American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-09-03

present; il is AGAIN visited with what is termed by,
medical gentlemen the cotd plague or Jlack ferer.
I which proved so fatal in the year 1879 He says
that in ITO case where medical aid not rendered
before the second paroxysms of fever, has the patti
ent recovered, and invariably the third takes him
off, Symptoms OF this disease are, cbs, succeed
ed by high grades OF fever in the head and chest,
with the extremities cold at the same time here
the faculty deptete and stimulate simultaneously, |
and it the third fever does kill the patient re-
covers The parts that remain cold assume aback
color and the skin scales off Hence it is termedl
the cold plague and black lever" Il
II is said by manufacturers and miers in and
near this town, that the springs lower now, than
they have been at any time past for 40 years.
Many factories find it difficult and some impossiblel
to prosecute their business with he little water that
runs in their streams. Prof. Gaz
Secere drought at the South.--The Virginia and
Maryland papers speak of the present drought as|
unprecedented in the memory OF the oldest person.
living. The Richmond Compiler says some fields
OF corn will scarcely reproduce the seed. In York,
Penn there has been no considerable fall OF rain
since Feb. last, and for two months past they have
not had single shower-not one mill in ten can
grind at all-and in many instances, persons have
been obliged to go 20 miles to get as much grain
From the baltimore Morning Chronicle .aur. ee.
J Remarkable accounts, confirming the distressing
reports of the privations produced by the great
drought now prevailing all through the upper couIl.
ties oil Maryland, and that part oil Pennsylvania,
contiguous, are daily received
| Yesterday Wagon arrived in town, consigned
| to Messrs Elder & Taylor, which left Carlisle,
(Pennsylvania) with 20 barrels -four for Baltimore.
The waggoner states that he could not get to town
with the -four ; such the distress Tor bread on
/ the road (occasioned by the mills stopping to grind
for want OF water that he in charity, sold it at
dollars per barrel, relieve the Immediate wants
OF the public on the road. Another fact, to show
the distress created by this unprecedented drought
IS, that house in this town. who owns mills on the
Il Susquehanna, on the appearance oil a rise OF The
| water (occasoned from fall Of rain higher up J
started some arks from York Haven, which coul,
mot get down on account OF the water leaving then
This Hour was stored on the river, and has since
been sold at S6a per BARI Ell in the neighborhood, 10
supply their immediate wants Such an occurrence
We trust and hope, may not happen again But few
lwaggons coming in, not one OF which can get to
town with full load oil flour.
Corn CropS:-The late drought has caused
Igreat destruction among the Corn in some of the
middle counties. A letter from a gentleman in
lGoochland county, to his friend n this town, under
date of 18th inst. states, that the crops of corn which
lpromised so abundant reward to the tolls of the
husbandman few weeks since have been almost
entirely destroyed by the dry hot weather The
writer whose usual crop is from $50 to 400 barrels
feels confident that his extensive fields will not ield
him this year. i've barrels, and adds that many of
his neighbours are in a much worse condition.
Norfotk Beacon.
The Augusta (Ceo.) Chronicle of the st ult.
says that the Farmers prospects in the upper
country are by no means encouragng-the Wheat
harvest having produced but little, and the Indian
Corn crop threatening not TO yield enough Tor ord
nary consumption. The Cotton crop, it is said,
looks more hatterng, but the Rot has already, in
some degree, commenced its ravages.
Fl Drought -The northern and western parts of
Maryland. and the adjacent parts of Pennsylvania,
have suffered from drought this season TO degree,
/ unprecedented within the memory of the oldessper-
sons living. In York, (Pean) no rains of cohse-
quence had taken place. on the 18th inst. from the
preceding 2lst of February, the lime of the fresh
and tor the last two months, there had not been
shower. Not one mill out of ten could grind at all,
and the few that could, were not able TO supply the
demand. Farmers have been Obliged to go twenty
miles, to get as much ground would support their
!, families. The York paper seriously states, that a
lew weeks more OF dry weather, would compel the
inhabitants TO resort to Baltimore for flour. The
summer crops have almost altogether failed. Some
fields will not yield grain of corn, and the best OF
them not more than few bushels to the acre YER
bal reports and letters confirm these statements, and
in fact give even more gloomy views of the state OF
the crops and the streams in the adjacent part OF
state
The York Gazette says, we hear daily of springs
that were considered never-fang, disappearing,
and the people, like the thirsty throng OF Israel,
have to go miles in quest of water sustain them.
selves
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been experienced in Baltimore and its vicinity, the
has been late very dry Yesterday the dried