Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1883 — Page 1

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TVBF.N INDICATIONS. MONbA./. Local rains, followed by Booler, partly cloudy weather. WH E N. MAIN ROOM. A JOB LOT OF A. L L-AV r O O L CASSIMERE PAIS FOR MEIST ON SALE TO-DAY AT HALF PRICE. WHEN CLOTHING STORE.

ARCHBISHOP WOOD. His Funeral To-Morrow To Bea Protracted Affair. Piiiladelahia June 24.—The remains of the late Archbishop Wood will lie in state in the cathedral on Monday afternoon and evening in order to give all who desire an opportunity of viewing the remains. The deceased prelate will be clothed in full canonicals, and the casket will rest on a catafalque at the head of the center aisle. ! At 9 o’clock on Tuesday morning the services will begin by the rendering of the solemn office for the dead by the clergy and students from the seminary at Overbrook. Casciolini’s mass of requiem will be sung, the music being purely Cregorian. The Archbishop’s will be the forth body interred in the cathedral. The others are Right Rev. M. F. Egan, the first bishop of the diocese; Right Rev. Henry Con well, second bishop, and the Rev. Francis P. O’Neill; former pastor of St. James’ Churoli, West Philadelphia. The pallium, the insignia of the Archbishop’s high office, W'ill be buried with the deceased. By special request of the dead prelate himself the funeral services on Tuesday will be very lengthy and the prescribed form rigorousiy carried out. This he directed on Monday when the fatal attack visited him. His will will not be admitted to probate until after the funeral. It is believed that there is little, if any, personal property, the rest being ecclesiastical property, which will •be transferred to his successor as soon as the Appointment is made. BISHOP RaDEMACHER. His Consecration at Nashville—Testimonial from Former Parishioners. ■ Nashville, Tenn., June 24.—The consecration of Rev. Joseph Rademacher, Bishop of Nashville, took place at the cathedral, this morning, in the presence of a vast concourse. The ceremonies lasted from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Dr. H. Moeller, of Cincinnati, was master or ceremonies, and the following bishops officiated: Right Rev. William Henry Elder, of Cincinnati; Right Rev. A. M. Toebbe, of Covington; Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, of Cleveland; Right Rev. Henry Joseph Richter, of Grand Rapids; Right Rev. William H. Gross, of Savannah; Right Rev. S. F. Chatard, of Vincennes Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, was the consecrator, and Bishop Gross, of Savannah, delivered the consecration sermon. After the consecration, Bishop Raderaaeher entertained the visiting clergy, sixty in number, at the Delmonico building, opposite the Cathedral. On this occasion a testimonial was presented to the Bishop, from his former parishioners of Fort Wayne, in the form of a handsome purse of gold eagles. The Trouble with Sailors at Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Wis., June 24.—The assault upon the Cleveland schooner Lucerne, the barge Goshawk, and the Buffalo barge Vought; by aliened Union sailors, on Saturday. was the main topic of conversation in marine circles to-day. No clue to the perpetrators could be got. The police remained on guard on board the vessels, night and day, but no further attempt at intimidation was made. The Lucerne’s crew, who left in a body, did not return, neither did the .two men who left the Vought. Provoked by the premature publication of the fact that the pol ice were in waiting for the unionists, the captain of the several vessels refused to furnish any further information than that the vessels are run under the management of the Cleveland Vessel-owners’ Association,|and the names of the crew could not be learned, The police will be on guard again to-night, and there is a prospect that the guilty parties will be apprehended. Narrow Escape of a Passenger Train. New York, June 24.—A train crowded with passengers left Brighton Beach Hotel, Coney Island, at 6:10 this evening. North of Sheep3head Bay a misplaced switch sent the train upon the west track, on which an empty train was backing. A collision occurred, and the engine and two cars of the empty train were thrown from the track, the engine falling down an embankment. The engine of the east-bound train was also derailed, but the passenger cars kept the track, hence no one was injured. Pastorate Resignation Not Accepted. Chicago, June 24.—The vestry of the Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) this evening refused to accept the resignation tendered on Wednesday evening by Rev. Arthur Ritchie, the extreme ritualistic rector, but offered him six weeks’ vacation and a handsome cash donation, and undertook to raise the necessary $20,000 to apply on the new church edifice. The rector has not yet made answer. 1 , ...izzrrjzm _■ Horsford’s Acid Phosphate IN SEASICKNESS. 8. 8. Parker, Wellington, 0., snys: “While srosMing Lake Erie I gave it to-noma passengers who were seasick, and it gave immediate re*ef.”

THE ASSISTED IMMIGRATION A Deputation of Irish Citizens Exchange Views with the President. The Actual Cost of the Star-Route Trials— Ex-Senator Dorsey’s Programme for the Future. Mr. Chandler’s Letter to the Chiefs of the Navy Bureaus. Sunday and the Public Institutions Removals by Commissioner Evans To Be Stopped—The Indian Question. ASSISTED EMIGRATION. An Irish Deputation and the President Exchange Views on the Subject. Washington, June 24.—A deputation headed by Mr, Alex. Sullivan, representing the Irishmen, waited upon President Arthur yesterday afternoon and presented him a resolution concerning “assisted emigration,” adopted at the recent meeting of the National League in Philadelphia. The party were received in the President’s library, and Mr. Sullivan addressed the President, saying: Mr. President—A convention at Philadelphia of American citizens of the Irish race, composed of 1,200 delegates, chosen from all parts ot the United States, instructed me to present to you the following resolution: "Resolved, That the policy of the English government in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject poverty and then sending them penniless to the United States, dependents upon American chanty, is unnatural, inhuman and an outrage upon the American government and people. We respectfully direct the attention of the United States government to this ißiqulty, protest against its continuance and instruot the officials who shall be ohosen by this convention to present our protest to the President of the United States, and respectfully but firmly to urge upon the President that it is the duty of the government of the United Btates to decline to support paupers whose pauperism began under and is the result of English misgovernment, and to demand of England that she send no more of her paupers to these shores to become a burden upon the Amerioan people-” Mr. Sullivan then spoke at length on the evils entailed on the country by the aided emigration of the pauper peasantry of Ireland, denounced the British government for the barbarous methods pursued in the government of Ireland, and requested that the attention of the Gladstone ministry be called to the great wrong inflicted on a long suffering people. In closing, Sullivan introduced H. L. Hognet, president of the Irish Emigrant Savings Bank, New York, who said; Inmates of the poor-houses and other dependents who have been receiving out-door relief In Ireland have been aided by the British government to emigrate to this country. It is a matter of great knowledge that Parliament has voted £IOO,OOO to serve that purpose, and that the agents of the British government have come to this country to perfect arrangements for tue reception of these aided emigrants. Application was made by Mayor Haskell to the Immigration Society at New York for that purpose, and the society declined to have anything to do with such business, and he proceeded to Boston, where he met with better success. The aided emigrants consist largely of people unable to work, old women and young children. They have been aided to t lie extent of having their passage paid, and are given the miserable pittance of ten shillings upon their arrival here to enable them to go to their friends. Os course that sum is entirely inadequate, and the consequence has been they are compelled to seek aid in New York, Boston and elsewhere. If regular affidavitsin regard to these facts are required they can be furnished. Werespeot fully request you to useyour influence to prevent a recurrence of this state of things. It is to the interest of the American municipalities to have the progress of this aided-emieration scheme stopped. At the proper time you will doubtless make appropriate recommendations to Congress upon this subject. James Lynch, of New York, president of the Irish Emigration Society; James Reynolds, New Haven, Conn., and Patrick Smith, of Ohio, each called attention to specific cases in their respective States, after which the President replied as follows: The subject you present will receive my careful consideration. It lias already been under consideration by the Secretary of Stato. Correspondence in regard to it has been had with our diplomatic and cousular representatives, and an investigation into the facts is now being made by them. It is, of course, proper that this government should ascertain whether any nation with which it holds amioable relations is violating any obligation of Intel national friendship before calling attention to any such matter. In the meantime the law now provides that the officer* of the treasury shall examine into tne condition of passengers arriving as Immigrants at any of the ports of the United States, and if there should be found any convict, lnnatic, idiot or any person unable to take care of himself without becoming a public charge, they Rhall report the same in writing to the collector of such port, and such person shall not be permitted to land. The investigation will be thorough and exhaustive on this side of the Atlantic and the other, and in the meantime tue law will be strictly enforced. Each of the delegates was then introduced to the President by Sullivan, and the conference closed. The delegates were well pleased with their reception and with the statements of the President.

THE NICKERSONS. Mrs, Nickerson’s Statement of Her Relations and Troubles. National Republican, Saturday. A lady who was with Mrs. Nickerson on one or two occasions during the past week, and who has been one of her intimate friends for several years, said to a reporter yesterday that she was greatly shocked to observe the change in her face. "Why,” said the lady, "she looked ten years older than she did the week she started to Europe, and she told me her mental sufferings had been almost more than she could bear. In spite of all she can do, I believe she still loves that rascally husband of hers, though of course she says she would never live with him again. She cried so when I was with her that I cried myself. She told me that on her departure for Europe she had a presentiment of something wrong. Her husband’s plea was that he wanted her to go away for economy, so that he might complete the payments on the Rhode Island avenue house that was to be a home for them and their little daughter, but in her heart she felt that all was not right and that something awful was going to happen, though she never dreamed what it was. She brushed it aside as a foolish fear, and thought no more about it, and her husband’s first letters were so affectionate that they entirely disarmed her of all suspicion of his treachery. "Mrs. Nickerson evinced a special feeling of contempt for Miss Lena Carter, and her eyes flashed fire while referring to the person she deemed to be the destroyer of her home. ‘I would never have known that woman,’ said she, 'if Maj. Nickerson had not brought her to our house. All the stories about her beiug

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an intimate and confidential friend of mine are untrue. The Major always brought her where I was, and I had an instinctive feeling that she was a snake in the grass.’ ” The lady further added that Mrs. Nickerson was determined that her husband should not have a decree which would enable him to marry again, and would use every effort to prevent it. A report was current yesterday that Major Nickerson’s attorney would offer a proposition looking to the giving up of the property to Mrs. Nickerson, if a mutual divorce could be arranged, but that the wife’s attorney, being entirely confident of setting aside the transfer, declined to consider the suggested compromise. WHAT THEY COST. Statement of the Actual Expenses of the Star-Route Trials. Washington, June 23.—Complaints are heard from various quarters that the United States Courts are hampered for w; nt of money, owing to the large expenditures in the star-route cases. The question has been asked why the star-route lawyers were not required to wait for their money ac well as the regular court officials. The answer is probably the following: Had the Department of Justice paid the expenses of the United States District Courts in the ordinary way the deficiency appropriation would have been required for the payment of the expenses incurred in the star routes, and Congress might have applied the pruning knife with reckless severity to the bills for special attorneys, stenographers, marshals’ expenses, etc, As the matter now stands, to refuse to make an appropriation to meet the deficiency would be to hamper the courts. The Department of Justice officials maintain that the expenses of the trial have been magnified, and that they will not exceed $300,000. It is claimed that the expenditures are about as follows: Special counsel, B. H. Brewster, services $5,000 George Bliss, services and expenses 50,813 K. T. Merrick 32,500 W. W. Ker, services and expenses 28.070 W. A. Cook, services 5,250 A. M. Gibson 5,000 S. H. Wells (jury bribery oases) 2.622 Total $130,156 Witnesses’ fees and traveling expeuses to March 13. 1883 $79,576 Jurors’ foes, first trial 2.352 Jurors’ fees, second trial 4,536 Reporting first trial 1 3,508 Reporting second trial 6,300 Printing record, first trial 87,240 Printing record, seooud trial (estimated) 12,000 Detective service, first trial 4,381 Detective service, second rriul 4,911 P. H. Woodward, postofiice inspector, estimated 7,076 Aggregate $261,318 THE INDIAN QUESTION. What Had Best Be Done with the Captured Apaches. National Republican. A gentleman who has been prominent in far Western politics for many years, who was Governor of a Western State several terms, who was a major-general during the war, asked a Republican reporter yesterday how Secretary Teller stood on the return of the Apaches, recently captured by General Crook, to the reservation. “I don’t know,” said the reporter. “How do you stand?” “I want to see them punished. The whole question lies in a nutshell. There are a great many Indians on the reservation who are now peaceable, but they are not wholly contented. They are not the barbarians the Eastern people think they are, but they are men of strong intellect and depraved morals. They regard the pale faces as their natural enemies, and are only kept quiet by fear of the government. If Loco and Mana are allowed to return unpunished to the reservation, as they have been once or twice before, it will have the effect of shaking that fear among the quiet Indians.” “How is that?” “Why, the reservation Indians will reason among themselves. They will say ‘We are here on the reservation, quiet and peaceable, living on beaf and bacon. We don’t have gold watches, or greenbacks, or new rifles, or anything like Loco and Mana. They go off and get all these things, and are not punished for it. Let us do the same.’ ” “What measures do you think should be taken to settle the Indian question?” “It is settling itself. Education of the young Indians is having a splendid reformatory effect. If the question should be settled quickly, however, the best way, in my opinion, to do it would be to kill all the bucks.”

NAVY EXPENSES. Secretary Chandler Thinks Three Millions Too Much for the Result#. Washington, June 24.—Secretary Chandler has addressed a letter to the chief of each bureau of the Navy Department, calling attention to the recommendations of the commission concerning the reorganization of the navy-yards, and the disposition proposed to be made of each yard. The commandants of the various yards have been furnished with a copy of the letter, and requested to assist in carrying out the plan of the commission. The Secretary alludes to the "statistics of the navv-yards,” and says they show an enormous daily expenditure on the 16th day of November, 1882, namely: For 657 foremen, clerks and employes other than ordinary mechanics, and workingmen, $2,179, ami 3,805 other employes, $9,139, making 4,462 total employes at a daily compensation of $11,319. or at the rate of $3,010,000 a year, when the only work in progress on slifps of war at all the* yards was repairing on the Omaha, Shenandoah, Trenton, Ossipee, Mohican ami Alert. Secretary ( handler considers this enormous expenditure for such feeble results inconsistent with a faithful administration. THE REVENUE BUREAU. The Removals by ConuniHsioner Evans To Be Summarily Stopped. Washington Special, 23. There will be no further removals in the Internal Revenue Bureau by the new Commissioner, Mr. Evans, unless he himself is anxious to have a successor. The transfer of the chief clerk, yesterday, to make a vacancy for a personal friend, "with whom I can have confidential relations,” was an indiscreet step, after the intimations of disapproval which had been given from the White House. In agreeing to some change, fo r cause, the President never imagined that tbt • responsibility for a general tedring up bj the roots was to be cast upon him. The\

steady and almost universal criticism from the press regarding the methods pursued by Mr. Evans have been particularly annoying to the President, who sees that he is being seriously compromised. A halt has agaiu been called, in a manner that cannot be mistaken even by one so dull as the new Commissioner lias proved himself to be. General Sewall, the chief of special agents, was the next on Mr. Evans’s list to be decapitated. As one of the indiscreet friends of the Commissioner put it to-day, “Sewall’s head was to be cut off clean down to the shoulders.” Another of the new Commissioner’s partisans stated it more mildly. General Sewall was to be transferred after awhile to a field where the reduction in his pay would, it was thought, compel him to resign. At any rate he was to be gotten out of his present position, which pays sl2 a day, and a trusted friend appointed. Mr. Evans will not be allowed to interfere with General Sewall. The animus of the move in that direction is well understood in high quarters, Mr. Horton blames General Sewall for his former discharge and present exposure. ■ DORSEY'S PROGRAMME. He Proposes to Damage the Republicans and Turn Himself Into a Democrat. Washington, June 23. During the recent star-route trials, and before, it wa3 stated that ex-Senator Dorsey would print certain documents and letters in his possession relative to the Garfield presidential election and the formation of the Garfield cabinet. This correspondence is alleged to be of a sensational character. A good deal of this sensation has been heavily discounted. It is known here, however, that Dorsey is now being negotiated with by a New York paper, and that all the writings relative to the celebrated Garfleld-Conkling compact will be produced in the columns of the journal that published the Dorsey letter. Dorsey has held these papers sacred until now, when he feels that he owes nothing to the party that has rewarded him with disgrace. Ex-Senator Dorsey proposes, after he has damaged the Republican party as much as possible by disclosing some secret history, to transfer himself, troop and baggage, to the Democracy, and help them in the next presidential campaign. He has an idea that he will be able to control a large negro following by preaching to them his services in the Garfield contest, and he will try to show that his prosecution for star-route frauds was the result of a conspiracy among ttiedead President’s enemies.

GENERAL news. Argument iu the Kellogg Case Postponed Until Next Saturday. Washington, June 23.—1n the Criminal Court, Mr. Williams, counsel for Mr. Brady, asked Judge Wylie to dispose of the original and untried indictment in the star-route case, Mr. Ker said Mr. Bliss was in New York and Mr. Merrick was sick, and therefore asked that further time be allowed. Judge Wylie said be hardly thought the old indictment would trouble Mr. Williams again. Mr. Wilson, counsel for ex-Senator Kellogg, then asked to have the same action taken by the court upon the pleas in abatement submitted on Monday last, but upon Mr. Ker’s statement that the government was not yet prepared to proceed in that matter, Judge Wvlie postponed the argument until Saturday next. General Brady to-day gave bail in $20,000 under the new indictment. Sunday Opening of Public Institutions. Washington, June 24.—The Post will publish to-morrow a long article presenting the question of opening on Sundays the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Congressional Library and similar institutions at the capital. Librarian Spoftbrd, Professor Baird, Colonel Robert G. lugersoll and Itev. Robert Collyer, of New York, favor the movement, while of the numerous ministers here but two approve tiie proposition. Notes and Personalities. Washington, June 23.—Mr. P. S. Heath, clerk of the House committee on invalid pensions, has returned from a visit to his home at Muncie, Ind. Among recent promotions in the Pension Bureau are William C. Mason, of Indiana, from a $1,400 to a $1,600 position, and Low 11. Mills, of Indiana, from a $1,200 to a $1,400 place. Second Assistant Postmaster-general Elmer lias annulled the contract of John R. Miner to carry mail upon the Niobrara star route. The President has appointed Colonel D. B. Parker postmaster at this city, vice Tullock resigned. Colonel Parker has been for a long time chief of the inspectors’ division of the Postofiice department. Secretary Teller has received copies of the published dispatches from Generals Schofield and Crook regarding the treatment of the Apache captives. Hon. Montgomery Blair is lying dangerously ill at his summer residence near Silver Springs, Md. Prohibition in lowa Politics. Des Moines, la., June 23.—Nearly thirty Republican county conventions to-day declared for prohibition. Thus far over twothirds of the counties in the State have instructed delegates to the State convention next Wednesday, to vote for prohibitory measures. In this county to-day, resolutions were adopted: 1. Declaring saloons should be prohibited by law. 2. That the people of the State should take no part in the profits arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors. 3. That it is the duty of the next Legislature to carry out the will of the people as expressed on June 27, 1832. 4. That we agree to the principle of constitutional prohibition. 5. That all ofiicers elected are servants of and amenable to the people, who have the right to judge of their fitness; any other doctrine would he anti-republican. G. That the criminal code of the State should be amended so as to secure speedy correction ami punishment of crime. 7. That personal office-seek-ing should be discountenanced by every good citizen. 8. That nominations should be made in open town mooting* 9. That Buren R. Sherman ought to t* re-elected Governor. New Railway Under Construction, Montreal, June 24.—L. M. Shute, representing a number of American capalists, closed contracts for the construction of the Ontario Pacific railroad, and made arrangements to float bonds amounting to $12,000,000. Work will begin nt once, and trains will be running over part of this valuable road by Oct. 1, 1883. The road will connect Gronenhurst with Callander Station, the eastern terminus of the Canada Pacific railway. Monument Unveiled. Cincinnati, June 24. —The monument to General Fred. Hecker was unveiled with ceremony in Washington Park, to-day. A great procession marched through the streets, were made by Emil Rot he, Moritz mtbi. and Albert Springer. The monu- ! 1 luoufr of Scotch granite, the shaft sur--1 1 by a portrait bust.

DESTRUCTION BY WATER. Breaking of tlie Levee, on the Illinois Side, Above St. Louis. People Driven from Home, Farms Threatened, and Many Thousand Acres of Crops Destroyed. Breaks In Railroad Embankments, Inundating East St. Louis. Many Lives Lost in Nebraska—The Southern Part of That State and Northern Missouri Under Water. TUE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. Breaking: of the Madison Dike, Near Alton —The Bottoms Overflowed. St. Louis, June 23.—A special to the PostDispatch from Alton, 111., says the levee at Madison broke at 8:15 this morning. The break occurred at two places at the same time. The pressure against the banks, which was the immediate cause of the disaster, came from an additional rise in the Missouri river, the mouth of which is directly opposite the head of the levee. A body of water about twenty feet in height rushed through the gaps, and in a few minutes flooded all the adjacent bottom. The panic among the people was very great and universal. They fled toward the bluffs, carrying with them whatever of live stock and household goods they could save. Many head of live stock were drowned. Reporters who returned from Madison dike to-night say that five crevasses were opened during the day, and that when they left the scene all the upper end or new part of the dike was practically washed away, and that there was a clean sweep of w’ater 100 yards wide and fifteen deep rushing inland and spreading over all that part of the bottom west of the Chicago A Alton railroad track, which is on an embankment, and laying waste scores of farms and thousands of acres of wheat, corn and vegetables. A good deal of water also found its way into Long Lake, near Mitchell, and this, after raising the lake to a common level, will overflow and spread out to the eastward and southward, down the base of the bluffs, and only stop when it reaches the Ohio A Mississippi railroad embankment which crosses the bottom directly east of East St. Louis, and should it pass the barrier it would run directly into East St. Louis from the rear, and inundate nearly if not quite all the town. The Chicago A Alton track is still in a precarious condition in spots, but a large force of men are doing all that can be done to save it, and tlie prospects are largely in favor of its preservation. The rails are under water in two or three places, but an elevated track has been laid where necessary and trains are still run. The situation in East St. Louis proper is about the same as last night, except that the water is a little higher; but all the barriers which really protect the business part of the place are still intact and will resist an additional rise of several inches. Southward, in the vicinity of East Carondelet and the bottoms which were flooded yesterday by the breaking of Fish-lake dike, presents no change other than that a greater breadth of land is submerged. All the settlers, excepting a few negroes who still cling to the second stories or roofs of their habitations have abandoned their homes and sought safety on the bluffs and in the neighboring towns. A good many negroes are huddled together in the churches and school-houses on high and dry ground and are making the most of their unfortunate situation. Information from the Fish Lake region, received late to-night, says that fully 20,000 acres of land have been flooded by the breaking of the levee, and tliat the loss by the destruction of crops alone will reach $200,000. Fifty to 100 families, who depended iargely upon their garden patches for a livelihood, are in adestitutd condition, and the better-to-do people in that section, who also have been driven from their homes by the devastating flood, are not able to take care of them.

LATER PARTICULARS. Breaking; of the Railroad Embankments Above Sr. Louis. St. Louis, June 24.—The river is still rising at this point, but more slowly than heretofore. The exact measurement cannot be given at this writing, the ofiicial report not having been made yet. The flooded district in the northern part of the city presents about the same appearance it has for several days past. In the lumber district large gangs of men are still working on the levees and dikes which protect the different yards, and so far none of them have been flooded. A rise of another foot, however, will inundate all of them, and 70,000,000 feet of sawed lumber will be surrounded by from two to eight feet of water. Should this dreaded event occur it is expected that fully one-half of this lumber will be upset, in* which case a great quantity of it no doubt will he floated away and lost. At Alton slough, about twenty miles above here, among some islands in the Mississippi river, which are u ,ed as a place of deposit for lumber, about 30.000,000 feet of sawed boards in rafts are moored, and while the slough is a reasonably secure place, considerable apprehensions are felt, lest the rafts should he broken up and swept down by the raging flood. In East St. Louis proper the situation is much the same as yesterday. The Bowman dike is still intact and protects the business part of the city, but outside there is nothing but a watery waste eo-extensive with the surrounding country. Early this forenoon the water which broke through the Madison dike yesterday morning reached a point a short distance above Venice, and broke a fearful crevasse in the Chicago A Alton railroad embankment. About 600 feet of track seemed to sink ami disappear in an instant, and the gap between has been widening ever since. Parallel* with this embankment runs the Indianapolis & St. Louis and the WabavS i tracks, which could not withstand t ne terrfic current which was sent in through the Chicago A Alton breek, and they, too, went down in quick succession, cutting oil*all direct rail connec-

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tion with the north. These breaks gave the water a speedy exit to the eastward, and all day a steady, rapid current has been n-.ssing out toward the bluff, and the water is now spreading over all the bottom land north of the old Ohio A Mississippi railroad embankment. which crosses the bottom between East St, Louis and- Casey ville. It doesn't seem possible to restore these tracks, and the probabilities are that no effort will be made to repair the embankments until the water recedes. Meantime the Chicago A Alton, Chicago, Burlington A Quincy, and Indianapolis A St. Louis roads will convey passengers to and from St. Louis and Alton by steamer, and trains for the North and East will be made up at the latter place The Wabash will use the Vandalia and Illinois Central line to Decatur, whence they will use their own road. The break in the Chicago A Alton track lias flooded nearly all the eastern part of Venice and forced many families to vacate their houses and seek* safety on higher grounds. Considerable of the town west of the C. A A. track, which runs directly through the nlace, is also submerged. The Venice and Enterprise elevators are closed, and the transfer stockyards, on the bank of the river, are no longer available for use. The damage to elevators and stockyards is said to be SIO,OOO to $12,000. All the country in the rear and east of Venice is inundated, and the amount of farm land on the American bottoms north of East St. Louis is said to be 10,000 to 15,000 acres, and the loss to crops is computed at not less than $200,000. This is a moderate estimate, other statements putting both the area of land and loss to crops at much higher figures. At East Carondelet, six miles below here, on the Illinois side of the river, the situation is said to be deplorable. Fully three-fourths of the families in the town are quartered in three school-houses and a few residences on a ridge of high ground along the track of the St. Louis A Cairo railroad. Most of these people are in a destitute condition, and unless they receive assistance there will be great suffering among them. From this point to the bluffs, four miles, and southward for ten or twelve miles, tlie entire country is submerged, and presents a scene of the utmost desolation and ruin. Had the flood held back two weeks longer the farmers could have saved most of their wheat and potatoes, as both were nearly ready for harvesting; but now everything is lost and nearly all the farmers ruined. This can also be said of very many farmers elsewhere oil the bottom. Creve Occur lake, twenty miles west of here, which came into some prominence as a rowing course, last season Hanlon, Triccett, and other oarsmen appearing upon it, and which is really an old bayou of the Missouri river, has swollen so much from the high water in the river that it has overflowed its western bank and flooded the adjacent low laud, and done great damage. An immense ice-house, belonging to the Creve Ccsur Ice Company, was undermined and fell, entailing a loss of $40,000, and the railroad hotel, and other property sustained cons idol* able damage. The litile town of Cahokia, a short distance from Carondelet, is all under water, and the inhabitants move about only in skiffs. Previous estimates of damage in this region are said to be much too low'. It is now stated that fully 10,000 acres of wheat alone are from tw’o to six feet under water, and as much more of corn, potatoes and other crops are submerged, causing a loss of $200,000. It is also stated that the St. Louis A Cairo and the Belt road, part of which extends to East Carondelet, have been damaged fully $50,000. The chief apprehension to-night seems to be that the track of the Vandalia road, against which a great body of water from tlie break in the Chicago A Alton now lies, and which is constantly increasing, will be flooded, This track is north of the Ohio .A Mississippi, and much low’er than the road, and will bear up a little more. The Ohio A Mississippi is above the flood line of 1844, which is several feet above the present rise, and therefore no apprehension is felt for it. Advices and dispatches from different points on the Missouri river say nearly all the bottom lands along the river are inundated, and that hundreds of thousands ot dollars’ worth of crops have been totally destroyed, and thousands upon thousands of acres of splendid farms laid waste. The same kind of reports come from all places on the Mississippi river between here and Cairo. The river rose tlifee inches here to-day. and marked thirty-four feet seven inches at 5 o’clock this morning.

NORTHERN MISSOURI. Extensive Damage to Crops and FarmsDifficulty o 1 Communication. St. Joskph, Mo., June 23.—At 10 o’clock to-night the river at this point is seventeen feet six and one-half inches above low water mark, a rise of five and one-half inches since 6 o’clock this morning. A heavy rain-storm occurred between 12 and 2 o’clock this morn* ing, seriously interfering with the repairing of the damaged railroad track and bridges. The Little Platte river and other streams which had partly subsided were again swollen to-day. The damage to public and private property by the late storms in northwestern Missouri, northern Kansas and southern Nebraska has been very great, but as the railroads nave all been suspended, wagon roads made impassible, and many of the wires broken down, the details h iv. come in but slowly. The damage to wagon roads and bridges, as well as crops, is more extensive than has been believed. Many people have been driven from thqir homes by the flood, losing everything thf*y had. including furniture, stock and implements. Only one mail arrived to-dav. at 3 o'clock this afternoon, from Kansas City, on the iv. C., St. Jo. AC. 15. railroad. The tauin was destined for Council Bluffs, with a fkrge bulk of mail, but had to be abandoned here. At a Stand at Kiinsa* City. Kansas City, June 23.—The river to-day fluctuated slightly, and to-night the gauge is about the same as it was twenty-four hours ago. Serious interruption to railroad traffic still continues, especially along the river above here, hut most of the roads are running trains, although some of them at great inconveiuend?. Rains, either general or local, are reported nearly every day from the country tributary to the Lower Missouri, and serve to maintain its present stage. The damage by floods in this immediate vicinity lias been less than in other localities, botlr above und below this city. THE NEBRASKA FLOOD. The Southern Part. 4*l' the state Under Water —Many Li Lust. Omaha, Neb., June 23 -W. C. Starkey arrived here yesterdaj on ihe first train out of Pawnee county nice the flood which hat prevailed there. II .’elates i. it the whole southern country was flooded by the rising of the Nebraska river can ■*d by r heavy and ex rainstorm. Jo..u Bt.gk. '* mily liy*