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.