The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1844-06-22
From the Alexandra LA ] Transcript.
GKEAT INUNDATlON AND DES-
TRUCTION OF PROPERTY

GREAT INUNDATlON AND DIES
n TRUCTIoN OF PROPERTY
y The non appearance Of our paper for II
pas: two weeks has been in consequence c
one of The most disastrous and caIa,nito,
visltaiions that has ever befallen our parish
Early on the morning Of the l3th inst, tn
!. alarm was given that the leevee on Bayo
kapides, above the dirt bridge, had give
way; aud that the water was coming il
through Gen. Thomas field with tremendou
velocity. Some 80 to 100 hands wer,
immediately despatched, aud every ef1or
human ingenuity could devise, was imme.
D e;ately put in requistion to stop the breach
but without avail. The whole range Of
plantations along the Bayou Rapides, as wei
as those back cftown, extending out to Bayou
Robert, were soon flooded. About one o.
clock the water came up into the streets
back OF town, and all the inhabitants of iha
section, among whom was ourseIf, we're
compelled TO seek safety by precipitate
tight. BY two o'clock the water had reach
ed second street, and towards evening, had
nearly reached front street. BY this time
the great body Of water had forced pas
sage through the Railroad, below town.
which had held it off the plantations above ,
and the great extent of country thus opened
tor 1t to spread over, brought il to stand a.
bove. A portion Of front street, and the
public square, was now all the dry land left,
either in town, or for miles around It. In the
course of the next day, another breach was
made in the levee in front of the town, lust
kansdell g. Mead's store, and in a short
time the whole string of levee from this
breach up TO the mouth of Bayou Rapides
was swept away, and tremendous curren,
came sweeping through the town, carrying
off fences, undermining houses, uproo,ing
trees, DC. The damage done to town pro
perfy was in many instances very great, but
's nothing at all in comparison with the i'm.
nense destruction in the surrounding coun.
~. The cotton crops we're never mora
promising on Red River than they were the
present season up to The period of this dire
a'amity and the brish, hopes of our planters
i rich reward for their industry were thus !,
ut OFT, as it were, within an hour. The ).
'hole range Of country above and below us,
as we believe immense tracts
as good cotton lands as could be found in /
ny country, had been completely inunda> $
ID near two weeks before We were over. n
own here; and we should not be at all a
nrprise1 if, instead of 100000 bales, which C
as been computed to be the average crop
the Red River country, the coming crop
,ouId not reach 10000. Nearly the whole
'nge of rich cotton lands, from the mouth
Red River, to the raft distance of some
wen hund red miles, is now, an almost con
luous sheet Of water.
LoCoFoCo THUNDER. Some OF our Loco
co neghbors in town had made great
for rejoicing over the result Of
e Baltimore Convention. The Van Buren,
I'd Cass Cl'qnes had high antic,palions,
oh hoping that his favorite would be the
'minee, but stll ready to shout at the re>
1t. But alas! they were doomed to disap
The news arrived that Polk
I'd Dallas were the chosen the chosen
aders. Oh! impossib'e! cried the Van
lren Clique: terrible! said the Cass men
last It was resolved TO await the arrival
another steamboat, and be certain that il
as no hoax. A second and third boat
rived, all bringing the same sorrowful
|ings, and The disappointed clans fading i,
eIess to grumble, resolved that there should al
powder burned, whether for rejoicing or ~
aiing; and a sad spectacle it was, tor, as Ia
friend informs US, it sounded like The soI> ~
funeral procession, more than " "
at of rejoicing at great event. We were la
t in town 10 hear The funeral guns of TT
fired, but we are happy 10 in. ar
rrn our country friends that it was buried IN
th becoming solemnty. Had we not W
en at that glorious Wing rally at Browns. r,
lie, we should have been present to condole he
lh the mourners. Vicks. Wkig. nj,
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A new invention, styled wool mosaic nil
'h, has recently been introduced into raj
ndon from Berlin and, as we learn, i.
IN to be introduced into our American