The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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The Trans-Mississippi country.

A surgeon attached to Harrison's regiment, and recently direct from the Trans-Mississippi region furnishes some very interesting intelligence from that section. He brings flattering accounts of the improving condition of affairs in Missouri and Arkansas. The people of the former State are in great numbers hastening to the standard of Gen Price, and are represented to be well supplied with arms cannon, and other munitions of war. The Union families of Missouri are stated to be leaving the State leaving their growing crops — and the Southern families are sending their husbands and sons to the army, and all come forward and voluntarily take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. The wheat crop in Arkansas is being harvested, and a finer one was never seen.--Corn is 25 cents a bushel, and flour $3 per 100 pound, in Missouri.

The disaffected troops of Hindman's command were returning to the ranks under Price From one county alone the narrator saw seventeen companies return to their arms. The accounts from Louisiana are not less cheering. Koby Smith was being reinforced with some of our best troops to an extent sufficient to enable him to perform good service to our cause. A month ago the growing corn was shoulder high, with a fair prospect of an abundant yield.