Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-09-13

THE WEATHER.

Eof the country. The most aged among our
acople can recall no tine Of their lives, when
Tho mean heat has been, for 50 Ioug time, 50
meat. Since the 2lst of June (the summer sol
stiee) to the present timo, tncar the autumnal
equinox, )no rain has fallen to wet Che earth two
inches docp-and this but on two occasions
The farmer looks with dismay over his parcllei
corn feds, and thinks Of tue coIning winter,
and wonders how be win have forage FOR his
stock. The housewife finds the cows yielding
less and less milk every day, and sees the PAS
tssre lands parcling into desert tints-
Herds and focl.s drop the dry sprig
And mute ing,loring eye" the eloudlcss heavens.
The miller fills bis gamers with the wheat Of
the past harvest, but secs bis head Of water low
cring inch by inch. The Ohio is lower by some
inches than it ever was before the boys walk
over the susqaeharna at Harrisburg dry shod--
the canals are dry ditches-the cisterns empty
and we 60 to orr beds each night, with dread,
lest FIRE may blaze up in our towns combusti-
BE now as finder, and no water at hand to put
ii out and yet Che wished-for rain comes not.
The heavens are IS hrass. The clouds bring no
rolcfin welcome showers. Besides this, we have
no summer fruits this yoar-no plurns, peaches
or damsoas-and the summer vegetables having
welded their scnriiy tribute-the cabbagcs and
potatoes. our winter stock, cannot now come to
any thing.
This is a fair statement Of the present condi-
ton OF lhings-but is it the entire and only view
to be taken! Let Us turn thetablet-let US see
whether there are not some considerations con-
necteJ with this condition Of Affairs which may
teach Us to be grateful ana not rcpining-to do
this I am going back to first causes-I am not
wiling TO form Judgment upon the mere super
fetal view Of tiecasc.
In the first place, profess to be one who be-
lieyes that The great Con orders and directs all
these things and that lie is sure to order them
eri2lt.
/, for one, do protest against this most atheis.
tic cant about the Laws Of Nature"-if by
nature You mean earth, air, water, light, &c
cant understand how these things can be leg
islative, or make laws. They may be and are
sabject to laws-bat lie who made them, made
what are called the lars that govern thern--and
strictly speaking, even they arc not laws-for
the infinite variety Of changes, combinations,
secondary causes and forces acting upon and
moving them, are rather, and more properly,
sensible and rogated pourrs; manifestly, con-
tiuuously ard hanaoniously cxertcd in them and
through them. For example who can account
70 inc for the present state Of things for the
infinite variety IN the operation Of the Gle
ments, which makes the vsriety in the seasons?
What do we know Of the laws, $50 ealled) that
have made the mean tlefmometrical heat for
tie las. two Tao months what it has been, while
in 1916 there was frost in every month in the
year who can read these laws for me, or oX-
pound them unto me? It is idle to pat words
for truths-to give me conventional phrases
when ] ask for information No-the same
creative power ;l4t established the great prin-
ciplc Of grayitation is the preserving, control
ling, overseeing Ipver that regulates, modifies,
and varies the properties, forces and action Of
all matter-froui Che Acknowledgements fluid
which flies with lightning speed around the
earth, to the genie dew that falls upon the ten
der grass. Let Us once see the truth of this,
and wemay begin to see the solutionof thcmys-
tcry--a moral clement is brought into the qucs-
tion-uay more q religious principl eisinyol'ed
and must not be left out Of tbs demonstration.
Then ihis drought, and heat may not only, not
TIC unuixcd eyil--but may have some good effect
nay perhaps it may be more, and be ordained
by wisdom which is supreme-by compre-
hcnsion, that girdlts the globe-by an omni-
cicnce that looks into the future, and bCneyo-
lcnce that would avert danger.
Let us see how this may belts worth the
observation-disclosures, il we CEN once be sure
Of this, instead Of being dissatisfied and mnr-
1nuling, we may be contentcd and thankful The
apparent hardships and superficial evil, to the
contrary notwithstanding.
About the middle Of October last, (l653) and
up to the beginning Of the last week in that
month, the Southern country, especially New
Orleans, was suffering under pestilenee that
no one has forgotten who VIII call to mind the
distress. the subscriptions for relief sent on
thcrc-the humane efforts Of their societies Of
charitable men, who nursed Che sick end dying
and buried the dead BY thousands-how 1t began
to spread into tie plantations and river towns
and how up to about the 9th of October it seem
cd to increase in yirulcnce, and mems hearts
failed them wheo Aforementioned that nothing
but the kindly acst could stay the peshienoe'
and in the ordinary course Of things bdi could
not he looked for, for perhaps a month
There are many desolated hearts and hon4es that
sin remember and mourn o7cr this.
Wen, on Monday the 24th Of October the
writer Of this VAS New York, and observed the
flowers sin growing in the cemetery grounds Of
Greenwood SAW the tomato vines still untouch-
ci by fost in The gardens near Brooklyn, and
heard arunar&cd tdat they had had there no per-
cepulc frost up to that time. On that day
there was n hard rain in New York and Boston
and it cleared mp after it, stll without FROST
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