Show TELEGRAPH TELEGRAM TIDINGS haw to the ailers id N A roi needed WA washington feb 21 senator laphair introduced a bill today to day to amend the tile act establishing the territorial government of utah and chance the namo name to altamount tho the bill vests executive power over the territory in the governor appointed for four yenry and continues the ta present ent governor or until the end of ilia his term all persons guilty of bigamy and polygamy y and makes them ineligible aa as J aurora ur m or for any ollice office the bill requires require he the legislature to repeal the statute authorizing the tile plurality of wives wires provides for the tile support su P r t of destitute and homeless wives wires and n d children by py erecting houses bouses for them and levies taxes to pay also to compel males tonic port their children born in polygamy A letter fr from ax the lenn lena CilI CHICAGO CAGO feb 22 A curtosi curt curiosity in in the shape of a letter from 14 lacut cut dan an the jennrette Jeon rette was received lost tuesday by his brother mr washington it is probably tile first letter ever received from tho tile mouth month of the lena it was on tho the just foar four months to a day the is covered with various russian postmarks and on the back is a ciure liure wax seal evidently of some SL silurian I rian in officer the tile letter is as fol foi rows house iee of the kuwait russian cooma booma lena lata Z dibaia oct 14 1881 aca DEAR WASH we are all safe and i g d health love to allt dl to dear odear mother tt I er especially home by spring I hope send letters to B P F stevens london for me find out at navy department if still dispatch lavt I agent at london write him to keep my mail subject to my order hope tins this may reach you some time love for all si signed nd JOHN 11 bricked up tucson feb 22 A special to the star bar from guaymas says capt ston higton of the steamer picked e u up part of the crew of a wrecked dritch britch bark off the coast of lower california they were famishing and about to lecort to cannibalism the party consisted odthe of the ca captain t his ills wife wire and two children cli ildren ar ad two seamen one child and one seaman died immediately the mother gave birth to a healthy infantina in anlin two days Shoot lof g affray Loris louisville vILLE feb 20 A very exciting in and probably fatal affray took place this evening on Jef jefferson Terson street between sixth and seventh Seven thin in which joe wyatt the ex government marshal v ho bagged more moon shiners than any mun nian in the country was badly if not fatally wounded by joe cunningham and thomas i bonnelly Oon Otin nelly two tyro deputies of the court wyatt is 16 a man wan of celebrated nerve and one who has never known fear ho has had many exciting incidents in liia his life and lias has shot ti several everal men but federally pene Fene rally was acting aati l in i n self defense or in in the tile di of hia his duties as a government officer but this time lie has probably met liis ilia man during rill the tile ad auray ray fourteen shots were i ve re firca fired the difficulty commenced in the astor house i a little hotel directly opposite ho the fire engine house and ended in ili the ie street where wyatt was shot the origin of the ilia difficulty was witnessed by none but the participants p and consequently it ia somewhat difficult to gi vo the exact particulars it seems that warrants were nit out for the arr arrest est of wyatt charging arcing ch him with selling liquor to minors hearing of this ho lie swore lie would pay no attention to the tile warrants lie ife would bo be d d if hed pay the fines and no officer could arrest him he lie is said to have bale threat enDI to shoot any man difo laid hands on 11 him ini the attempted to arrest him when he palled a revolver the officers did the tile same and lie battlo battle raged from the hotel to the street the le marshals fired ten out ont of he the fourteen eliote wyatt fired four times with his famous pistol which willell he be alls trusty neither of tho the marshals arc are hurt huit except that connel r afi lorch cad was grazed ava by a bullet jill over tho the right eye lira carvin Rd ledgers gers and ot others liera were called into the jail I to attend wyatt who was bounri found t to fl bo very seriously I in re d tho th probabilities aro are that he ial I die he ile has his three wounds so far as the doctors can determine one in the shoulder sli and anti not serious eerie us the other two or one in the abdomen there Is ia one hole on the right side and aid another on the left the Th doctors electors are unable to say whether th too heles holes abc are calese caused d by two difore ut balls or whether the two holes holer tire ir tile entrance and exit of iho the same ballet bullet if but one wound lie lias has a chance for if two wounds the bullets are in in the cavity and anti the doctors say death is almott almost certain the sh shooting doting created intense excite excitement men in the tile vicinity tv and a large crowd gathered tho the contorted ted apat A eXEA EW feb 12 the heralds washington special says the committee on the utah contested sted tie tion case is unanimous in favor of ousting cannon polygamist the further proposition to declare campbell tile legally elected delegate brought out division of opinion it is probable pral able that the majority jn of die committee willbe will be in favor f a r of declaring a vacancy n and al allowing loing the matter to b be settled by a it new election washington feb 22 tho the entire abuse bouso election committee will tomorrow ac act ton on the utah contest tile arguments have been concluded and it is pener believed they will dc de cida alike asa against dinst cannons Can nona eligibility and the tile claim of to the seat isyl will refer the matter to tho people for njg a nev new election SAN GAN FRANCISCO feb 22 A larre anti polygamy mass meeting was held this evening at L i to addresses were made by several aspea speakers kers and a strong antipol anti pol polygamy ol 01 my memoria memorial I to congress baltin tal tin fur eu ettive nig lation was adopted adopt d also so a resolution appointing a CO committee mi too to correspond arith other committees and urge urr agitation MEin ms feb 22 21 T the he officers of the tile chy y jq of green confirm grin the report p published b ed of the tile sad bad condition of allaire now existing throughout throng hout tho tie mississippi issis sippi valley thousand TI lou sands of men are on com constant tant agard ulo alon n S me trio le levees between hero here and vicksburg Vicke burp using eve every possible means to strengthen t their eirp power ower of Istance and elevate their create crests to prevent ii tho water from inundating the whole country tho tile b brought rou up several thousand empty backs ur to be used zed by fin fining ing with earth to aid in strengthening cn j n tho the embankment the whole shore rg line between memphis A Me rophia and Vicks buron burgon ho the mississippi side and the whole eastern shore of arkansas aro are cither either under water or threatened with inundation the inhabitants of a vast area of country arc are in great distress many have been forced from their houses and are subi subsisting sting the tile best they may on rafts and somo some on knolls or parts of old levees the destruction of live stock is beyond calculation the waste of property bv tile great submersion properly bk is hutsi outside e t the limits of present computation the of the river itself is ty railroad men dangerous at its present stac stage on account of the prent great expense of 01 water in in many localities the billowy character of the tile waves wares when the lie surface is swept by by heavy beavy gusts of wind also because of ok the great ireat difficulty on retting getting to safe ports the government lights alons along the river are maintained maintain el with admirable regularity these lights prove an incalculable benefit to the steamboats now since all the bank landings have bave disappeared arkansas city is completely submerged iberg ed not a single pingle howo in the city addy is free from the presence of ta the ID muddy floods the water III ere is represented as its being eight inches higher than tile flood of 1876 houses were b built U BO as to bo a above bove the tile 11 high agh hood flood level of that year but in all of them there is from seven to ch lit inches of water ll 11 between cairo and If memphis the hc follows following ug g poin points to of lit land nd are only visible isible isilie above lie tile surging floods bluffs B 11 s at columbus hills the bank of hickman land on the Ten tennessee nease c aldeon side opposite island ten new madrid point pleasant Prea sant tiptonville onville pulton fulton BI bluffs 1118 randolph 33 an end d 38 36 and davia davis island wand abo above ve the tile head of centennial cutoff forty mile above memphis porteria Por rrt terii rd respects NEW YOEK yorm feb 22 the graphics G Was hinston ton special nays gen ritz fitz John Porters friends claim new now developments that will help his case care they will produce produce a telegraph operator from ropes lopes licad headquarters quarters during tile Ita campaign and they clanie ho can an show that it was impossible for porter to havo have obeyed the orders sent him even if delivered in fact they CO could not have been delivered ed at lie the time tittle it was testified wit mt instead of half past it must have ien after dark they profess to be able to show by the knowledge the operators had with one another over the airee that for two days while pope thought ho lie lad bad the tile enemy on his lis front they were mosaic mastic ingon on his rear and anti that he lie was out nerallen led and a oat had to ve be found and this was porters ill fortune it is reported also that general ruggles now on shermans Sher mans stuff staff will tell what he knows and that he ile will s say ay that Popo was in the wrong in the matterand mutt erand that popo Pop was given orders of execution it lt is also said that grant s laet last a expression of opinion had the egeit af f opening pening tho the mouths of general oali cers who before regarded it discreet to preserve es ervest silence ence the tho president will bo be urged to tako take acl action ion on the verdict of tho the board of review which set aside the findings ef of the first court martial Me eInZ kirk ed the fe feeliks elin Is prevalent among the 1110 senators that the president ident will not now make rny change in the tu tary ship of the interior it is believed that at one time ho he had decided to put sargent in his ills place but he lie could not owing to tile fact that a ivy ca casein ein which he lie was vas interested was pe pending this caused BO so much procrastination that it is thought I lie will probably keep kirkwood 11 he e can call do thievery thi this very svery well as he be lias has made a good officer and the tile people of iowa very much desire that he lie should remain gesn ed ills lil clisie clarence barton of the Na national lional R ablian resume renamed his ilia chair in the office 91 e today to day his ilk nock neck is still somewhat stift RIM and lie li his has plasters pl asters over the spot where young gotel dos bullet entered but otherwise lie feels as well as though nothing had happened considering congressman spenser er ia is considering tho tile advisability of boffl enering ering a resolution calling for investigation in ill the chin chili peru peni matter but has not yet d decided c whether to do so or not |