Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-19

TIE OHlO CANAL.
The damage done the canal between this place
and Portsmouth ~ the late lreshot is said to JB ~
great that it cahhOt be repaired for The %rrsGmp'ion
Of navigation before the 18th of July ThHtt0khe
Adre,tistr.
The Muskingum and Scioto rivers are reported
over their bn~k ks, and higher than in 1847. Bird
ges and culverts have been washed away, and all
the low lands on each of these streams are inunda'
ted. All the water courses ~emptying into the
Ohio oo running out full, and the freshet here
will probably reach the houses fronting on the up
per and lower levees. At Georgetown q land slide
half a mile in width, took place Friday evening,
carrying down into the river a dwelling house, barn
aud other buildings. No lives were lost, the llmi.
ly being absent from homo at the time. The PITS.
burgh and Steubeuville Railway track was carried
away the entire width os the slide. The trains on
this road are thus seriously interrupted. Passen.
gers are fcrried round on the river from one end
of the slide to the other. AT Belle Air the steam
err John Buck was engaged on Saturday picking
up bridges, ETC., washed out of McMchen's creek,
- Cincinnati Gazette.
The town of Naples on the Illinois River is sub.
merged, and the inhabitants have mostly removed
TO the high lands in the rear Of the town.
All along the banks Of the upper Mississippi,
the Illinois, the Missouri, and the lower Mississip,
pi, most melancholy evidences of devastation will
be presented. Hundreds of well improved farms
will be destroyed, the labor of years of unwearied
industry. These seven years inundations, Tor
such they seem to be, will, now be looked upon as
certain to occur, and will, dc preciate the value oil
bottom land, which, before this disaster, was being
sought for by many persons. 1t is not a high
estimate to say that millions of douars' worth Of
property will be destroyed by this visitation.
ST. LOUIS, June 4th.-Despatches from Cairo
state that on Saturday afternoon q crcvasse open
ed on the Mississippi side Of the town, through
which the water poured at a fearful rate, filling up
the whole space between the levees and IS now
running over the embankments on the Opposite
side. About n thousand feet Of the Illinois Cen.
trail Railroad is washed away. The left wing Of
the new hotel fell in on Sunday, and the balance
was expected to fall during the night. Nearly all
the houses were ~turbling down, drifting away or
sinking. Scarcely a building in the city is expect
cd 20 withstand the food. The water is two and
a half feet deep in the second story of the Taylor
House, and still rising rapidly. Mound City is
also in danger Of being overlooked.
AT Roscoe in Northern Illinois a house with its
eight inmates was swept away. The head OF the
family Mr.. Illsley only surviving who gives the
following statement,
"The rain commenced to fall about s o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, and increased in force until
about 10. AT Q o'clock the water was up around
the house, and rushing by with great force. Mr..
I, proposed to his family to leave the house, but
as men who were in the neighborhood had told
them that they had seen the water higher than 1t
was now, they concluded not to 60 out.
al about IL o'clock, Messss. Thompson and
Lane and Towers got up to the house, and told
them they thought there was no danger, af the wa.
ter had lowered. Mr.. Illsley went to the door and
measured the height OF the water, and found 1t had
failed four or five inches. Having concluded to
remain in the house, the five younger children
were sent to bed, and shortly after the balance OF
the family met in the lower room and had prayers,
preparatory to retiring also. The other children
then went up stairs, and Mr.. Illsley proposed to
his wife to remain up a short time longer. This
must have been about ii or liz O'Clock.
Just after the three children went up, there
was n great rush of water past the house, and Mr..
7. went to the hall door with a lantern and looked
out. He found the water rushing by with tire.
mendous force on all sides of him and coming III
at the door. lie called loudly for help several
times, but the water was too deep, and rushing
with such tremendous force that no one could get
to the Inflated house.
"M,s. nlsley called to nIoratio, the oldest son
and ran up stairs Immediately. She then called
to her husband to come up, which he did, ana
opening one of the windows again screamed Tor
help, but in vain. AT this time he was just COM
ing out of his study, and was standing in the en-
try when he heard the children cry out Father,
Father" and at the same time he saw one end OF
the house fall out with a crash. lie then felt the
whole house swaying up and down like a BOAT on
the waves, and then it fell into ruins.
"Just as it fell he heard his wife scream, and
that was the last he heard or saw of his family.
lie Immediately found himself in the water, not
knowing how he got there, and with no power
to help himself, was tossed about and hurried
along with great velocity to the river"
FLOOD AT BALTIMORE Baltimore was visited
by a flood on Saturday, June II, 1858, hardly less
destructive than that of June IA, 1887. The
amount of property destroyed can hardly be esti-
mated. The losses thus far reported will not fall
short of $50, 900. Whole squares of that portion
of the city lying Immediately West of Jones' Falls
were inundated,
TIE GERMAN SINGER's FEsTIvAL.-Tbis great
Festival, which took place at Pittsburgh the 9Th,
9Th and 10th inst, was n grand affair. The
German Singers Union consists of about twenty
four Societies, located in different cities of Mich
igan, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky.
ect. The Prize Concert took place on the 9th,
and was largely atteLded. The prize, a large and
SPLENDID silver goblet, was awarded by the Com.
mittee to the Cleveland singers.
The singers picnic, at II grove some two miles
from the city, was attended by nearly or quite
twenty thousand people. Cleveland is selected as
the place for the next meeting.
GETTING his PAY.-The editor of the Mount
Vernon Banner supported the ~Lecompton swindle,
and the administration has rewarded him by max.
ing his sheet an advertising organ. One advertise
meut published in the Banner, is for Naval sup
plies, such as white pine, black spruce, pig iron,
cotton, canvass, pitch, tar and rosin, to be delivered
at Kittery, Maine; Charlestown, Mass, and other
Eastern points.
EMANCIPATION IN MIssoURI.-In the House May
81, Hon. c B. Tompkins of Ohio. presented the
following petition from a large number OF citizens
of Morgan county, Ohio:
TO the Senate and House Of Representatives in
Congress assembled
We, the undersigned, petition your honorable
body to grant to Missouri all the unsold lands in
that State, the avails of which the Legislature Of
said State shall apply to remunerate the owners of
slaves for their liberation in said State, to assist
them in making it q free State.