The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-02-07
Lnnisiamn Interinr.

Louisiana Interior.
The RIVER" The Oldest inhabitant" scarce
recollects continuous and copious rain as fell
here on Saturday and Sunday last, or so sudden
and complete flooding OF the town Of Bayou Sara
'On Saturday morning the town might have been
reached on foot, dry shod; but on Monday morning
in consequence OF the rain, and the continued rise
OF the river, the entire town was under water
flat-boats now last year, mooTed at the foot
OF the bill, while skifis and fats are constantly
communicating with Bayou Sara. Perhaps, these
events, untoward as they are to many of cIti-
zens, may rebound to the innocent advantage of
some and "Squattervile" may yet reach the sum
init OF its primeval Observation-Disclosures (,St.
Franeisrille) Chronicle, FEB. 2.
DRowNED.-Robert Ferguson, a resident of this
Parish, left this place Saturday last, the 26th
ult, In state of intoxication, and the severe rain
on that day having raised Thompson's creek, he
was drowned in endeavoring to cross the same.
Mr.. Ferguson has been for many years resident
OF w est Feliclana. He has left large family to
mourn his loss.-D.
THE RIVER, ETc.-The river at this point is
very high and still continues rising it lacks only
about lS inches OF being as high the highest
water-mark OF last year. MANY families have
already moved on The Hill,'' and more soon will
follow. The swamp and Mississippi waters have
completely inundated our town. leaving only
small strip Of land on Front street besides the top
Of the Levee, to show that Bayou Sara had been
built upon dry land. Verify Venice ITSELF cannot
boast in proportion to size of more gondolas or
better water privileges, than Bayou Sara.-Bagou
Sara Ledger, Feb ,.
The Baton Rouge Reporter of the lst inst,
says that Col P S. White gave, on "Wednesday
evening last, another one of those sound, eloquent
and entertaining lectures on temperance, for which
he is so justly celebrated. The Colonel has
peculiar adaptations in taste as well as mental and
- Il
which renders him supremely pre-eminent as
lecturer.
ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE RAILRoAD.--The
Selma Ala.) Reporter speaks very confidently of
the prospects of this road Ii says;
' Last Tuesday the engineers of the Alabama
and Tennessee River railroad returned to this place
from reconnaissance of the road. They went as
far as Gunters Landing, and report very favorably
to the excellence of the route. Mr.. Troost is
now on hasty visit to Mobile, and after his re-
turn two corps of engineers will immediately enter
survey Of the route, one to start from Selma
the other somewhere about Talladega, The work
may now be considered fairly under headway, and
under the able management of its President, Mr..
Lapsley, it will be pushed on TO a speedy compile
ton"
We are highly gratifed tsays the Mobile Adyer-
tser,) to hear of the favorable prospects of this
been are glad to perceive, quite just and liberia
towards the road. The unapp-opriated half of the
two per cent fund has been granted to the com
| pany, and in addition 100000 of the three pei
| cent. fund This places handsome sum at the
disposal of the company, and if the directors pu
the right foot" forward the work will 90 ahead
THE TRANSPORTATION OF GoLD AND SILVER
BULLIoN.-Ihe public abroad are little aware o.
the astonishing amount of gold and silver which
passes monthly, and, we might say, daily across
the Isthmus from this point to Chagres. The long
trains OF mules which pass out OF our city gates
laden with ingots Of gold and silver, and boxes o
specie and gold dust would have made the heart ol
a bucaner in the olden time dance with transport
and fill the mind of the dazzled adventurer with dz
zy visions OF nexhaustible wealth. These amounts
are o1ty those trasmitted by public agents here
while the treasure from California quietly car
ried over by private individuals, and which can
scarcely be correctly or over estimated as no ac-
count IS to be had OF it here, greatly exceed
them in value. We give below the amount for
warded from this place from the LIST of last October
| to the beginning OF the present year:
n, =. GOLD F%9RTARpEp % ACROSS THE IsTHNgs;
By the Royal Mail Steamship Company. $4,000 q
Gold and silver by the Royal Mail steamship
Company IRON South America, ,Mexico,etc 100000 0
Making the total OF. .............. So s44
| PcRamG Star, january Is.
10 The New York Courier has an able article
| IN appreciation of speech recently made in the U
5. Senate, by Mr.. Dickinson of that State. W
make short extract, in which the Northern agita
tors are shown up in their proper coors 6 Their
| is party of fanatics in the Northern States VIII
would be glad to see the Union dissolved in orde
to secure thereby the destruction of slavery Thei
agitation of the subject for the last ten or lftee
years has looked to that result as the ultimate en
OF their endeavors. 1t is only of late, however
that they have ventured openly to avow the desigl
which, from the beginning, has lurked under thei
Proclamations of hostility to slavery in the South
ern States, and to the Constitution, which leaves i
entirely within the control of their local govern
| ments. These men now declare their deliberat
purpose to effect dissolution of the Union if the
can bring it about. They are, some of them, reck
less, unprincipled, selfish agitators who pursu
their own ends of selfaggrandizement and notoriet
without regard to the character of the means whic
they employ while others among them are mer
fanatics, slaves to the single idea of hostility t
| slavery, and tools of the men who seek, throug
their aid, the accomplishment Of their own pur
poses"
| YANKEE ENTERPRISE ExEMPLIEIED. = w
have never heard of Yankee enterprise better ex
empifed than in the facts which we here narrate
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