The Arkansas banner., 1850-05-14
MiSAkSinni Flood.

We regret to lsarnthat the great rise in tile Mis- sippi river, has not yt abated. The New Orleans Bulletin of the 9th hstant contains the following information relative the disastrous effects of the flood:
 "A gentleman wh, arrived yesterday from above, has given us a vivid description of the appearance presented on the rivf, which is entirely over its banks, for hundreds ,f miles below the Ohio, and the levecs have brosen in various places between this and Vicksburg A very large crevasse has taken place on the Ilusiana side. opposite Rodney, which has flooded tht entire section of country, and our informant ,ated that he counted eleven sugar houses consecuiyely, which, with their entire plantations, dwellings and negro quarters, were completely flooded t' a great depth. and presented nothing but one will waste of water. The town of Rodney. on tho Mississippi side, through it's whole extent, was flooded nearly up to the second floor of the stores aud dwellings.
 The river in some places has risen eighteen feet in a few days. and as much three feet in 24 hours. For a long distance above and below Mem phs, the water exteIhed on both sides, far the eye could reach fsomthe hurricane deck of d steam boat, and this pretty much the Case for the whole distance between the Ohio aud Vicksbufg, except where there were bluffs or highlands It also the same bel,w Vicksburg where tho levees had given way. Thepaaters were at work strength ening the levees, ana in some instances endsavor-
 ing to close the brea,'ss the water had made, but some of tho creyasses particularly the opposite BOwery, was completely beyond all control.
 e. n Ohio, with some oi,he snalieG upper tributaries in very high stage a water, but the Missouri is un- fortunately premat'reiy pouring out her mighty flood al the same tune. Fms has been caused by the warm weather in March anu April, winch has mel ted the snows on the upper Missouri much earlier and more rapidly than usual. and the spring flood Of ths liver. which usually does not reach New Dr. leans untl late in May ,ad m June, IS now comm g down m great strength, al the same time with that from the streams silu.ed in a m,ldeI district ot county, whose floods generally exhausted before that oI the Missouri ceaDmences--the worst ol the tale therefore cannot probably yet be ,oid, as the greatest volume oi tue Missoal's flood Is still 10 come.
 The Mississippi continues 10 rush through the old Cfesssse al Bonnet Care, ia q stream w,der than the TveT issi, and soue steamboals that have ace, denily got into II, have with difficulty regaBsd the regular channel ot the rlver. IL Is this emmense CTevssse which renders the effects oi the flood from being less apparent in eur vicinity. and has probably been the cause of preventing much injury. From all we can learn on thesubJect, the channel which the water has formed, sih ID future be permanent outlet Tor the waters of The river, and sasty valve for all the country below it. Not only is Lake Pont eha'train and Lake Bogne completely filled wi,h the water Of the Mississippi. but the waters of the uf are ireshened all the way over to the Bay of St. Louis, Pass Christian and Biloxi."