The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-05-06
The YazOO RiVer.-RemOVaI of unladen
acknowledgements of Health, sc.

The YazOO RiVer.-RemOVal of unladen
FIatbOats.-Preservat of Health, sc.
The river is still falling. The small streams
from which the Yazoo derives it's principal
waters, are now going down more rapidly
than they have ever been known to, after
. season of extreme high water; yet the RI
yer here falls but slowly. This is partly &C.
casioned by the levee on the Mississippi,
somewhere near the YazOo Pass, having Civ
en- way to the vast pressure from the immense
stream which it served TO dyke in, thereby
inundating considerable portion of that 500
ton, from which it passos OF solely through
the channel of our river. Nevertheless, fall
as slow or rapid as it may, one all-important
duty should not be neglected. We mean
the immediate removal of the sediment eau
sed to be left at our landing and all spots
within the limits of the town over which
the water has extended. The owners of
warehouses that have been inundated, ifthey
value the health of their families or friends,
will, as the water recedes, cause the mud and
filth that may have collected beneath their
floors, to be removed. This is but little trou-
BILE if attended to at the proper time, and
who among us would grudge some small
labor or expense, to prevent summer pes
thence spreading itself throughout our neigh
borhood? Death has been but too busy a.
mong this little community during the past
winter, let us then, as far as it lays in our
power, prepare to ward off the attacks to
which in all probability, we shall be more or
less subjected during the summer months.
While on this subject, we would respectful
ly call the attention of our Mayor and Sc
lectmen to the necessity of making it obliga-
tory (if it is not so already, on the owners of
fatboats at our landings, to keep them push
ed into the stream as the river falls, or if
permitted to remain on the bank, that they
should as soon as practicable, be taken apart
and the lumber removed to wherever the
owner of it may wish to use or keep it. All
fiatboats that remain here when the produce
or stock with which they may have been
freighted, is disposed Of, are of no value ex-
c ept for the lumber of which they are built,
which can be used for the building of out.
houses, &C., and can be as conveniently re.
moved at first as at last. These remarks are
called forth from the fact las many of oul
citizens will most probably recolect) of
Aatboat that had formerly contained stock
being suffered to remain the major part o
last summer on the bank of the river near II
P. B. POpe's cotton warehouse, the efluvi
Of which for several yards around was actu
ally insuferable. A boat that has been load
ed with corn and suffered to remain in
similar situa ton, would scarcely be les
nuisance, as there will always be portion O
corn remaining at the bottom of the boat
which as it rots, scents the air around to
much greater distance than is by many i'm
agined. We trust we have said enough I
attract the attention of our Board of Select
men and citizens generally to this subject
and that prompt measures will be taken b
all to remove whatever may tend to the ere
alton of disease among the inhabitants. w
have enough to battle against in the miasm
arising from the surrounding lakes an
swamps, without having to contend also wit
the pesilferOus air Of neglected nuisances.