The Northern Galaxy

COLD SUMMER of 1816.-In looking over the prices of grain, &c., in former times we find that in the winter following the cold June of 1816, the price of corn was from $1.90 to $2.10 per bushel, rye $1.75 to $2 butter 24 cents, hay $25, flour $16, &c.

It will be recollected by some of our readers, that in this town we had a slight fall of snow on the 8th of June. It also snowed in Boston, and several inches fell in Bangor. There was a frost on almost every night of the first week in June. In the interior of the State, at that time, icicles were seen pendent from the trees, and the foliage was blasted. At Portland in 15 hours the thermometer descended from 84 to 34 degrees. In Hallowell it snowed on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of June, and on the 10th ice was formed of a fourth of an inch in thickness-birds were so benumbed as to be taken by the hand. At Montpelier, Vermont, on the 8th, snow was more than a foot deep. In Cabot, Vermont the snow was 18 inches deep. An account from Vermont, dated August 21st, of that same year, says-'the mountains are covered with snow, and the atmosphere unusually cold. It snowed, in New England on every month of that year except July.-Portsmouth Journal.