The weekly Butte record., 1867-09-14
The cisy OF Memphis in Peril.

A ee-rs rs,ponden of the NaSville onion and DIS
patch. having suggested that Memphis liable at
anv moment TO "fall in 10 watery abyss beneath
il caused by the satte-ranean dow of the MiSssS,p
nj the Memphis Bulletin adds the following:
..The river shore in the navy yard has rapidly
disappeared. There steamers rarely land IL
front OF the city proper there are always from ten
TO twenty steamers. BY these the earth. at the
waters edge is protected and the force of the sur
facecurrent is broken. Hence il appears that the
earth at the waters edge. and tor ten or twenty
feet below remains unbrohen. The great body of
the mighty tide of waters, forty and fifty feet be
lew ruShes onward in its unreSi>ied course rending
away the earth. How far tie stream passes be-
meath the cirv there is OF course no means of as
certaiu.ng The explosion of torpedoes forty or
fffv feet below the rivers surface. shook every
building west OF the bayou. Beyond the bayou the
shock was UNDECIDED nnfeit
Many wears ago saw mill was at work in the
swafnps OF Arkansas, twenty miles from the Missis
sippi. The owner awoke one fine morning TO find
his well dry n which the day before there w
ter thee or four feet deep lie cut trench 10 q
broad long surface pond, not far awap. and was
again supplied with an abundance OF water. The
trench connected the pond and we'll. Three days
elapsed and pond and WEI were both empty. The
old man at the mill was amazed The story was
told to a traveller from Memphis. at is plain
enough said he 1.-The river is lower than fer years
past and your well and pond have empiied them
selves into the great sever OF the continent. The
Mississippi not only overiiows but undertaws all the
broad valley through which it passes. Its channel
however broad and deep. could not contain all the
rains that fall and streams that come down from
the mountains. territories and States OF America.
At forts Pillow and Randolph every evidence of
has disappeared, swallowed up by the great
river. EarthworAs AT Randolph. built in 1851, 300
yards from the shore. have gone to the Baze. At
both these places, the river current. as here at
Memphis, strikes the shore at almost right angles
city paper tells us how planter within the week
deposited five thousand dollars worth of supplies
upon the river bank somewhere in Arkansas. He
had not gone half mile when the country behind
him disappeared with all his stores.
Reelfoot Lake is fathomleSs. 1t is not far from
the river. The night before the earthquake of 1872
lofty trees stood where deep, silent, still waters
have unbrUken repOse. Cypress trees two hundred
feet high went down. Their loftiest branches do
no. reach the surface of the wonderful lake. ears
before the great river had undermined the country
the land went down and water came up. Every
where around New Madrid we have iudubitahle ev-
dence that the mig lty river finds It's way far be
meath the earth 5 surface An earthquakes shock
broke down the earthen bridges that everywhere
along the river shores span mighty streams and
deep subterranean lakes, that reservoirs 10 sup
ply atmospheric moisture and hold the superabun-
d.nt waters of this broad valley"
LATE INDIAN OUrR sGsS N ARIzovA.-W. Fl.
Hardy, writing from Hardyville Arizona, August
20th, says: | had written thus far, full of hopes
tHll no more ueDTeuAilplS ,buI
as stop to breathe man rides up 10 the door
exc ted step to the door 10 learn the cause.
learn that the Willing party, thirteen in all had
returned from Prescott, as far Beal Springs
when Mes~rs. LIKE. Simpson, Hyde, Altman
Yonker, Mezner. Mill5urry, fnge, and Mchaes.
left the balance of the party and went about ten
miles to the north to lock at some mines in the
Sacramento District. On the morning of the Goth
inst, they left camp and climbed up rough noun
tim to look al ledge when they were attacked by
Il band of hostile Huaapais. j. H. Simpson, lead
of the party. fell dead al the first fire: soon
Frank Mezner and Edward Yonker fell dead, and
four of their horses were shot from under them
Henry A. Altman is missing, but was alive when
last seen. The five men that got in here were bad
ly demnrazed and excited there were none of the
party used to frontier lite and they made bad
job of it They lost four men, five breach loading
rifles and ammunition, three revolvers, six horses,
aud fair travelling outfit. at once reported the
facts to Majlr Price, who sent twenty cavalrymen,
in charge OF Lieutenant Hassen to bring in the
dead and learn as much as possible with in>truc-
tons not to bring on fight with the Indians if
possible. as the Major intends - send about two
hundred men in that direction in few days. This
war party OF Indians is no doubt Serla party, as
old oerina in command. He has. at this time.
about two hundred warriors, well armed and well
supplied with dried horse meat, and prepared for
campaign.