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from $25 to $45 a month. Corn is now worth from 60 

 cts. to $1 a bushel, in the interior of the state. Cow peas 

 $1 to $1.50. Sweet potatoes, 50 cts. Irish do., 50 cts. to 

 75 cts. Oats, 50 cts. Millet, $1, to $1.50. Cotton seed for 

 planting, 50 cts. to $5 a bushel. While at the same time 

 cotton is not worth on the plantations over an average 

 price of 4 cts. a pound. 



While off the go ahead track, I will make a memoran- 

 dum of the weather here in Mississippi since last noticed 

 — this is for comparison with any other place you please. 



Feb. 19. Warm, sunny, dry — roads fine, streams low. 

 " 20. Cloudy — little rain in morning — then clear 

 and cool. 



21. Mild — somewhat cloudy, and rain at night. 



22. Cloudy and some rain — mild. 



23. Mild — flying clouds. 



24. 25. Sunny and warm — "coats off." 

 26. Quite warm and dry — roads dusty — "jackets 



off." 

 " 27, 28. — Clear and mild — fire needed morning 

 and evening. 



March 1, 2, 3, I have noticed. 



March 4th, which many an office seeker at Washington 

 will be able to remember, and compare with what is past, 

 present, and future, as he hopes it will be — if not warm, 

 at least mild, certainly not stormy — certainly was stormy 

 in Mississippi, in the morning, after which we started 

 again southward over a hilly region composed of argil- 

 laceous alluvium, badly cultivated and full of gullies — the 

 streams broad, and gravelly bottoms, deep sunk between 

 high sandy banks that are rapidly working away to help 

 extend our territory farther and farther into the gulf of 

 Mexico. Passed through the town of Port Gibson, which 

 is the best town I have seen in the state. It is situated 

 on a stream called Bayou Peire, a few miles from the 

 Mississippi, from which steamers come in high water to 

 carry out the cotton from the surrounding rich country. 

 Many of the owners of neighboring plantations have 



