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New York price lists quote Mexican Coffee as 

 follows : 



Cents. 

 Cordova, green 9 to 10 per Ib. 



white ... ii 13 

 Oajaca, white n ,, 13 ,, 



Liverpool prices were 



s. s. 



Mexican Coffee, good ... 52 to 62 per cwt. 



middling ... ' 44 49 



A correspondent of the Galveston News gives 

 some information regarding the territory of Soco- 

 nusco, the possession of which is now a subject 

 of dispute between Mexico and Guatemala : 



" It is a strip of land lying on the Pacific coast south-east 

 of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, and extending from the Bay of 

 Tonela to the Bay de Ocos, on the present line of Guatemala, 

 a distance of about 200 miles, and reaching inland to the 

 summit of the mountain range, from forty to fifty miles, con- 

 taining about 8,000 square miles. It was celebrated before 

 the Inquisition for its heavy yield of Coffee and fine quality 

 of chocolate. On the Guatemalan side of the boundary these 

 lands are held at very high prices. The valuable product 

 of Coffee, chocolate, sugar, rice, cotton, vanilla and indigo 

 is building up cities, beautifying the country, and enriching 

 its commerce. Grant's Mexican Southern Railroad will 

 penetrate this fertile region within two years. There is 

 a perfect stampede for its possession. The invigorating 

 temperature, pure water, mahogany, rosewood, walnut, Coffee, 

 rice, sugar, &c., all combine to make it attractive. There 

 are said to be single Coffee trees, ten or twelve years old 



