The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1816-06-17
ALEXANDRIA RERAI.D,
MONDAY, JuNr l7, lsle
Baltimore, June Is.
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Communicated for the Patriot.


dated Nay is.
All hopes of closing the levee
have failed; it is now entirely aban
doned and left to take it's course. j
presume, however, the water will fiud
a vent through the lakes, so as to pre-
vent it from rising any higher in our
city. More than one third of the city
IS covered with water, which begins TO
smell so badly az to drive of the in
habitants."
Communicated for the Patriot.
-E.rfrGcs from, DuenOs Tyres, dated II
, mil ~.
Hides have risen astonishingly
There have been some bought az 80
rials. for the pesada of 35lbs (lor the
French market) at which price there
are few choice hides to be had. There
are Is or l6 English vessels in port
waiting for cargoes, and do not think
there as produce enough in this place
10 load half of them. There i. no DO.
litical news Of importance stirring
the papers contain nothing worth
translating. There is congress as
sembled at Tuchman, consisting of
members ofthe difsrept provinces, s. it
is expected they will come out with
declaration OF independence in conse-
quence OF this the town was iIlumi.
mated three nights, (by the way nothing
very brilliantly Alvarez the former
president has resigned, aud gene
raj Released appointed pro tenn I'm
all chan he ala L.
congress it is said this resignation
was in consequence of the government.
on the other side, refusing to come to
friendly understanding with this 60
Vernment. alleging they did not be
lieye The director was anxious for re-
Cancellation Thus you see how fc-
kle they are. The general on the o.
Their side, Artegas. has sacked Santa
fee, small place aboui so leagues up
the river on this side 800 men that
were sen, from here toloppose his ope-
rstions joined him Immediately upon
their arrival.
Horse Hides 8 each l.; tallow 81,
the arrobe /; Neutrias (summer) IS a
10 rs. ) Horns % TO 82S the 1000 ;;
Vacuaa wool . 6 3 IS -
Erract from Ne4p Orleans, May IL.
F" / wrote to you by the ship Jackson.
] will therefore only add what has &C.
CURED since.
The water believe, has ceased to
Rise in the city, it having found ver,
in,o Lake Borsne. The breach in the
levee above town is not yet closed We
are very ssnguine, however in our
hopes that it will be done speedily.
The operation has commenced, and is
so tar successful. They have moared
two large ships across its mouth, and
have begun to throw in bags illed with
earth. The water with which part of
the city is covered begins to throw out
a horrid smell, produced, no doubt, by
ats communication with the privies and
Wiih TIE burying ground Imagine
what our situation will be during The
heats of August There is something
odd in seeing boats roy through the
streets of a pnpul"us city On Satur.
day last, sloop from across Lake Pon,-
chartrain, sailed on the Bayou road as
far as the house formerly owned by
Daniel Clark, and then struck across
the fields to the rear of this city. with
out once touching bottom Yesterday
SSundav) all the world sailed o.. par
ties of pleasure to the Bayou St. John
this is usually pleasant afternoons
ride-what is still more drolI, several
sai!-d on dry land ~ to the crosses"
NEw-YnRZ, June IL
Information to sbithtr0 and shit OFoneTs.
The following letter to Mr.. Abra-
ham Ogden, merchant of this city
from his correspondent as Naples con-
Gains Information interesting to shippers
and ship owners.
I" Naittes, March 26, 1916.
. We beg to refer you to the con
tents Of our last respects, dated the
.Ath inst and have now TO inform you,
,that according to determination of bis
majesty, the king of the two Sicilies,
pu5lished in our newspapers, the law
first euacted by the late military govern
rnent relative to the importation Of TO
bacco, is henceforth to be rigorousl'
executed Agreeable to the tenor o.
this law any vessel, either national OF
foreign, which touches at any of the
ports of the kingdom, loaded entirely,