The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

75 per cent

curiosities is an ear of corn from the Sierra Nevada, 9.000
feet above the sea. It was about four inches long, but
the grains were upwards of an inch in length. The corn
s said to yield remarkable crops.
SEruous AFFRAY.—On the 21st of April, at Santa
Catharina, a small sea-port on the island of the same
name, some distance south of Rio, a serious riot took
place. Eight American vessels, with about 700 passengers,
on their way to California, touched there, and a number
went on shore and committed some disorders, when the
natives armed themselves. as did the Americans. A fight

then occurred, in which one American was killed And
four wounded, as well as about the same number of
natives. The president ordered out the police, infantry,
&c., and after a lade display of further hostilities, the
affair terminated.

THE WEATHER AND THE FARMERS IN AMERICA.—
We judge from observation that, at least throughout
the Midland States, the proportion of rainy and cloudy
weather in the month just closed has seldom been
t quailed in any preceding May. For the most part, the
month has been so chilly as to render fires essential to

comfort. Vegetation is necessarily so backward on this
Ist day of Jnne, 1849, the apple and other fruit-trees
throughout the larger portion of our own state have not
yet shaken off their blossoms, and even so far down as the
valley of the Mohawk many of them appear to be just in
full bloom. There has been no parallel to this since 1836,
even if then. One consequence of this untoward weather
is an extraordinary backwardness of the out-door work of
the season. Northern Ohio and North-Western Pensyl-
vania ought to be in advance of Central New York and
New England, yet not half of the land which the farmers
intended to plant has ever been ploughed yet. The incle-
mency of the weather and the saturation of the earth have
combined to forbid ploughing until there is now great dan-
ger that the spring crops cannot be put in at all to any-
thing Like the extent required. We fear the breadth of
Indian corn, potatoes, &c., planted this year, will fall

. . .
very far short of an average of the last ten years, while
wheat and rye were sown throughout the Northern
States to but a moderate extent last fall, owing to a like
inclemency in October and November. Much of the
western portion of this state is to-day under water, and
cannot be fitted for planting for at least a week hence.—
New York Tribune, June sth.

MARYLAND CROPS.—The Eastern Star says :—" The
fly and worm are injuring the wheat crop to a consider-
able extent in this county. We have, however, seen some

and well headed." The Centrevill

` From

me up of the in

all quarters of the county, complaints c
jury to the growing wheat from the fly.'
ST. Louis, JUNE 2, 1849.-.—Mr. Gilmore, of St. Jo-
sephs, has returned from the Plains: He went out 140
miles with the Californian emigrants, but the cholera raged
to such an alarming extent that he was obliged to return.
He says that not less than 200 of those who have left St.
Josephs have died since their departure from that place.
On his return he met 1,125 wagons on their way to Cali-
fornia. Much dissatisfaction and quarrelling prevailed
among them. The ravages of the c
Indians on the frontier is very grent

,olera among the

The report of Indian outrages in Texas is confirmed.
The savages were of the Comanche tribe, perhaps the
most powerful and warlike on the Continent, and long
addicted to setting at defiance the people and troops of
Mexico. t They have never before ventured upon attack-
ing citizens of the United States. Their present foray
extended through the lower part of the Rio Grande val-
ley and was accompanied by the usual slaughter of the in-
habitants. Orders have been issued from Washington to
dispatch a strong force of heavy cavalry to teach the Ca-
tnanches a less ferocious behaviour.

LATER FROM lIAYTI.—The barque Panchita, Captain
Taylor, left Mayaguez on the 16th May. Capt. Taylor
announces that the crops on the island would fall at least
one-third short of the average return, owing to the severe
drought during the spring season. When thePanchita left,
there were not more than two or three cargoes to be pro-
cured for this year in the vicinit

,
other parts of the island scarcely any a all. For the
whole of May, until he left, Capt. T. states that it had
rained continually, and had rendered the roads so bad that
no carting could be done, and vessels were in consequence
detained for cargoes. On the 16th, a lot of prime sugar
was sold at 3 dirs. 75c., this being about all in the market.

MILK FARMS OF LANCASHIRE

(From a " Report on the State of Agriculture in Lancashire,"

On the milk farms-situate in the vicinity of the towns
and villages, the cattle feed in the pastures in summer in
the usual way, and in the winter are fed with hay, a few

Turnips are not extensively used for IT

1k cows,

Liverpool, and

are not generally considerec
luction o milk and butter

nomical food for tee p

Jourhood of Freston, Wigan, Blackburn, &C.,
the grass land, excepting the marshes, is of a second-rate
quality. It requires three or four acres for the mainte-
nance of acow during the whole year. The price of milk

is Bd. to

)d. per

an, and is re

he farmers ;