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Show the Missiesirn flood. I The overflow of the Mississippi river is tho most wlenaive that hits over occurred there, and tho results are tho moat aeries. M.Hions of dulUrs ! worth of prope.ty has been destroyed, and thousands of families have bnui left homeless. Many who a few duy go wero rich in this world's goods, who wero enjoying most of the comforts com-forts possessed by mortals, are to-day beggared, with not oven a house to shelter them, or a pillow to lie on. The telegraph, last night, informs us that nearly 2o0,000 people aro in actual act-ual want; and yet the devastation continues with no hope of its ending till Spring torrents aro over, the tlood subsides, and the mighty Mississippi is once more within its banks. Strong men can do no more towards staying the ravages ol tho flood than weak women all are as powerless to control the mailing stream as the sucking bade. An idea ol the Buffering may be imagined when it is contemplated that fivo millions of acres of the choice lands of fertile Louisiana aro inundated forming as it were, a rolling soa thirty miles wide where onco were stately' stately homes and happy firesides. The overflown district embraces many of tho most valtublo and productive pro-ductive sugar, cotton aud grain plantations. plan-tations. Tho spectacle is frightful to contemplate even at this iar off point. The provisions are gone, the crops are washed away and nearly a quarter of a million of human beings are, or soon will.b? suffering for food aud perhaps starving. All that can be done for them, everything that can be sent to them, will only partially partial-ly satisfy tho pangs of hunger, aud in a slight degroo alleviate the wido spread suffering. New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities in the east are 1 , nobly and generously responding to the calls for aid, which are shouted through the laud by the tongues of the suffering thousands. The people of the United States, within the last few years, have had many calls for aid in great sectional disasters, but urgent as have been those calls, and widespread as has been tho suffering;, never before has the distress of so many people required palliating never before be-fore has the destruction been so great. In many of the calamities which havo befallen tho people of different portions of our great country the citizens citi-zens of Utah have done their p.trt, and cheerfully given to the extent of their ability. It may nut have been much, but in proportion to the wealth of the people their gii'is compared favorably with those of uth:r States and Territories. Heic U another chance for our citizens to show their generosity. The present call is louder than any to winch they havo before responded. Wc suggest that some public concerted con-certed action be taken, and that we show the lovo we bc:ir our suffering fellow-citizens, by adding our mite to lheir aid and comfort. |