The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-12
The Weather.


Such spring month as last April is very
rare even in this northern latitude. The
Wind blew with great violence from the
north and northwest almost every day.
The weather was exceedingly cold and dis
agreeable, and far more characteristic OF
November than of the ''genial season OF
flowers" OLD BoREAs had his hands full
10 supply the constant demands upon his
bellows, and nothing was TO be seen that
bore the slightest evidence of incipIent veg
citation. Monday, the 9Th day OF MAY, was
the first really spring like day Of the season,
since then the weather has been delightful,
and housskeepers are generally busiIy ell
gagged IN making gardens.
I Ihe following extract from the Baltimore
Clipper, OF the 2od April, shows that the
extremely unreasonable weather Of that
month has not been contiued to our nor
thern reg ion.
! HE LATE CoLD WEATHER.-Damage
TO he Fruit and Crops.-Uur Exchanges
irelu every section OF Inc Union bring Us
accounts OF the damage TO the crops ana ear
( ~ fruits 10y the recent cole weather. In the
vicinity or Eiilcott's Mills, the Howard Adj
Vocate says the peaches, apricots, cherries.
hgs, plunis, ana walnuts, we believe have
been destroyed.
/ 'Ihe " cstnlmster (Md.) Carrolltonian
says, that snow Tell ia that place Ola W ed
nesday last To the depth OF TWO inches -
i he iloWers ailG trun trees had suffered to
all almost total extent
! i lie LeUnardstown Beacon says ave
eXatnined Ii large number Ut peach, pear,
apricot aud cherry blossoms ON 1 uesday
iuornlng, and iouud The young fruit not only
destroyed, but the cups IN almost every H.
stance hiled with ice. We did mol examine
the apple trees, hut as they are usually ,nore
Uac kward than Tie others, they may posi-
bly, have escaped INJURY.
Abe Elkton Deu,ocfat of Saturday, says
1t showed rapidly Oh "Wednesday last, and
continued untt husday morning. had 1t
not nIelted IL would have been several inch-
es deep. i he warm sun Of yesterday
caused 1t TO disappear. L he thermometer
stood at degrees below the freezing point
this morning al sunrise.
lhe hasersIown News learns from Rev.
Dir. Conrad, VINO passed over the noun
taiils betM cen that place and Gettysburg, ON
/ lhursday, that III soule places the snow
laid III DRIFTS Two or three ieer deep. This
Is truly au extraordinary fact for record IN
April
Ihe Hagers.own Herald of the 18th, says
the weather for a few days past, has been
as cold as niid-winter, ana that SIX inches
OF snow had fallen OH the Alleghanies
In MIddleto"n, three inches of snow fell
ON the 18th. Indeed all the papers from the
western counties of Maryland give the sa7se
accounts.
he Pittsburg papers state that the blight
has been no less destructive in that region
/ i he peaches pears and pluuns are ruined,
and cherries very much nipped.
In Cincinnati the frost was equally Sc
we're.
In GAINESVILLE and that section of Ohio
all the more forward fruits are deserted.
be Norfolk beacon learns FROM u friend
who has just passed through the counties Of
Charlotte, umbciiand, PaWhataD, and
Chesterfield IN ,irgiuia, that the recent Sc
we're frost has almost, II not entirely, de-
stroyed The iruit c:op, and seriously injured
the wheat sufficiently forward to he JoIutetl.
Its effects Oh gardens have been most de-
strucuve. ne tobacco. plants have been
nearly killed.
lhe petersburg lntelliSencer says tina
forward wheat III mat vicinity Is nearly all
destroyed. One farmer, whose wheat,
week ago, looked remarkably well, has
turned his cattle upon his helds. Do much
was lie wheat injured by the irosG that he
iouhd 1t idle To look for crop.
he Raleigh Register says, IN that local
! ify most ut the vegetation ot the gardeus
mas been destroyed, and the foliage of ma
ny of the trees wIthered and blackeued-
! w hat the effect may he on the fruit trees
reinains TO be seen, though we apprehend
that@ they, TOO, have fallen victims to the
lingering insatiate appetite OF winter.
IN Fayetteville, ". c., the snow accumu-
lated iuievei places 10 the depth of upwards
/ OF tour Inches, and during the day and
night Icicles formed i'll abundance.
/ PIaaTE.-lt is mentioned as a current
runior at San Francisco, in letter from that
PLACE, published IN the New York Courier
anu Enquirer, that the crew Of CHILEAN
brig or schooner trading in the South Pacific
having heard OF the discoveries IN the gold
Ira ~ II