Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-26
can be encountered i! i, the progress. 4

useful improvements "a.
The physical difficulties alone Are OF the high
est order. and as we have seen, mttst be boldly
and promptly met. OF the lower and most beauti-
full portions of Louisiana must be baudoued.-
But it involves other questions OF serious magni-
tude and covers other vast interests. 1t brings
up grave questions of individual rights. judicial
control, and the rights of States. Viewing the
immense stake at issue, or which, ut no distant
day, will be involved, it may be anticiI ,ated that
if some adequate remedy be not provided, it is
a question which will ultimately lead to serious
Conflicts of interest.
If it be maxim of civil law that men shall
so use their own as not to do injury to their
neiehbors, the right of the counties above to In
terrupt the flow of water through its natura
channels and forceit down upon the parishes be-
low; or the right of Arkansas or Mississippi to
reclaim their swamps, by converting the sugar
estates of Louisiana into swamp; or the right
of Missouri to drain her lakes by OVERLOOKING
the cotton feds of Mississippi and Arkansas,-are
questions which may yet become as difficult to
the iurist and statesman, as the control of this
great river is now to the engineer.
Mr.. Ellet points out the means which, in his
Judgment, should be adopted, in order to prevent
future inundations, but we have neither space to
explain nor knowledge enough of the subject to
Justify us in pronouncing opinion as to its fea-
s;bility. The memoir on the Ohio River is
highly interesting, and embodies much valuable
information.
We think that the publishers have done well
in bringing these essays before the reading pub
lie in so handsome shape and trust that they
NAV be rewarded fol their onterpriselin SO doing.
| The volume will, we have no doubt, prove an ac-
ceptable offering to the cientifc corps of our
country.
| THE SAD CONDITION OF MILAN.-A letter
from Milan, published in the Newark Advert
ser, gives sad picture of the condition of that
once splendid capital The recen. outbreak has
brought down upon its citizens. the utm ost rigor
of its Austrian 1t is said to he little better
thana great military prison. Business is every
where suspended, the streets are nearly deserted,
all houses must be closed at 6 O'Clock In the
evening, and not more than two persons are per-
mitted to meet together at one time. The
largest and finest private palaces have been seized
aud converted into barracks for the soldiery, and
in and out without licenses. The writer adds:
1--WE arrived here from Venice three days ago,
and after having been most infinitely examined,
and thoroughly searched--our baggage having
been all turned inside out-were placed under
strict police surveillance at the hotel. We have
recovered our passports. however, and procured
license to leave Tomorrow. We are the only
strangers at the largest hotel in the city-which
travellers generally avoid as they would den of
lions.
The government has imposed a heavy extra
tax upon the city, in order to pay the expenses
of these new restriction, as ifthey were not of
| themselves punishment enough of the innocent
many for the folly of the few; and there is
credible rumor to day that the Emperor has is
sued decree, confscating the estates Of the rich
nobemen who now find refuge in other coun
tries. The amount of property thus confscated
is estimated at three hundred millions Of francs !!
Hundreds of her honorable and innocent families
will thus be reduced to poverty by stroke OF the
imperial pen Duke Litta-truly one of Natures
nobemen-.will be stripped OF an income OF $780,
900 francs if this barbarous decree is put into OK
ecution. He is young man OF twenty eight,
beloved by everybody Of all classes, for his gen.
GUS qualities
THE FLOUR SPECULATION IN CALIFORNIA
A San Francisco correspondent of the Newbury-
port Herald mentions the following incident as
occurring during the recent flour speculation in
California:
"One operator agreeing to pay, on arrival, some
$50 or 40 per Dbl, for 1000 bbs., to be of par
ticular brand (Haxal o T. Gallego.) was informed
that the ship was in just as flour was beginning to
go down, and yet whilst it stood above his pur-
chase price. He received some of the flour. In