New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-13
LonIslann 1nter1,ranoe.

The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter states that on
Thursday last the leyee gave way about quarter Of
a mile below the Plaquemine cutoff, and the water
came through with terrific violence. BY the most
strenuous exertons the breach was closed during the
night,
The same paper states that on Wednesday last .
party of drovers swan eightysix head of Attakapas
cattle across the Mississippi opposite Baton Rouge
They landed about three miles below, and lost but
one.
The Concordia InteIligencer of Friday last says
The prospects Of the growing cotton crop ia the
parish of COncordia, were very promising until the
showery weather setin; hut we regret to say quite
change has taken place since then. We hear on all
sides dsc0nraging accounts of the damage done by
the rast caused by the rains sipeage water and the
scorching sun. Where a week or ten days ago the
cotton was doing finely tits now Wthered and burned,
and our planting friends are greatly discouraged We
have yet to learn what further damage has been done
by the powerful rains on Wednesday, We learn also
that the cotton crop will be very SMALL and that
planters will barely gather as much as they planted.
The Plaquemine Sentinel of Saturday last says
1t has rained nearly every day in this vicinity for
the last two weeks and it is the opinion of the best
informed men that " it is about time to stopu The
river is yet very high-being probably within foot
of the high water mark Of lS50-and the leYees be.
coming saturated with water creates the danger of
crevasses AT this season ten years ago in this place
The Bayou Sara Ledger Of Saturday last has the
following
It has been raining every day this week since
Tuesday, and this morning (Thnrsday) we have all
indications of young delage. The river is station
aly, but the heavy rains is making the bayou rise
very rapidly, and from present appearance there is
but little doubt that the new leyee thrown up on
Bayou street. will in short time have to Grawish--
cave-giye in. The water is now RAINING through
in several places, besides settling some two inches in
depth on its surface, about midway the old Lebret
store and Commerce street.
This morning Saturday the water in town is
quite level with that on the outside OF the eyee, and
the first floors of nearly every house in the place is
nearly if not quite submerged--the water covering
some of them TO the depth Of two feet.
From the Assumption Pioneer Of Saturday last we
extract the following;
On account Of the excessive rains the crops are
suffering badly, they not having been touched by the
plough tor fully four weeks. The feeble action of the
hoe which has been set in notion is insufficient to
conquer the rapid growth OF the grass and to move
and till the earth to any advantage. A few clear
days in the beginning OF the week gave hope to our
planters for change, but it was blighted again on
/ Wednesday evening, when heaven opened its gates
wider than ever before and sent down tremendous
flood of rain, which for time inundated the whole
country. Our roads are in an awful condition, SO
much SO that even livery stables refuse to hire horses
and vehicles; travellers are compelled to wait for
boat or the mail stage for conveyance and other com
munication and visiting are suspended
The planters on the opposite side OF the Bayou are
still struggling against the back waters OF the Mssis
sipp. Fortunately it is ut present at stand, since
the upper rivers are suhslding, and hope is enter
tanned for speedy fall.
Our neighbors of Lafourche parish we understand
are suffering still more from the inundation; The
damage done to the crops and to property is said to
be immense.