	Good		Per bushel	12.00
21	Potatoes	Good	Irish	Per bushel	5.00
22	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	8.00
23	Onions	Good		Per bushel	5.00
24	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
25	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
26	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
27	Hay, Baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28	Hay, baled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.90
29	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
30	Sheat oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.40
31	Sheat, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.50
32	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
33	Blade, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
34	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.50
35	Shucks, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
36	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
37	Wheat, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
38	Pasturage	Good	Interior	Per head per month	3.00
39	Pasturage	Superior.	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
40	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
41	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
42	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
43	Pasturage	First-rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
44	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.00
45	Soap	Good		Per pound	1.00
46	Candies	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
47	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
48	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	10.00
49	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
50	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
51	Rice	Good		Per pound	.20
52	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
53	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
54	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	.50
55	Pig iron	Good	No 1 quality	per ton	350.00
56	Pig iron	Good	No 2 quality	Per ton	314.00
57	Pig iron	Good	No 3 quality	Per ton	278.00
58	Bloom iron	Good		Per ton	76.00
59	Smiths' iron	Good	Round plate and bar	Per ton	1030.00
60	Railroad Iron	Good		Per ton	190.00
61	Leather	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
62	Leather	Good	Sole	Per pound	3.60
63	Leather	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
64	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	20.00
65	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	25.00
66	Beef cattle	First-rate	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
67	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
68	Sheep	Fair		Per head.	30.00
69	Ar'y woolen cloth, ½ yd	Good	10 ounces per yard	Per yard	5.00
70	Ar'y woolen cloth, ½ yd	Good	Pro rate as to greater or less	Width or weight
71	Ar'y woolen 64	Good	20 ounces per yard	Per yard	10.00
72	Ar'y woolen cloth, ½ yd	Good	Pro rate as to greater or less	Width or weight
73	Flannels, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
74	Cotton shirting, ¾	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
75	Cotton shirting ¾	Good	3¾ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
76	Cotton sheetings, 4-4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
77	Cotton oznaburgs, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
78	Cotton oznaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.93
79	Cotton tent cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
80	On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rate as to the greater or less width or wight.
81	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	25.00
82	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
83	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	1.25
84	Corntop fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
85	Corntop fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
86	Wheat chuff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
87	Wheat chuff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
88	Sorghum molasses	Good		Per gallon	20.00
89	Pasturage for sheep	Good	Interior	Per head	.40
90	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	Interior	Per head	.50
91	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	Interior	Per head	.60

In assessing the average value of first class artillery and wagon horses and mules at $500 we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common sense import. In other words, that they should be selected, and then impressed according as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the government needed at 2500; but cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. Yet, under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or blood mares of admitted high value we impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have constructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound, and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first class wagon mules.

The terms average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, that some might be estimated at $300, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $700—thus making an average value or price for a number of good, sound, and efficient horses or mules 2500 each.

In Illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, he classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to thirteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first class artillery horse, but, of course, however efficient, or able to render good service for a year of so, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may approximate the standard of a first-class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fail below the maximum price; and as few comparatively come up to the standard, and, therefore, are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first class, &c.

SCHEDULE B.

HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

Labor.	Quantity a time.	Price.
1. Baling long forage.	Per 100 pounds,	$.20
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by government.	Per 56 pounds	.05
3. Hauling	Per cwt per mile,	.08
4. Hauling grain	Per bush per mile,	.04
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government.	Per day,	5.00
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner.	Per day,	13.00
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government.	Per day	6.50
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	16.00
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	8.00
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day	2.50
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day	1.50
13. Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month,	50.00
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per month,	30.00
15. Hire of teamsters rations furnished by government.	Per month,	40.00
16. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by government.	Per year,	300.00
17. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by owner	Per year,	550.00
18. Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by government.	Per year	430.00
19. Hire of ox-carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
20. Hire of same, rations furnished by government	Per day,	5.00

REVISION OF THE SCHEDULES OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH LAST.

Since the adoption of our Schedules for the months of February and March, the financial bills passed by Congress taxing the currency have seriously impaired the value of the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes. At this juncture large numbers of horses and mules were impressed and paid for in a currency which was in a few days thereafter to be taxed thirty three and one-third per cent.

The Board of State Commissioners having adjourned, and one of its members being out of the State, it could not be convened in time to review our schedules of prices. Under this state of facts, we have re-examined and re-arranged our tariff of prices, so far as we have been advised of recent impressments, proposing in this mode to render any diminution of valuation which may have resulted from the action of Congress upon the currency. Therefore, we assess the average value of artillery or wagon horses or mules, impressed since the passage of the currency, bill of the 17th February last, at $600. This award will entitle each person to receive higher compensation, accordingly as each horses or mule recently impressed may be considered as being a first, second, or third class artillery or wagon horse or mule whether the parties appeal to our Board or not; and the impressing agents and officers should forthwith call on all of those persons of whom shay impressed horses or mules and propose a settlement upon the foregoing basis. But allowing to each person only such prices as first, second, and third class artillery or wagon horses or mules may have been estimated at by the local or county appraisers, assuming our average appraisement, $300, as a fair medium value on. This then, would allow a maximum price of $300 and a minimum price of $100, making $600 the average price—thus allowing more for first-class horses or mules, and proportionately less for the inferior, as they may fall below the grade of first-class. Payment of whatever amount awarded to be made in the new issue of Treasury notes.

The impressing officers in those instances where there were no arbitrators or local appraisements for horses or mules impressed, should in all such cases themselves re-estimate the value of horses or mules thus impressed, and allow in each case such additional compensation as would, within the limits of our schedule rates, appear just and proper. But if, after this re-valuation and settlement, any person should not be satisfied, the party could then appeal to our Board and have the case reconsidered.

E W Hubard, Robt. Gibboney, Wm B Harrison,
Commissioners of Appraisement for the State of Virginia.
By order, (Signed) S COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.
Official: H L Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General.
All appeals and communications for the Board of Commissioners should be addressed to D Saunders Chilton, Secretary of the Board Richmond, Va. au 5—1w

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, Va, August 1, 1864.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No 180.—

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all concerned; and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

—We were informed early in July that the demand for army supplies was so urgent that your Department felt constrained to disregard our schedule prices then in force, and offer market rates to the farmers for their wheat, if delivered in July. This policy was deemed indispensable to insure the EARLY receipt of supplies. Concurring with the War Department in the paramount importance of obtaining, at the earliest practicable period, an ample quantity of wheat for the support of the army, we apprehended, as so great a disparity existed between our former rates and the rates then offering in our leading cities, that unless we advanced prices our action might seriously embarrass the government in their efforts to obtain immediate supplies.

Under these circumstances, and owing to the very short crop of wheat and unprecedented demand for breadstuffs, together with the depreciation in the currency, as well as to the further fact that the farmers were then securing the oat and hay crops, we proposed the advanced prices set forth in our July and August schedules.

But now, as the immediate wants of the army are being provided for, and vigorous efforts are initiated to reduce the currency and reinstate public credit, we are disposed to accept the recent manifestations of public opinion in regard to our prices as the strongest assurance that in future adequate supplies can be secured on very moderate terms.

As the press, the public, and the farmers in part, have ALL united in condemning our rates as too high, we therefore DEFER to what seems to be the general desire and propose the following prices:

Having re-adopted the Schedules for May and June last, in accordance with the clearly- manifested wishes of the people, we have thought it advisable and proper to stimulate the sale and delivery of small grain &c, now so much needed as to be indispensable, by advancing the price of wheat, flour, corn and corn meal, oats and hay, delivered in the month of August:

Therefore we place the price of wheat at $7.50 per bushel, and a corresponding advance of 50 per cent on all the grades of flour, mill-offal, &c; and corn we assess at $6 per bushel, and corn meal at $6.30 per bushel. Oats and hay, per hundred pounds unbaled, at $6, and at $7 per hundred pounds, baled east of the Blue Ridge, and delivered during the month of August.

Railroad iron not being included in the Government contradts with the iron manufactories, should not have been advanced in our last Schedules. So we re-adopt our old valuation for railroad iron, and put the price at $90 per ton.

The foregoing are to be the prices of wheat, flour, mill-offal, corn and corn meal, oats, bay and railroad iron, delivered during the month of August.

In September we propose to adopt simply the former Schedules for May and June, with the exception of the assessment upon railroad iron, which we wish to continue at $190 per ton during the month of September.

We also re-adopt the revision of our February and March Schedule in reference to the impressment of horses, as published in our July Schedule.

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.

Such an example voluntarily set before the people would exert a most salutary influence. The public may be assured we will interpose no barrier to thwart either their benevolent intentions or generous contributions in behalf of their country.

Identified with them in all respects, we are disposed to foster every praiseworthy effort made in behalf of our common cause.

In reviewing the schedules of prices for May and June, we invited the co-operation and aid of Mr. Wm. B. Harrison, and it is just to add that the schedules received the unanimous approval of the commissioners.

We respectfully offer the accompanying schedules, A and B, with the understanding that the prices are to remain for the months of May and June, unless in the interval it should be deemed necessary to modify them.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale, and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers in future should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and so divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture.

No.	Articles.	Quality	Description.	Quantity.	Price.
1	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushel of 60 lbs	$5.00
2	Flour, good	Fine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	22.00
	Flour, good	Superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	25.00
	Flour, good	Ex-superfine		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	26.50
	Flour, good	Family		Per bbl, of 196 lbs	28.00
3	Corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	4.00
4	Unshelled corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.95
5	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	4.20
6	Rye	Prime		Per bushel of 56 lbs	3.20
7	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	2.50
8	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	0.50
9	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	0.70
10	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	0.90
11	Shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	1.40
12	Bacon	Good	Hog round	Per pound	3.00
13	Pork—salt	Good		Per pound	2.60
14	Pork—fresh, fat and good	Good		Per pound net weight	2.25
15	Lard	Good		Per pound net weight	3.00
16	Horses and mules	First class artillery &c, average price per head			500.00
17	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	3.00
18	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	2.00
19	Peas	Good		Per bushel	12.00
20	Beans	Good		Per bushel	12.00
21	Potatoes	Good	Irish	Per bushel	5.00
22	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	8.00
23	Onions	Good		Per bushel	5.00
24	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
25	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
26	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
27	Hay, baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28	Hay, baled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.90
29	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdegrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
30	Sheat oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.40
31	Sheat oats, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.50
32	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
33	Blade fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
34	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.50
35	Shucks, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
36	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
37	Wheat straw, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
38	Pasturage	Good	Interior	Per head per month	3.00
39	Pasturage	Superior	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
40	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
41	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
42	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
43	Pasturage	First-rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
44	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.00
45	Soap	Good		Per pound	1.00
46	Candles	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
47	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
48	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	10.00
49	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
50	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
51	Rice	Good		Per pound	0.20
52	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
53	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
54	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	0.50
55	Pig iron	Good	No 1 quality	Per ton	350.00
56	Pig iron	Good	No 2 quality	Per ton	314.00
57	Pig iron	Good	No 3 quality	Per ton	278.00
58	Bloom iron	Good		Per ton	716.00
59	Smiths' iron	Good	Round plate and bar	Per ton	1030.00
60	Railroad iron	Good		Per ton	190.00
61	Leather	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
62	Leather	Good	Sole	Per pound	3.60
63	Leather	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
64	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	20.00
65	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	25.00
66	Beef cattle	First-rate	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
67	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
68	Sheep	Fair		Per head	30.00
69	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¼ yd	Good	10 ounces per yard	Per yard	5.00
70	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¼ yd	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
71	Ar'y woolen cloth, 6.4	Good	20 ounces per yard	Per yard	10.00
72	Ar'y woolen cloth, ¼ yd	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
73	Flanncle, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
74	Cotton shirting, ⅔	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
75	Cotton shirting, ⅞	Good	3¾ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
76	Cotton sheetings, 4.4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
77	Cotton oznaburgs, ¼	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
78	Cotton oznaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.93
79	Cotton tent cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
80	On the above enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to the greater or less width or w'ght.
81	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	15.00
82	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
83	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	1.25
84	Corntop fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
85	Corntop fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
86	Wheat chaff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
87	Wheat chaff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
88	Sorghum molasses	Good		Per gallon	20.00
89	Pasturage for sheep	Good	Interior	Per head	0.40
90	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	Interior	Per head	0.50
91	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	Interior	Per head	0.60

In assessing the average value of first class artillery and wagon horses and mules at $500 we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common sense import. In other words, that they should be selected, and then impressed according as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the government needed at $500; but cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. Yet, under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value are impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound, and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first class wagon mules.

The terms average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We supposed that in impressing a number of horses or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, that some might be estimated at $300, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $700—thus making an average value or price for a number of good, sound, and efficient horses or mules $500 each.

In illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, be classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to thirteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first-class artillery horse, but, of course, however efficient, or able to render good service for a year or so, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horses, however he may approximate the standard of a first class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as few comparatively come up to the standard, and, therefore, are entitled to the maximum price, so of course in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first class, &c.

SCHEDULE B.
HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

Labor.	Quantity a time.	Price.
1. Baling long forage	Per 100 pounds,	$0.90
2. Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by government	Per 56 pounds,	0.05
3. Hauling	Per per mile,	0.08
4. Hauling grain	Per bush per mile,	0.04
5. Hire of two-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
6. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day,	5.00
7. Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	13.00
8. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day,	6.50
9. Hire of six-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	16.00
10. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day,	8.00
11. Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	2.50
12. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per day,	1.50
13. Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month,	50.00
14. Hire of same, rations furnished by the government	Per month,	30.00
15. Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by government	Per month,	40.90
16. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by government	Per year,	300.00
17. Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by owner	Per year,	550.00
18. Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by government	Per year,	400.00
19. Hire of ex-carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day,	10.00
20. Hire of same, rations furnished by government	Per day,	5.00

REVISION OF THE SCHEDULES OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH LAST.

Since the adoption of our schedules for the months of February and March, the financial bills passed by Congress taxing the currency have seriously impaired the value of the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes. At this juncture large numbers of horses and mules were impressed and paid for in a currency which was in a few days thereafter to be taxed thirty-three and one- third per cent.

The Board of State Commissioners having adjourned, and one of its members being out of the State, it could not be convened in time to review our schedules of prices. Under this state of facts, we have re-examined and re-arranged our tariff of prices, so far as we have been advised of recent impressments, proposing in this mode to render any diminution of valuation which may have resulted from the action of Congress upon the currency. Therefore, we assure the average value of artillery for wagon horses or mules, impressed since the passage of the currency bill of the 17th February last, at $600. This award will entitle each person to receive higher compensation, accordingly as each horses or mule presently impressed may be considered as being a first, second, or third class artillery or wagon horse or mule, whether the parties appeal to our Board or not; and the impressing agents and officers should forth with call on all of these persons of whom they impressed horses or mules and propose a settlement upon the foregoing basis. But allowing to each person only such prices as first, second, and third class artillery or wagon horses or mules may have been estimated at by the local or county appraisers, assuming our average appraisement, $600, as a fair medium valuation. This, then, would allow a maximum price of $800 and a minimum price of $400, making $600 the average price—thus allowing more for first class horses or mules, and proportionately less for the inferior, as they may fall below the grade of first-class. Payment of whatever amount awarded to be made in the new issue of Treasury notes.

The impressing officers in those instances where there were no arbitrators or local appraisements for homes or mules impressed, should in all such cases themselves re-estimate the value of horses or mules thus impressed, and allow in each case such additional compensation as would, within the limits of our schedule rates, appear just and proper. But if, after this re- valuation and settlement, any person should not be satisfied, the party could then appeal to our Board and have the case reconsidered.

E. W. Hubard, Robt. Gisbony, Wm. B. Harrison,
Commissioners of Appraisement for the State of Virginia.
By order (Signed) S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector-General.
Official: H. L. Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General.
All appeals and communications for the Board of Commissioners should be addressed to D. Sounders Chilton, Secretary of the Board Richmond, Va. au 5—1w

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, Virginia, October 24, 1864.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 252.

I. The following schedules of prices for articles named therein, adopted by Commissioners appointed pursuant to law for the State of Virginia, are announced for the information of all concerned; and the special attention of officers and agents of the Government is directed thereto:

As requested by your Department, we conferred with the Commissioners of North Carolina, and had the good fortune to adjust prices upon a basis calculated to harmonize the leading interests of both States. The just and enlightened views entertained by the North Carolina Commissioners were practically illustrated by the liberal spirit and wise terms upon which they agreed to co- operate with us.

In this revolutionary crisis, we should all agree to aid each other and the Government. To rescue the country and save the people from the dangers that environ both, is clearly the duty of all. Our honor, rights and independence are at stake. Let us bind all our energies to defend and secure them. To attain this invaluable end, the people must be fed and clothed. Our producers, manufacturers and tradesmen certainly can afford to work for moderate compensation while our gallant soldiers dare to confront our savage adversaries in their defence. Certainly, if our brave men throw their protecting arms around our family altars, and gallantly defend their country for a sum too insignificant to mention, those who remain at home, enjoying the benefit of their val afford to clothe and feed them and their families on the most moderate terms.

The question should be, how little will on ask or take for your productions? Fidelity to all the best interests of our country points to the observance of this maxim as the best test of both our charity and patriotism. Let the watchword be, "Everything for our country, and away with money-making." In this final and desperate struggle for liberty, beware lest, in hoarding up money and neglecting the cause of the people, you exchange your birthright for a mess of pottage. Believing that our cause appeals to all parties and interest alike, we trust the people will unite and act in concert in achieving our independence. What we will to do, we can accomplish. United, we are invincible. Triumphant, what a glorious destiny opens to our view! Conquered, how abject and forlorn our condition! Who, under existing circumstances, is not willing to sacrifice a few paper dollars to gain the most enviable victory of civilization ever witnessed.

Entertaining the conviction that the popular mind is favorable to every effort calculated to advance the success of our cause, we venture to place before you the annexed Schedules of Prices for the months of October and November, which, though imperfect, because there are so many and such variant views and interests to harmonize, yet we indulge the hope, may be properly received by the people.

The following prices are to be the maximum rates to be paid for the articles impressed in all cities and usual places of sale; and when impressed on the farms or elsewhere, the same prices are to be paid.

Under existing circumstances, we have deemed it not only just, but most likely to favor increased production, that producers, in future, should not be required to transport their surplus productions when impressed, but that the agents of the Government should employ or impress the neighborhood or county wagons and teams to haul all such articles, and so divide the work between the owners of wagons and teams as to be least prejudicial to those successfully engaged in agriculture:

SCHEDULE A.

No.	Articles.	Quality.	Description.	Quantity.	Price.
1.	Wheat	Prime	White or red	Per bushel of 60 lbs.	$7.50
2.	Flour, good	Fine		Per barrel of 196 lbs.	33.00
Flour, good	Superfine		Per barrel of 196 lbs.	37.50
Flour, good	Extra superfine		Per barrel of 196 lbs	39.75
Flour, good	Family		Per barrel of 196 lbs	42.00
3.	Corn	Prime	White or yellow	Per bushel of 56 lbs	5.00
4.	Corn meal	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.20
5.	Rye	Prime		Per bushel of 56 lbs	5.00
6.	Cleaned oats	Prime		Per bushel of 32 lbs	4.00
7.	Wheat bran	Good		Per bushel of 17 lbs	75
8.	Shorts	Good		Per bushel of 22 lbs	1.05
9.	Brownstuff	Good		Per bushel of 28 lbs	1.35
10.	Shipstuff	Good		Per bushel of 37 lbs	2.10
11.	Bacon	Good	Hog-round	Per pound	2.75
12.	Pork—salt	Good		Per pound	2.30
13.	Pork—fresh, fat and good	Good		Per pound, net weight	1.82
14.	Lard	Good		Per pound.	2.75
15.	Horses and mules	First-class artillery, &c, average price per head			800.00
16.	Wool	Fair or merino	Washed	Per pound	8.00
17.	Wool	Fair or merino	Unwashed	Per pound	6.00
18.	Peas	Good		Per bushel	5.00
19.	Beans	Good		Per bushel	5.00
20.	Potatoes	Good	Irish	Per bushel	4.00
21.	Potatoes	Good	Sweet	Per bushel	4.00
22.	Onions	Good		Per bushel	8.00
23.	Dried peaches	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	8.00
24.	Dried peaches	Good	Unpeeled	Per bushel	4.50
25.	Dried apples	Good	Pealed	Per bushel	5.00
26.	Hay, baled	Good	Timothy or clover	Per 100 pounds	3.90
27.	Hay, baled	Good	Orchard or herdagrass	Per 100 pounds	3.90
28.	Hay, unbaled	Good	Orchard or herdagrass	Per 100 pounds	3.00
29.	Sheaf oats, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	5.25
30.	Sheaf oats, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	4.75
31.	Blade fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.90
32.	Blade fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	3.00
33.	Shucks, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.60
34.	Shucks, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.70
35.	Wheat straw, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.20
36.	Wheat straw, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.30
37.	Pasturage	Good	Interior	Per head per month	3.00
38.	Pasturage	Superior	Interior	Per head per month	4.00
39.	Pasturage	First-rate	Interior	Per head per month	5.00
40.	Pasturage	Good	Near cities	Per head per month	5.00
41.	Pasturage	Superior	Near cities	Per head per month	6.00
42.	Pasturage	First-rate	Near cities	Per head per month	7.00
43.	Salt	Good		Per bushel of 50 lbs	5.00
44.	Scap	Good		Per pound	1.00
45.	Candles	Good	Tallow	Per pound	3.00
46.	Vinegar	Good	Cider	Per gallon	2.00
47.	Whiskey	Good	Trade	Per gallon	10.00
48.	Sugar	Good	Brown	Per pound	3.00
49.	Molasses	Good	New Orleans	Per gallon	25.00
50.	Rice	Good		Per pound	50
51.	Coffee	Good	Rio	Per pound	3.00
52.	Tea	Good	Trade	Per pound	7.00
53.	Vinegar	Good	Manufactured	Per gallon	1.00
54.	Pig iron	Good	No. 1 quality	Per ton	350.00
55.	Pig iron	Good	No. 2 quality	Per ton	314.00
56.	Pig iron	Good	No. 3 quality	Per ton	278.00
57.	Bloom iron	Good		Per ton	710.00
58.	Smith's iron	Good	Round plate and bar	Per ton	1,030.00
59.	Railroad iron	Serviceable		Per ton	400.00
60.	Leather	Good	Harness	Per pound	3.90
61.	Leather	Good	Sole	Per pound	3.60
62	Leather	Good	Upper	Per pound	4.20
63.	Beef cattle	Good	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	30.00
64.	Beef cattle	Superior	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	35.00
65.	Beef cattle	First-rate	Gross weight	Per 100 pounds	40.00
66.	Salt beef	Good		Net per pound	1.50
67.	Sheep	Fair		Per head	35.00
68.	Army woolen cloth, ¾ yard	Good	Ten ounces per yard	Per yard	10.00
69.	Army woolen cloth, ¾ yard	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
70.	Army woolen cloth, 6-4 yard.	Good	Twenty ounces per yard.	Per yard	10.00
71.	Army woolen cloth, 6-4 yard	Good	Pro rata as to greater or less	Width or weight
72.	Flannels, ¾	Good	Six ounces per yard	Per yard	4.00
73.	Cotton shirting, ¾	Good	4½ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.11
74.	Cotton shirting, ⅞	Good	3¾ yards to the pound	Per yard	1.35
75.	Cotton sheetings, 4-4	Good	3 yards to the pound	Per yard	1.75
76.	Cotton osnaburgs, ¾	Good	6 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.50
77.	Cotton osnaburgs, ⅞	Good	8 ounces per yard	Per yard	1.93
78.	Cotton fent cloths	Good	10 ounces to the yard	Per yard	2.53
79.	On the above-enumerated cotton cloths, pro rata as to greater or less width or weight.
80.	Army shoes	Good		Per pair	$5.00
81.	Shoe thread	Good		Per pound	3.00
82.	Wool socks for men	Good		Per pair	2.00
83.	Corn-top fodder, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
84.	Corn-top fodder, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
85.	Wheatchaff, baled	Good		Per 100 pounds	2.40
86.	Wheatchaff, unbaled	Good		Per 100 pounds	1.50
87.	Serghum molasses	First quality		Per gallon	8.00
88.	Pasturage for sheep		Interior	Per head	40
89.	Pasturage for sheep	Superior	Interior	Per head	50
90.	Pasturage for sheep	First-rate	Interior	Per head	60
91.	Apple brandy	Good		Per gallon	10.00
92.	Peach brandy	Good		Per gallon	10.00

In assessing the value of first-class artillery and wagon horses and mules at eight hundred dollars, we designed that the term should be accepted and acted upon according to its obvious common sense import. In other words, that they should be selected and then impressed accordingly as their working qualities and adaptation to army service, together with their intrinsic value, would warrant a judicious purchaser in considering them as coming within the contemplation of the Commissioners when they assessed the average value of such horses as the Government needed at eight hundred dollars. But cases might arise, however, when the public exigencies would be so urgent as to demand that all horses at hand should be impressed. —Yet, under ordinary circumstances, when family or extra blooded horses, or brood mares of admitted high value, are impressed, we respectfully suggest to the Secretary of War to have instructions forwarded to the impressing officers to propose and allow the owners to substitute in their stead such strong, sound and serviceable horses or mules as shall be considered and valued by competent and disinterested parties as first-class artillery horses or first-class wagon mules.

The term average value per head is in contradistinction to a fixed and uniform price for each horse or mule. We supposed that, in impressing a number of horses or mules, whether owned by several persons or one individual, some might be estimated at $600, and others at different advanced rates, according to their worth, up as high as $1,000—thus making an average value or price for a number of good, sound and efficient horses or mules, $800 each.

In illustration of our views, we will add that a horse with only one eye sound might, in all other respects, be classed as a first-class artillery horse, yet the loss of one eye would justly and considerably curtail his value. So a horse from ten to eighteen years of age might be deemed in all other particulars as a first-class artillery horse, but, of course, however efficient and able to render good service for a year or two, yet his advanced age would justly and materially impair his value. Any horse, however he may approximate the standard of a first- class artillery horse, must, according to deficiencies, fall below the maximum price; and as few, comparatively, come up to the standard, and are therefore entitled to the maximum price, so, of course, in all other instances the price should be proportionately reduced as imperfections place them below the standard of first-class, &c.

The first quality of Sorghum Molasses is the consistency of honey and free from all acidity to the taste. But second and inferior qualities of molasses should be reduced in price from ten to twenty per cent., accordingly as they fall below the standard of first quality.

SCHEDULE B.
HIRE OF LABOR, TEAMS, WAGONS AND DRIVERS.

No.	LABOR.	QUAN'TY AND TIME.	PRICES
1.	Baling long forage	Per 100 pounds	$90
2.	Shelling and bagging corn, sacks furnished by Government	Per 56 pounds	05
3.	Hauling	Per cwt. per mile	08
4.	Hauling grain	Per bushel per mile	04
5.	Hire of two-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
6.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	5.00
7.	Hire of four-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
8.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	6.50
9.	Hire of six-horse team, wagon and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	16.00
10.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	8.00
11.	Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner	Per day	2.50
12.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	1.50
13.	Hire of same, rations and clothing furnished by owner	Per month	50.00
14.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per month	30.00
15.	Hire of teamsters, rations furnished by the Government	Per month	40.00
16.	Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by the Government	Per year	300.00
17.	Hire of laborer, clothing and rations furnished by owner	Per year	550.00
18.	Hire of laborer, rations only furnished by the Government	Per year	400.00
19.	Hire of ox-carts, team and driver, rations furnished by owner	Per day	10.00
20.	Hire of same, rations furnished by the Government	Per day	5.00

REVISION OF THE SCHEDULES OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH LAST.

Since the adoption of our last Schedule, for the months of February and March, the financial bills passed by Congress taxing the currency have seriously impaired the value of the old issues of Confederate Treasury notes. At this juncture, large numbers of horses and mules were impressed and paid for in a currency which was, in a few days thereafter, to be taxed thirty- three and one-third per cent.

The Board of State Commissioners having adjourned, and one of its members losing out of the State, it could not be convened in time to review our schedule of prices. Under this state of facts, we have re-examined and re-arranged our tariff of prices so far as we have been advised of recent impressments, proposing, in this mode, to remedy any diminution of valuation which may have resulted from the action of Congress upon the currency. Therefore we asses the average value of artillery or wagon horses or mules impressed since the passage of the currency bill, of the 17th of February last, at six hundred dollars.—This award will entitle each person to receive higher compensation accordingly as each horse or mule recently impressed may be considered as being a first, second, or third-class artillery or wagon horse or mule, whether the parties appeal to our Board or not; and the impressing officers and agents should forthwith

call on all those persons of whom they impressed horses or mules and propose a accruement upon the foregoing basis; but allowing to each person only such prices as first, second and third- class artillery or wagon horses or mules may have been estimated at by the local or county appraisers, assuming our average appraisement of six hundred dollars as a fair medium valuation. This, then, would allow a maximum price of eight hundred dollars, and a minimum price of four hundred dollars, making six hundred dollars the average price—thus allowing more for first-class horses or mules and proportionately less for the inferior as they may fall below the grade of first-class. The county appraisement will be the guide in making these settlements, but within the limits of our maximum price of eight hundred dollars and our minimum price of four hundred dollars. This plan would perhaps be most satisfactory to the people. For whatever price the county appraisers agreed upon should be deemed fair within the range of our minimum price of four hundred dollars and our maximum price of eight hundred dollars; payment of whatever amount awarded to be made in the new issue of Treasury notes.

The impressing officers in those instances where there were no arbitrators or local appraisements for horses or mules impressed, should, in all such cases, themselves re-estimate the value of horses or mules thus impressed, and allow in each case such additional compensation as would, within the limits of our schedule rates, appear just and proper. But if, after this revaluation and settlement, any person should not be satisfied, the party could then appeal to our Board and have the case reconsidered.

In conclusion, it is proper to add that Mr. William B. Harrison was invited to aid us, and that the foregoing schedule received the unanimous approval of the Board of Commissioners.

E. W. HUBARD,
ROBERT GIBBONEY,
WILLIAM B. HARRISON,
Commissioners of Appraisement for the State of Virginia.
Per order.
[Signed] S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.
Official: John A. Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General.

All appeals and communications should be addressed (post paid) to Mr. D. K. WHITAKER, Secretary of the Board, box 995, Richmond post-office, Virginia, and who may be consulted at his office in the department of the Quartermaster-General. The next meeting of the Board will be held on the first week of NEXT DECEMBER in the city of Richmond.

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