New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-15

drouh was 90 parctins ~ to sluost destroy vsgeass
In the Des Moinss Valley TIE corn crop 10 sacsns,N
large, but the wheat crop 10 mot quite 20 good - b
In the Dortb part of the State.
TIE Dubuque Herald says thss in ~ nonhsra
countless ncudiog cay one-haf the State, the wssas
crop win average not lees than twenty Ave, and mar
reach twenty eight bushels to the acre.
Things appear equally eou'eur de rose in wisoonia.
An intelligent correspondent ct Oshkosh writes a. f
lows:
ave are in tho midst Of mcs wonderful hsryex -
Sts bss been settled In this county the ysd q yhss. -
ssuy bu,hs, to the md sss yi,ans q he
time. With the sn 81. asss, e.
year .t there scarcity sfhep add farmer. e.y.f
bgh 90 50 per for men Almost every one hs c,aid
so 60 t%e I'VE ysss old . sss & day
ineres. et that many Of the have only ous len on.
Wisconsin viii be able to pay ali IL honest debts ..
s .S xsdS FL e sr 81 had sHs
lively running fire of contradictions and replies b
kept up between Wisconsin and Michigan editors IN
relation to the crops of their respective States.
prominent Michigan paper recently replying lead
ing Wisconsin journal, declares that good judges"
estimate the yield of Michigan at twenty bushels pr
acre. which II thinks is better than Wisconsin do.
In TACT, our contemporary asserts that
bsas W sd acre snd IN quality State In the Unisn
R,s h and doubt II there be even its oqusi
and ' y. h. RT b.. mi
,;o Oo'nei' at least Of such wheat VIII defy comps
which under the circumrtances nina. he oons;dersA
pretty fair specimen Of brag
Poor Kansas in all this time Of prorertv and cheor
full PROMISE bias gloomy and di.hsat.uiop prosoecx
for tie Winter. Her fertile prairies and hdss have
been parcbed bare Of heritage, some of her finest
streams evaporated and much Of her forest folise,
crsped under the long, fierce drouth. disefuI pros
pec for the Winter of her latest setlsrs
in the faee and uness relief be obtained from the
Northwestern States numbers of men aud animals
must perisb by starvation. Judge w. +. N. Amy, II
Kansas who has been for some time in this section Of
country recsntly left for the Territory In company
with Thaddeus Hyatt, to tavei through the drosth-
parcbed district and take instant measures for the re-
lief of the people.
We publis ed earnest letter from Kansas farmer
short time SINCE We have another lying before us,
in which the writer repeats sad story Of the gene ri
suffering. He says that the 9th Of July there came
bot breeze, of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit which
blew from the southwest, from o'clock a. m. 10
O'Clock p. In the shade, and protected from the
wird, the mercury to 10, and when exposed to
the full force Of the srOcco though in the shade 1t
rose to 40. Outdoor labor found impossi-
bic after the breeze had reached s hight and the only
relief to be obtained in tightly closed rooms Ten
der vegetation witbered and crsped by prairie
fire. In his neighborho odRiley Countythere has not
been good, soaking rain since Feb. 81, though
sonsl showers have fallen. Grain early in Feb
ruary has feeby thrisen, but that late is ruined
Corn has suffered greatly, and many fields past
help, even from immediate and heavy showers; "yet,"
says our correspondent, "the ate-planted corn may
rpen something of crop il rain comes Immediately.
There is no grass worth cutting, and potatoes and
other garden vegetables have failed for the first time
Wild grapes, cherries and plums ordinarily abound
here but this year they almost cut off BY frsst
-plums quite 3d." We sincerely trust that in the cass
of poor oppressed Kansas, her present distress may
not be lasting but that she may realize that the dark
est hour is just before the day.