Below New Orleans, for a distance of fifty miles, it is said that the country is entirely under water.
A serious break occurred in the levee at Keokuk, Iowa, but with this exception no levees have given way. It is hoped that the worst is over.
News comes from Cuba that the Spanish have met with two serious reverses.
At Guamo, in Santiago de Cuba, the Cubans, under General Calixto Garcia, routed a body of Spaniards 2,000 strong.
The Cubans had mined the roads with dynamite, which they exploded as the main body of the Spaniards passed over.
During the confusion and fright that followed, the insurgents fell upon the troops, killing many, and finally putting the whole force to flight.
The second engagement was in the Province of Havana, where the Cubans played another of their old tricks, and led the Spaniards into a trap they had prepared for them.
The Spaniards met a small force of Cubans, which retreated before them. They followed hotly, until suddenly the fleeing insurgents turned and attacked them, and before the Spaniards had time to make out what this meant, they were also attacked vigorously from the rear, and found they had been again entrapped by the enemy.
The fight lasted five hours, and then the Spaniards were obliged to retreat.