Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1881, Page 1

;—/_______,_______ vOLUME XL. /Tfl,_rm. JRCALLY IHPORTANT REDUCTIONS IN OUR 3ilk Department At $1.00 We will offer a heavy, rich Justre, Cashmere finish, Gros Grain Dress Silk, Never sold less than $1.50. At $1.50. Plack Satin Merveilleuy, Superior quality. At $1.50. . COLORED SATIN SURAH, In all the Newest Shades. At 45c. AND UP, ~Full Jines of new designs in SUMMER SILKS. ORDERS-BY, MAIL Accuratelyand promptly exe- cuted. Samples of any de- scription will be. forwarded onapplication. Satisfaction guaranteed in.all-instances. MANDEL BROS. 121 and 123 State-st. . CLOAKS AND MLANTL Cloaks Mantles LOW PRICES! We will place on sale THIS BIORNING a choice Lot of 700 o Bame goods sold this season Tor $8 and $10 each. HAVELOCKS! MANTLES! ~orrespondingly . Low! e ——— oi:‘l:ls Yeing the lust involce ! le season, and warriving € we offer them as MARE BARGALYS! MaRsHaLL Fieco & Co,, State anq Washington-sts. NI LD ARY RO @y, Ciesier, I LITARY ACAD- P The Chicage Dailn Teibwne. MONDAY, MAY SPECIAL BARGAINS Furniture We have greatly reduced the price on large lines.of PARLOR AND CIHHAMBER SUITS; many of them very desirable and good designs. The prices we quote on the above are specially low, to ‘close. - . b We carry a full stock of the celebrated “Geldowsky” Chamber Suits, and are now displaying his latest MA- HOGANY SUITS, with SOL- ID BRASS TRIMMINGS. They are ‘“perfect gems,” and when seen will surely be coveted. ‘We import, direct, Special Novelties -essential to make home complete, which we offer at astonishingly low prices. It will be to the interest of’ the purchasing public to examine our stock and prices before making their Spring selections. SPIEGEL & 00, 25! and 253 Wahash-av., NEAR JACKSON-ST. WIS, SUMMEL Iy tho desth of Copeland Townsend, a chungy iu 0CONOMOWOC, TOWNSEND HOUSE, ° st Oconouowoe, Wisconsin, hos tuken plncs. 'Tho Tuw propretors, appreciating the (mpories of o with other summer-resart hotols, vy 1 amend repuliod in and rofurnisbed, wil clossta und g dur where needed, the kro ducornted, new bots nud ment nddod, wnd the wholo pronounced tho BLIOU 11 “The propriotors, huving | o TOW N horough order, HAYG KO At RrERNEEIL yinioralynud 10'kuon thie bouxo for tholr inatructions to suurd Bo sXponse or inbur wible, fta pltondance, ts amusumients, and cum| 1hie vory beat in Wisconaln, nu mattor whotlor thure b left any incomoon LIOIF investiuent or not. 1ts tably will bo suppiied with all thy seasonablu ments, frulis, wnd vegetables. Muslo will by I nttendancs evury nikht 0T the amuUsEMONL OF RUGALI, ANd BVery Vifort minde to ronder the sty of 118 Ruesta comtorts ablo und hwppr. Al of which 1 am dotormined to mbing put 1 ore nid’ out wnd dow und gl kewp the bust house pyor ayaned It Wik conwin. 'ina pragriotars do nut disoiieo tht it in thielr expoctution to reutize by theln- far tholir outin creavad popuiarity of the TOWNBEND, thus adding o the value of thelr proporly. Al letters shoudd be addressed to JOIIN F. ANTIH- DEL, Ovonomowoe, Wik, Lotal wiil bho rendy for quosis on May 14 JOHN K. ANTISD L. CALIGRAPIL, ] THE i CALIGRAPH, TILE ONLY PERFECT 'Writing-Machine In the World. 1t I8 operste with wondurful onse, nlways writas neatly and lo1bly, wid nbout throo tiies fuster than the pen. Boxed ready for limmedlste uso und sont (o all partsof the countey by oxpron AGENTS WANTED. Forclreular giying full particuinrs addrons THE A, WRITING-SACHINE l?{].,—’ 213 West 318t st., New York, BNITURL, SURITIRE! Fmfifim.:dium Holton & Hildreth ILINCES. HOTEL MEN. GIRRAND CHANOI. OAKTON SPRINGCS HOTEL, Al Pewnukeo, Waukuslu County, Wisconsln, cost Bbout $5.MU, Having come intu uiy luids through tho death of it foriner ownr, teburl, 1 ofivr the satne for sale, with furnil, ter tte cost. It be 61X milles Lo tantig, spicndia ruads, andybouutital surrouniiigs; AN guvsle Wore o Il-:l ) ortune ‘Parius esuy. Mo ety ukoalus, W ur Uash. TO Buy b ko 10 Acres 1l Lol Bt ue, il Statu-t. Every improvement design- ed to enhance the appearance, add to the durability, or lessen the cost of production of Shirts is employed in our Manufact- uring Department. By confining our products to strictly reliable goods, atd offering same at reasonable prices, we solicit your patron- age with the assurance that the benefits to be derived therefrom will prove mutual. OUR BTOCK OF" “READY-MADE” SHIRTS MNIGHT-SHIRTS Is unsurpassed in magnitude, and, from the great varicty of Styles and Sizes we show in both White and Fancy Goods, no one can fail being suited. B Every department is now replete with the Latest Styles and best | productions of this and foreign countries in - MEN’S Ful'nisl@g Goods. Special attention is asked to our unusually large stocks of UNDERWEAR HOSIERY, AND NECKWEAR. WILSON BRON. 113, 115, 117 & 119 State-st. REMOVAL, C.EWISWALL &CO, COMMON=-SENSE BOOT & SHOE DEALERS, HAVE REMOVED TO No. 79 Madison-st., Directly Opposite McVicker's Theatre. alumel & Chicaeo Canal & Dock . Room 25 finrdon Block, 25, Northwest corner Dearborn and Randolphi-sta, ] CHICAGO. Landn and Jots for salo In South Chicago. APOLLINARIS. Ap ‘“THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS." British Medical Journal, @ Tunie, Restorative, and Enlivening. . Dr. Thilenius. 4 Exhilarating, good for Loss of Appetite” Peter Squire, Chemist to the Queen. ANNUAL SALE, 9 MILLIONS. 0Of all Grocers, Druggists, &* Min, Wat, Dealers, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. IJAKW g NAI'I({ATION’. PR ESCANABA, FAYETTE, EIC, THE BIDE-WHEEL BIEAMER MUSKEGON Wil leave for ESCANABA, touching at wost shore ports und Fayette, un Tuesday Morning, May 10, at 9 o'clotk. GOODRICIE TRANSPORTATION €O, Ofiew und Dock foot of Michigan-ay, UIVERPAGE 52, rHflYNE&.(;o.’gi Blank Dooks and Prinfing, 1t will suroly pAY you 0 write for thy Hlusirated Catuloguy (ren) ot Biylds wid Fricos, 8. 11, MC ELWAI 4 Mapufsciuror, A2 & 3N Wabaab: ‘been made {3 that the President should ap- 9, 1881—TEN PAGES. WASHINGTON. Conferences to Adjust the Differences with the President. Ing. The nowminations of Stanley Matthews and Don Pardes are 1o bo consldered by the Judielary Committee, and probably that of William E: Chandler. There scoms to be 1o doubt of a favorable reporton Pardce. flo has practically no opuosition In the Senate, and would probably be confirmed at once. Unfavorable - reports «are cxpected on Matthews and Chaudier, bt a recent poll of the Senate - . e SHOWED A MAJORITY: FORt MATTHEWS, who is thus likely to 5 confirmed, howaver reported. Chandler 'wils be rejected by n solid Democratio vota uiid the Stalwarts un- der Don Cameron's leadership. ‘Thsre nro no vua‘r important dominntions pending be- foro tho Forelsn Relations Committee, but Mr, Burnside, as n sub-committee, has in charga the Monroe doctrine resolutlon re- ported br Mr. Enton last session, and, as the subject Is one with which Mr. Burnside is fully charged, he may, In the absence of other business, make a report, *Thé committee meeting will stave off the Republican caucus for unother day. CARRYING THE MAILS. PROTECTION AGAINST FRAUD, WaAsstiNGTON, May 8-~0n tho 7th Inst, awards for .carrying the malls in various varts of the countryunder the miscellancous advertisement of March 10 were finally de- eided upon at the Post-Office Department. ‘The letting of these contracts Is not what iy knhown as the regular letting, but consists of service on such routes as from varlous causes cannot be advertised and lot at the usual time and manner. In opening the pro- posals for these contrncts n materinl depart- ure was made from the usunl custom in such ,cases, ‘The law requires that ull proposals for carrying malls shall, before belng turned over to the contract ofllces, be “opened and marked.” Heretofore (with one exception, occurring soveral years ago) the custom lins been merely to open bids and stamp thom,~—n work which some of the of- ficinls nt the Department say s pructicatly of 1o value, and evidently not what the law contemplated, since, as no record of bids was made, others could be added after open- ing, or Lids In blank could be filled In's0 as to secure contracts, or bo withdrawn so as to give somie favored bidder the contract, or could be changed for sume purpose. Some years ngo % QUITE A BCANDAL WAS CIEATED in the Department by some of these very do- ings, and eeveral employés of the contrct office were dismissed In consequence; but still, with the exception before alluded to. no 2 THE DAKOTA FLOODS. Graphic Desoription of the Buin Wrought by the High Water in Dakota, They Prove as Fruitless as Those Which Have Pre- ceded Them. The *Tribune's” Special Cor- * respondent Visits the Des- olated Country. Conkling Scheming to Prevent the Calling of a Repub- lican Caueus. Once Fertile Farms Now Covered with Five Feet of Sand. Indications that Garfield Will Be Sup- ported in Preference to Conkling, The Settlers Compelled to Eat Their Seed for This Year's Sowing. The Interest of ' the Senators Plainly Rests with the Administration, Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley, and Vegetable Seeds Need- ed for Planting. Careless Treasury Officals fo Be Re- quested to Hand In Their ‘ Resignations. The Stench from the Thousands of Dead and Decaying Animals ‘ Bickening. Fears that tho Iorrors of {he Winter Will Be Followed -by an Epldemle. Extraordinary Precautions Against Fraud in Letting Contracts for Carrying the Mails, Prossing Need of Prompt aund Tib- eral Donations to the Stricken People, Seeretary Windom Expresses Himself as Confldent of Complete Success J in Ilis Funding Scheme. IN DAROTA. Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tritune, Prenng, D. T, May 8,—1 have seen noth- Ing so far to change my formerly-oxpressed The Nomination of Chandler Likely to Be Rejooted and THat of Matthews Confirmed, s change {n the mauner of opening bids was convletion that the bulk of the sutfering from |1|3nd‘u. \xhen thL; l;reffl:n openis )\vnlsl elz‘t‘l“d: the flood is confined to the territory between ostmaster-Genernl mes author TYankten and Elk Point. There aro three TIIE SITUATION.' change to be inade, which was as follows: 3 ‘cuxrmm.‘lc sin, 2 Afl(!l"{ the bids were opened they wero | causes for the comparative lmmunity: the conformation of the country, the freedom from lce-gorges, and the more sparsely set- tled condition of the riparinn sections above Yankton. ‘There are no such huge bottoms as that In which ill-fated Meckling stood, though there anre, of course, plenty of lands exposed to overflow. Iligher blufis and more of them predominate, and nlmost all the towns—Springileld for example—nre completely removed from even fear of dan- ger from any deluge the Missourl coulit pour down. ‘The lce does not appenr to have gored elthier so extensively or disastrously, and where It did, the lands overfiowed were not of especlal value or at all thickly settled. Not only are settlers searcer than below, but they do not, except in special Instances, seem of ng guod a class, nor nearly ns well to do. This remark DOES NUT AT ALL ATPPLY TO SPRINOFIRLD, which Is regarded as one of Dakuta’s ban- ner towns in polnt of intelligence, culture, -+|eand wenlth. The farm-houses are smnll, mast of them bullt of logs or slabs, and of outbnildings thera Is a declded partiality no- ticenble. Ihnve glven the brighter side of the pleture, but do not iimagine there is not o very much darker one. The losses by flood anly seem sinall by comparison, and are bad enough even with all the favorably condi- tions mentioned. Those parts of Green Island and Franklin Bottoms situated nbove Yaukton suffered necessarily as badly as the rest of the same territory, of which I have already telegraplied at leugth, Further up the rivér.we reach Bon Howmme Island, the property principally of Dr. Butlelgh, of Yankton. The Island is of a good muny hundred nores area and had many dwellers. The water swept ovar it as 1 1t weroe only the merest Islet, and not only denuded it of houses aud barns, but left A DEPOSIT OF SAND fullyfive feet In thickness, and utterly ruined one of the finest growtis of tim- ber along the river, Mr, Kountz, o well-known steambont pilot,*and a son of Commodore Kountz, the noted boatowner and contractor, was living on the island with his family, His farm happened to be tho highest there was, and, fortunately for the lives of all, about ten feet square of it remained uncovered by the tloods. . On this mengre pateh the funily spent three days and nights, until finally rescued by boats from the Dakotn slde of the river. A family named Bates, consisting of aman, woman, and two children, left their honse with the avowed purposa of renching tho Nebraska shore in o small sklff. Mr, Lee, a relative of Mrs, -Bates, told me that tho guartet had never been heard of since tho night of thelr flight;and he very much feared all had perished. So many marvel- ous cseapes had been reported, however, that he had not given up hope, notwithstand- ink great Japse of time, ‘This samo Lo had to leave his houso from a secoud-story win- dow In a small dugout, THE WATER NISING MUCSH MORE RAMIDLY than hie had thought possible, In alinost nll cnses, however, the river, more considerato than below,. gave ample warning, so that n largo proportion of the stock was driven to the hills and saved. The Town of Bon Iomume, on tho cast bank of the rlver, ia tao high ever to have been in dunger, and the Russlan settlement near by, though partly overflowed, was damnaged but little, I saw one sawmill which the ico had complately demollshed, but had Ieft the thn- bers und nachinery In close proximity to thalr former resting-place. ‘Those of the In- habitants with whom 1 have had an oppor- tunity of conversing at the various landings the steamor. has wade to land supplies, of which she had qulte a quantlty on board, have proven very uncommunicative, and seem - susplelous and sullen, One cannot help pitylng them all, however, for ‘the winter hua been a terribly trying and se- vereone, Cut off by deop snows or swollen strenums, both earlier and later In the season than ever before, from nll commerce with the outer world, muny, it not all, have beon reduced to such stralts for food that THK YLOOD COULD VIND BUT LITTLE savo their dwulllngs to destroy, ad so glad were. the sufferers to sce the luge suow drifts and -flelds melt away and the foy fot- ters disappear from the river that they recked little of the mischunces the- vanishing voxatlon brought with them. Remembor, I am gpeakuig now of the dwellers fn the low lands along - the Mlssourl proper, notof the hayuy and prosperous settlors of the upper Lenioh and high lends furtker back, whe have done much and will do moge to rulivve thelr confrdros, Nowhere, however, were vistblo such gigns of rupid, remorseless ruglng fnthe country further south. llow it mny be further up the Mlssourl 1 cunnot say, but belleve it wwy be safuly assorted that, except at Fast and Waest Plerre, and leaving out a lnrge amount of corded woud destroyed, the dtinage has not been very much greater in this soction statped with the dute of opening and with an engraved devlee, of which thereis but one In existence, They were then numbered consecutivoly, arranged by routes, and o list made of them, giving number of bid, nnmeof bitlder, number of route on which service Is to be mnde, theamount of bid, nnd any defect, Informality, or irregularity that was discov- ered, After this the blds were turned over to the contract office, and a list furnished the Postmaster-Gonernl with the engrave device mentioned, lefore these bids wera turned over to jthe contract oftice they werg always either under the eyes of the Commit- tee appolnted to examine st d- mark them, or In a vaalt, the keys of wiBd were In oxclu- slve possession of one of 1 ic> Committee, 1t will be seen that undig ls plan there is no (»Yportunlly whatevedar it mpering with bids by any one dlspos r{&r ciso In the De- partment without certafn discovery, and that no bids can be abstracted or new ones ad- mitted. Itisso good a plan that'the Post~ mpster-General will probably enuse 1t to be adopted for all future openfugs of bids for star-routs and other contracts. - TFUNDING. SECRETARY WINDOM CONFIDENT, Bpeciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. WasiuiNgToN, D, C. May 8.—Secretary Windom s confident of the complete success of his funding policy. The Treasury has alrendy received notice from the holders of $102,000,000 of & por cont bonds that they wish to extend them at 8¢, The United States Treasurer halds 825,000,000 nlready. presented for continuance. There are held in Europe 220,000,000 of 6 per cents, all of which it Is expected will be continued. Only two days remain under the call for the notifieation of the deusirg to_exchange. Mr. Windom does not expect to have to redeem a single bond of the entlre $198,000,000 6 per cents out- standing. No poliey has yet been determined with respect to the 5is, but it 1s quite possible fimfi the same plan will be adopted as to het, Special Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tribuns. WasiiNaroy, D, C., Moy 8~There have been some conferences to-day nmong the Senators, the prpose of which was to con- slder whether it would be possible to adjust the difileulty Letween the Senate and the Preskdent, but these conferpnces have been ag fruitless as those which have -preceded thom. The only definlt suggestion that has point Judge Robertson United States Dis- trict-Attorney In place of Mr, Woodford, withdrawn, allow Merritt to remnin as Col- lector until the explration of his term, and minke other satlsfactory’ provision for Mr, Woodtord, It fs wuald that those who have this schome in contemplation have sent a request to Judge Robertson to come to Washington. The latter, how- over, Is known to be a8 firzy i3 hid unrelent- g opposition to a compromise as the Yresls dentls. He hasrecently recoived a telegram. from a membor of the Administration inform ing him that his contirmation Is certaln, and HE 18 NOT DISPOSED TO SURRENDER what now seems a certainty of having the ureat oftice of Collectorof the Port of Now York in order to rescue Itoscos Conkling from dilema, and it cannot be learned that the President desres thiat an change in the program should be made. As for Mr, Conkling, If he has n program, he keeps his own counsel and has no con- fidences oxcept with n very narrow circle of Senators. So far as he Is known to have any detinlt purpose, 1t i3 to postpone the calling of nnother Republicun caucus as long as he eun, 1113 theory In seeking delay is, that the Senators are bound by the decision of a foriner cancus not to tuke up tho New York case 80 long as he shall object, and to post- pone them until next Decomber If necessary. TIERE ARE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, however, ns to the nature of this cuucus de- cision, some claiming that It does not requize the postponement of the Robertson case until December at Conkllug’s wish, as the friends of the lntter clali, and that it means only that this case shall not by allowed to inter- fore with the transiction of other necessary buginess, and that when the ealendars are cleared of other nominations the way will bo open to the consideration of the Roberison ease. Mr. Conkhne’s friends certainly main- tain that the caucus decislon will allow them to postpone action upon this case until Do~ cember, and 1t is for that reason that they will seek to - DELAY THE CALLING OF A REPULLICAN CAUCUS. As the Senators choose to conduct thelr offairs In cancus, the public may at its plens- ure nceept cither of theso two theorles, and Sonators who complaln of m Iurufl)r«unntntlon simply sulfer the penalty of their: self-lm- vosed mystery, ‘The sanie i8 true asto the roport thiat the Caucus Committeo suggested to the Prosident in gome way that it would be acceptablo to the Scnate that Robortson's name should be withdrawn. This statement Tias been emphatically denjed. Sowp Senu- tors, however, do not’ hesitate to say that it was thelr purpose to secure tha withdrawal of Robertson’s name, and the Presldent him- self certainly understond that to bo the sug- gestion of the Caucus Committee of seven, ‘There has ay yet been no call for n canens, and it 18 learned that every effort will be made from the Republican sldo to prevent one, NOTES. WILL TIE BEQUESTED TO RESIGN. Bpectal Dipateh to The Chicago Tribuns Wasinisatoy, D. C., May 8,—It s roported that the resignations of the Sixth Auditor, the Deputy Sixth Auditor, and of the chiet division ofticer of that buresu willberequest- ed next week, This is the auditing ofiiee of the Treasury, which has to-do with Post- Oftice contracts, and 1t Is the theory of those wlhio have been investigating these contracts that the oflicers should hnve taken moro care to see to It that the Government shonld not have been subjected to such wasteful ox- penditure In tho star-route business. A rela- tive of the Deputy Sixth Audlitor s counsel for one of the principal star-route men, SMALLEY, : Friends of E, V. Smalloy, of the Now York Tribunc, say that ke will have o Con- sulato to elther Vienna or Berlin boforelong. As Represontative Farwall Is understood to Thiave secured the promise that Consul-Gen- eral Krelssiman, at Borlin, should not be re- moved, Mr Suinlley may be sent to Vienna, GEN, L DUC, Commissloner of Agriculture, I8 endeavor- ing to retain his place, and has been circulat Ing petitions In his own behall, SENATOR FRYE returned hero to-night. WANTS EXIHESSIONS OF OPINION. Wa mzvb)l:x‘:rnl')mu m:“' 8,—Chalrman suNaToN, D, O, — Jowell, of the 'Ilnrublleau )fintlonul Com- mittee, lws fssuwl a clroular Inviting ex- ressions of opinlon from Republlcans hroughout tha uaunlr{lu rogard to the bust methods or rules which should .be adopted for electing delogntes to the next Nutlonal Conventlon in 1884, VENEERED BRICK. . Bpsciat Dispateh Lo The Chicago Triduns Watenrowy, Wis, May 8~It 13 boldly nsserted ' that the brick-veneered plan of erecting dwelling-houses and other bulldings originated In this clty, D. 8. Chadwick, one of our brick manufacturers, claiming the honor of being the first In this country to build after this style, A resldence now standing In the Soventh Ward, bulls twenty- two years ngo, is set down with confidence as belog the rurlmlllvu brick-yoneored build- ing in the Unitud States, Perhups testlimony showing the untenuuleness of Watertown’s position on this question con be Pruiuuwd. and If so, let it be given to the publie. e —et—— INSANE FROM RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT, Hpacial Dispatch (0 Th Ohicaga Tribuns, Beoroup, lnd,' May &-—Mis, George Brinkworth, who lives about fourteen njiles from here, becaine Iusano in consequonce af religious excitement tha-other. day, and, leav her house, walked ten or.twelve wiles befors abo was overtakon, 8he will be sent to the Insane Asylum at Indlanspolis, piopalisboat bocace sl inpgs . BISHOP. HENNESSY, Bpecial Disputch to The Chicaga Tridune, Dunuqu, In, May 8.~Uishop llennessy anived howe yesturday frow n sevej mmonths’ trip to Rome, Ho was presented with o $4,000 team und carriugo by the clergymen of his dioceso as n token of esteom, o wus nlso serenaded last svenlng by his parishlon- ors, LORD ROSCOE. 1E 18 BURPRISED, 8pectal Dispatch o The Chicaga Tridunss WasmiNaron, D, C., May 8,—Mr, Conkling {s reported to be surprised at the fact that o good many Hepublican Senators upon whose active friendsnip he had relled now indicate that, the Issue having been dircctly mude, they shall support the Administru- tlon. Yet thero 18 no reason why he should bosurprised. 'Theso Senators have been dis- posed to colpernte with Banator Coukling so far as their own ndividual Intorests were not involved; buit, when 1t becomes evident, as It now hag, that the Senators may have to choose between the friendshlp of Roscoe Conkling or the fayor of the Adminlstration, thero ure n wood many who wilt conclude that the Prealdent can bo of mgre service to them than Mr, Conkling can, ; This I8 sald to be specially true of & number-of Senutors whose campaign for redloction mmust take pluce durini the life of the present Adminls- ratlon, Tho same REABONS OF ALLEGED SELV-PRESEIVATION which Conkling maintalns cowpel iim tothe coursa which e hus udopted may, In like manner, compel thoso he has relled’ upon to support the Administration rather than Mr, Conkling, Some of the Democrsts think thoy sce In the nsuem Senate slituation an opportunity to cripple the Mlhtins move- nient, ‘Choy have lntimated that, if Malione should vote to uuufun thé Administration with u view of securlug Federal patronage, it woud be just that Coukilng in retallation should voteé agalnst the confirmation bf an: Malione men, ~ Of course, 1t Colxkllnx;huulcyl make such un allignco with the Denigérats, the Mahone mencould notbe confirmed. TIIE COMMITTBES, TWO MEETINGY CALLED, . Wasnisatoy, ). C, May 8.—Meetings have been called of the Judiclary and Forptgi Relations Comnnitiees for to-morrow mern- I’RICE FIVE CENTS, than 13 consequent itpon the breaking up of . tho river after uvery winter of usunl severity. In many places, on higher ground, 1 saw FAIMENS 8EEDING THE GHOUND. Even tho bottoms, now that the water has run off, aro raplily drying and will soon be ready for the plow, and the drag deposit’ has not been heavier than usual, vhile the channel’ of the river remning as it wus, save the slight detours and cuts, which are a8 certain on the Missouri ns any natural sg« quence, Where pralrie fires linve passed, o grass {8 already tinting the ground with green, and willow and cottonwood will Inna tew daya be In the full glory of thelr vernal dress, sinco of molsture tiiere is not inck, and the hot sun i rapidly warming the snil into vigor, Two months from now the damages done by the floods in the country on the east slde of the Missourl, from Springfield north to Fort Hall, will be largely effaced, and tha suffering ns fully relleve as It can be, with a decided molety of the suiferers tending toward pauperlsm, On the west bank, so far ns the Missouri Valley I3 concerned, the snme state of nffairs muy be snid to exist. On our arrival at Fort Randall wo found o repetition of woful tales rife, White Earth settlement, opposit, dld not suller very heavily, and THOBE WII0 NEEDED FOOD WERE IMMEDI- ATELY BUPPLIED from the fort, as wers the sutlerers on Peace Island, a little way up the river, The Poncs, n somewhat considerable stream flowing into the Missourl about eighteen mlles below Randall, has - agreenbly disappointed those who know Its ~ characteristics, and gone out quletly ~ with = slight ingliction o A ‘The Niobrara, or Running Water, also behaved very re- apectably, though ns It is o large stream draining many hundred squave miles ot ter- from slight,” "Tho tales of dire want on the r{nrt of the entire community come from the eyapnes_ Sioux,” or Turtle Hill, emptying into the Niobrara fully sixty miles from the mouth, the course of the conflnent being a little north of cast, Keynpacn Town, at the Junetion of the twao streams, 13 distant neross the country from Fort Randall about thirty- five_miles, and yet supplies have been sent by Col. Andrews, Colonel of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, commanding at tho rnst named, for more than 2,000 pcople. Full rations to tho nbove amount In ‘everything except sugar have been sent to Koyapaca for ten dnys under charge of Capt- Quimby, of the Twenty-lifth Infantry, and it is estimated that fully ns great o number of RATIONS WILL BE NEEDED FOR SISTY DAYS, and, as Uie drain on tha resonrces of the post s been al supplles will have to for- warded from thae depots down . river. Of course this can bo readlly done. At Pence Island, Col. Andrews Issireid 800 rations, The difticulties in reaching the sufferers on the Keyapacn ean searcely bo exagrerated, as the whole country interven- Ingz ind been more or less overtlowed, and the witgons sunk to thelr hubs In clayey wmud, Their condition wagnot consequont on floods, though they of course added evils, The ut= sultant loss of stock and utter isolation fromn basis nf supply, had . far more to do with. the Ianientable \ state of affairs than_swollen strenns or gorging Ice, The veople were reduced to the consumption of thelr seeds, even the sorghun seed not es- caplng, The fow accounts which renched Tandall represent a condition of absolute want and 3 CLOSE APPROXDMATION TO STARVATION _truly pitiablo and Iamentable. 'The poor fel- lows who renched the supply trains nfter o bitter struggle through the siollen streams and deep snow snntehed the pordons allotted them, scarcely tarrying to thank the pitying ofifeer who Issued” thew, and rushed’ olf ‘to whero their wives and waltlng for the long-craved . supplles. This, - too, n 0 rcfilnn ~ formerly fertilo and favored, from which last summer famine seewed.ns far removed ds from any eastern valley orplatenn, , ‘There ara those who say the estimaterof numbers 13 too high, {hnt there are not so mnny scitlers apaca Valley, and thnt the maximum wou not reach 2,000 men, wowmen, md children. 'I‘I%xley mny.bo right, thougth the United States ofticers, trained to accuraey, aro apt to colns very close in (‘luesllun of !lgures for Govetni- mental information. Granting that the number s too great, the . degree of sutfering no one disputes, nor the newed for Instant ald and comfort, Capt. ‘Dayne, (inding that bacon and other staple “supplies were Funning short in the Randall - Commissary Department, advized nenv.\lnf o courlerto the nearest telegraph ofiice with information ns to the state of nfiairs and a requisition for p NEEDED ARTICLES OF FOOD.. Ilis . recommendation wllt doubtless be adopted and speedily attended to, aud the wants of the sufferers secured, far 08 lenrn from_ necessurlly imporfect datn pro- cured, the Keyapnca sufferers do not need a8 much akd from the Nation at large as tholr fellows of Missouri bottoms, The flouds damaged property some, of course, but . not o the uxtent else- where endured, aud with the return of spring and tho disnppearance the long-lncumbering snow farmners can get to seeding with hopes of a erop In due sea- son, Lut, as stated, they have eaten the seeds In thielr extremity, and this should at once by mmfllc(l by Natlunal chinrity. Dona- tions of clothing would not be nmlss in many instances. ' All'eorn, wieat, oats,’ and vege-~ table _seeds for specdy planting are nesded by these people. ~ One _ fent- ure of " tha floods between Yank- ton and Vermillon must prove = serlous, and thatis the effect on tho herith of the connmunities when the water eventually goes off and tho Lot sun beats down with the power equal to that felt in regions far to the southwnrd, It Is feared tho stench frowm the thousands of (rowned cattle, liogs, and lorses will be so overpowerlng ag to render otherwise hnbitable locaifties ~ °* . PLAGUE-RTRICKEN AND ABANDONKD. Malerinl fovers must of necessity abound, and the hardshipsof the last four weeks havo not been the best preparations for resistance . to Insidlous disease, ~ Medicines thercfore, and especlally quinine, could be donated with profit. So also could lumber for buikl- ing, ns the feo nnd water carried off much of the wmatorial which tho louseholder can now . but Hly afford to replace, Shelter -~ of somo sort he have ereanother winterconies with its vigors, Lnnko theso suggeations as muny may be both nble and witltug to make donations of spucifie artioles who would bo unable to glve ivalents n eash subscriptions, Nearly opposit Yankton Agenoy, and about elkhty niles above Yankton by river, wo passed the steambout . Mende, of the Akin Line, Sho 18 high and dry on ons of the — small river = bottoms, seemingly littlo damnged, but fully three quarters of.a mile from the river, so that it is somewhut problematical whother she can be launched before next high-water or not. The Meado was loaded last fall with stores for Ltosebud Aglmc{..mld was frozen in &t the heud of Peuce Island, - Before the break-u she wus deserted by all butn Ind, who stuci to hor through al * THE VICISSITUDES OF TITK FLOOD and Is still on board, Nearly all her cargo was tound In falr condition, and much of 1t has been already taken out and hauled to " tho river bank for reshipment. “I'io uetuanl stata of aifairs at Plerre is in- volved in doubt in the East, As it is on the Missourl River, it will not be out of _plaee to . hnve 5 rellable report. West Plorre, tha site of the old fur truding voat, Is completely destroyeand its wnm&mnm carrled away, Nortliward £ Fort Hale to within thln{ miles -of Dlerre the primitive frontloer is bont is ofton for hours out of slgh of house, tanohe, or cablu, ‘The - catulog of damnges s the chief one, and no extensive lossos of any other property than cuttle are ruported, ‘Chore are, of course, here and thoro n faw acres of tillablo and rolling bench Jand, but the najority of the country, as- scen from tho dock, Is characlerized y o sterile looki— high, bare bluffs, with cteft coolles filled twjth’ cedur troes abound, nd thnber 18 noye too vlem‘{. “Huck of the blufts and out of sight from t o river the lands are as good a8 elsewhere, aud largoly sottled upon, though with nothing like the density of pop- ulation remariced below. Frow propristors ‘t’l‘m \tvnod-yn along the bonks I learned TIE SBUPFERING THI3 WINTER HAS BEEN UNPRECEDENTED, and peovlo have besn reduced to the dlrest straits for food. One ot the prettlest loca- tlous wlong the wholo stream I a listle town precedented severity of the winter, with re-- children’ were - in ]\em- eing disinterested nnd - ofticially - of - raversed, and the. very conslderable, addition- 3 ritory, the aggregate of damnge done wasfar b WA