Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-26
The Floods.

IiVo i,"'c poeh SWoiich 10 an extraordinary
flood by the recent rains Bridges have
been swept away, live stock carried off and
drowned, and families, in some cases, res
cuod from the second story windows.
'' 'THE WESTERN MvERs.-A curious
state of things exists just below Illinois,
Precisely opposite the mouth of the Mis-
souri,, the river has been running with such
force against the bank as to cut deeply into
it, and break much of it away, for some
= years past, causing the apprehension that
at some timo or other, new channel would
3 be formed for the Mississippi, which would
consequently be diverted from its present
channel. The event has occurred to a GER
tain extent; and the water will doubtless
tnd passage again to the Mississippi, and
cut deep and permanent channel below
Alton
The upper Mississippi was swelling all
the way down-hogs were drowning, pco-
pie distracted with fear, and the bottoms
overflowed
The Des Moincs, Skunk, Salt Wiscon
ain, ,&cl, were all pouring out at flood height.
There isno telling how the Missouri is ris-
ing, except that it is swelling faster and
getting higher than ever remcmbercd.-
Kansas river was out of it's banks, and 9TH
or rivers were in the same condition.
On Saturday, one hundred and fifty head
OF cattle were drowned i'll the bottom a
short distance above the mouth of the Illi-
nois. Monday morning, opposite the same
place, the steamer Henry Clay passed a lot
of 30 to 40 hogs swimming in the river
which were doubtless lost.
FREsHET INTHE SCIuYIKlII.-Thc
is heavy freshetin the Schuylkill, and in
the vicinity of Philadelphia the wharycs
Z were completely submerged and the loss of
lumber and other property is very extensive
Immense quantities of lumber, firc.wood,
barrels of whiskcy, coal, tar, &C., passed
, down with the water yesterday, and hun
tlreds of mon were engaged in resching the
% floating material. Several RATS came float
ing down the river
ST. LOUIS, June 14.--Dcspatchcs from
Cairo state that on Saturday afternoon
crevasse opened on the Mississippi side of
the town, through which the water poured
at fearful rate, filling up the whole space
between the lcvees, and it is now running
over the cmbankment on tho Ohio side
about thousand feet. The Illinois Cen
trail Railway is washed away on the south
wing. A part of the new hotel fell in on
Sunday, and the balance is expected to fall
during the night Nearly all the houses
are tumblin.: down, drifting away or sink
ing. Scarcely a building in the city is cx-
Pected to withstand tho flood. The water
is "a feet deep in the second story of the
Taylor House, and is still rising rapidly.
Mound City is.aso in danger of being
overtiown. The water at this point still
continues to rise, and all the upper streams
are pouring out foods.
MEMPHIS, june 16.-As far as asccr-
tanned, eighty-fve cabin passengers and one
hundred and twenty deck passengers have
been saved from the burning of tho steam
or Pennsylvania, OH the evening of Sunday
last. This would leave the number of lost
as fifteen cabin and eighty deck passengers,
or a total of uinety-five.
NEwORLEANs, June 17.-Tho overt. US
of the cotton lands, which have been in
progress for some time past, are now regard
cd as very serious, and tho market here in
consequence is more active, with an up
ward tendency in prices.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 18.-'Thc Great
fazoo Pass gave way last night, and the
channel is now over thirty yards wide, and
rapidly increasing IN width. The water
In the Mississippi has, in consequence, fall
en- eight or ten feet, and is rushing with
terrific force through the opening, telling
all trees in its course, 1T will dcluge tho
whole Yazoo valley.
CINcINATI, June 18,A-The river is fall
ing rapidly the weather has bcon fine
with the thermometer at so degrees The
Miami bottoms arc now free of water, and
tho corn planting is going on The wheat
is in fine condition, and the barley is being
harvested, and the crop will be q good one.
FLoRIDA REGUJAToRs--FIvE MEN
HUNG AND Two WOMEN WHIPPED. .--The
Regulators are doing lively business in
FLORIDA. The Savannah Republican says
Eve arc informed that within month,
five persons werc hung by the Regulators
in and about Tampa Bay, for divers serious
offences, and without formal itrialb by jury.
i, One man was hung to'a tree in the streets
of Tampa, so high that his feet could not
he reached by pe.sons passing on horseback.
ise also statcs that Q, negro Was arraigned
for murder in Nassau county, some time
since, when but eleven jurymen answered
to their names While the oflicerwas alb
sent, summoninea talesman to make up
tho twelfth, some fifteen Regulators enlcr-
cd ;he Court room, took the prisoner from
the box to a place on the Florida and Geor-
gia line, and hung hira to a. tree.
"One of the volunteers in the late SER
Vice against tho Indians. no also states for