The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-23

The damage In East Tennessee by the late food
1 Is Estimated d over 81 100000. A large number
Of farmers lost everything.
/ Cincinnati, March l3.-Reports from below rep
resentgreat destruction Of property by the food
In many places between New Albany and Evans
vile the river is 80 miles wide. Thousands OIL. cat
| tie, sheep and hogs have been drowned, aud hun
drcds Of thousands of bushels of gram have been
i destroyed. The country is covered With floating
stacks Of hay. wheat and oats. Neatly All the
steamboat landings are under water. In the low
or parts OF Covington and Cincinnati hundreds OF
houses are underwater. ShawneetOwn is Hooded
| New York, March 14.-Priva:e information rays
the British Government will permit no more news
OF Fenian risings to be sent by the cable.
The Roberts Fenian Senate has been called to-
gether. g "A 81 4 q
A very formidable campaign against the Indians
| in Kansas and Nebraska is organizing, and also
against the Indians on the plains. Hereafter all
emigrant trains must travel In good, force, armed
and organized. f..s
Gen. Grant assigns Generals Schofeld, Sckles,
Ord, Thomas and Sheridan to the Military Dis.
trcts of the South. 3kA @k5J
Vera Cruz dates to March I'd say Macmillan is
vigorously engaged in the field. A sweeping con.
scriptons was expected. "a
London March a. Dispatches from Dublin this
evening state that ireland is quiet; no new demon.
STATIONS are reported. There has been great
fall of snow in ireland. A number of Fenians,
lice barracks, were cheered by the people.
Placards emanafing from the emissaries of the
Irish Republic were posted ia the streets of Con>
mel, fOrbiddDg the people to pay rent.
The Atlantic Cable Company have decided not
to reduce their toll, Emperor Francis Joseph has
given orders for strengthening the Austrian forts
ON the Servian frontier.
Herr Wunchausen, Premier of the late Hanove
riau Government, has challenged Bismarck for
words spoken in debate in the German Parliament
Washington, March l4.--In the Senate the bill
authorizing the laying of the telegraphc cable
from the American coast to France, was reported
favorably.
The Supplementary Reconstruction bill was read
and some amendments by Drake OF Missouri were
rejected. F -T
Cairo, III, March l4.-Reports from the Arkan.
sas river country show great destruction of prop
erty and suffering OF the inhabitants by the la:e
floods. Twenty seven lives were lost at Helena--
mostly freedmen.
Cincinnati, March 14.-Specials report great
suffering in Chattanooga and other points, in con-
sequence of the floods. at Chattanooga, on the
l2th the water was from IL to 20 feet deep in the
city. many houses topping over or floating away,
the Mayor and his possee went foraging among the
loaded cars for food ; the agents OF the road pro-
tested, but the Mayor said the people were sLarv-
ing. Twenty-Five dead bodies were counted at
Bridgeport, Ala, on the 18th, floating down the
river. The loss OF property is immense. General
Carleton is at Nashville, Tenn, making Efforts to
send food to Chattanooga.
New York, March l5.-At the Fenian headquar
ters things continue brisk. Arms and money are
still being sent in. Several deputatOns from Cir.
cles of the Roberts faction have arrived and ten
dered aid to the men in Ireland.
The Tribune says the House Committee on For
eign Affairs have not yet reached q conclusion on
the Fenian sympathy resolution, but probably will
report something OF the kind. A, delegation of
Fenians was before them yesterday.
1t is stated that all the new Senators will vote
for the Colorado Admission bill, which will make
more than the two thirds requisite to carry it over
the Presidents veto.
The Herald's special says that Gen. Schofeld's
order assuming command IN Virginia as Military
Governor, gives entire satisfaction. Political op-
erations are commenced all over Virginia, and the
counties have, by popular voice, called a State
Convention under the Military Government law.
The correspondent adds Gentlemen from VIr-
GINA inform me that the people there are ready to
accept the terms of the Sherman bill, under the
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas
as well as Virginia, indicates that the negro vote
will undoubtedly be on the rebe! side, under this
bill, as it also would be, | believe, in Delaware
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri"
The Worlds special says Surrats trial is post
poned until June. sa#efFs
Among seven candidates for Marshal of New
Orleans is Gen. Kirby Smith, ex-rebel.
A Geographic cable is to be laid from Florida to
Cuba. l4e.
London, March 14-Government has just start
ed four gunboats to Dublin, to be posted on Ll6ey
river. The Fenians who took refuge in Wicklow
are perisbing from cold and hunger.