Show from our southern correspondent PAROWAN aug 10 1859 EDITOR OF THE NEWS it is a time of general peace and with tib tip crops look thus far better than years previous excepting at fort johnson where the grasshoppers nave have almost destroyed them we were informed by US official sin the us on a pleasure excursion that we might but should not reap a declaration so incomprehensible preben sible that by many it was regarded a joke which it evidently was waa but even if was intended as a prophecy those by it was uttered should not be discouraged the bible records examples where even best of prophets sometimes were mistaken jonah lonah for instance when he sat beneath gourd olne fone ne during the exceL excessive naive valve beat of th day waiting for the destruction of nineveh S speaking p baking of hot weather reminds me the present season has been unusually warm especially luring during the month of june but we considered the beat oppressive in this elevated region a trip to washington and settlements in washington county a few da since served to convince us that there could b hotter butter weather still our feelings might compared with those of a polar bear in a menagerie all aty lerie occasionally a hot blast from the surrounding desert like the he glare of a furnace would seem bem as though it would dry up the v blood in ones veins notwithstanding th heat however crops look fine we baw saw 13 feet feel high sugar cane growing in great perfection fec tion cotton in bloom melons ripe and lucerne indigo tobacco and other products the soil doing well it was indeed a blooming like the rose the election held on the dinst in iron washington counties resulted resul reaul ted in the choice the following persons person geo A smith member of the legislative council william crog cros bv and silas 8 smith representatives whittaker benr anh ani david cluff clan jr ary select men of iron county can you inform us mr editor why it that there is a semiweekly semi gemi weekly mail from G 8 L city to Fillmore thence to cedar a distance of miles no mail at all thus lea iea a large gap in the line we would also I 1 to know if it could be bb dons dono construed trued as an act treason to abb U S government if we carruthe car carry rythe the mall mail once a week from fillmore to cedar gratis for our own convenience do not wish to be shut abut out altogether from rest of the world debarred barred de forever from receiving the influence of that civilization much needed among us or of knowing if the rest of the world ia Is all right yet if G S L city hould should again be entirely submerged by an earthquake and only a few inhabitants be left floating on planks aa as occurred a few years yeara since aa as we learned by the eastern newspapers we should not hear bear of the occurrence verv very soon e on the fth dinst sr a company B ad artillery artiller ay linder under command of capt haw HOW ap wag was dicine at lone long range a maturely per exploded nearly proving fat fatal fatai to 0 john who was that instant withdrawing the hammor rammer ile he wa WAs badly ay burned but e escaped 11 serious injury thia this should prove an incentive to greater caution in such matters not to be too tedious I 1 close this wandering epistle epi atle and subscribe myself the friend ef of constitutional rights |