The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-06-29
There are members Of Congress Who advocate

| Oiiity OF freeman $ neart, all the MANHOOD
his existence, worked down into an animal?
you would have Manufactures and the Mechani
Arts prosper in your own midst, put your take
upon foreign goods, so as to afford reasonabl
protection to labor in your own country. Sho'
We pursue foreigners with the same pains an
Affections from which they have once escaped
BY no means; but let us, while they are reason
ably encouraged, throw around our own peopl
such safeguards and protection as shall proven
the labor of the country from being brough
down to the standard of Europe. Let us pre-
tect our own country men first! Applause.
Bun you, my friends have given me vel
come from warm hearts, for which thank you
1t is a tribute from Old Kentucky that wou
not give for all the revenue that was ever col
lected by tariff. Il has filed the measure 0
gratitude to overflowing. | care not for tn
frowns or smiles of the President. l shall no
seek to make him smile, and do not mind hi
irowns. can irown back again. Your wei
come is enough You have filed my hear
with gratitude. Kentucky has ever been mo
| ther TO me, and her sons my brothers an,
| friends
Farewell, for tonight. God bless and pros
per you all, and our noble old Kentucky
Great Flood on the Lower Missis=ippi
The prospects of tie sugar planters about tht
crevasse, in the vicinity OF New Orleans, is ial
below an average. Tle seepage water ha.
done immense damage all the way up to Nat
chez
The river is rising again rapidly at Natchez
which place it is two inches above any rise since
1850. AT Rodney it is in the sewers on Main
street and rnSa fwo in,has an Eriiay nirht
The whole OF Tsnsas Parish is in imminent dan
ger. As yet no great danger is done only in
the upper part. The town of Grand Gulf is
covered, and the occupants busily engaged in
moving to second floors The plantations of
Col Coffee, Hamilton and Person were being
overfowed by the breaks in the levee Or Satur-
day. In the vicinity of Point Pleasant, the
fields were covered in many parts by the see
page. At Ashwood, few miles above the
point, the whole forces of the country were en-
gagged to prevent the giving away of the Levee
II they fail, all of Tensas Parish will be- des-
troyed.
AT Hurricane Island, above Ashwood, Davis
Landing) the water is up to the mark OF 1850.
An immense quantity OF water was pouring oy
er Mr.. Davis plantation as well as many 9th
ers, destroying everything in its way. The
plantation Of Joshua James, twenty six miles
- .
page water, the swells from steamers leapng
over the leyee Oh both sides OF the river AZ
New Carthage and Warrentown, there is no
dry land visible. Fruit trees all dying from the
effects OF the water. The great creyasse, six
miles below Nicksburgh, is pouring cut river
of water. $4,000 gunnies filled with dirt have
been used with little or no effect. New recruits
were constantly arriving by the boats from be-
low, whilst many have abandoned the work and
gone home. The difficulty in getting dry dirt
renders it impossible TO check the ioamng
water, which in its wild course carries away
trees and everything before it.
River rising slowly and gradually at Vicks-
burgh on Sunday.
Point Lookout crerasse, just below Lake
Providence, is pouring out stream ten feet in
depth, covering the whole county in its course.
River falling little from Providence to w Worth-
ington's Point, caused by countless numbers of
breaches in the Levee above Providence.
The plantation of Capt. Henry Johnson, Tom
Warield, Hunt, jackson, Leland and others, a.
bove Shirt-tail Bend Cutoff, and in the yicin-
ity Of Grecnville, Mississippi, are but little dam.
aged. The cut of carries the water away with
such rapidity that it is impossible to overflow
abont Greenvllle, unless from breaks above
AT Gaines Landing met the present rise,
which increases all the way to Cairo. At PEN
dletons, twenty miles above Gaines, the Lev
GO is also gone, and water stretching over the
country beyond the reach Of human sight At
Shaw's, twenty-five miles above Pcndleton's
water four inches below the rise Of 1850, and
leaping over the Levee in dozen places.
The stceets in Napoleon are navigable for the
great Eclipse. Arkansas rising slowly, but had
been falling for some days On the 7th inst, at
Prentice Landing, just above Napoleon, the
evee yielded to the pressure Of the great Father
Of Waters and was carried, together with trees.
[ences. houses, and in fact everything in its
way, offtowards Silver Lake, in Bolivar County.
This is one Of the most destructive breaks in the
river. Some of the finest and lar
gcst plantations in the whole State are COM
pleteiy Cyertiowed, and made useless for the
present. Above and below Napoleon, Tor many
miles, the entire country is flooded on both sides
1t the river Scatiolds have been built, on
which stock OF every kind is boarded in a perish.
ng condition. Hundreds OF cattle, horses. |
Sc., can be seen punched on some spot under
water but little more elevated than the sur.
rounding land in the most pi,iable condition,
he stronger ones forcing the weaker into the |
vide waste OF waters which 10 fast gathering
about them, and which will, ere this mighty |
1ood subsidies, give them as food for the fishes |
Houses are ready to float from their moorngs, |
NuHe sHtiT occupants are preparing with nOat5 |
md @ood.boats, to commence journey, God |
,nly knows where. Concordia and Laconia are |
sharing the fate Of Napoleon. Helena is one
ourth of an inch above the water. Gen. iii. |
ow's plantation is watered all over from break |
n the leyee in front Of him. Passed hatboat
anchored by the grave Of the Inflated Pennsyl- |
Fania; brought the second clerk and captain up |
rom Memphis, in very dangerous condition.
from Memphis to Cairo the river ia arched in |
he centre, and pouring out on both SIDES sew.
'ral feet of water. Madrid Bend, Tennessee and |
! small portion of Cairo, and around Madrid,
No., the only visible spots worth mentioning
rom Memphis up. Water higher at Memphis
han ever known before, and rising two inches
n twenty hours. Most Of the dwellings,
Ilong the river are from two to six feet under
water. The destruction Of the crops is not half
he damage done. The loss Of stock and fenc-
ng and cord wood, is considerably more than I
.rop OF corn or Gotten. In many places wood
,oats are tied fast to q tree, filed with wood,
md no sign of living beng near, the owners
ong since having abandoned their ranche, and |
rome to look for an "Araratn
Hickman, under the hill, is well watered,
whist Columbus and Kentucky City are reluc-
antly bathing in the turbid waters from the
Black Republican Kingdom"
DREADFUL TRAGEDY.-Last evening we got |
he particulars by private letter of another tra. /