In due time the waters receded and the city remained unharmed.

It is not true that a steamer was lost in consequence of running against a chimney of the St.Charles Hotel.
Cairo has prospered during the war, and is now making an effort to fill her streets above the high-water level, and insure a dry foundation at all seasons of the year.

This once accomplished, Cairo will become a city of no little importance.
Proceeding up the Tennessee, I reached Pittsburg Landing three days after the great battle which has made that locality famous.
The history of that battle has been many times written.

Official reports have given the dry details,--the movements of division, brigade, regiment, and battery, all being fully portrayed.

A few journalists who witnessed it gave the accounts which were circulated everywhere by the Press.