New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-10
Loulslnn. Intslllgenee.

The Ccncordia Intelligencer OF Friday last says
Our informant Of last week was incorrect as to th
Mis- Bayou crevasse. The break, I've have sine
been instructed) was not in the formidable Mill
BsyoI Levee but at its junction with another evet
The place which gave way, was known to be weak
and 4 was the intention of the one In charge OF tn
work IN that section to have repaired It ut the EARL
Get practicable moment. There were but few feet
water against the levee when the break occurred.
letter in the Intelligencer from Waterproof
says:
N Our levees are good They are in fact the best in
the delta OF the Mississippi but We think it is hard
that we have to be drowned out BY the parishes Of
Madison and CarrolIon account Of their imperfect
levees We have Choctaw and Little Tensas Bayou
rising some two or three inches day and we cannot
helpit il is too bad.
The Madison Gazette Of Thursday last says:
The water at this place is slowly bat steadily fall.
ing being now about three inches below the highest
water mark Of the season. Doubtless the worst is
past and we shall look for the gradual recedinp of
the water unless there should be an extraordinary
rise in the Mississippi and in that case the leyee
hers will Sustain greater pressure than 1t has yet
endured.
The Bayou Sara Ledger of Saturday says:
The river is still rising at this point and the rain
yesterday together with the Transportation water con-
tinualIy pouring into town, has flooded most Of our
streets. Inc Mayor, however, has gone to the city
Tor larger engine and pump, and its arrival is ex.
peSfed to-day If We get it up in time we think all
. e
From the Point Conpee Echo Of Saturday we ex.
tract the following 81 5s
It viii be remembered we stated some time since
that parish jail was broken open and the prison
ers released. Since then the negro boy William, ac-
icueed OF arson, has been caught and is now once
more confined. he was captured, We believe, in the
neghborhood Of Donaldsonville, and from there was
sent 70 our parish Nothing a. yet has been heard of
time.
While in the upper portion Of the parish, last
week We had an opportunity Of observing how watch
full the planters were Of their levees, and how dill
gently they were all at work upon them. As gen
eral thing We pleased to say all the levees are in
fne condition, the only trouble Is account their
not being sufficiently high. but this fault is being re-
moved By the planters who are now engaged in rails
ing the levees wherever it is necessary. We saw
few bad places which were being remedied. The
Grand levee and the Morganza Levee are among
When we consider how much our planters have |
been obliged to neglect their crops for the leyees we
are surprised to see how beautifully everything is
growing. The cane both plant and seed, Is looking
finely, as are also cotton and corn and with ordinary
luck we may anticipate good crop. We noticed |
that the crops in the upper part of the parish were
much finer than in this section of the country; |
whether this tact ID attributable to better cultivation
or richer lands, We cannot say.
The IRISH IN THE FRENCH SERyIcE.-The Paris |
correspondent of the National Intelgencer writes on
the l4th April:
All kinds Of vicissitudes occur in life. You NAV
not call i ycisstude that the Count of Paris is be-
trothed TO child Princess Of Parma. It may seem
mere like one, perhaps, that gradson Of the EN-.
press Marie Louise is volunteer in the levies Of
King Victor Emmanuel, ready to unsheathe his
sword against Austria May he wish to revenge the
iate Of his half brother the Duke de Rechstadt? or
y u Italian blood warming in the hope of Italian in
dependence? What greater yicissitudes vet that in
the Austrian service there no less than five Irish
field marshas, four major generals, and dozen or
more colonies and majors, while, if France should
cross the Alps far more numerous array Of fighting
Irish would be marshalled against their Austrian
kinsnlen. There are two hundred Irish officers upon
the French army list am told that saw Colonel
Charles O'Maley at the head of his regiment, the
73d, at review lately on the Champ de Mars, as
we'll as Colonel Lucias Brien, of the Cuirassers of
he Imperial Guard. a son of the poet Moore died
ately lieutenant in Algiers and, in case Of war,
General acMahon is likely to guide the first cam
'aign 10 Piedmont. 1t may become desirable yet for
Sir Patrick 0'Plenipo to be commissioned Ambas.
ador to Vienna