WEATHER, OROPS, &c. The weather for the lasi eek, has been cool, and a large portion of the tie clou dy, The rains upon Satrday and Sun day, raised the river, so as to enable our Merchauts, by the arrival of sme two or three boats, to receivr an addition'to their former supply of necessary articles:-On yesterday torning the sky was perfectly clear. The river has again become toO --- low for boating purposes.-Hamburg Re publican, August 7. Copious Rain.-On Saturday, we had during the forenoon several refreshi g showers of rain, and clouds obscured the sun during the remainder of the day..ren dering the weather quite cool and pleas ant, and reducing the thermometer to within a few degrees ot 80. Between Ii1 and 12 o'clock at night, a perfect avalanch of rain des'ended, and continued falling for several hours, atcompanied with vi'nid lightning and heavy thunder. Yesterday it- rained with little inter mission, throughout the day, at titmes itn torrents, fiotling the streets, so that n many places they nere impassable by foot passeuger. The nand twas from the W north and northwest most of the time, and the air unusually cool -Courier, August 7. The Rain continued to fall yesterday with little iiter mission, but with diminish ed violence. Thi weather hore more the appearance of a fall North East rain storm than an August shower. Ttne n ind blew steadily front that quarter, and the temperature cool, the tierttoneter con tinutmg front 6. A. l to O P. M. at 76 deg.-Courier, Aupust 5. Continued Drought.-We have passed nother week aIihoat having sutlicient rain to more than lay the dust. In several parts of the District, however, there has beeti heavy showers, and in some sections, large quantities of bail, wich has done some damage. The nights and mornings have been -unseasonably cool for several days-on Wednesday iorning at sunrise the thermometer indicating 6,5 degrees - During the middle and latter part of each day,-it is uncolortably n aria.-Grern -ille Mountaine er, dth inst. We are still without rain. and no favor able sy thptotns of any soon ; .n Monday. we were tnreutened with a Northeaster, but it passed off wlit only a threat: smnce .. then it has been renurkaidy cool, so nuch so that tires and a oolen clothing are ne cessar) for contort during the morning hours.-Anderst Gazette, dth inst. We learn froin our exchanges, that tike crops in the northwesterir coun-ies oi Georgia, & ''ennessee. and in portions of AlIbama, Masstssippi, and Louiiianna. are promising. In tie A tlantie state, getter ally, we believe, the drouth has cut thetis very short, except, perhaps, in some tar row sections. Crar n ill, prolabl), hie shipped frot New Urieans, at whe. place it will arrive by Douts. to Savannatlt and Charleston, and the lower part (t South Carolina and Georgia will be tou, supplied. The niudie antd upper dlrctset will ,utler most, on account of their its. tance from the seatuo.rd, sail " xpense - of transportattuu.-P1endlton .llcsstager. 5th inst. Seasmns, Crops. mSc.-W~e ha~ve, at last, been favored wintz refreshitig shouwers., bu; they have ctome too lato lr the corn crops. Several farmeis m tin hs regietn itme cut do'~ n a larg'e portion of their cortn tot fodder. The raitis int the vicinity of Augusta were tmore copious thtatn nt sti os. Ott Satut.rday laist nte san wagons and teamis fordmgi the rir er opposite Auguste. On Monday the river wtas im good isoatabie condition. We amre initormted thfat iu some parts of our Stite cortn..ius sold lhr 82 per bushel. As the g hieam crop is cotd. we hope the shorn crop) of corn will he felt less severely.-Christaan Inder-, dth inst. The W~eathier, 8;c.-For .thc last three days we have been blessed wvithi coptous rains, which have heetn genterail, as lfar a we have-hleaird. WVe understanird that itn somec sections, it is too) latte to benefit the crops mnateriully, but in othe'rs, a decided itmprtovetmonrt is already aippairet. WVe annex an extract of a letter dated LAm~s Camt. Untion-co., N. C., July 241, l645. This has been the dry est seaisot antd the crops stmaller thatn they were ever known in this section, hut I do nt tliiunk the drought has inijur-ed rte cortn as tmuchf as in your sandy counatry. We have had * fitne rains during the past week, and if it continues seasonable fine crops will be made. The wheat crop was as good has ever been made in this part of the coun. try.-Camden Joural, 5thi inst. The W'eater.-We have had risin enough now, and to spare. On WVednes day last, the -- aiter-fell in torrents for a fe w hours-and on Satur day, we had a secontd edition, revised anid corrected-the latter raitn conitinu~d, with intetrmtissio'n through out Sunday, and on yesterday, at the tlme . of writing this article, the cloude were dark arid lowering, and portentous of an other deluge. We have little dotubt, if any ptroper guage had bteeni tm use, that it S would be Ijund, that tmors raiin fell since .'Tuesday lavt, in thts town, than has fallen in the combined showers, previously. sitice last March -Chetraw Gazeute, 6th instant. Pros pects Ahead -Tfte Spartan. piub lished int Spartaniburg in this St te. asks. in the last tiumber received, "Wtiat is to be dlone for Curin ?" atid says that "thiou sands tif fatmilies are nion ni irhut bread, or the means of obtainiig it." 1i urges that the State shall --interptose her powter and means no avert the awful coniseqmeni ccs, which this great scarcity of provisions must produce," by 'procurinig the impor S tationiof Corn from abiroaid. arid by fur. nishitng the citizens at cost and carriage." - We hope and trust that ititngs are not Quite so bad as ihe~ Spatrtani represetnts. The scarcity tif Cornt is at preseat more a fictiton than a reality. There is yet much Coirn of last year's growth ini the country, held, either on spectulationt, in ainticipatiton of - higher prices, or fiur dnmestic use, in caise of a failtire of the.jr. sent crop. Ini this section, the re-et rains ha've dlone truch' in inmenrving annpernennen amd by fenunal. ity, and planting a full Turnip crop the present month, and an abundance of small grain in .heir season, use fear not that a famine will visit our land Corn herd, at present, will oit bring over 62& cents by the quanuity, which is by u means re markably high at.this season of the year. Should there prove-to he a scarctv. how ever, we have no fears but that private enterprise n ill supply tile deficiency, witn out calling upon te State for aid.-(he raw Gazutte, 5th instant. The Policy of the Administration. A late number of the Wt.shaitgiou Union has the following paragraph. 'Among the resoutuions adopted by the Baltimore Convention, wtas one in favor of the Indeperdent Treasury T1 ese resolutions have eves been regarded by the President as indicating thu policy by which his administration should he gov erned. 'T'e Indepeudent ' Treasury was sustained by the vote il the d resident and of the Secretary of the Treasury, and further experience hay only cotfirtned the views then taken by both. l'he ep-cie policy will be su,taiend in all its vigor; she coinage Will be increase'd ; the foreign gold coin, which dloes not circulate, will be converred as rapidly as possible into the half and quarter eagle; and all other proper means will be used, (including the recommendation of the Independent 'rea. ury,) to secure to the couury an abun dant supply of the constitutional curren cy. The Russians again Whipped by the Circussians -Accounts Iroum the Caucs sus; b) the steamer Cambria, tiring the important intelligence that the Circus. sians have taken from the Russians, alter some hard fightug and great bloodshed, the. castle of Snicha, on the coast of Alba sca. Sheikh Shamil hail arived at the head of the River K'uban with 30,000 men and had caulled upon the.inthabitants to furnish one man per house, which would snake a very large force Woron zslf's troops have been beaten tny the Daaguslanteer. and three or four ships load of wounded have been sent to Cr woi. Many of ttSe Poles in the Rusentat army have deserted to Shnai, so that Woronzoff' beitig a wat of unen, ordered a carbotanz (each worth 3s 6,i.) -uerbiug. to raise reit.Sfrctments at Ahh-ska, t tuh 'out being able to get many. lie ltrthei sent a ctumber of .ussleien eletas (d-c turn of la Ae ) from Crimea, n ith their itul t, to Shaitl, to ors ii they coult open tie suiciatioiit to treal for termits of peace,' ,if cuurse merely to set the Carras taus to shle. Suhanul. i ware of-the tteathery, had three of them put to death. Tie Rusian army ~ as suffering dreadiully !ruin a scarcity of provi-tous, std thee ,aIdiers w, ill have to 'wait for the new crop before they will have a -,uhlicency 0t lxit. The crops in Circassta, tiough very scatty last yi at', are gooud ils season. In culse:ilu.ue- of h,- long succe-,sini ii r verse, expe'rienced by thme. Rui't..tns. tut Emperor is said to have - adjourneit the difinitive puac'ticatln of the Caous-,.. ,6 e truss much nels prove to be the fact. Already the war has continued seieral .ears, and lasts tt' brave Russta-is have i.-rished. witaui bejig able to iak' aiy 1ierina ten tilpression upon tie stil ura ver ruto ntaceers, a'Iin are figu itItg fun ieir alStars anrd s heiir hieartis, nder -tihnosi the, ideniticali DecSlaratioin of5 igh~ts atlh So:mesid thei bliis iif thte A aericanu Reio aiun.-N. Y Journal