The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-12-19
From the New York News.
GEN. STERLING PRICE.


! From the New York News.
GEN. STERLING PRICE.
Letters have been received in this city from
! General Price, dated at Cordoya, Mexico, on
the fifteenth Of November. Governor Harris
of Tennessee, the Honorable John Perkins, ,Jr,.
of Louisiana, General Shelby of Missouri, and
great many other officers and men Of the late
: Confederate army, were also at tho same plaee;
the district of COrdova having been selected by
the Imperial Com mmissioners as the scat of tho
colony which those gentlemen propose to found
in Mexico. We are permitted TO quote what
General Price says about the lands which have
been set apart by MaximilIan for this colony.
"Theya,are about seventy miles from Vera
Cruz, and on the railroad leading thence TO the
City of Mexico. This road is being rapidly
constructed, and is now in operation to within
fifteen miles of this place, and will be compile
ted to the town OF Cordova within few months,
aud to the City of Mexico within two yenrs.
These lands are three thousand feet above the
level Of the sea, and as fertile as any Of the
Platte lands. Note.-The Platte purchase,
which is rhe northwestern part Of Missouri,
comprises Tie richest lands in that State, and
perhaps in the Union -ED. News They are
unsurpassed in the production of corn, tobacco,
coffee, vegetables of every kind and all tho
tropical fruits. The lands, which lie between
this elevated country and the coast, produce as
much and as good cotton as the Louisiana lands.
We are practically as near the markets OF New
Orleans as the people of Central Missouri are;
and the climate is the best ia the world. The
thermometer never rises above ninety degrees,
nor falls below seventy. The water is excellent,
and we can get ice from the mountains covered
with perpetual snow, which are in plain sight,
ard hnt, tI. T.. n
Government has purchased the lands from tho
original proprietors, and sells them to us ut one
dollrr an acre.
"Our colony commences with about thirty
Confcdcrates, all Of whom are in high spirits,
and expect to make fortunes raising coffee. A
gentleman who has lived here a few years, sold
his last years coffee crop for ($lG,000> sixteen
thousand dollars 1t was produced on sixty
(60) acres of land. He works only ten hands.
He tells me that his fruit trees can supply his
table with different variety of fruit each day
in the year. Ills coffee plantation, shaded with
every species Of fruit.tree laden with fruit, and
the walks bordered with pine-apples is certainly
the most beautiful farm that have ever seen"
CONFEDERATE Cruisers s-There have been
on the sea altogether 20 Confederate cruisers.
Their career commenced in June, 1861, by the
sailing Of the first Of them; the little schooner
Savannah, from Charleston, and ending on the
9th of the present month by the arrival Of the
last of them, the steamer Shenandoah, at Liver
pool In the four years they captured 275 ves-
sells, together nearly 100000 tons, most of
which were burned or sunk. OF these wero.
steamers, rs ships, 80 barks, 43 brigs and GS
schoonerS The Alabama captured 68 vessels,
one Of which was the Gu0boat Hatteras, at Gal
veston:- the Shenandoah 3S: the Florida 80:
the Sumter, 27; the Tallahassee, 27, the TacoDy,
10, all in the month Of juno, 1868, Of which o
were Gloucester fishermen; the Georgia, 10; the
jeff. Davis, s; Winslow, 5; Cbickamauga, 4;
Olusee, 4; Clarence, 3; Retribution, 8; st.
Nicholas, 3; Calhoun, 8; Sallie, Nashville, Bos-
ton, Echo, 2 each; and SO ou The Nashville
was principally blockade runner The value
of the vessels and cargoes captured cannot be
estimated without great research, but If some
one should tell US it was 500 900 VIC should
not consider it overrated.