{"character_count": 1611, "word_count": 282, "ccnet_language_score": [0.970300018787384], "ccnet_perplexity": [1560.5999755859375], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
From the Ne,c. Orleans 7yue American, of 25h April

 The news from Mississippi is of the most disheartening description. Letters from gen. tlemen of the highest standing in various quarters of that State, tell of things that would not have been dreamed of two months ago. We shall endeavor to give an abstract of the information now in our possession, in order that the real state of things may be known.

 Negroes that three months since cost $1,- GOO to Sl50O each, can be bought in any part of Mississippi for $25O to $500 cash. This description of property, whose increased val ue depended entirely upon the late exorbi- tant prices of cotton, has there come down to level with the present depreciated rates of the great staple, leaving the unfortunate pur- chaser minus thousands. The loss on this kind of property alone is enough to bankrupt the State- But the misfortune does not stop 1 here.

 The planters had anticipated their crops, and received and expended three -fourths of their value months ago. On the delivery of the cotton so bought and paid for, they natu- rally came forward and expected to mort gage. as 1t were. their labor, capital and time for the next twelve months, in order to pro- cure sufficient of the necessaries of life for the support of their negroes, and to get means TOT carrying on their plantations, pitching their crops, sc. &c. To their surprise, the 4th of March and its attendant destruction, came upon all their expectations and crush ed them m an instant. They are now left without provisions and the means of living ] and using their industry, for the present year.