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Waverhj, Illinois. — April "23. — A northeast storm set in at 2.20 a. m., and 

 continued, with slight intermission, nearly two days. These northeasters, 

 though common in the Atlantic States, are veiy seldom witnessed in the west. 

 I have no recollection of one of the' kind for ten years. Two and a quarter 

 inches of rain fell during the storm, with a strong wind most of the time. After 

 the rain the wind was from the southwest. 



MihcanTiCC, Wisconsin. — A remarkable current of warm air, 9 a. m. April 26. 

 Damage done to shipping on the lakes on the 27th. ' 



Lyons, Iowa. — April 30. — A cold, backward month, with many rainy days. 

 Farmers waiting for warm weather before planting corn. Wheat sown and 

 looking well; grass backward. 



Beaver Bay, Minnesota. — The water at present (April 30) is lower than I 

 have noticed since December, 1859. 



Bellevue, Kehrasl-a. — April 30. — Spring is very backward ; scarcely any pas- 

 ture. Leaves beginning to put forth ; a few early plums putting forth. Xorth 

 winds are so prevalent that vegetation comes on very slowly. 



Vinela?id, Utah. — April 3, at half past one p. m. a heavy whirlwind from 

 southeast ; ISth, this day there has been a succession of whirlwinds carrying 

 straw and litter np into the air ; 19th, whirlwinds, whirling the sand and dirt 

 high into the air, the course from southeast to northwest ; 27th, to-day at 2 

 o'clock p. m. a whirlwind passed from the southwest at the rate of six miles an 

 hour ; it carried up sticks, straws, leaves, newspapers, hats, clothes, and dust, 

 and formed a column a quarter of a mile high, of an oval form. 



From the Dcseret News, Great SaH Lake City, Utah. — April 27. — The re- 

 ports from .the road east of this represent the storms for some weeks back to 

 have been exceedingly trying to human and brute nerve. For seventeen days 

 the storm is said to have raged fearfully. The quadrupeds, with the best of 

 precaution and good driving, would at times get beyond their depth in the snow 

 and flounder and splurge in their own tracks till assisted out again by the pas- 

 sengers. With a continuation of the present drying weather, the roads will 

 soon be good again, and schedule time made by the stages. 



From the same paper, — We are now in all the glory of a lovely spring. In 

 a week or two more, if only favored with a little more rain, our city will, to the 

 visiting stranger, in whichever direction he may first behold it, be a gem of 

 beauty. 



