Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-31
Daily Jiraiaian.
THE HEATED TERM
GRAND SWEEP OF TORNApOES
Loss of over Ono Hundred Lives by Hoat
and Storm

Our exchanges come daily with tho accounts of
the o,crpowcring hot weather at tho South. Nat.
ohcz,'St Louis, Memphis, Savannah nnd \, Or
leans suffering almost beyond precedent
The average range Of tho thermometer nt these
points IL tins year far in excess oi that of the
past.
Fertywo deaths occurred in New Orleans last
week from sun stroke, and forty from upoplcxy.
Tho whole mortality ot the city was 300. Tho sun
IA said To haNc ponrcd down with nm intensity
which the "odcot resident does not rccolleet 10
have seen cqualed.'
Seventeen persons fell victims in three dnys. to
sun stroke IN st Louis. Missouri Their names
are reported in full with tho attending circumstnn.
COS, III the Evening Acns of tho 2lst instant Ono
wnSa witness III Court-auolher u waiter ut ho.
tcl=-one was trapper whose whole lilo had been
II series OF exposures in the American Fur Com.
pany-another was Frcnchmnn. Some were
women, and some boys, aud all ranks of llte wcrr
| represented. he article in tho News is headed
"Lic hcgnof DCdN.'
Eight persons fell dead at Charleston $ C., the
Thermometer being l02 degrees in the shade II
fodJier says that the heat commenced on the 1Sth
Of June, and has continueiev sinoc. Tho quick
SILVER has been kept nt points not common for 1t
h. Use 10, and this has continued even at night.
The air, even when 1t is IN motion, Is hot and
wlthoring.
In Mobile Alabama, some half dozen eales Of
comp do Soi,c had occurred. heretofore il hn-
been amest unknown that place. Even ti.ht
offers nn protection. The hca, was : inlcnsc that
the rollers ot tho Press OF tho IdrrtiSer mrl
tel. Tho thermometer stood IN tho shade nj
| d To 100 degrees.
Six &c lil y are reported Mt Augusta GIN. One
of these wns OF II traveller who was oycrpowcrel
while sitting III II Train ol cars about to leave the
city, In the noghhorhooi Of tn, place numerous
other casrS were rhronicled
In savannah, GcorgIn, thu thermometer ST 'oi
l. +..,l., IN a.. ,l.,,l
! breeze WAS almost n- bad M that from I'll" land
Although, the papers notices no deaths, 1t ia eer.
tam that some had occurred through tho lnslru-
| mentality o the heat.
In addition to the above intelligence. we may
quote from lew exchanges 10 show tho chara,-
ter of the ''hra'ed term:
II ls'wcil settled We bcrye by the concurrent
nms ssnn of all old and obsrrvant citizens. ln,
,he heat ot the month vi june and the tst hull Of
judy has been without PRECEDENT. un tl'o score OF
continuance as we'll n intensity, III THIS part #
the world, unI, lor nught We eau say to the c=n.
trarv, N nny other. 1t 10 usually oar hoast That
! however grrat may be tue heat nl cur day.
our ydts nrc almost invariably very pleasant,
bat cannot now remember when Their was II
cool night
Gentlemen Of strict and exemplary proIrioly h
department. who heretofore would hayo deeply
resented suggestion to tit down to their own
| tfblcs without coat ar orayat have been lain 10
| discard these incumhinncra entirely Indeed. tho
original cu.tume ol primitive Pnrndse hns lern
more generally and clpsely nppr"Ximn,"l
| ucrhaps, than ever before in tins degenerate age
of brpalcloth nnd crinolinc; but ho sanctiness oi
of lnycstnrc is scant enough TO afford apprecable
rthcf
! The ma ximufn of temperature varied in di
! rcrcnt situntinns from 9s to loo degrees. We
have not heard 81 any piece within n FREQ cir
rna,on Of the external mir, whore il was reported
| ~ fair reading, at less than ~ d"srcc.. hr
| paper.
Tho Texas Reporter says: During residence Of
over ten ycars in Texas, mover before hive we a..
| per cnc"d ~ IA blasting, turning. Nj herring cu
as has bee: visiting lis for the last week. lhe
,nrahel and thif4,y earth is never cool tile hreerc
which should bcnr comfort on its wings is like II
| blast from open. .nouthed furnace, or the scorch
ing Strocco. which sweeps the arid waists OF A'rcn
The S. Louis Aens says; The King .! Terrors
has been holding high court III this city Tor two
or three cay. Many poor creatures have been
summoned before bis grim maj esty without II note
Of preparation. The greater portion Of those who
| have died through heat, wcfe from the lowest
wakes oi lie. and -cqucnty passed away nm
kncled, uncofiined md unknown.
Tho Louisiana (iayou Saral Ledgcr snys =
"Onr ci'z ems haye been somewhat startled ly "A
yeIv strange phenomenon. 1t was hot wind
which secue ! 10 me from tho river, and was ~
hot Oh the bank Uf the river that those who stood
there had To put their hats 10 their faces. "
uear n description a9 we can give, 1t seemed n" II
we were clo.c Ia bulding fire, say about
square off and The wind fnm the fire hlowlng
drcrly in our acc 1t lnstc about ten minnte--',
In seeking Ter prrceden.s Tor tlis "hrnt Il
term" on" oI the South cnrpina rnrris r'frr 10
the year ls5I. Al ,h.t TIME. during the last Of
june. aud middle and end 81 July. lie ,Eermon'c.
ter ranged very high Tn; heat. 1t viii b rec'l-
lcctcl was very general in Philadelphia, New
York, Ba more and Wnshiagt n--the tirrinnm-
ctcr indicated from 9G to 9S degrees. Deaths from
sun str Ike were in ali our Senboard cities, and at
little later period the yellow fever committee
dreadful rayaGr- in the South
We would net venture to assert, that the heat Il
this wear is indicative Of the approach OF that grim
monster, yellow fever On the contrary, there
has not been any sign of its cxis'ecnc III any part
OF the South, with the exception Of single case
in New orleans
From the crppol Daily Post, July July