A 23 days' absence from this city has made considerable difference "both in the appearance of the country and the amount of clothing, necessary to keep one comfortable. As we travelled east we noticed' the farmers busy preparing the fields for transplanting, while the plots of young rice looked temptingly green and soft. But for the water at the roots one might have been tempted to have a roll on the wavy green lawns. On returning this was all transplanted and from a distance gave a view of waving green in place of the water and cleds of three weeks earlier. The Luchow fields are a little behind the Huan lot, Still all must—be about finished now and watering. hoeing, ete., will be the chief item for two or three months.
There seems to be an excites of seed plants for the road was strewn with such at not a few stages of the journey. The prospects of a good aryest. are bright. At present there is a sufficiency of water and if the promises of thunderstorms are fulfilled within the next week or so, the people will be fully satisfied.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.