Our section of the Great Empire has from an excess of rain, and floods have played havoc along the and ig valleys, Chenchou be-the flvols have not done the ore that las boon experienced but Chenchou op has been almost entirely destroyed, and some of the tobacco very seriously damaged. The rice plate have be planted s many as three times in some places and the planting of the rice on that account very much delayed. The ery poor on neouunt of the y in picking, and ten the impossibility of drying it properly has very inferior, A largo toa-merchant, who buys tea herd to be sent to Canton, says flat folly ton thousand dollars! worth of toa has boon lost in the era leading from Piinsi to Cam ton thousand dollars' from Chenohon, the boats bei away anil capsizing
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