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-" THE iiIssisSPPI RIVER IL again Tlslng villa
astonishing rapi,!i;y. Between Saturday and Sun
day. the rise exceeded foot winch is an Immense
rise considering The large extent ot country over
winch il is spread. We yesterday crossed In
boats To the Pap House, opposite this city, dis
,ancc of about tso miles and a half The water
in Illino,town covers all the ground, and is up
into the first stories of The houses. Boats pass with
iaciy from the Illinois shore TO the Pap House.
than mile The water, yesterday, had
reached within a few inches oi the highest poini
attained this spring, and nearly to the hight a.
rained in the resheis OF 1928 and '26. consl-
era5Ic portion ul tIe curb-s;oncs on Weter-stroci
are covered and the water running INTO the lower
stories OF Battle Row. and the corner OF laGrr!-
street All the river, above reported 10 bc rising
bat the principal li>e from tle il-sOErI-suppo-eL
to be the June irsshet trom The Mountains. Ii l.
probable that the present risc will exceed the pre-
vious one OF this spring, and probably any ever
known by the oldest inhabitants. Ii Is impossible
10 estimate the damage done 10 individuals residing
along the banks of The rivers Whole farms have
ben laid desolatc, and years OF labor destroyed by
the sweeping oil Of fences, the destruction OF crops
sc. &c.


Boats from above report the Missouri, the Missis
sippi and the Illinois and their tributaries all over
flowing their banks and still rising rapily-=pread-
ing destruction Gni CONSERVATION among the inhabi-
tons OF the bottoms whose losses will be great
Many of their farms completely under walcr
their crops entirely destroyed, and their stock either
carried ohy the flood or scattered over the county
where they will. probablv V, never be recovered.


The illinois river is reported 10 be within six
inches OF the high water mark OF the great food iiat
occurred seventeen wears ego. At Naples II hnd
oveltowed the bank, and The streets were under
water.


Very heavy rains have fallen during the last week
in a parts OF the upper country, which il IS feared
will do a great deal OF injury 10 the growing crops.


ST Louis l,rDurlican Eth.