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The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cultivation of sugar cane in Philadelphia. (search)
ithout danger from frost.--The hay, corn, potato and other root crops are most abundant. Squashes were in large supply; potatoes are selling for half the price of two years since, and are free from rot.--Barley and oats are plentiful. Butter has not been so cheap for a long time. We have heard of good butter purchased for 13 cts. a pound during the present autumn.--Meats also are cheaper than they have been for several years. Pennsylvania Legislature. The Philadelphia Bulletin, Oct. 23, has the following in regard to the complexion of the next Pennsylvania Legislature: It is not possible, as yet, to give a complete and correct list of the members of the next Legislature elected on the 8th inst. In some cases the army vote, not yet received, may have to decide who is elected. The Senate, however, will stand twenty-three Republicans to ten Democrats. The Harrisburg papers give forty-two members of the House of Representatives to the Democrats, the remaining fifty-eig