The weather continues murky, and the atmosphere hot and oppressive with every appearance of a speedy downpour, We had two heavy rains a few days ago, and the river at this point has risen four feet or more. It is reported that breaks have occurred in the banks of the streams coming from the west and that a large extent of country is flooded, 'The rain, water is covering all the lowlands, and serious breaches in the river banks' will cause the loss of all visible means of subsistence, and a state of things worse than during the last few years, which was certainly bad enough.
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