Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Yankee fleet — cotton crop — Factories going up, &c.
Montgomery, Ala. Nov. 7, 1861.
The Legislature is now in session and the city unusually lively.
Our people were never more elated than they have been for a few days back in hearing of the mishaps which have befallen one after another of Abe's fleet.
The waves and winds are viewing with the brave hearts and strong arms of our land forces in the great work of overs lawing those whose crimes demand that they should be destroyed from the face of the earth. The cotton crop looks well and will yield more than was formerly supposed it would. No one seems willing to sell to speculators, as the impression is that by the Spring the ports will be open and cotton in demand.
Factories are going up in almost every direction. The planters are turning their attention to raising their own bread and meat, and thus we are gradually working out our independence, for nothing short of these changes could ever make us an independent nation.
