Alexandria Gazette

Hail Storm.-A correspondent of the Washington Star writing from Charles county, Md., describes the late hail storm, in that section of county. He says:-- Below Chopawamsic river, on the Maryland shore, we are informed, Mr. Richard Posey's "brag crop" was utterly destroyed by the hail storm, on Tuesday before the last- "everything cut down." The storm continued along the river, about two miles inland, doing "a good deal of injury to the crops near Sandy Point." The day succeeding the storm, at 12 o'clock, hail, in a gully, was picked up, "twenty-seven inches deep" from actual measurement. "Not a single head of wheat" was to be seen in adjacent wheat fields, after the storm. Houses of different kinds were blown down along the river, near Smith's Point, nearly opposite the steamboat landing at Aquia Creek. The weather in that section of country was so cool, during the week, as to prevent the ripening of the wheat and the growing of the corn.