Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 46, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 October 1816 — Page 1

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From the Press of EUHU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States. Vol. 7. VINCENNES, (Ind. Ty.) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 18i6 No. 46J

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CLIMATE of the V. STATES. summar &s very backward, but rains that fell in most places to- " the present is the coldest that wards the end of June and in the It is well known that the cli- they have ever seen. beginning of Jul v. have riven mate of the southern and central In the district of Maine a very great relief, particularly in the parts of Europe has not, for some heavy storm of rain and snow eastern states Considerable centuries been the same that it came from N. N. W. at the same quantities of hail fell in several was in the days of the old Ro- time (6th of June) and was sue- parts of Pennsylvania on the mans. Indeed there is some rea- ceeded by frosts every night un- 2d aid 4th of July. At Westson to believe that the whole of til the Llth. It is sdppor c 1 that Chester it is reported to have it has Changed, and that the parts the snow would have been a- rained some kind of meteoric of Africa adjacent to it have bout 6 inches deep had it not stone's, which were judged to be changed also. Not onlv did snow been melted bv the rain that fell quartz and fold spar. The hail fall in Ita'v. abundantly, in its at the same time. The corn was as large as common hens' season, where none falls now, which had been planted was to- eggs in many places, and near but even the delightful region of tally destroyed. The swallows Pittsburgh it fell in such quanti-

Crimea was described as having a climate like that of Siberia at f hp nreiprtt flaw The warmest

prov inces oi rraiice were iihh mwir imnucuuiuuii ukji i ; c iuiiu (juuvii too cold for comfortable living, put in houses. The cucumbers, There is an account of a severe and Carthage was then the gar- melons and most of the garden hail storm at Richmond on the den of the world. Whether plants were lost. In some places 27th of July, accompanied with these changes from cold to warm the ice was half an inch thick : wind which, it is feared, has done may be permanent, it is impossi- and it was observed generally, much damage to their tobacco He to say it is even very ques that the oldest inhabitants had and corn. ttonable. It seems that some never seen so cold and backward The consequences of the unuplaces have been colder for the a spring. sual weather we have experienlast 50 years than they had been In Vermont the snow of the ced have been very various in previously. 6th melted as it fell, but on the different places, but in general With regard to our own coun- 7th and 8th it fell in such quan- they have been injurious. In try it has been observed by the tities that some of the papers say Louisiana, appearances were most careless observer, that since it lay eighteen inches deep in very alarming during the early 1812, the seasons have been very some parts of the country, yet, part of July, but the crops are unlike what they bad formerly by the oth it appears to have been stated to be as good as usual in been. Wc do not pretend even all gone except on the mount- the rest of the southern states. to conjecture as to the duration ains. In Massachusetts the snow In this state the grain is tolofthe causes that produce this began on the 8th, and the Boston erably good and fruit plentiful. Weather ; our present business is papers remark, that from the 1st In Pennsylvania, among Vhe to enquire what change has taken of June until the 12th. there had mountains, they will have very place, what are its present effects, been eight nights of frost. On little grain and very little fruit, and will be the probable conse- the 5th the thermometer stood In the western part the wheat quenee of its continuance. This 82 at Boston, and 92 at Salem ; generally not good, but in Washsummer has hitherto been ex- anil on the Tth it had sunk at ington county, on some farms, it tremely cold, with the exception Boston to 52, and at Salem to 43. is much better than usual. Corn of a very few days that were ex- At the latter place it was (33 on appears very unfavorable, and tremely warm. Tie air has been the 22d (June.) 101 on thm3d, fruit very deficient, especially toovercharged with vapors for the 100 on the 24th, and 67 on JLc wards the lakes, in the eastern principal part of the time, while 25th. Such changes have prob- part of that state we understand the want of rain has been felt al- ably never before been witnes- that the crops are thin, mostevery where, but particu- sea. In all the eastern stales the larlv in the central parts of l nn- It does not appear that any crops of wheat rye are reported svlvania and thro' the great range snow fell near the city of New- to be as good as usual : potatoes of Appalachian mountains This York during the period I have generally look well, but there is is evidently owing to the chilness mentioned : but frost was noti little hav, and their com looks which has retarded nature's ced in many places, and in the unpromising. We I eieve there great process of evaporation, and western end of the state, a snow is little fruit to the northward of repressed the range ofthe clouds, fell to the depth of several inches. Pennsylvania. As to cold I should imagine 1 cannot discover-that it extended With regard to the effects upthat snows of June and frosts in further southward than to the on the human svstem that have July, might v. ell be matter in re- neighborhood ot Pittsburgh, and resulted from the changes we

mark. At Quebec, in the beginning Qf June, the papers had just timc to announce the appearance

W1 u in ura rauici, u.nu miuiiii us that on account of the backwardness of vegetation, their late frosts had done little damage ; when a snow began on the 6traf that month, which continued) fall, at interval, for three days. & left the ground covered to the depth of a foot and upwards in some places. Great number of birds fled from the forests to the houses, and in Quebec many were found dead in the streets. Some kinds of trees shed thrir kvS which Were then only about half grown. The crops were protected by the snow from the very severe frosts that followed, and the orchard trees were little affected as their buds had hardly

been opened ; but the wild fruit Louisana. This state (Marytrees which were in blossom, as land) while it has been little afweli avc.ral kinds of garden feetcd by the cold, has, we be plants sn fib red severely. The lieve sustained but little damage Canadians remark that the last from the drought. The copious

ana martin Dirds were lounmrozen on their nests, and even of a even oi en shorn. the sheen that had been slTbrn.

there appears to have been very little in Pennsylvania east of the mountains. What seems rather

su ange, a leuer irom HC UateU the 1 4th of June, makes no men tion of snow there, but says u the season has been dry and frosty for weeks together. It appears a if we should have no crops in these parts the corn has been all killed by the frost of the 9th, and until very latelv lake Erie was not navigable for the ice." We have seen no mention made of the cold any further south than in North-Carolina, for in the southern states the general complaint has been the want of rain, which, though it has been the cause of alarm all over the U. States, appears to have been felt most severely in South Carolina, Georgia and ties that it was carried into the city, a distance of three and even four miles, for t: purpose of

have noticed, it is to be observ

ed that the low nervous (typhus: mitios, or febris inerritativa) a disease hardly known to former years has now become common amongst us ; and not only so, but almost every disease is now liable to assume a typhus cast a depression of pulse'and prostration of power often taking place in cases that had never heretofore been thought liable to such symptoms. We cannot conceive a more complete proof of the change of climate than the fact that the physicians ofthe U. States have been compelled to adopt a new practice. The typhus fever first made its appearance in the New England states, in the course of a long period of unusual cold damp weather. It extended itself gradually westward along the northern parts of New York, and it seems at last to have pervaded the whole continent. All seem disposed to hope that seasons will return again such as they were in former years, but if they do not, it may be a matter of no consequence. Vegetables receive new constitutions when transplanted to an uncongenial soil or climate, so will the habitude of our bodies be doubtlessly changed to suit the changes ofthe season. The first effects of this natural revolution have already begun to disappear and in a short time we shall have little to fear except from the efteets of a counter-revolution, that will require our systems to relapse to their former tone. Some have endeavored to account for the uncommon weather by assigning the spots of the sun as the cause. This does not seem to be susceptible of much argument, pro. or con. and wc believe there is little experience to found the hypothesis upon To our minds it is very unsatisfactory ; but it is foolish to be positive about any opinion in a question of this kind. We think the alteration took place before the spots were observed, 6c that possibly it was produced by the late earthquakes ; for it is perfectly understood in South America that those natural convulsions always produce effects on the weather : salutary ones in that climate whatever they might be here. MASSACRE in IRELA ND. Washington, Sept. 26, 1816. Messrs. Gales & Seaton, The enclosed is an extract of a letter received Sept. 21, by an emigrant from Ireland lately arrived, and now in this city. The name of the person, if published and known in Ireland, by transmision of your paper, might be injurious to him ; but it is written underneath, for the information of any one who may feel an t interest in veryfying the facts. L. " On Sunday the 2.5th of May last, as the priest of the parish of Drumrudy, in the county of Cavan, was celebrating mass in the church, a number of Ofangemt-a