New prisoners report favorable progress by our armies. Yesterday there was a powerful rain lasting ten hours. In this part the soil is red a...

To-night almost the entire valley is inundated. Many tents are waist high in water, and where others stood this morning the water is ten fee...

These mountain streams are unreliable. We had come to regard the one on which we are encamped as a quiet, orderly little river, that would b...

About the twenty-fifth of January, Major Johnson, with his detachment, leaves Bonniventure, and joins the regiment at Fort Brown. Receiving ...

McNairy moved his battalion from Camp Schuyler, about thirty miles north, to Huntsville, the county seat of Scott County. This was the day o...

 The writer and a few others were sent to a gap in the mountain, about twelve miles north of Huntsville and within three miles of the Kentuc...

Every thing apparently quiet, and we, in the absence of bad news, are surrounded by a most peaceful and pleasant atmosphere. Our communicat...

The Rains continue -- Water again Rising. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1. – During the past thirty hours it has rained hard almost incessantly. ...

Immense Destruction of Property – Damage $10,000,000. The Pacific slope has been visited by the most disastrous flood that has occurred...

Great swells are reported in all the Iowa rivers.   A number of small bridges, and portions of dams have been carried away, playing mischief...

CAIRO, April 24. Previous to the commencement of the war the daily receipt of letters at Cairo post office did not exceed 2,000. Now the num...

Special to the Democrat. GUNBOAT FLOTILLA, April 23. All quiet here if we except two mortar boats remaining in position, which occasionally ...

(Special to the Chicago Journal.) CHICAGO, April 25. The steamers Choctaw, and Belle Memphis arrived last evening at 9 o’clock, which left P...

ON BOARD TRANSPORT NEBRASKA, CAIRO, April 18, 1862 EDITOR GAZETTE:– Having arrived here at noon to-day from St. Louis, I immediately began t...

BOSTON, April 22. Advices from the interior report that the freshet has reached its height, and the waters are now receding. Railroad trave...

ST. LOUIS, April 22. Henry L. Kout, on of the parties indicted by the grand jury of the U. S. Circuit Court in this city, for conspiracy and...

Times’ Special. CAIRO, April 21 The Ohio and Mississippi rivers at this point are still gradually rising. Should a heavy wind arise the lev...

SPRINGFIELD, April 21. The freshet in the Connecticut river at this point is the greatest ever known. At 9 o’clock this evening the water ha...

MONTREAL, April 21. There are heavy freshets prevailing throughout Canada. Many villages are flooded, and there has been great destruction ...

ST. LOUIS, April 21. A riot occurred at East St. Louis Saturday night, in which three men were injured. In consequence of the high water in...