Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-17
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE OVERFLOW ABOUT NEW
ORLEANS.
PLANTING ALONG THE RIVER
SUSPENDED.
Hundreds Of Cattle Dying from
Starvation.
CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY
ALARMING.
JOHN RUSSELL yoUNc's APP
PoINTMENT.
Proceedings Of the Anti-Mono-
poly Convention.
OSCAR WILDE COMING TO THE
COAST.
Dana INDICATED at the Expense
Of Garfield.
Dana INDICATED at the Expense
of Garfield.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.

NEW OALEAN5g 4 v 1O
Camden reports the rise all the way down
the river only three and a half inches be-
low the high water mark Of 1874. Nearly
all of Trenton is under water, and in
some places is three feet deep. Business
is suspended aud the roads are impossible.
Communication can only be had by water.
Planting along the river is suspended.
Stock is huddled together, and many are
dying from starvation and from buffalo
gnats, which are worse now than for 20
years past. Rain is threatened to-day.
Should it come, Monroe, the highest point
on the east bank of the Ouachita, will be
inevitably submerged. The condition OF
the country is alarming.
vIcKsBURG, March 16.-News from the
overlooked districts continues to pour in.
The distress is terrible. A steamer from
the Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers, which
left the mouth of the C%oldwater, 437
miles above Vicksburg, on Sunday morn
ing at daylight, reports the water there
five feet higher than ever known, and still
rising at the rate OF seven inches in "a
hours. The people along the Tallahatchie
and Yazoo rivers are living on the tops OF
their residences and in gin lofts. In many
places the water was up to the caves OF the
buildings. Horses and mules will be
pretty generally saved, but the greater
portion of other stock will be drowned.
Barges, skiffs and other means of relief
are being freely sent tolthe sufferers at diff
ferent points. A very large quantity OF
ak1ox ard roapu fanni1iao arriyad fo-6ay
from different localities.
ST. LOUIS, March 16.-John Cain, a live
| stock owner of this city, who has just
| returned from down the river, says he was
| informed that when the levee at Riverton
broke, a barge, upon which some 60 per-
Sons had taken refuge, was swept through
the crevasse by the raging current, and up
to the time he left there had been nothing
| heard Of it. The belief was that, if the
barge had escaped destruction, the people
upon it were starving, but it was feared
that the barge had been dashed against
the trees in the swamp and broken in
pieces, and those upon. it drowned. Gains
story is not much credited.
MEMPHIS. March 16.-The river con-
tinuss falling. 1t TO- marks IS feet 6
inches on the gauge, and is declining at
all points down the river.
HELENA (Ark.), March 16.-The river
continues falling at the rate of q 4 inches
in "a hours. The overflow in the city is
passing off in q like ratio, and the worst is
over. although there is little or no di-
minution in the suffering. The aid fur
nished by the Government is but a
Rpdicum, compared to what the country
requires to save the starving people.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Secretary
OF War has telegraphed to Gen. Beckwith
at st. Louis about sending army officers
to various points in Louisiana, to make
detailed reports OF the restitution. He
has also instructed the Commissary Gen
eral to have 10000 rations forwarded to
the Commissioners for Illinois, for the re-
lief Of Shawneetown.
The New Minister to China.
New YORK, March 16.-The Sun says Of
John Russell Young's appointment to the
Chinese Mission Young has long been
notorious among newspapers as a sneak
news thief. He gained that title when he
was managing editor Of the Tribune, by
abusing his trust and stealing the news OF
the Associated Press. Having stolen this
news, he published the same in a small
penny paper, Of which he was the owner,
in Philadelphia. The fact of the theft ex-
cited great attention among the members
Of the Associated Press, and when the
thief was detected and exposed by the Sun,
an investigation took place, the result Of
which, as stated by our esteemed contem-
porary, the Tribune, was that Young was
constrained to leave that paper at the de-
mand Of other members OF the Associated
Press. The Sun concludes its article thus:
AND now General Grant has got him NOM
mated to be Minister to China, and il any
thing Ia to be done for these sort Of char
acters, diplomatic employment is
probably the safest sphere in which to use
them. II Arthur would nominate several
more of them to posts in remote and bar
barous lands, he would not only be doing
something to evince his own merciful gem
erosity, but he would also confer a special
benefit upon the people of the United
States.
Autobiography RESOLUTIONS.
S~pRrSaFrELD (Ill.). March 16.-The
Autobiography Convention adopted reso-
buttons approving the railroad legislation
Of Illinois, declaring that corporations are
subject to the control Of the Legislature;
that the railroad laws should be strictly
enforced; that the Governor and Ware
house Commission should prosecute those
guilty Of almost constant violations OF
these laws; that pass giving 10 indirect
bribery, and no candidate shall receive the
support Of this Convention for any office
who will take such bride, or who will not
favor . law to make the offering or taking
Of passes bribery, and disqualify q man
from office. 1t was further resolved that
this convention select q State Committee
OF one or more from each county to detect,
report and prosecute violations OF the rail-
road laws; that this committee be recon-
mended to pre- cd against railroad CON-
panies by quo ~wsrranto; that the Railroad
and Warehoos, Commission will fully
neglect its duty unless it gives q two cent
per mile rate for passengers on the load
ing roads OF the State, inc cuts down the
freight rates to compare with those of
other States; that the Railroad and Ware
house Commission shall prosecute abuses
without formal complaint.
The 0arneld Letter Genuine.
wAsHrSoroS. March i6.-Ali doubt a.
10 how darield's letter to the late Chief
Justice Chase became public has been re.
by the admission of J. A. 6chuok- |
ers, formerly private secretary to Chase. J
that he furnished a copy to Dana OF the
New York Sun. Schuckers says in regard to
the matter: YES; I gave the le ter to Dana, |
and that is all there is to be said. My mo-
tive, whether personal or for the public !
is q matter Of no account. / shall
enter into any public discussion about
hat letter; suffice it TO say it was given out