Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19

~ At the meeting in the Court House
last night, called to adopt measures for an appro
pirate celebration of the Fourth, large and respec
table number of our citizcns-staid away. The SOD.
itary caller of the meeting might have said, in the
language of poesy,
III feel like who treads alone
Some sAwDusr hall deserted"
So, the determination seems to be that are to
have no general celebration of Independence Day in
this city. Cann' our young folks get up excur-
son on the river ?-Daily. yesterday.
DRowNED.-A boy about years of age,
member of a family residing near the gas works,
did not come home from his play as usual last
night md upon search being made his body was
found after daylight in the water near Wells
Goes stave factory. He had no doubt accidentally
fallen in and drowned. An inquest was held before
Mayor Meason (ex-oficio Justice,) and verdict re-
turned in accordance with these facts. The boys
| name was Case.-Daly, yesterday.
Pic -Nlo.-The different schools of tho
city, preceded by the Light Guards and band Of
music, marched through the principal streets this
was quite lengthy and an unusually pretty sight.
The little folks were dressed in their best and SEEM
cd to be as happy as they could be--Daily, ycster
day.
"THE SHow.'--The performance given at
fremont Hall, last night, by the amateur Il hio-
plan troupe, was rich affair." Our boys have shown
that they can do up things in that line about
well as those who make a business of it. Mr.. Cook
is one of Menus favorities, and "brinss down the
house" every time.-Daily, yesterday.
c~ Our wharf was visited at about IL
O'Clock last night by the steamer Fanny Harris.
with large pleasure party on board from Rock
Island and Davenport Two salutes fired from
cannon on board, together with the music Of fine
band and the shouts of persons on the landing as
we'll as from the party On the boat, made quite
lively time-as We are told, for ut that witcbns
hoar we were in the custody of Alphabetically
yesterday. .g..jl-
A"c,DENr.--A young man named Clark,
while adjusting swing at the picnic, this fore
noon, fell distance OF aoo~t twenty feet. and was
severely though, it is hoped, not DANGEROUSLY in
jured.-Daily, yesterday.
G. The following cases of local inter est
we find reported in the Hawkeye as having been de-
ended in the Supreme Court at Burlington last week:
Muscatne county-Bynnett vs.. Bevard, reversed
Arson VS.. Stem, &C., reversed. sst
CO The Presbyterian Sunday School So
ciety will have a picnic to-day at the old Fair
Grounds.
rEA.Wc are indebted 10 Mr. David Morgan
for St. Louis Evening News Of the Is h.
->o>-
i>Kiver News.
GREAT FLoop AT CAIRO THE Town NEARLY DE-
srHoYxD.-Dispatches from Cairo state that on Sun
day last a crevasse opened on the Mississippi side
of the town, through which the water poured at
fearful rate filling up the whole space between the
lcvee. The EN- bankments on the Ohio side, and about
thousand feet of the Central Railroad are washed
away. The left wing of the new no Ell fell asan-
der, and the balance expected to fall during the
night Nearly all the houses were tumbling down,
drifting away or sinking. Scarcely building in
the city is expected to withstand the flood. , The
water is two and half deep in the second stories
of the Taylor House and still rising rapidly at
last accounts. Mound City is also in danger Of be-
ing overfowed.
On Friday boat dispatched from St. Louis
to the relief of the nh abtants Of Cairo, and other
towns, Who without much assistance, it was feared,
might be swept away by the food.
The FLooD AT ST. LoUIs.-On last Sunday after
neon the water was rising at St. Louis, at the rate
of half an inch an hour, while the news from the
upper Mississippi and the Missouri indicated that
the waters would not fall for some days at lie st
The high water has already reached within some
three feet the high water Of the disastrous flood of
1884, and is hi CHER than the food of 1851, which
did much injury. The lcvee at St. Louis is over
flowed, and the water is nearly up to the second
floors Of many of the buildings, while some of the
machine shops at the upper end of the city
p!etey flooded. The bottom lands opposite the city
are completely su Emerged back to the bluff, a dis
tancc, in places, of nearly five miles. Illinois
town is Hooded, and the people have deserted it,
Thousands of farms under water and seriously
damaged, while large quantity Of stock has been
destroyed. The growing crops are of entirely
| ruined. -.. #.r. ..|... "t.t.
BusiSEss.-A number of boats have laid up on
account Of the low rates and scarcity Of freghts.
The Mary Cook and Belfas. have laid up at Davcn-
port; Sam Young, Brazil and several other boats of
| this trade nt St. Louis. The rate of freig ht
wheat from this port to St. Louis is only I2A
per sack passage S. to S. We are glad to observe
that the packets 'long larger passenger bust
ness than some weeks ago. They are also carrying
freights through to St. Louis since the arrange
ment Of running over The Rapids.
The river fell six inches at Dubuque on Monday
last. So says the Express and Herald of Tuesday.
1t continues to fall also at this place.
| The FLcoD-The river commenced recedng at
St. Louis Wednesday, after reaching height
only feet and about inches below the food Of
1874. Cairo, at the JUNCTION of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers is nearly if not quito in total rum.
On Monday forenoon the correspondent Of the st.
Louis Republican wrote as follows
"Cairs is overfowed, submerged ndated. The
evee broke the Mississippi side at half past four
O'Clock Saturday afternoon, and the town was filled
with water by nine o'clock Saturday night. Every
body (including your correspondent has been en-
ployed all day in saving the lives of the pe"pl,-
the property being permitted to take Of tsef and
the male part of the population have had a good
| chance to try their swimming propensities. 1t is
impossible to do justice to the subject. Nobody
ever saw such wet place"
| MARRIED,
| lima 18Th nv Judoe Thayer. Mr.. PETER TuTTIE