Show inundations in the tyrol the Tyro tyrolese iese post contains a letter from biffl marienberg describing the devastations of the he hoods floods which have recently laid waste the tiie upper part ot of the village odthe of the adige abige or etsch from which we translate the follo following ling ving ting passages our mountains on the right bank ot of the adige abige A dige were covered with vast masses of f snow in the course of the winter and when the spring made its appearance which was not before the tire begin ning ningon of june the melting of the snow and the thawing of the deep frozen ground suddenly swelled the mountain streams 69 as asi already to threaten an inundation to this ws was added on and igli of june mild weather w with ath ith continuous rin BO so that all the water springs broke loose and b be be gan gin to pour down on the tyrolese valleys with destructive fury the nume numerous roust rousi streams above tb the haider lake burst into the lake with eo so much force as tu to break down the dam and to cause a destructive flood amongst the villages on the banks of the adige abige no pen can describe all the details of this terrible visitation but I 1 may state to you that at this moment in burgeis forty houses have been carried away or thrown down by the raging floods in twenty eight and in I 1 laatsch twenty besides farm buildings arid and whilst I 1 wi teother buildings are being swept away continually Man blan houses are undermined and there is not a building which is not in danger of being destro destroyed yep yeo it is a dreadful sight to see the flood raging against the buildings until it breaks them down and sweeps them away and then rushing forward to another scene ot of destruction the ordinary stream of the etsch from the haider lake to is not more than twenty paces wide and flows flown through green meadows and fertile corn fields the stream miream is now seven or eight gunshots gunshows gun shots wide the fields and meadows are under water or undermined by the stream and in danger 0 ot being swept away by the flood in many places the waters are high above the banks and lay waste the neighboring fields the district above and below is like a sea and the village of lichtenburg und and th the country about prad appear to be swallowed up in the waters the town of is in a great degree flooded by the waters of the waters of the llie etsch and lies under water BO so that the local authorities can give no assistance in the neighboring district atso also the Rh in the Tau ferer thai appears to rage with fresh fury and is carrying away the buildings especially in inthe the swiss village of munster in the same manner the brook is raging in Schlei sig thal thai where it is overthrowing houses and laying waste the fields the village of is on one side by the Schlei siger brook on theother side by the E t sih sib struck at right angles and with the exception of a few heubec which are also threatened is entirely wasted even the church which standa outside the village is in a great danger burgeis and the district around is washed by the neighboring Valmi and last night a mountain stream burst through the village swept away several houses and still threatens the parish church the beautiful bridge of hewn stones across the file etsch at burgeis is swept away with the except iou lou of a single pillar and large portions 0 of f the road from bergeus to alaid haidary are destroyed it is not known that any lives are lost but nothing can be said with certai certaine certainty nV as the villages iare lare are cut in two by the floods which still rush through throng gh the midst of them and the inhabitants cannot make themselves heard across the roaring torrent blit but can only communicate by signs the mills are all swept away the inhabitants ot of the districts which have suffered most are in genera general poor cottagers whose whole means of subsistence subs istance consists of a patch of cultivated ground a email meadow and two or three caws caws ex INSANITY this disease is terribly prevalent in this state from statistics an and mecca medical statements it appears that the pin principal 1 r cipal causes tending bendino to produce insanity in california C a li fornia are pe pecuniary ar disappointments licentiousness and drun drunkenness kuni luni enn e ss on monday last eight of these unfortunates were brou brought lit up before judge freelon of the county court of san francisco it is said that one of them made an n exceedingly sensible and affecting appeal to the judge to forbear sending I 1 him lim to a mad house but it was proven by some casual expressions which dropped from his lips that lie he wa really crazy and accordingly wini his fellows he was consigned lo 10 the stockton asylum sacramento sacramento Sacra mento menlo wea weekly dy union |