Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
SAD CONDITION OF AFFAIRS m THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
THE WHOLE COUNTRY mum
DATED.
The Inhabitants of q Vast Area
in Great Distress.
THE WATER EIGHT INCHES
HIGHER THAN IN 1876.
New Developments in the Fitz John
Porter Case.
THE WHOLE COUNTRY INuN'
DATED.
SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.

ley. Ih0usands OF men are ou eonssan'
guard along the levees between here and
vicksburg, using every possible means to
strengthen their power OF resistance and
elevate their crests to prevent the water
from inundating the whole country.
The steamer Greepville brought up several
thousand empty sacks, and used them by
filling them with earth to aid in strength
ening the embankment. The whole shore
line between Memphis and Vicksburg on
the Mississippi side, and the whole eastern
shore of Arkansas, are either under water
or threatened with inundation. The in
habitants of a vast area of country are In
great distress. Many have been forced
from their homes and are subsisting as
best they may on RATS, and some on
knobs or parts of old levees. The de-
struction Of live stock is beyond calcula-
ton, and the waste of property by the
great submersion of the outside limits
represent no computation. The naviga-
ton OF the river itself is regarded BY
steamboat men as dangerous at its pres
emit stage on account of the great ex-
panse of water in many locali-
ties, and the billowy character OF the
waves, when the surface is swept by heavy
gusts Of wind; also, because of the great
difficulty in getting to safe ports. The
Government lights along the river are
maintained with admirable regularity.
These lights prove of incalculable benefit
to the steamboat men now, since all bank
landmarks have disappeared. Arkansas
City is completely submerged. Not a sim
gle house in the city is free from the pres
ence of muddy floods. The water there is
represented as being eight inches higher
than the flood Of 1876. The houses were
built 80 as to be above high food level that
year, but in all Of them there is from 7 to
8 inches Of water. Between Cairo and
Memphis the following points of land are
| only visible above the surging flood:
| Bluffs at Columbus Hills, bank Of Hick-
| man, land on the Tennessee side opposite
| Island Ten, New Madrid. Point Pleasant,
| Tiptonville, Fulton Bluffs, Randolph Rich
ardson's, Islands IS and SO, and Deans
Island, above the head Of the Centennial
cutoff. 40 miles above Memphis.
The Fitz-John Porter Case.
New YORK, Feb. 22.-The Graphic's
Washington special says: General Fitz-
John Porter's friends claim new develop
ments that will help the case. They will
produce a telegraph operator from Pope'a
headquarters during the Rapidan cam.
paign. They claim that he can show that
II was impossible for Porter to have
obeyed The onders sent him, even il de.
livered; In fact, that they could not have
been delivered at the time it was testified
that they were delivered; that instead Of
half-past 8 o'clock II must have been after
dark. They profess to be able to show.
by the knowledge OF the operators, who
had been communicating with one another
over the wires, that for two days. while
Pope thought he had the enemy on his
front, they were massing on his rear, and
that he was outgeneralsd. and that Q scape-
goat had to be found, and that this was
Porter's III fortune. It il reported also
that General Ruggles, now On Shsrman's
staff, will tell what he knows, and that he
will say that Pope was in the wrong In the
matter. and that Pope gave orders impos-
sible to execute. II is said that Grants
last expression Of opinion had the effect Of
opening the mouths Of the General and
officers who before regarded II % dis
Greet to preserve silence. The President
will be urged to take action on the verdict
| Of the Board Of Review, which set aside
the finding Of the frst court-martiAl.
Letter from Lieut.. Danenhausr to
His Brother.
CHICAGO. Feb. GA curiosity in the
shape Of q letter from Lieutenant Danen-
hauer was received last Tuesday by his
brother, Mr.. Wash D~anenhauer. 1t is
probably the Arst letter ever received from
the mouth of the Lena. It was on the
.noI t..nk H1~. ~N-kk a. = H. nL- -
velops is covered with various Russian
seal, evidently that Of some Siberian
officer. The letter is as follows:
HOUSE OF RUSSIAN CoosMA,
LENA RIVER, Siberia, Oct. IA, 1881.
My Dear Wash: Safe and in good health.
Love to all, dear mother especially. Home
BY Spring, I hope. Send letters to B.. F.
Stevens, London, for me. Find out Ut
the Navy Department II Stevens is still
dispatch agent at London. Write him to
keep my mail subject to my orders. Hope
this may reach you some time. Love for
all. (Signed) JOHN.
No Change I'm b secretaryship Of
In Interior.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The feeling is
now prevalent among Senators that the
President will not now make a change in
the Secretaryship Of the Interior. 1t is
believed that at one time he had decided
to put Sargent in the place, but he could
not. owing 70 the fact that a heavy case in
which Sargent was interested was pend
ing. This caused so much procr~astination
that II 10 thought that he will keep Kirk
wood. He can do this very well, no he
has made q good officer, and the people Of
Iowa very much desire that he should re-
main.
Additional Star Route Indictments.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Grand Jury
concluded its session last night, and
brought in additional Star Route indict-
ments. McIrredell. private Secretary to
ex-senator Dorsey, for subornation OF
perjury; John W. Dorsey, brother Of the
ex-senator, for perjury in connection with
q route in Colorado; ]. A. Peck, J. r.
Minor and - @. ~6indepon for perjury in
connection with routes in the Territories.
The River Falling.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 22.-The river has
fallen nearly two feet from the highest
mark. and is falling rapidly. The weather
Is clear and cold. Advicss from up the
river show the river still rising, and II may
rise again here. but the cold weather gives
promise that the worstis over. No change
In the general situation.
Clarence BARTON In Hts old Place.
wAsMSoToN. Feb. 22.-ClArence Bar
ton, Of the National Republican. resumed
his chair in that Office to-day. His neck
is still somewhat stiff. and he has q plaster
over thes spot where young Soteldo's bullet
entered, but otherwise he feels as well as
though nothing had happened.
Eul0gisttc Resolutions.
CLEVELAND, Feb. PA committee rep
resenting the ex-Confederate soldiers Of
Cincinnati visited Mrs. Garfield at Mentor
to-day and presented her with . beautiful
memoriAl tribute 10 Jamaa A. Gardald. In