Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-19

Joshua James, twenty-six miles below vicks-
burg. much damage hak been done by seepage
water. Crops look yellow, and prospects very
gloomy. Swells from passing boats go over
the top of the levee for miles. The .sSable
Harmonists'' were hard st work throwing up
dirt on the levees. The river rose two inches
in 26 hours at Biggs' crevasse, just below
abandoned. The Lucy Holcombe brought up
Joe Sands, with his menagerie, on Saturday,
from below. A great many have left and gone
home, but the remainder, with the new re-
cruits, went vigorously to work, determined
to dam the outlet of the river or swim all over
Ten as Parish. Forty-five thousand bags of
sand have been used, without any great hind
rance to the wild. turbid waters, fresh from
the Black Republican kingdom. The volume
of water pouring out is ten feet deep, and the
difficulty in getting dry dirt is such that the
chances are in favor of Fremont. At New
Carthage and Warrenton, below Yicksburg.
the gardens, orchards and yards are from one
to four feet under water. Ali the fruit trees
are dying from the effects of the water
AT Vicksburg, the river is rising slowly,
half an inch in twenty -four hours. Was on
board the Lucy Holcombe on Sunday night,
but could not learn anything until she reach
ed Lake Providence, Point Lookout Gre
vase, fifty miles below Lake Providence, is
running out as wildly ever.-A great many
The river is falling slightly from Lake Pro-
violence TO Wo tiington Point, in consequence
of a number of fresh breaks in the levee
Plantations for ten miles above Shirt-Tail
Bend cutoff, look tolerably dry-the water
being carried away with double the velocity
now than when passing round the Bend. The
planters above will probably make a crop.
Captain Henry Johnson, Tom Warfield, Hunk
Jackson, and a few others, are the favored
4 oil ha
Arkansas side, all lowplaces in fields are ill
led seepage water. The plantations around
Greenville look well enough, except the low
places. At Gaines; Landing the river is
rising fast, and is now only seven inches
below the highest water of 1850. AT Pendle-
toms twenty miles above Gaines, the Levee
is all gone and the water is over the whole
country. AT Shaw's, twenty-five miles above
Pendleton's, the river is four inches below
high water mark. The swells from steamers
leap the levee work. Napoleon can boast of
steamboat facilities all over town. AT the
Prentiss crevasse on the Mississippi side, three
miles above Napoleon,th the wafer is pouring ont
like river. The banks gave way last Mon
day evening, and the waters, rushing in the
direcson of Silver Lake, Bolivar county,
Miss, inundated the farms of Gen. Clarke, of
Mexican war notoriety, John and Livingston
Loddell, B. B. Starke, Miles, Beach and Col.
Sellers and others. The water is two inches
below the rise of 1850. Below Napoleon, on
both sides of the river, for many miles.
horses, cattle, dogs, hogs, Sleeps niggers,
white folks, cats, puppies and fowls were
herded on scaiolds and on upper floors of
houses, living on half rations, and praying
for one more drouth. Laconia and Concordia
are in good navigable condition for the en-
tire season of high water. Met small frag-
ments of the Pennsylvania yesterday floating
in the river Heard of the loss of that IL
fated boat at Napoleon. would have been
on her, had | not been getting some magno-
las at Vicksburg for "sweet I6." | saw a
dead body floating below Gen. Pillows farm
this morning. The water is over almost the
entire face of the country on both sides of the
river to Memphis. The fish are all out in the
woods and fields now, sure.