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Show GENERAL. STOPPED. The Ho (Ml- on the I . V. Ita 11 road ( ompli't ftlopni;e of Irnrel-ilic Iteutinlul ftuow lieu la ilie iron Horse. Omha, 16. 1 110 high water, which for several d.iys past has delayed de-layed the trains on the Union Pacific railroad, has finally become eo hih that travel is eutirely suspended between be-tween Laramie and Ogden. Tne water is six feet deep in many p'acea and is Btill rising, It is impossible to predict when travel will be resumed. The canons are reported full of snow, and it ia well known that the fall of suow last winter was greater than for :iiany years. Tne locution of the present trouble is Bitter Creek v.diey, 3J0 miles west of Cbeyenne. Tlie p.iesenger trains which lelt here uu the loth, 14th and ljth are laying at Laramie city j and Rawlins. Those which left Ogden Og-den since the loth are laying at points westot Green river. All are in good quiirtcrs ami well cared for. The Union P..eitio ntticials advise travelers for Utah and California not to start till notice, of the blockade being broken is giwn. A dispatch Ira n Fort Laramie today to-day gays that Captain Mix's com pan' which was s-jnt ufter a mining party at Harney's peak, litis secured tlie whole of them, consisting of sixteen men, one wuinan and a dog, and will arrive at Fort Laramie on the ISth. Tnere have been heavy snows in the Black Hills and high water everywhere. every-where. The war party of Sioux and Ara-pahoes Ara-pahoes are reported to have left for tho Shoshone country. |