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...relief committee of Cincinnati received upward of $2000 Monday, making the total receipts to date...
...Ohio river is slowly receding, and a further rise is not anticipated. Active measures for the relief of the sufferers have been inaugurated in all parts of the country, and liberal contributions are being hourly received...
...Ohio river is subsiding, and it is believed that the greatest danger is now over. Relief for the sufferers by the flood is coming in from all parts of the country, and is being systematically distributed by associations organized for this purpose...
...under pretence of listening to a noise from the top; and when we rose to the level of the black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted out of the shadow, and made a thrust at the rope where it was already worn almost through...
General Logan concluded his speech in the Senate yesterday in opposition to the Fitz John Porter relief bill. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill was defeated by a vote...