Show 1 7 y NEWS kanews ITE Ws 4 hiltl lili 11 U hii 14 f YO 0 q 1 l 91 att ogi 1 0 ul f s rii a Ai or col coc THOMAS tuomas LK ANic thi this s t elt eitleman eit lemaR leman the kalf peace commis liluer stoner to the mormons arrived at his horne home in n this ward oil on the evening of june 18 in buoyant spirits and hearty good health after olie oile lie lle af pf the most romantic ro manlic mantic dangerous and buc suc expeditions on record he H proceeded to 0 o washington on the ther with dispatches froid froin roid roin gov cummin for the th e government germantown telegraph phila phil i june Jane 23 CHOLERA the louisiana courier of j june une lath notices the fact that the chol choi cholera era eta prevails in n many parts of arkansas andis making ravages over other western states POVERTY the very urgent necessities of the national treasury are shown by the fact th that atthe the department at Washington has written to the su successful aces saul bidders for the new hew lo 10 loan ioan an requesting immediate comella compliance ce with the terms 7 1 MEMPHIS MEAIr ms tenn june 18 the great yazoo pass gape gaie gave way last night and the channel is doiy now over thirty yards wide and rapidly increasing reasin in width the water in the mississippi sippi haw haa in consequence fallen eight or ten feet an and d is rushing oth mith uth terrific force through we he opening felling all trees in its bourse course it will ivill delue deluge the whole yazoo valley THE thi trix trin TEN MILES WIDE the steamer silver lake now plies regularly between t een Burlington lowa Iowa and oquawka junction the present western terminus of the chicago and burlington railroad a distance of nearly ten tep miles the railroad track is is at the bottom of 0 an ocean of water for a distance of ten mils miles thiis new steamer is now a regular railroad packet connecting with morning and evening trains captain willoughby reports that the shallowest lowest water they found op monday was four tour feet and the river has risen halt half as much more s ince since oquawka spectator 3 pe clator june 11 SPREAD or THE mississippi IN ILLINOIS the portion of Illinois town opposite our city under ander water was waa completely dotted yesterday I 1 with crafts of various descriptions description in n c conveying onvey ing parties to and fro and engaged I 1 in rescuing goods from stores and people and furniture dwellings the foree force of the tha current wua much stronger formerly and yawls bawls were frequently armen against the thie trees A party sounded the th e depth of ot the water all the way to lutSi and found no point less than eight een inches the tiie shallowest ihal ibal lowest places being on the nai rai railroad road tracks the yawl started from opposite bite eite the fiot of market street and went thence directly east farther to he north about a mile five feet cf of water can call be found for a distance of tell ten or fifteen miles tile the bridge at the lake akke was reported still firm alt ait although hough bough there was water on it two feet feel deep tom stanl stani ey farmer in the tiie bottom about four miles males froin the river has lost everything on his bis land landi tim call cail callahan ahan farmer has lost all I 1 town w was as a scene of constant fighting on sunday and several bodies of drowned pe persons had been picked up in that neighborhood A farmer on the border of goose lake drove thirteen head of cattle out to tb the bluffs but they swam swain back and were drowned the boat st louis and another nother a ferry ferr y hoat boat have made several trips from mound street to brooklyn and the country and around it and returned every time with several beveral families the town of brooki brooklyn 11 which contains a population pu lation of several undred hundred cont contained aided last evening evening only two families the place isdes indes ia des troyed tT newport the first sale of lots in which took place some weeks ago cannot te e seen one of the ferry boats started on a trip tripe of relief in the direction of alton and was to return last eveking eve from the top of the big lillund 31 a wonderful view could be had with a te telescope escape brooklyn or rather the tile tops of the houses peeped from the surface of the waste of waters er 8 the river ri V er spread away into the tile country to where the horizon is hidden by a belt belc of oi trees further up the river the islands had dwindled to a puny size water everywhere predominated water covered everything or surrounded everything st louis bemo democrat crat craf june 15 R el U L cas CAN IN vincinla VIR vrr GINtA the sprin spring t election in hancock county virginia was wa closely gon eon contested tested between the lecompton Le compton and arid ai at ti lecompton forces the county clerk elected is a republican and his majol iti was wai yas mr buchanan Buc hanan banan carried the county in 1856 1836 by majority during the session of congress j jast at closed no lass less than five personal altercations have taken place between members viz viar grow arid keitt clay and cullom Cu llona and harris davis and benjamin and gwin and wilson it fa Is pleasant to be able to state that nobody was hurt thou though ih it ig is rare to see i so much smoke without fire E explanations have proved more efficacious than bullets J american merican I |