Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-03-20
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DISASTROUS FRESHEr AT THE WEST.
Below Cincinnati there has been great destruc-
ton OF property by food in many places. Between
New Albany aud Evansville the Ohio river is
thirty miles wide. Thousands Of cattle, sheep aud
hogs have been drowned and hundred thousand
bushels Of grain have been lost. The country is
covered with floating stacks Of hay, wheat aud
oats. Nearly all the steamboat landings are un-
der water, andlboats cannot make their landings
Shawneetown is completely inundated. In the
lower part Of Cincinnati and in Covngton, KY,
hundreds Of houses are under water.
At Louisville the Ohio rose nine inches in the
fourteen hours proceeding A. W. Wednesday,
aud AZ that time continued rising az the rate of an
inch per hour. IL was then within four feet Of the
great rise Of 1917, and five feet Of that OF 1882.
The leyee near Mound City, H.. broke, Wednes-
day morning. The breach is about forty feet vide
and six inches deep The citizens were doing all
they could 10 prevent an iuundlton Of the town.
The property destroyed by the late flood in
East tennessee is valued at over $1,000 OO0.--
Over 200 persons at Knoxville were washed out of
their houses, and many farmers lost all. houses,
barns, grain and stock. In all parts of Kentucky
/ and Tennessee the food is reported to have been
Unprecedented The roads south Of Louisville are
badly broken up by the carrying away Of bridges,
culverts, aud by land slides
The officers of the steamer Rockford, just from
the Arkansas River, report the country entirely
oycrtlowed with great loss Of property and suffer-
/ ing among the inhabitants
/ TwenW-seven lives had been lost at Helena,
Arkansas by the Hood, mostly free linen.
Twenty-Five dead bodies were seen floating
down the river at Bridgeport, Alabama on the
18th. The loss OF property is estim9ted at a mill
lion dollars. Gen. Carn at Nashville, was max
ing efforts to send rations through TO Chattanooga.
New YoRK, March IS.
A'Washington special says the people of Vr-
ginia consider Mr. Wilson's bill great'vctory
over the radicals, and Gov. Pierpont, it is said,
will leave the reorganization entirely in the hands
OF; the President and his rebel friends.
WAsuNGToN March 13.
Il is stated that the President, Generals Grant,
Sherman and Hancock had consultation yester-
day, relative to the appointment Of the Southern
District Commanders, and decided upon the fol-
lowing 49,
lst district, Gen schofsld; 2lyGen. sickles !;
Sd, Cen Thomas It'll, Gen. Ord; 9th, Gen.
Sher dan.
An order announcing the appointments will at
once be issued and no instructions, it is said, will
accompany it,.
A dispatch from New Orleans states that at a
meeting OF the Legislature of Louisiana Yesterday,
resolutions were introduced, declaring the Sher-
man bill unconstitutional and demanding test
OF IL in the u. S. Supreme Court. The resolu-
tons were referred to the Judiciary Committee. 1
The .Governor of Georgia telcgraphs to the
Government that at least 60 900 white and 30,-
0oO colored people residing in that State are quite
destitute.
Mr. Conway. of the sRelief Commission, states
that during the next three months many persons
will sarve to death at the South, if assistance is
not given them.
An officer Of the Treasury Department, recent
" arrived from Alabama, describes many painful
scenes witnessed in that State The distress is
very great.
WAsulNGroN March IA.
The House is getting inpatient and adjourned
Immediately after meeting to-day. IL refused to
adjourn over to Monday hoping the Senate may
pass the supplemental reconstruction bill tonight
In that case, the House will agree to it promptly
Tomorrow.
An attempt made in the House to institute
another Investigation into the Treasury Depart
ment, but it objected to.
=, The President is anxious that Congress should
adjourn, and will send back the reconstruction bill
quietly, or sign it.
NEW York, March Is.
WAsHNGToN, March Is.
Gen. Schofeld's order upon assuming command
of the Virginia Military District, under the recon-
strueton bill, gives much satisfaction
Gentlemen from Georgia state that the people
there ready to accept the terms Of the Sherman
bill under the proposition of Ex-Governor Brown
Panama correspondence TO the fth inst, reports
the prevalence Of yellow fever at that port Six
teen deaths from that disease had occurred on
board the q S. steamer jamestown.
The House members are indignant at the dila-
tory conduct Of the Senate upon the supplement-
ed reconstruction bill. The House only allowed
debate OF two hours, AMI the Senate has had