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The Texas wheat crop.

--Some years ago we heard the story of an Alabamian who emigrated to Texas, and in three years returned with bitter complaints against that State.--He said that he had made so much corn in one year that it took him two years to gather it, and that he never would live in a State where he could not gather his crop the same year. Some people might read the story with doubt, but the recent accounts of the Texas crops show that it is not a large story after all. A gentleman who has just arrived from there says that the wheat crop has been harvested and is perfectly enormous, Enough has been raised to last over two years provided the next crop should fail. Corn, he says, is in proportion, and thousands of bushels will be offered to the Government in exchange for bonds. Glorious news! In all parts of this Confederacy, Providence seems to have smiled upon the fields--Mont. Adva.

The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 21, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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