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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
city, and holding them for a big rise. This VI had been laid before the Governor, and steps were about to be taken to correct it by summary action on the part of the authorizes, or the people, when most seasonably and kindly, Commodore Poore came with the Brooklyn and saved us all this trouble by blockading the mouth of the river. Thus, all export being stooped, both up and down the river, we have an abundance of everything that is produced between the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and the Gulf of Mexico. The effect on Texas cattle is particularly interesting. Large droves of these cattle have hitherto been driven northward into Missouri, and even into Illinois; and even those which were sent hither had to compete with the better conditioned cattle of the West. Hence the supply was comparatively small. But now, having no other market, and being without competition, the Texans are all driving their cattle to New Orleans, not only supplying this market at very reasonable rates — ch