Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-07
KILOGRAMS, 3c.

N dangerous reyasse is reported five miles
oeiow New Dreams, on the opposite bank
The hole is twelty feet in extent, and increas-
ing The riveris rising The levee commits
sloners are still in session. Recorder GatnplI,
Oh the second district, was stabbed i'll the court
room on the 5th inst, by an insane man. His
w0nnds are se'ous. The grand jury have
called the attention of Governor Weles 10 the
conduct OF Corner Geser in dismissing the
murderers of Guber. The affair has prod uced
much excitemat. The press argue that the
PRESIDENTS proclamation abolisnes martial
law, and military occupations removed.
Additional baa news has been received from
the creyasseS. Heavy rains continue and the
whole country is flooded. 1t is feared the
whole country down to the Bayou Plaque
mine Will be submerged, rs Bayou Prague
mine cannot carry of the flood; and it will ex-
tend down 10 La Fourche, comprising the
richest sugar and cotton lands in Louisiana.
Crevasses are cared all over the State.
The last rail between Kansas city, Mo-, and
Wyandotte, Kansas, joining the Union Pacific
railroad, waslaid on Monday last by the prin-
cipal officers of each road. On Tuesday the
new board Of directors of the Union Pacific
road took a our of inspection TO Cross creek,
the present terminus of the line. Ninety miles
of the Wyantotte road will be ready for traffic
to Fort Riley early in June, giving three hum
dred and serenity five miles direct rail west OF
st. Louis.
The fire the corner of Broadway and Bar
clay streets, New York, destroyed Nos. 229 and
23l, occupied by IL. ]. Bang as hotel and res
taurant, SnC others. The total loss by this fire
is S2UU,OGu The fire Is supposed to have orIgi-
mated from furnace in the basement. The
losses by The fire yesterday morning on FuI-
ton, Barclay, and other streets, amount 10
nearly S3UUUO0. Several lives are reported
lost.
The steamer City of New London, from New
London, when of Eaton's Neck, was run into
by the steamer Monitor. The New London
was struck about ten feet abaft her stern, and
cut almost completely through her hull and
below the water line. The Monitor, badly
stove, was run ashore IN Lloyd's Harbor Her
passengers were brought by the City of New
LondCn. No one war hurt.
The tank panic in Rochester, New York,
continues. Il. karnes, a private banker, who
was not doing Il large business in deposits
suspended yesterday for want of currency
His friends are confident he Will resume pay
ment. run was made all day upon Riyers's
banking house, but made no impression.
At meeting of the principal creditors of
Culver, Penn & Co, resolutions were passed
unanimously expressing entire confidence in
the ability ard integrity OF the firm. and recon-
meEding that tie assignment be cancelled. and
an extension granted OF six, twelve, eighteen,
and Twenty-four months.
The New Jersey Legislature adjourned yes
terday at noon. The Republicans held a eau
Gus in the afternoon. Both houses adjourned
with much good feeling
II appears that Beatty Brothers who sus-
pended in New York. were not Gef.ulted by q
member of the firm, but by an uncle of one OF
the members.
Governor Crapo, of Michigan, has by procIa-
nation appointed the 18th OF April 4 day for
iasung and prayer.