New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-29
TIE SWOLLEN RIVER.

l city than ever before known and being ev;dsntt
hungry for frolic through our atreets the condtio,
and behavior Of the said lannon's " inland sear ;
naturally the chief tonic of tovn..alk Tho r;,s
having SMILED over the ,evee in d;svart .r. ~ ~
city, and aroused general state or .nnrehension v,
yesterday took ride along Tho ctv sront .ra ~.
Of the general anpearance ~ tt;n., nn- ,o,ts 49, :
observation began at tho e,o.ck I.,S;., :; J.s..s
City. and ended belov the Rarracls !. ~ Tt;..
| District. 11''.0
| At the Stock Iandn, -. ,,,.....
avenue, q heavy epcroacbment ~ H. 80 hsa ...
stopped by barrcade NJ nlank. v;sh A.. =.
behind The over,ow a. III. -. .Sa.a. "a'eu ~
small creyasse. until stonned in tho
| The water was still oozino tb,ouoh tha .o.tt,
keeping the neigbborhood mirv. -'''
From that point all along down the vate, "a, oo,.
ing up through the earth Al soma niece. .r;oL1;n.
in little streamlets across the levee ana ~ o.,sr.
soaking through new embankmepts of dirt.
Opposite Washington ayenue vas ano4b.r n,...
over which the river had sent heavy stream M
which was fortified by barrcade Of mani. and d;,t
Opposite Sarapsru street. fwhere land.l;d Ia,
year encroached to the middle Of the street anothe,
bayou had been pipped in the Ind. and the rive,
bluHed of with pIanks and dirt.
From Josephine to st. Mary street a cont;nuo,,s
embsnkment of dirt-a narrow and low and aoft am.
bankment-was all that kept the river hack. From
that down to the steamship landing in the First Dir
trict, the new dfrtworks appeared At the head ~
nearly every dock or basin. From Nnns et,aet -
Celeste the dirtbauks looked yerv precar;ous b;no
made Of ballast stones gravel and sand and a,lov.
ing the water to trickle through freely The street
was mry the whole vay. from the water reacb;no q
either through the solid part of the levee n, tha
dirt barricades In several places we noticed that
piles of ballast coal and slaves on the edoe of the
levee, formed links in the chain of dirt.work bnt
very ineffective links az the water bnhhled thron,
them easily and free,v
At Market street was another had pIace the s,onrv
neighborhood and the new dirtworks showing that
the river had been crawling oyer free,v A. Poh;n
street the eyee was also yery had and the
hood sloppy. At this point the water barricades
were made mostly Of manure Down - pof; o,o,
street, things looked very had the drt te;r,
composed of all sorts of stuff mua monura h,,,os
sand and brck. ck.dust-anvtbino that came handy ~
in the hurry Of making them.
Opposite the Orleans Cotton Press the inner ends
Of the wharves were entirely under water. The
wharfheads were all high enough above water Init
wading was necessary to reach them. The inner end
of every dock had its dirtrdoes tn kae tho ,,a,ar
from crossing the eyee. At different noints va fonna
Iaborers at work cartinp dirt to tbe 1ow onot.
batting it into little ridges with their SHADES
The steamboat landing. from ,TuIia street dow, r.
Toulouse, appeared to he IN fair cond;tion nh
water was on the natorn, in COME .n,,l.a 49,
trickled up through the leyee here and tbora l.
almost imperceptble streams. The steamboat Il "a.
ngs appeared to be the driest and best na,t of Tho
whole city front.
was running over in small stream without imneai.
ment Below that, for some distance we're new dirt.
works. showing where the river had lashed over too
freely. s.4. r-.sr
The next point where VIC found ,hs ,votor xo..;,,,
over was at tie Third District Ferry Landing foo, 3,
EIysian Fields street. There was no embankment
but the stream was yery tiny one. The last noint
at which the river asserted ;tse,f hober than A..
levee, was at the foot of Mandeville street bero
little stream was running across. -
From that point down to and bevond the R.rr.cl.
there was but one point where new ridge Ind bod
to be raised to keen the wafer hacl This vos Al.
rectlv onnosite the convent Tho ho,x;oas.
stout one, with a facing of plank. Bnt thouob tho
levee for the whole distance from Mandevie street
down had brow enough for foot mr. two more of ,,a.
ter, and looked remarkably firm and solid tbe water
spot here and there but as general thing convertino
the street into slough of mud This shows that the
under part of the leyee is very sponev and will
doubtless subject it to serious slides on the suhsdence
of the flood.
All along the lower part of the Third District the
Ieyee, though high. ia narrow and steen With ~.
street at its base The banouettes down there thono
only ffty or sxtv feet from tho vvo+sr oro ho,t &C.
feet below the waters surface breatr down tbere
would be truly disastrous: Init there annears tn be
no danger of such thing From the Goyernment
wharves down, the leyee has stout facing or comb
of plank work; most of it placed there last ve,r
aud the rest this year.
From the Barracks down below, as far as we went.
the road was muddy: the river beinp So nearly over
the brow Of the leyee that the waves Of steamboat
would wash the water over,
The result of our whole observation was that the
Fourth was the District was seriously menaced bv
overflow the upper mart of tbe First nistrct o,ot
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