Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-04-22
The Flood i'm the Lower Miss
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The Flood i'm the Lower MISS
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Dispatches received from New Orleans
on the 9th, report the waters Of the turbu-
lent Mississippi up to the top of the ieyee,
and that great fesrs were entertained that
the CITY would be overAowed. The LOUIS
vile Journal of Saturday says: ;.
The amount of suffering entailed and
damage done by the overflow is immense.
The latest intelligence We have is by the
steamer Diana. She reports the levee
broke at the late John L. Martins place
and on the opposite side. Also, at Gen.
trsl Landing and at various other points.
On the Mississippi side the river was over
the levee. At Napoleon some twenty
three deer were killed in one day inside of
the town, which had been driven in 10y the
food. A great deal of property was de-
stroyed.
Her officers saw at one place below Ma
poleon horses standing in the porch Of
private dwelling, and any number of cattle
standing in water up to their sides. Hogs
were standing about in the woods on logs.
The town of Prentiss was in the same
condition as Napoleon. The levee below
Napoleon on the Arkansas side, and below
Greenyille on the Mississippi side, have CIV
en- away, and the whole country on both
sides was submerged. At Mt Level plan
tation, the river was within few inches Of
the highest water ever known.
The Memphis appeal, of Wednesday,
reports the river falling rapidly at that
point. 1t had receded up 10 that time
two feet.
At Napoleon the river was entirely over
the banks, and in many other places over
the levees, particularly along the Arkansas
side of the river, where the levees have been
overwhelmed and the whole face of the
country inundated. The houses at Napol-
con have three to five feet water on the
first floors, and stock and cattle either
drowned or starving in wilderness of wa
ter. The most of the inhabitants have ia
ken lodgings at the U. S. Hospital, which
fortunately is above high water mark
From the mouth of White River, which
had been at flood hight together with the
Arkansas, down to the Louisiana line, but
very little of the country has escaped the
overflow.
At Napoleon all the valuable live stock
has been shipped on flatboats, while the
less favored quadrupeds are standing about
in water nearly up to their mouths, patient
" waiting for the waters to subside.--
About opposite Island 100 crevice had
been made in the levee, through which the
water Of the Mississippi was pouring at
fearful rate, deluging the whole country
around.
At Yicksburg, the officers Of the White
man, from Yazoo River, state that the rain
had been pouring down in torrents in that
region, and the river very high. When
they left Yazoo, City, Saturday, the water
was up in the town.
The planters along the coast, in the VI
cinity Of New Orleans, have the greatest
apprehension, as an overflow in that quar-
ter will be disastrous in the extreme. If
their levees can Withstand the present food
they need entertain no further fears this
season.
The erection of levees, or embankments
along the upper bank of the Mississippi
river, is quite likely in time to prove disas-
trous to the planters along the coast though
i inures TO the immediate benefit of the
owners Of lands that have heretofore been
annually overfown. Now. the levees con-
fine the river to its natural bounds, and
lands in the vicinity Of Wolf Island, for In
stance, which few years ago would not
command five dollars an acre, are now re-
fused at twenty-five. These localities were
known as swamp lands, continually subject
TO overflow, the water at any ordinary
freshet overflowing the banks and inunda-
ting the bottom lands for miles and miles
in extent. The water would thus waste
over the country, and save the lower coun-
try from inundation.
Now the waters of the mighty river are
confined to their banks from one extreme
TO the other, which increases their density
and velocity, gathering power and strength
as they rush along, and unless some new
plan is devised to waste the food, or di-
vert its course, New Orleans, at no distant
day, will be engulphed or swept away.
At Napoleon City the water has flooded
the streets. A daughter of citizen Of
that place fell, last week, from gallery Of
the residence of her father, and was drown
ed in the street, before assistance could be
rendered. The whole town is several feet
under water.
A correspondent writing from the steam
er Hiawatha, on the Sd, says
Since the breaking of the leyee on the
Arkansas river, the entire bottom on the
west side of the Mississippi has filled. The
whole force of the country, black and white
is at work on the levee wherever it is
thought any good can be accomplished
A large force is at work both above and
below, and at Columbia. We saw no
breaks in the leyee below Gaines, but in
many places the water was running over.
It was running over at Grand Lake last
night at dark, and in all probability the
levee has already given away. There was
break 20 miles below Greenville, on the
Mississippi side. At Lake Providence
there was water in some portions of the
town, but the main levee remained firm,
and little fears are entertained there of any
serious damage. One gentleman, (Shaw
of the wharf boat told me that the water
was so deep in his house that his children
could not sleep in trundle bed. The
mail had to be put in the yawl at all the
landings between Gaines and Lake Provi-
dence. There was no bank to land at, and
nothing to tie to-"