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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
September
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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New York, Sept. 14. A Riclimnni.l pftper says a disputeh froin Mobile, 7tli, givcs the following in rrfercnce to affuirs in Texas: Excellent wagcs are paid n Texas for field liaods. Negroos sell at from 83,000 to $4,000 eaeli. Upwirds of 100,000 plaves have arrived from Louiniana and Mississippi Planters and spcculators are going beyo:)d Hhreeveport to purehase or Lire. Good beef on foot 8 cents per pound; vegetables chcap ; cattle bring $'30 ; coffee 85 cents; silver $5 in eurreney at Brownsville, ïeias. Planters are checrfuTy according support to the government. Pcudleton lia.s been clected Governor by a small majority. Herbert, Sexton and Braneh are eleeted to Congrcss. Military inatters quiet. The people and troops are propared to repel invasión. The Indiana on the frontier are troublesorac An average of fourtocn vessels are constantly off Galveston, blockading the harbor. Great confidonco ia feit in General Mapruder. The crops in Texas are unprocedentedly lare. Wheat aud corn enough is raiscd to supply tho western bank of the Misaiseippi fur two years to come, if not a grain is Bowed in the interval. The sumracr has been very dry Cotton pickinp; conimeneed in August. About 150,000 bales of the old erop are uow in the State.

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Old News
Michigan Argus