Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-15
81. PAuL. Mrxx.. Aug. S. l865.

81. PAUL, MrES.i Aug. S, 1865.
Editors Of the Journal: =
It rains like Jehu. IL pours down,
and has been pouring all the morning.
Yesterday was clear, beautiful day;
the day before, tie morning was bright,
butin the afternoon IL rained-Great
scottl how it rainsdi The day before
about ditto-forenoon rain and afternoon
clear; and SO it has been going. The
"oldest inhabitant''i never knew such
weather at this season. There must be
. clearing up, for good, soon. If not,
we shall move to drier region, if we
can hear Of one. However, it cann0s
rain always, so that we. make the best
we can Of indoors, in q confident hope
Of soon being able to take the Geld
again. esa. ,gar saHa1
BY way of improving and beguiling
the dullnsss Of confinement to the
house, stake my pen 10 hand" to
writs again sooner than was my intsn-
ton. Having been unable, owing To-
the uufavorsbls wssther, to get about
much, I cannot hope to make very en-
tsrtainipg letter. Perhaps, however, /
may end something Of q practical char
actsr Of which to speak aI i4.I
VAs I said in former letter, tie crops
IN all this northern region have been
full of promise. A yield Of thirty bush-
els Of wheat and Of from forty to City
bushels Of oats to the acre has been the
general estimate. Corn and potatoes,
too, are luxnriant It ia now feared
that the heavy rains have done great
damage, particularly TO wheat. A few
days will determine. agn
sod the lst instant the shooting sea-
son commenced, and il seems to me that
everybody ia in for raid on the prairie
chickens and other Wild game. Hunt
Ing guns and hunting dogs are staple
articles here, and almost every able
bodied man and boy hunts. Our friend
Brown brought q doable-barr gun
and 6xings with him, and this morning
early, in company with an old acquAint'
ancs, went forth TO ths hunting grounds,
Having driven some seven or eight miles
killing . number of chickens, it com.
menced to rain, or rather pour. 1t was
useless to continue ths sport At II
olclock he got back . wetter if not I
4 wiser man than when he started. Chick
ems are abundant and great slaughtsl
of them is their fate. Deer, too, ar,
found hsreabouts, though they are no
near 80 plentiful a. few years since
like the Indian, they have given way be
fore the inevitable march Of the whit
man. s'1 10
The climate here, in summer, is q
least twenty degrees cooler, in the aver
age, than at Eysnsyiile-ths mean tenn
!, psrAture of the latter being, believe
nAarly ninety dsgrees--csrtainly no
pnder eighty-6vs The mean tempsEa
ture of last month (Julyl here was 65'
This was lower than usual in July. TIL
average July mean, for the last ssvel
Saais, has been 7o'. The warmss
!, l.asy last month the mercury ave.
aged 76'; the coolest day it aver
aged ST. These faets I gathe
| from authentic tables kept here and put
> lished monthly. hope their mention
: viii be cooling and rsfreshirg to you wh,
! swelter IN the heats Of latitude 3s4', an
! can't get away, The winters here ar
! correspcudingly colder than with us, ID
2 mercury not unfrsqusntly falling I
10 twenty degrees below zero, and sorn.
tnss to thirty; jet am assured by on
friends here, who formerly lived
EYsnsvills, that they do not suffer fror
cold here, ss in our ehangeable clinssi
4 Tsis town of St. Psul, though not yer
Q large, is s',by no manner Of means"
: aene horse town." On the contrary, -
J eordlng to populstion,it il contains moi
a houses thar any place in my knowlsdg
o Everybody coming here. slmost-ar
2 ths number is isgi0n--eone- ito Eit
!. about, aud drive about" if not 'iun
!. Jim Grow" Hence, to meet their pu
" poses, livery stables are ss numerous l
t. drinking saloons in some tOWas Whi'
w we have 'read about" and the turn on
tsrs generally extensive and elesaz
Il Good carriages and 6ns teams are II
re rule. The rcads are 6ne in every dire
70 ton, and such wheeling about a. the
!. = 10, reminds one Of the throug of CO
- rage gosss % be seea. .-in the New 70
nt Central Park, ofsa Saturday afternoo
X The same kind Of people as there, al
~ constitute the crowd here; respectat
= people, fancy people, dogfsnnel aris
Ct cratic people, and ssoboerGfie people
at skafiis people who think it not gents
ns to 90 to party until about the tins
~ spectacle psople are thinking of goi
p hcns, ,--bssides al other Hsorts and q
H. dItious Of lmen.' azxkz
ng Many of fshcss who come hsre, bEi
- - aiI their "store clothes" With them, .
IL I'll the je~slry they car nusssr- II
we ere daily exhibited in the hotel drAwi
sew szszz 90 a E0IsJH g a