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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
eady picked two millions pounds of cotton for the U. States Government. An article in the same paper says that Gen. Butler is landing at Ship Island, and that the Federal coll is surely crushing out the Southern rebellion. The English brig Mary Morton reports that the privateer Sumter and the Federal gun-boat Iroquois had a severe engagement, and one of them is now at Martinique for repairs. This is doubted. The latest commercial reports quote Federal 6's at 88, and 5's at 80; Erie shares at 47; Virginia 6's 46. Cotton 40 cents per pound.--Coffee 20 cents. Mess pork $12.50. Bacon 7 cents. Lard 8 cents. From the New York Times, of the 17th instant, and other papers, we make up the following summary: The news from England has created great excitement at the North; and its effect there was very unsettling on the markets. Exchange on London went up to 110½ to 111 per cent., which presupposes an immediate suspension of payments at bank in specie, (or in other w