The amount subscribed in aid of the sufferers is found to be inadequate for pressing want. . The latest return of loss of life by the Johnstown catastrophe is 37,000. ' This is based on- the fact that 13,000 survivors have registered their names, while the estimated population of the district affected (in Connemangh Valley) is 50,000. Ifc js foared that ail the rest have lost' their lives. President Harrison accepts the Queen's message of sympathy upon the Johnstown cuastrnphe as an expression of a generous character on the part of herself, and indi cative of the goodwill of England towards the United States.
The wife of a leading citizen of Johns town has been found alive in fche debris.
A co'fin was found containing a corpse partly burned. It 'will take 10,000 labourers a month to clear the wreckage caused by floods.
Original Correspondence.
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PLOUru-KNG MATCH

TO TOE EDITOR.
