Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1881, Page 1

VOLUME XL ———— PraxNo. 0B CH Is Stll on Top. A pan-Yard Fowl Makes a Pags at Him and Gets Badly Spuired, e b A C'ase‘ of Misguid- i ed Enterprise. The OChickering Al- ways Victorious. 10 THE PUBLIC. e teel campelled to eall the attention of tho pube Neto n flagrnt caso of miaFeDRsEntRtion by 1 anzazed o the sato of plones and muaical tnstru- ente, which I8 nut only grosaly unjust to the mukers Bl 51 1 plano witich wo represe it but which i wlso cal R coratea to deeetve und misicad plang-bugors and the B vabic tn general. "The ttem in question: adeertised in The Tribane uf last Sundsy certaln second Bitls enlmed werw taken i exel b7 the s, Among s men- ’ which wero rep- beine it tio B oxners wore and proferred uther mnkers, when the facts were that the instramaents wera old and fojureil by Rand usaze, und eod in no senso bo consldered s reprevontutive phinos uf tho Chilckering manufacture s ut present fmproved. BY "1 order to show to, what i extunt tho misropre- sentations wore earried wo uppend the following af- Sdarks und talograus, which explnln thomsclvos. 3iss M. €. Dickson, belne 73t duly seorn, daposes d Ui w0 of dyon & Eleaty, WLl Teh I nd. on inig 10 inos aivertised fos sule by i S Geand Ciiekerhing ‘ot e 10 exvhnnga | terent tankeraund thi 4 o order, and i b i 1o b Squnreo 1 use only vi She e erlng Upeiehit Planeg, No, 40145, wigfell len i therw intormed lid heen in o oy abunt B0 yenrs, nnd which was yulued ut 227, £howay niso showi i a0, Grand Chickerig, No, 2.5, whicl, 1) Vi i Itist ent, B o represciite Inga. Sae further mia thut ther ] unwiliingness (o show the Chickering piinos, while B 10 wanatromydy uraed 10 purctmse inBUIGRES OF other nsskurs, Which worn reproxen ed i saperor i every respect W tho Calekering Panos, % v AL T, DICKEON. Subseribed und sworn to baforo me this 1t s Fouroary, 1531, D IAKIY HAS dustico o thy 4.0 Winsiip, beliz duly meorn, doth-depose and st an Sohiin .5 1881, ho Fhaited The store of Measts, ' 1 ke ingalrics about iz pliunos WEveriacd 1orsilo Dy sl m. dig iy showi o Square Grnd Chiekering 1= B auo. S 3E, und was Informen thit 1§ i nearly B oo and hud heon used but o Ahort S, Wi wis val- dne i e wus niso abowi i Ciicktring Cpriuht Piano, No, 3k which ho wies li€ ornied wind n &A1 Chlckering, o littie e, and o dectded burhi, And tho estden un 0€ 1he Isrument wis il exvliined by stating thit U hud beeis nealected wnd necded tunlng and rexnmting, 110 \Wits alon sliowh fmail Varior Grund, No, but deponent Lt evie dently faken furn mati 0f sotio renzo, N sesurtions frominentsun to thy YOULL G ol INkMNL wele i condl Induised in, L C, W Sutscribed und sworn to this Lt agar Bk DOHARR Y TEAMN dustico of the'le, [Copy of tolegeami] b Xtats. Chickoring & Soum, uston, M o0, Ind 25, gu.fl & km:ll}' B wouia s0id, u: them 0 nearly new "ab. 7, 1881, s, Chickering planos No. L138 wera tada, and’ to oit & Hewly are’ offerlig OMEROY & CRUSY, [Capy of tolegrem.] s To Teiton, Pomeray & ¢ e G g 1®0: sold to John tnde August, 10,15 Wi Boaion, ING & SONS, 9, ¢ 1 ot o e G sl 10 o sar it mado Slay, 1532, solt 0 Oltwur Ditmu < CHICKE rlaby tho ownuz, tha brococds o bo applied toward the purchase of n Stetnway Upright. As will bascen from Moysrs, Chilckerlng & Suns Ielogmam, the unrishit was sl nlno yuars ngo to Oll- Ter Ditson, of Bustefie, unid the sumo Mr. Ditaon, 1t s fraerally wideratuad, {8 tho wpevinl prines whom ammersial uxuncles roport nw having thy s of Sioinsested un capttul b the Chleazo e, (o Ditean hias no duit. parchused ono of the now {imbroved Uhicsering Upriulitn with patent nickol nc- M40 ho in tharefore willig to disposo of s ol L, ‘:lu‘l! vrice. Lot nwentloman of sueh thor- Vil yaeal culture, Sir. Dison would bo sutiaded Tag pliane but tho Cldekorlng for bl 0w use, e s trutit wero ke tio Chicugo twombiers of e duubt knvo th v wilmiration for thy s Cickerlug, ‘Uhis urobubly oxplnine thelr T evepnrsto tako even the oldost Chickoring plano Th ansa fuf e anies uf othor ikon, only bt la th st wodern of ol botng Teum ol qear o, while tho ruare Graid 1s troive e by tho Pirior Grund twenty-two yours old, Ofpugy g fale doaling that attemuis t atn Todern e UNeNts Upoi unsisbeetng buyoes s Oan LS b 1sh wnly Uiroo tu tive sonre.ds Ty oY EEDICION 10 8 ¥ Lho fonnt, 1 e kil 1 fnct. thut, ovory dealur i planod Plaioe g e Of s buslicss n ubiled to tuke old Kires (aearL pAYmOUE for now anvs. W hinye our- 08 o sy o< PUTILORS Of Wich {natruments durs Uhickormg el 70 Ve liad tho awoncy of the o ok Vishos, und huve taken muny *Holus Toms, "he,0f which are nuw i our wiles- Waranelis oS 4S8 roputablo dowtor ul- atthonng L0 I lustrumonts fr what. they aro tho beilef erch MIONILS to decalvy tha public o tatan instrument wdo n quirter of n nlury g 7 Plany,? %O 18 & tir roprosenttive uf n modorn ':ln‘\}:x.u ,2"" In question domiroto. drmw custom by ni- wecerigity urd Chickertng Piimon nt low prlcos, e m.y‘l'umnu ThNL Lo ko w1 abjoetion, and gy 5l e do auything that would Intorfgro o8 thalr g B helr likriubla deslro w work ulTn fow e cGuntyy oot Wstrumionts, o oty ts larao und 10t anciogg w1 10 tnct thit thoy huve sucured Pagal g Yenurablo Chickeeings for the wur- ey lene UV KHOUA compurnaons, must ba taken SUnlension 1oy 1k FeakN0ES, und §3 cqulvalont to Whe ow oY V6 Nothing that can coniparo & e apap 1OV Chitkeriun 1Maons, such ay wo 0 sclling e U DUF IS Fouis, und OF whtih wo 8 Clichrpon, R Hutubisrs througbout the Weat, s oy it e 1 48 putant niekol motalile uction Bt and i o4 by bieut or eald, molstura or dry- “m-"wuru 'Ilh Ieefeel workmunship i overy dos oy preaenmu W 1 o world, und nu mount ot PYNA :;;;‘in:‘:r delibocata Talaifying can ey e, L 490 08 maslo-lurory, or uileet o faluts W e etton of tha Aem monttanud fs rau n gy chd, P16 that It Le i tho wnture of o Ieitatiuy yp GaciC 10 W0k 1k of tho world-wile pogar st PO Planos, elther for thy Winpring e untluuted tnatewimonts, or T repsesuny w08 MY INterior planow which Wably gy 1y o i0 whieh would athorwise bo wune TeNletiyey p soe THURIO. pricos maked, A Ferroe w1y ‘Imo«x:v‘xm. eriing & Bots tn tio Woat, ". Respocttuity, T slinple duy tomake ths LT, POEROY & Choss [ T We , Hem Agents fur the Wortd-Renvwned 1CHI!EKER!NE & SONS' 150 anq 152 State-st., ClIcAGoO. FEBRUARY 14, I88I—TEN PAGES. 103, 103, 107 & 19 Slale-sl, Have in thejr Manufacturing De- partment every modern improve- ment necessary for the production fififi@@ ORDER, Possessing in the highest degrees the merits of Flegance, Con- Jort, and Duwrability. Their stock of “Ready-Made” ight-Shirts em- desirable styles gflcn's, Youths', and Boy's sizes. BARGAINS | $32,000 Worth. Having purchased the en'ire stock of the tate W, Q. Holmes, we shall continue the busintss et the old location for the present, and off:r SPECIAL INS in Books, ‘ Albums, Bibles, Prayer Books, Cames, &c. The old stock must be clozed vut at once to make room for new tock tiow being recelved, F. H, REVELL, Succersor to W, G, Holmes, AT 77 READNG (Also 6t 128 ind 150 Madivon.st.) LIDIAY & €0, Comission Nerchants, AND BALTIMORE. 08 & 90 La Salle-st,, Chicago, EDWARD 3, FIELD, THE GREATEST SALE HOUSEKEEPING LINENS . Ever Inauguerated in Shirts and N braces all Ho Such Bargaing Ever Offered. Cal Enly and Gel e st Brggns aud Vst Allntion, 50 Pieces 80-inch German Un- dressed Bleached Damask at T8¢ vard ; formerly 51 25 Pieges 68-inch Garman Un- * (ressed Bleached Damask at 80c; former price $1.25. 40 Pigces Satin-finished Double Damask, 66 inches wids, at $1; uaranteed hest in the Sk~ | 95 Pigoes 60-tnchvery i Irsh Loom Damask at 65¢; for- merty 85¢. 40 Pieces 86-inchvery fing Irish Loom Damask at 75¢; re- duced from $L 900 Doz §-8 German Double Damask Eanking at $135; formerly SL75. 250 Doz 5-8 Satin-finished Dou- ble Damask Hapking at $190; -+ formerly 5225, 600 Boz. Knotted Fringe Loom Huek Towels at $L75; cost 9025 o impost, 360 Doz, Knotted Fringe Bleach-| el Huek Towels at $3; well worlh $4.50, 200 Doz 24x45 Loom Damagk Towels, exira hoavy, at $3 per doz,; this is less than manufactuvers’ cost. All the Latest Novelties in Fine Damask Towels, German, French, and Irish makes, very low. Our line of the celebrated Brown's Fine Cloths and Napkins is now complete. all the Newest Patterns, and we guarantee the prices to be the Lb, L NEW YORK, Cl JOUN I P EADELL W FIELD, Spoclnl ROTICE T6 CONTRACTD St. Louis, Jerseyville & Springfield . Railroad Company, eyvite, THinols, + 11t Fobruary, 1651, ‘ebriury, mind antil the vl b reveived fue e Wark ot (o St ( rond. £ quantitios, nnd cun b obintned ut the viflee e, divided nto threo r ot which blls will ho recelved 2o VI S o il othor tnarmti uiter the date firet v i work whl T d acts, for all or Lirvssed to Jumes A -Locke, LOCKE, President, terseyvitie, 11, Jan PN, Chier Enitin Hoties to Contractors. e, wark, plustariing, pain Ay Conity il aL Hious thons ¢ b veen nt )l A M- Tl i i} 'l"hl‘ lhl:lg"\fi l‘;ulmmllum - e Lo SHSHL T Tiect 0y WG I Bl X 4 LI AW, tursnan Builing Conitieo. 5 Sala of Drug Store. ) % i Wemisht ndd to the foresoliag that the adyortios | entstates thit tho upright In auestion *was left on | i A8 Assignes :h | for the rato ofn D store eutiple 1 in wonorl o of [ i wid wil nvoice, ¥ilero of rejecting uny und ol bidw ix re- SAMUBL D, WEA! Amdlenoo of damen Lawrenco, It compriscs Peorin, ill.. Feb, & ___OCEAN NAVIGATION, NORTIH GERMAN LLOYD. New York--London~-Paris. Steanmicrs aall rery Sntudey rom Now. Yol Jov Southwipton and Lyomeis, wud’ Papis at Restaurant and Hotel Keepers will find it to their advantage to examine, our stock and compare N ! ANDELY, 3 State-s y-second-st, and Michigan-uv. i Southamplon, Londou, 1nvee, nt rodueed patos, T YT ircon, N. Yo Fliu i rhan Loy (rom Hromo ho only wkeniy wutlorlzod, 1o s NANDEL 121&1 COOILs "NOUIHN. | REFINING €O, GOLD AND SILVER Refiners and Assayers. Cororul wid Accuratn Urosi tohl-Dust, t CHICAGO I Lettors of Cyedit Bssuwd, il BOmIAIL contiti niull, Addicss alars, sent by ot SBux A 10 STATE LINE olls, Bul ast, and L Y ik 0 Becuibmodaubin o Blourases wucwurds 63k nelthor cutile, sheci, ni AU’ Anviyn ndu 0f Guld b Bulitou 14 Dearborn-at,, ToQlaseow, Livorpu “husw sluaiors vary ALy vortaln Ciinde, Dimee Dros vlilug du Lhils 1§00 B rpucinlty, vy Coupaity wi ity ot Colia 2o, 1y (RTINS WINTER RESORT. TEE ROYAL VIGTORIA HOTEL, A ISLANDS, AL BUMSENL, Bos, Nortan, Poop, '8 30 Winchester, Manngor. For further information upply to X JAMEN LAbGLEdu NASSAU MAIL STEAMSHIP LIN. st River, u; u h Chiemeo de dirand ' Port Murdn, Mich., uby glvon thut the Anmunl Meoting of unk dunedon fallway Com 1 L ot dinaks on W Slareh neat, st do'elock poin. §toret Huvon, Mich., Feb. 7, 1530, ‘CELLULOID GOODS, en) Cugls, Collars and fsosoms. 1 rico Lists and Goods sent by muil, or addvess BARNES' £Iat Store, 8G Madison=-at,, Treibune uallding. 212 I A M ES., CI'URE FRAM] nd for Bk Klastio Stuckings the. litost Linis Dosufuly washud, co 1. M od Blate-at, Ublengy, fik. Munulavctures, 3 &30 W RAGING ELEMERTS. Drowned-Out. Toledo Still Suffera ing from the Unprecedentel Inundation. Graphic Descrintion of a Visit to the Dovastated Portion of the Oity. The Water at New Orleans Gradually but Slowly Subsiding. Fears of Another Inundation upon the Break-Up of the Rivers. Men o Be Put at Work Tmmedialely o Repair {he Dangerons and . Broken Levees, The Inundation at Washing- ton Productive of Great Loss. vollen Streams Causing Tm- mense Damage in Many ’avts of the Land. Another Fierce Blizzard Reported rs Crucifying the People of the Northwest. A Snowhank in Ilinels Fifteen Feet . Deep and a Quarter of n Mile Long. Raitroad Trains Gedorally Getting In and Departing on Timo in Hitherto YLEDO, D, &pestal Disputel to The Chicago Tribune. Torrno, O, Feb, 1L—Tho student who ean point s tracer of the ginelal perlod in interlined rocks and esthunte with aceurney the mighty power which has swept tho continents {n prehise forly tlmes muy have coneeption of the awfal munjesty and might of the floud ol this storm. leason ‘and example lko those to be ¢ sido which furalsics an Uiusten- tion never to be forgotten, Toledo covers per- haps tweniy-live squure nlies, ouc-third of which sarface 18 river front, extending elght miles nlong tho Muumen. Stuce thls valley was opened to civllization there b probably never been n time when tho floods weeumulnted to a depth within - four or ive feet of tho present, and probably never sinee tho polur kens relensed the region from thew desulwting visituttons of fvo bus tho rav-+ nges of tho prosent b oqualed. Ro- meinberiog this, und that mittlons on. millfons of propevty have been reared up slung this mighty strenny, und that siddonly 1t boy RISEN 1IN WRATHIUL VENGEANCE and overwhelued (¢ all, and some Liea of the wagnitnde of this disaster muy bo ohtalned, Thu eurliest risers this morning lovked out on the wildest possible scenes of destructlon, still unchanged. 1t lookad as If atter ane nilitation was before nll property In reach of the floml, Lyioe before the wholy elty front the resistiess, surging flood of tkewnrd-bound jee, apparently lnno haste to reaeh the lnke unth fteould tako with it tho most viduabie of the” property within its reach, Thousands of people were rushing to the rives und hundreds returning feom ity weary of the all-night watch or sovere lnbor of removing Koods ana stores. Inguiry showed -that every bridge but one (thres ont of four) was broken. The tlect of 8lx geain-laten vossels hive been swoptout toward the lal ‘o leo, nowatn standstifl, © bueked tho water up so that 1t roso raphlly, and, breaklug neross © by the mhidle grounds, and having rised noarly Fotirteen feet In halt of she night, wis pouring by 1 how ehannel (iromgh uie of our commur- clat streots (Water) tor un hour, nud then for another, The seeno was viewbd by thousands from overy tofty avilluble hullding or spire. Whgons loitered horo and thore, and earvloges, orraud boya, clevky, lnborers, aud reporiors were BUSHING 1FIER AND THITIER, and tho whol ity was tnened into enger enrios- ity unil nnxioty for tho time belng, Interest be- fug centered na fow direetions—yiz.: tho mid- e grounds und thelr vast ralirond inter- ests, tho .shippfug and gealn inter- ests, tho lumber; business, and judivid- ual moereantilo concerns, Words eannot pletnre tho weary desolation atong the river front. Datring the foronoon your correspond- oentstarted for tho middle grounds, 0 fout ol Summitstreet was impussatle, with threo foct ol witer opposit, und In Gates' drug store, the busentent of tho suvings bank, merchims and first loorg of all the wtores, on cach e, to Hwan Creok, the brldge bolng tloaded. Tho water In tlio ereck was norly lovel with tho bridge Hoor, with telupbone and tolozvanh poles and wired a mass of yuins on cach sfde. Intho mouth of the creck e tue Androws and sev- oril other vessels loomed up ten ot ar more above the ordlmary level, Pasalug on to the Buyon bridge, tho Interest hnereased, The steamer Walle sut ED LIKE & GREAT AR, uppenring rewdy to sweon ont the bridge whone over the tlood sall the wonl. Helow wero n musd of tigs and sieling eralt paeked and lstoed 1opethor, umong thont tho tugs Col. Duvks, Stevens, Fareagat, Phamps L, tho Currington, n o drede, i fune or Ve vesae it the Keenoat’ the Jeland ouse and - mibddlo grounds heggziesddeseription, ‘Fukiig i boat at tho Lnko Nhote genera) ofliceg, wo ks tho entennees o tho Lsland Howse, which are iited within o conple ot feor, showhir o good o feet of wator over the enerlign und biek. stands, The water over the desk o oot wiid i half, Phe eunoo could birely squaczs throigh wnder the door, Ouisble, I 1o depot proper, bots were safling aroumd indleerhmiintoy, 1ho it RPTent swept dowie over thy 1v‘nld 0= dlo g aulred A A pull up alongside o Litke Store frlightebuihds Tiug, Nero was nsbocking slgtt, [oaddo tha lurge olliet, where o budvod clerks work dily, the watk 3 over stund g desks, the papers, bl wind vouehurs stivwa it tood, T M, oilico bis desk lid Howed 10 one slde of the voom, Tho slove was - overtuehed, und tho turniture utleat, In tha lamber distriet, where aver SR ol property I fnvested, wits it wofuland even alnenting ploture. (ver tho witire téuct Is urleast ten feet of water, us wis hieforo the “mude™ around betook taelf awny, What 1t 18 now, or witi be, 14 hanl to suy, Fhe™ ground,” mado mostly of sawduat, BEEMED THOROUGULY UNCERTAIN, WIth hiero und 1hero s barn upsot, thore an ofllen carcenvd o turned weonmd, here a train ot Trelght-cars Just peeping out'of tha water, and ather cary ol tho sdmo traok sunken ot of sight, At the upper side of tho i el n huge two-oisted schooner 3 ups tened upon Kelly's dock, — Nelsou, 1ol il & Uede o wilice 5 lurned partially wronnd In fully ten fect of wator, aud o oot tioe of rise wiil toat it by the celling, Gen. Youug's private oftlee, wil 1 cspeetnlly bis dnrge i nrvs, wro In soak. about fogaes ln tho dist csthnute, so much e whither It voss higher o might be £200.uh, Mitencll & "Rowland would Lo S0,000 OF $00,00 without doubt, thouuh their Jurge boom of logs bud tot, us wad stuated, Koo out, ‘that truylost fourautmuls ouly outof soue » saverd hy putting awing them out '} witer, etenn, [oltand & an'8 hopses were suved by qunking @ pantoon bridgze 1o thoe stubles T SIGIE BEGGARLD ll’Z"'llll'T’l(‘xv with docking uphenved, fumber pllos overs turned, ind binddfigs and ears staplncent and submerged, The whale lower machiiery of 'l;lihl'u-l. Tlllelr horses wern ) Mitchell & Rowland’s yast snill works wers en- Urely sutnnerged, Nextan aretle oxploration, 8 U wern, wad titken to trave the missing grain flewt, and n pictitre never betore witnes<ed by an fububitant " ol this valley was dlsclosed, Thu olld fee, contrnes 1o generat finprosston, reaches up tothe viclnity of Tronville, helow Which (t hus not moved it all, amlis one solkd 10 flold na fur nstbio oye can rench, Hers Flretehies nerodd from shore: to shore it ragged, uply Hne of upbeaved blocks of fee, Parshiug up ®penm, tho broken field heglns to_show traces of Ja iperiver soureo [ trunke of trees, dirty wnkes of feq rpitiing, und bere wnd there ntraee of broken bridges and riven Loits and rods, rything marks tho resistiexs overturniig and power with which It has | Hrst crushed nmsses of e, and thon with welded them together peenre, Arrived af I ' elevator of W..l. Fi thy scene was beyond description, At one's feet Iny an fce=bonnd ubd crushoed flect of half o s 41 ripal i, britsed turned 1nto all sorts ot posi- oy had groumd thelr way down gl the bikdges aud nlang the ducks, il other erafta, the whole surrounded by i dense, ragyed, unyletding el of nngry-looking fee, TO HEWTEN u tereible storm set {in. Thu view Inkewnrd was n tre Aretle seene, diin and o The 5 of wight wis lgnited by o henvy enstwird aky nnd 1hoe sto dotting tho vis- Ton Hxe wn Al Thut 18 u portion of tho Union B one of tho #irst nlght, 'This wreek 18 well to . perhaps three-fourths of a ur the westward bank s tho Gnerald, the only stentn craft it. She (les apparently on the hnttom, ks Just even with the_ fee, and her warks appurenily badly used tp, No one is atunted of her, tho enigineer, with his wite, having ler't the night tiefore this disaster, There was u runior that tho child was “Jost in transferring, Dut protuthly this i3 withunt foundatdon. Above perauld, porineps MK yords, abronst the lee ors tnd tbout 2)) yirds from the western shore, and wll grotped compnratively elose, Is e ernin fleetnnd ity frefght of well toward Jx)(d) bushels of wheat, Farther down atrenm wais tho burue Dantor Iny stem down atrenin and did not_nppenr (o huye sutfered greativ, tnhove and perbups @0 Feelaway was tho [ll-fated Benson, whieh, having CRUISED TIE WHOLE ATLANTIC OVEL, 1ow mieets & fenominlons n fate. She tos epntrterlinge ieross the streatt, her how up the niver, amd dHes on e bottour, her decks Just with tho lee, Her rigging 18 gone and her nhose budiy braiged, Tn her hold 18 21,000 hnshels eat, and men are removing her hitehes to or from burating when the i ly ueross her bow §8 the gehooner ) e, which apparently sank the Benson, Tediterranenn livs hrandside i the stream, unid does not wppear to be fufu Next above I8 the Atmosphiere, Iyig i bead up- atly budly o brnised, it ssel whieh earried out ot bridwe, & portlon of which er buw and upper timbers' are broken up, but tho fower piarts nre_quite ln- taet, ng i lifted boddily upon the fee. Tho Stalks cr tes 100 yurds abuve, With hier bow turned t ward the left shore, She sits low in the water, but was not betleved to be leakg. 'Tho anty persons upon to fleet were abonrd the Mediters runesn, uid were Capt, Jumes Cunningham,with mon, Who wero pumpite his vessel, When he hegan shio bt anide six lneties of water, but the putnps were muklug raphl beadway, Thu Cup- tadn took provisions abinrd, and scemed to ex- peet i long siese i the lee, A PLUCKY FELLOW Is Chrls Jennfugs, Storagekeeper of tho Atmos= phere. Frldny nlght, when fus vessel began 16 tug nt her moorings, his maes wanted bim to leave tho vessel. He refused. Presently she started with the resistl erish towird whi hiey thought certuin destruction, They ex- pected him to Jimpotr v he reached Cheres t bridie, but nsteud elied out, *Good that o was golie to Bullalo, However, he 1 when his vessel struck the burze Adnms, He bnd a very mirrow caenpe, The vessels at @ elock this” mornse had not moved from thelr position. The graln-loden vessels which =~ went ont are as follows, wll jonded by B, R Wiitiums & Co,: Sehvoner Med- terans whent, 15,600 bushels; schouner I, N, Duntord, owned at Port 1luron, wheat, 10,000; sehooners M. Stalkier and Atmosphere, owned by lenry Fricze, Milan, 10,600 and 15500 bishels reapeetivelys bark C, B, lenson, waich mude the voguires 1o Burops sud. Soutd Awmerien, owited Ly Keeler, Holeonh & Co., Totedo, 21,02) bushels of wheat, lowled luto lust tatl. "This mnkes THE TOTAL GRAIN LOS: EES 9,090 hushels, fully covered by Insuranco, dis- teibuted In the following companies: ¥ X of frooklyn, New England tnderweliers As- Oriont of New Yurk, Mercantil Unjon of New York, A Arbor, 4 Canaudn Southern & Loko Shore and Wabash trabns nro ranning reculurly, thotgh, of course, none enter other depots, Arvor run from Summit-stroct_eroxsing, Cunndit Southorn & Lake Shore north from Drondway, inthe Fifth “Ward: the Wabush from Broadwiy erossiig at the Water-Works. No Dayton & Michhan truing run yet. “Tie Luko Shore enst leaves from Enst Toleilo; nlso Pennevivania, Cotlmmbus &Toledo andUnlo Centenl, Tho Foledo, Delpnos sacistlon, & Burlington was tho only roud runaing to I depot on thme buth waya, T'he omnlbuzes of tho transfer company run to all raibwny trains exeept on the enst side. TUETTELEARAPI fared botter than "l‘y" In moeteorologleal disturl- Tho Wester: § ifes wene overy whvra Intaet. The American Unfon lost [1s eable at Cherry streot bridge, but beforo night hud tem- porury wires, supplylng the connvetion.. ‘Tho Atlantlo & Paelile llies were O, K. uatll toward evening, when they broke east, but where the uxer hud ot yot determined, Fow uro B0 hundy a4 to make estl. mates, but none of tho losses drs cove cresd by Insurnuce, Thore §8 none for 1hat kind ot risks exeept on grain atloat, On this thoro I3 un negregato of abou X0 nothing on the vessols carrybuz it, Losses 11 tha hember distriot tro estimuted it 0,00, o Inrgo part of whieh 18 by Mitchell & Howlmg, Al lumber dealess wild lose from 8 to 10 por cent an their stock, Willam Peter loses $10400. ‘The pititrund foss will fuat_up woll townsd tho mlil- fotrs, but to what fhzurs who ean sny? - Tho Indi- vidual loases, when futly made up, wilk astonish sven the sutterers thomselves, THE SITUATION AT THIS NOUR (mldnight) Is not materlabty changed, Advices ust g om nbove show the water to o Tulling fust at Napoleon und Mivnnee City, ‘I'ha finpression s thit tho Bood will get no” higher liere, thowgh overy hour thy water re- nnins ut o preseint stngo tho sulfering aud loss ure fucreised o nn dnenteulable extent, Mhere are wrent fears folt tosnlght over uiine tlelputed fuel fumine, Most of tho conlund wond with which tho elty 18 suppled come vin the Columbus & "oledo “und VPenn- aylvanin Itowds, The bridge over tho Maumer belng destroyed, no freight cun eome futo tho eity by tiese routes. IE 18 wlse thoniht (At tho interraption in tratio hore will causn Detvots to sutfer aslnular lcenvonienee, A lurgo number of railrod-u aru I the city Ta consulintlon with local ofticers, makine nr- rangenonts for tho running of tons. There seeius now no probabllity of the feo movimg at thls point to-night, NEW ORLEANS, Speetat Diapatch ta The Chicago Tribune. NEW OuLEANS, Fob, LL=Up todo'vlock to- night the tlood fu the rear of the city hus fullen L firteen fuches, "Phis relleves the Esplunado Hall- ol traek of water, but tho belt rond i still in- utdated, us woll ns tho Dumuine streot truck, Bt Louis Cometory at the bayou brldge, isn Vendee of tho de The dockey Club gronnds adfueent nro wwler water, wd it 48 d to see Jhow tho traek can bo gt 1n'prder for tho spring races, From the prosunt outlook it {8 finprobn- Llo tho buck strects ean bo fivo from water nsido of ten days, Moantime the sub- mergod distrelet {3 thovoughly canvissed dably by roliel eommitteos, aud 20,000 persons have beon supplicd with food, Beven thousuud dollurs of o rotle! fund tuvo bcon exponded In supplios, Meantimo considernblo npyrobension I feit of dungoer t0 tho city trom the high water In the viver, For tho past fow years, in antlelpation of an approprivtion from Congress for that pue- Jose, the Btite hus duno very littlo work in tho ‘repude of tho levees, The Governor, ulthough the Leveo Fund dn the Flseal Axents’ Hank, of which ho Iy Viee-Prosident, amounts to hun- drods of thousunds ot dotlars, bus isued u proos fumntion to the publle vaying tho Bunte 11AS NO 0N for loves purpusod, and tho plynters must med thoir own broaks, 'This sovlous stute of affulrs, wid the fact that the luvous wre cavig i dozen plucos nenr the eity, his tod to tho culling of n issemeoting to-tnorrow night to tuko prompt uction. At mesting of hlmfluullury Assoclation luat uiwht My, Theobold Forstall, u loading citlzon, stbl ho bad hud occasion within the Tust two duys to exun the leveos In the Third and Bixth Districts; th o found dn o the former, — from Eughlen srot down W oulsn, tho bulkhoads wie all - gone, 0 leves caving sovoral feot bohind thom, und In sorse plucos the witer uctunily sncrouchlug upoi the width of the paved strect. 1n the upper et of the Bixth District, from Sixth street 10« wurds tho Carvotiton line, thero wory wany spots 2 demonstration of the nes v hng: made rolld wh pery, limy mil, The water renched 18 highest on Pennsylvanin nvinue at 8 o'clock last sught, contiuned to re room and barber-shop of tho St J not yet ovor. effeet that for mites ‘were burled out of vl Hsing tho (thurs for fue! ailn Teibune, PRICE FI - thnt were extremely dangeraous nnd uttorly in- sullictont to withstind rf'r'iy 1usunl s The Intest statisttos showed that 1o Missonrl, the Upper Misstaatppl, Ohlo, und fted 1tivera were raptdly rlsiu, and tutt the eombingd tood wontd be down tpon us In - very few duys, With the DLANMMED 1Y THE JETTIRS, which hnd niot yet sufliclently scoured the only psy Jett open” to cnery off “an_ extraordinry rian, tho predent tevees would ralilng o confine the flood within tham, 0 prompt nction Wild ot teken a torellle ealnmnity wis ievitablo, here Is veally 0 panieky feeling In this mate he water 18 now only five feet helow higghest water nurk, and two feot under the dunger line, while the grent rise ubove has not yutreached ns. That the prekont overtlow from the rear of the clty resnlts strictly from nntural faes fEuhown by the stategiont of o lowdinge englteer 1hat it was more than prolable thit thy ruliond embnnkimen nglng to the Louis- ville & Nashville Compan neross the sen marsh from Motalee Itdeo to the Rigolets, formed nn ohstructon to the nntural outitow of Luke Pontchartrin over tho swnmps, while at the snme tino tho wator was pouring in from the Honnet Curel erovasee and 1rom the varfous rivera lending imto Lakes Pontehartealn and Munrepas, enusing Lako Pontehnrtesin to il up 1o i unusunt hignt, and thus well over the pro- tection res of the eannls feading fnto the eity. WASHINGTON, Speeial Dispatch fo The Chicago Tribune, WAsINGTON, DL Cos Feb, EL—White tho House wns yesterdny diseustiug tha novessity of nurks ing rivers ontof trout-brooks aud duck-ponds for purposes .of muvigation, Pennsylvanin uvenne way flooded for seven bocks, from the Cupltol erounds weatward, while in sther iree- tions the eity was flonded from tho White-Houso gkronndy to the Capitol grounds, o distance of seventeen blocks, The Government flsh-broed- h Itz ponds are deeply Homded, and the lrge stock of valunble fish s lost. Tho botanleal gurdens. were bty damzged, and I grent vaviety of ways thn Government lost hoavily, ' 1tis no possible that with this practien] and co: 3 af dulie 5ot thing to proteet tho viver frant, sometbine will be done. : THE FLOOD ILAS SUBSIDED S0 far a3 tho city Is coucarned. Tho Rtreeta, which were yesteriny covered with xix feet of ny s dry 08 u bone, They are neddy, for the cold northwest wind t wonll bo otherwlse siip- when the whole thoroughfare from the foot of tho Capitol to Tenth street was submerged, At 10 weloek the water In tho elty commenced 10 fall. © The giving © way of tho Lowr Dridge, the receding thle, rnd tho rtronr northwest wind prevalling, all comblued o corvy the water off, Tho tlond eddo Untll 6 o'cloek this morning, when ull had disappenred, Tho sebmorgod dis- trict was soon filled with imerchunts whosy stored pnd goods bnd been damaged, and during to-dny & busy <cene hod been presented. 1t 19 ng yet hurd to estimate tho dannge. One of the nost povel sihts to-day has been an engine pumpmg water out of tho biifiad- s Hotel, nt the corier of Sixth street nod Pénnsylvanin uvenue, At the Baltimore & Potomsaoe Depot, corner of Sixth and 18 streets, workmen huve been busy to=dny removing the tences af the Hood, I order now to resttine travel with tho Sonth, which 14 now Interrupted by veason of th de- stru m Lot o tho Lone Bridige, ovier which tralns , Ot iy Been Lired Lo conve ngers wod mnils [ vico k day to Fort linyon, Vi, on the uther side of the Long lirldge, by way of the Aqaednet Dridge In Georketown, i defour of nearly s people have bee 10 6CC tho 1raLy extends nearly bt a mile ont Into the river, which 18 here o omlle from shore to shoro. E nmlles. Thouands of oWt to THO TIver SO tosuy fit presented. ‘Thodeesgorgo i of w ¥ thut during the: i 0 have mde thelr way over the rigzed sur- fuce Lo n grent distuney, Trom shure, There is 1 elear chitnnel on the Vieginla side, but it this 4 Seems very probuble, tho, troublo iy . WSING AT TLALPE! FERRY, latest advices from arper's Ferry indleato that the river s rising ut thut polnt, and the water ut Georgetos which bad fatlen, i tumin rislog, Mr Gearge T, Witking, Snperintendent of thy Bultimore & Potsmie llrodd, estimates the dunpages to tho Lung Hridiu nt -$125,000, ‘Tha tatat damnges nro esthuntod wt $230,0), il i€ the weathor now sets cold and the water in the eetlury [reezes the danuwge will be greater, ch rushed down tho Potonie Saturday, rud sube ed the lower nertion of the elty* tor nenrly hoes, g subilted. An fiumensis 'Ihllnpf Trow uhove mlles below, il rea Infg shore, threatens o and tho steamiints 1ylng o wi i NS to vy The dimage to whirves, wnd property ulong the viver | mnted at between S50 and 0900, tho whirf-owners expeet grenter ditire: i1 fen moves, The duisuge 1o p ehundise in the nund:ted parts ety will probabty ronch FHOE, ad i town, to the whurves ntd storeliou A sectfon of Lo [iridgo of about feet wits swept away st it and caveled about 10 ynls down the river to the tlats, where it les iy weeeked and wedged I the broken feu, Telegeaphle comunication with tho South I4 budly interrapted, nsall the cabies at Lome Bridzae bave been cavrled away, To-niht onl 1o of tweaty wires wre working bet Washington and Atexandrin, Hallrond teave to the South on a mt of tho brewk In thy bridge will be seriousiy lmpeded, Avemge- ntents wil o mado to_tainsier passeigers ind mntls for Richmomd and_ the ¢ Ly ktages from Waszhington over Guorgetown bridieo to the Alexandrin, Fredericksbhurg & Richinoml Ttoml ut Fort Runyon, whilo passengers malls Tor Lynehboee and the Sonth will be sent to Shepherd's, opposit “‘Alexandrin, sud - thenes by forry to tho Virginht Mullnd Kol 5 TIHE EXTREME NORTHWEST. Spectal Dispatch to The Cuicags Tyibune, 1, PAvn, Minn, Feb, Be=Leports of tho pho- unmenil #onson of hlizzards ‘continne to comy pont s 0 tha Vi In troni all secttons of the Northwest. Some of” the dotalls are well ealenlated to shoek the er Aulity of even the oldest Jubabitant of this sece tlon. Singular though it may semn, points in 1o extronws Narthwest Bave been compumtives Iy freo from the worst fentitres of tho embargo upon travel, It would seom thag the snowfull in Dakota snd Northern Minnesots hud been tifted bodily by the fierco tempest of iwlind aud, dritted [nto Sontbern Minnesuta, Wisconsin, and Nebraska, Ilelluble reports voaeh here from wlony the Hne of the Southern Minncsota to the along that rond tho tdle- wruph poles are ontlrely concealed by mounts ulnous drifts, tho Chunnrambau Valley, twenty inlles long, with sixty-reet banks, behg stled to tho Lrim with cgnow, Tho wuter-tanks Fami- Hes Mvimg wlong tho dine have pooled thole ssues and mussed togethor o iouses, "Phin extremo expedis ont was remlored 1 ry by the e from thmbor and eonl, and iho Toct that th SO OF »! #et i before tioy had Juid by th winter stock ol supphies, ‘it the storin has beon generul the followieg spoctal wdvives from Dofuts remote from miteh othor clearly shows A Montoviideo dispateh wives those detnlls from thit polnts *Tho Lt starin wis thy most Buvers ever exporienesd in this sectlon, Husl- 1038 Tor TOLE ity Was 08 entirely sispends vdy and 18 was with great diflienity e weans conld budriven throtgh tho streats, ‘The snow in muny pluces was delited is higli as thosceond storios, No teams frou the country havo comy In for eight days, aud the farners come in on Buow-akors, D many pliees o furmers’ horsus uid stubles are completoly buriod widor suow," A Bt James dispateh recelved carly thls wornfug - suys: *Sinee the beglbonig ol Pebruury this country” hns bean visited by n serles of storms wholly unpreecdonted sines ity lement, and camuiunlent) by rillroad s been linerripted 10 wh- extent “not hithorta known, Nuccessivo storms cirtior In tho winter Dl tedted to the fallest extent tho Llllnlullr of tho wpow=fenees and groves of trees provided by the raflrond company for the prelccton of thio vuts wlong the e, Tho cuts’ huve boen plled mountiing blab with deifted snow sinee tho “Ist, natwithatthating the horenlenn and woll-divecteld viforts of (ho Cotnpul clear tho truck. It looked promising at oie . tine, thy blockado baving been ralsed within twa miles of this town, when wo pelipsed o despute, for kiste night another tervibly bifzzard set Iy vged all might, sod to-duy wis still dn full Vst Thodowi 14 Tulrly overun with shiovelers, muny oF whom ure stopping in tha depots and cavd, tinblo to vl seeotanodae tons lsowbere, Citlzons are Soluhing tha uemy, utid will vio with tho railrand en [ thole el- grupnic communieatlon moy reve el comdition of aifulis than this, precudented spowull should stay with us il thy surioge vulns ses (nand thea all go olf in o voluiug, the wholo valley of tho Misslssippi und its tribitarics would Do {nundatod wnd great BUlCring olsue. Tho wontler hore bus beew in o meiting mood 188 for n wonk, until y ;'q ncouple nf dayy 1t has heen cold f S Jie. Tn ‘rncl. it &Mu'é’i.’% rtid eold here wiy :a elementa wers miging in il thole fury to G2 @ith, west, and enst, ns ap- peard by tho ndvices “recelved dotall here. ? and reported In RUSILING WATERS, . ROUOENTOWN, N, L, Fob. LL--Tho reshot was tremendons hiere. The rallroffd tracks betweon Trenton and Burlington are under water, Canale Bouts nro Ivinge nerot tha track on tho Trenton ond. AN sl batllings neac the Delaware & Tteritan Con ke are partlyunder water, The old Camden & Amboy shop are lnu: Tho fires of the sten-forke of MePhorson, Willard & Co. were put out by the ol A4 fae as the tho e This exge Of 14 the maln fing, het Linpden York, [ peritous podition. Jonded enrs wors pluced to il 1t i posttion, 4 0f Tho whets, are hns with great tammnge to Jimber, s feners, il movable propierty. The [nes fe fully £0000, The Iucke oy Lamily B3 900 dmprisoined on Cannesbigh {sland, oud nro without food, Theg will be res- eted to-nikht, : FIREDERICRSBURA, Feb, KL—The Rappnhan- ek had renched the hight of fitteon fect nbovo mark, Bome cctbbing and luiaber, to thy canitractor for the river fm- t, wits earried awny, wnl the” steni- hotise 13 iinder water to the second —The wnshout on the 1 lfuln levets of overtiowing of tho kel Rivers, Railrond travel s Interrupted, the rise not being sxpeeted, Littlo ditnoge hus been done, Y TLAIIsDE I, i, Feb, 13.—The S Wver s 0 fiddling all day. fast wud Sotth Hureisburyg were partinlly rilow |‘r Paxion Creek, Mang 0 mo perdona out, und to-doy thele BAY ST, LOUSS, MIsS. Sicelnt Corrvapundence of The Chicagn Trimue, Ay 91 Lovid, Mise, Fel, ~This morning our littlo elty, the fummer-resort for New Or- luans, pregonts n snd spueticls, The débrls of th storm that fns been mglig for forty-elght: hours les strown atong our const o tho utmost eonfusfon and desolatlon. i Saturduy inornlug, threatening clonds and. & Atromg suitthenst wind from tho Guif warned’ he of-un upprosehing gide, which broke upon us tn ol f1e fury, contimting fur Into SBunday nizht, Alldny Saturduy the sceno was grund and fne tereating beyond deseription. Great white~ enpped waves dushed lnto frugments eny ordiunry reststing work of . Bathehouses swayed, tottared, and then susk broken, to be swallowed up oy washed ushore by tho risiog tiles whurfs were torn down and deifted awny: bunts were dviven omil groun fur nahore; und the waves, viaiug hixhee and lueher, Joaped over our very doorsitis, S s werg undermined, ik lay w0 rained maes upon the caving stdewalks, Griut unien ud tovely codurg, that hava heea tho pride and eluude of otie beat- il #helt rinud fo long, (ny upon the beuch up- rootists and the sceno 13 one of tho Utmest itk terest and descrietlon. - Lelegrapi-wires nro dows, and raiieomds submserged, and all busle noss s suspended foe the alt-ahsurbing work of wuthering upund vepaiving the ruin very restdent or property-owner on the front, for ten wiles nlomge . tue Liy. bas suliered moro or less lose of renlestutes und, while the * bandl- work of Nuture on our beantiful coast enn never o restored Uy tho hatied of i, the actual peeuntury s sustidned nist be gomnewhero fn the nelghborooud of ROCKIORD, ILL, Hpectal Diapatels t T Chicugo Tribune. Rockron, i, Foll 13.~The great snow of yosterday 1S nuw over, ulthough every(hing sur- vounding e looks bleak tnd barren and the wind s st blowhges quiite flereely fron: the nurthwest, At the seono of the bluckude things ure 1w wild state of.confuston, and ull tho men* thut ean be obtnined aro on hand nt work dig- ging out tho snow-vovered tralns. The Mitwau- keo Irekztit, with n heavy tealn of eaes, has been In the drlit alned nbout ¢ o'clock Friday nlgbt, and, ns It was cuught In o cut, It was sodn covered Jovel full, so that one :car had to b fug out it onew. The Freopo dny pussenger which ghoutil bave* winived h ut 2 o'cluck yestordny afternoon, il not reach us il half-past 10 o'elock Last nlhty whon It wed brought i by foue enghics, thus taking It thivteen hours to” make the trip from Chies “This ke (b 8o that every teatn on the Galenn Division of the Northwestern Lhis e of tho route, with the exceps I ! frelrhts, Tho st ¢ srted av 8 o'clock, wod'lin Bl un honr by o nsii- tonteit there 18 0 biunk” of snow deup mud about o quirter of « wmilo, ite probable” that all traing will be NOHITO . ¢ OW-BOUND, Speetal Dispatcs to The Chicugo Tridune. Srarin, Mo, Feb, I—8now-bonnd Chleago & Alton tralng aro 1n, tho snow-dreifts at Blat o, Tho pusaonyers on the tratus fran Chlengo % to Katns City, In churge of Coune M. Conlcling and « Hazelbulrer, . united fitu conventton In the ehuireenr ot Conk- Hng's train, and wlopted u pesolutlon of np- preottlon’of the manngers and entployis of the Uhlengo & Alton 1talienad, The convention wag enltod to arder Ly . J, on, I, I, of ‘Topele, Kas. Prouty, by Wik Wats uppatntod Seere wlio . o ehalf of the Commitee. abpolutéa i the mneantime ot esolutions, e following,” whieh wers ndopted with appla fealeed, Thivt wey tho Diss h Baund o1, fram Clieazo Knzisus Cly, sisw=bonn.] ue SYPress aur most Beartfslt apprecintion for thy Kty trontment and fron hodpltallty beatowed upon us I?' the mutigrees of 1he Chieggo amd Aston Itailroad, and will ever hold hgentitudo for speclul cifores juado for our comiort the namesof the comlitetor, Gontiemen Conkling aued ilnzetbuier, with Division=Superimondenc O Vaushan ad Tealn-Dispateher 8, A, Joln- “o, nuek Gio einployés 1 Shor ehavgp, and tons temen Sam Pawett and Ty H, Mars, stoopligs cur comductors, ' DAVENTFOT, TA, * Spreial Dispateh to The Ulteazo Trikune, DaveNronr, In,, b, 13.=X round of tnquiry at tho aferent valtromt oftiees shuwa tbat some Improvement hus heen nudds fn runnlug tralns i the dnst twenty-four hots, 5\ passenser from tho south un the Chleago, Burtington & Quiney nreived this morning ut 6:65 which was duo Saturday morntng ac 7 o'clock,” Tho truck on ?l‘ ol I8 opu, 1 Linlns will b dls- [l To=thorT0N s Ustinl, On the Roek Islumd & Pvora Itally tho passenger which lett Poorli Buturduy ut 8| dlit not aeive WL o-algbit at 8 o'vioek, thivty=two bours luto, On thy Col - eingo, Miwiuken St 'aud, in this olty, no throngh trajos huveseeived for theeo diys. Bos I e toTEOW tomiitig tealns Wil Fun s uattal between Davouport und Chleago, oo tho B No trins on Ui s huve arrived wl Atdiehity el o deit’ts [ tae contro puvt of the’ State are reported ns tecriblo, in suIBe places ten und twelve feet doen, ugers In traing i 5t Louls to 0., Berehy TIN PATAP-CO RIVER, Special Dlap-tet tw Ine Chtcugo Tritutie, BALTUWRE, Mil., Feb, 1—A dispateh reeelved hers from Bykosville, M., on tho Babtinore & Oyt Haflrowd, to-night stutes that the Putupseo Ltiver l4 rising vaplily and dolug great damugy I that vielnity, 'Two men woero swept off i breaking bridge near Svkesyille and drownuod, tirent quantities of il neeunulated abovo Hut City whioh to=day brolke b ey dowin Witl i rual, aweeping great . troes along In the enrent nind destroyunt the exteti- slyo dutn ot the Unlon Marufactiriog Company, afew mitles above Elilot Gy, As the odver 15 Still rising thore b4 no tedling whit furthor dums awo wy bo done, Giveat Huads o teported Arom il overtho Stute, ‘Fho jeo huy commenced 0 georiy f the Susquchinna River near Havie o Grave, wid the lower portlug of Port Deposit I alrowly inuudated, MONMOULT, 1LL. Speetat Dispalch o 10 Chigara Tridunes Moxsovni, W, Feb, FL—Botie more show fell thls mornlng, gud during this great storm, which commenced Vel afternoon, It I3 estis wated thut at loust fifteen inches of snow fefl on o luvel, but it hus blown info drifts of from two 1o eight feet,und the rowds aud bighways tor miles nround uro blockuded, Tho Chicago, Bure lngton & Quiney Hudtromd teaiug huvo alsy'bora snowed i, but to=day tho maln Hue tu 2enwid hind been protty weil cleared up, althaus . i through express tontns are still snowod la ng varlous puluts In Tows, sud no frelght train can leave Hurelington - for thu west for soveral duys yet, ‘Uho St Louls Division has sutfered uven worso thait the muin line. No. 3, tho Bt Louls exoross-train, was suowed n st North Hendersun_ull day yostorday, und did not redch Rock Ialugd until § o'cluck thiy moruluy. N o