From Fort Wright

Special to the Democrat.

GUNBOAT FLOTILLA, April 23.

All quiet here if we except two mortar boats remaining in position, which occasionally throw shells over at the fort. The rebels have not replied to-day. None of their gunboats can be seen. The weather is fair. The flood has overrun all the plantations and houses along the river, and great distress prevails among the inhabitants along the banks, some of whom would give all they possess to have their families removed from their houses, which the water threatens to carry down the river.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1