The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-05
ST. LOUIS.

Prizes for Cefson-Import Duties
Delay Of Trains-Tcrriblc Loss Of
Life-Dissntisfacti among the In
dians-They Dent like the Quakers-
Endian Outragcs-Terrifc storm in
Iowa-A Village Levcled TO the
q roun nd.
2 ST. LOUIS, June 3.-The merchants of
this city have offered premium of $500
each for two bales of cotton to be exhi-
bited at the st. Louis Agricultural and
Mechanical Fair, Oe tober next. One
bale to be long staple and the other
short staple. This is the highest premi'
um ever, offered for cotton. The judges
are to be southern men.
The amount of import duties collected
here during the month of June amount
to 1927 1850 in coin.
A prominent Government contractor,
just from Fort Sully, makes the follow.
ing report: There has been no rain OF
any account north or west of Sioux City
and but little hey Ond Omaha. The Mis-
souri, is rising at these points but very
little, aad that little is not attributable
to rain. Below Council Bluffs the dam
age is very great from Phelps to Craig
Stations. At Council Bluffs, however
the track is from three to four feet under
water, and there has been no trains fol
four days. EgI-2
Captain Bartle, of the steamer Noun
taineer, reports that at o creek below
| Council Bluffs he saw twenty.seven
dead bodies taken ont, the bodies OF
men, women and children, drowned Oy
the sudden rise of the rivers and over
flow of the fiat prairie lands: FROM
every quarter below Kansas CITY the
report comes of the loss OF HE ana
property. .e,
The Indians are greatly dissatisfied,
and say they don't understand or IKE
the Quakers, but prefer Harvey, as they
know Just what they can do with him
and what to depend upon. If provis-
ions are not sent to them promptly there
will be trouble.
A dispatch from Sioux City says: The
steamar Amelia Labarge arrived here
this evening from Bufcrd, and brings
reports of Indian outrages at Grand
river and Big Cheyenne. The whites
were greatly excited. The Indians hav-
ing received no supplies, and having
been repeatedly deceived, are firing into
steamboats,, driving off stock and
threatening death to all whites.
Adyices from Dubuque, Iowa, say
that one of the most fearful storms ever
known has just passed through the
lower part of Clinton county, it being
no more nor less than a violent tornado,
which pursued nearly the same path
marked out by the famous Camanche
hurricane of 1860. Nothing was able to
withstand its progress. Fences were
swept away like chat. Trees were
wrenched out by the roots, and cattle,
hogs and poultry were taken up
into the air, carried great
distance and killed, but the greatest
scene of ruin and desolation was
wrought at Malonee, on the North
western road. Every house in the viii
lage was leveled to the ground and one
woman killed, while several Others were
The damage to property is
estimated at several thousand dollars.
A Kansas paper, in referring to the
storms and freshets in that State, says
that colony of Swedes, who were en-
camped on the Kaw river, in temporary
shanties, they being off in the back
were suddenly engulfed by
The rapid rising of the Kaw. They en-
leavored to escape, but only thirteen
in doing so, the remainder of
the party, Numbering tive lty in all, be-
ing carried away and submerged in the
waters.