Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-10

At Mr.. Fouchiers house, off the track of
this section of the road, are some six families
of the above-all houseless.
When Mr. Williams left these points of dis
aster, first having made the best provisionhe
could for the increasing number of pas
sengers, who are now represented to be $50,
he observed that the water was rapidly re-
ceding. However, il is broad-spread at each
side of the track, from the lake shore to the
furthest point the eye can reach at the other
side. The damage to the track will be re-
paired in about two weeks after the COM
mencement of repairs. The boat Ariel, sent
by the Jackson Railroad Company, yester-
day, to aid in bringing the passengers to the
lake-end (Jeferson,) is momentarily ex-
pected, with all the $50 or more passengers,
who have been detained on the road in the
most trying position for over fifty hours.
DAMAGE IN THE PARISHES.
So far the damage that may be counted
on, is in the following instances in the par
ishes:
On the plantation of Mr.. Burnside, corn
and several outhouses were unroofed and
otherwise injured. ~
On the plantation of Mr.. E. Jones Mccall
and brother, the most extensive sugar
purgery in the State, was wholly prostrated
in ruins. Also, that of Mr.. Richard McCalps,
above these.
Fl. NJ. Thibodauxs sugar-house, and H. T.
Collins's and A. Y. Cages purgeries, blown
down. These were first-class purgeries in
Little Caillou.
At Terrebonne.-Mrs. S. A. Nicholas's su-
gar-house, and Messrs. f. e. Robertson,
Bush & Gums, T. & S. Beatty, and Down
ings purgeries, all blown down.
On Bayou Btack.-The sugar-house of
Bodin & Bonvillain, P. Dorcha, p. Landreaux,
Egarrier, F. Brand, Below & Perkins, and
Williams; and the purgeries of T. Gibson,
Evanste Porche, E. NJ. Boykin, W. Minor,
A. Brousseaux, Nelson, H. E. Ladet, @. GIL
lis & Co., Cailloete, 7. Batry, NJ. Brand, Mrs.
NJ. H. Danvers, and McCullom, all blown
down.
Mr.. Chopin's new sugar-house, up the
coast, was destroyed and an old one much
injured.
The force Of tho storm is visible through
these parishes of st. James and Ascension.
The cane, which is of any considerable size,
is blown down. Along the whole coast many
of the bagasse chimneys were blown down,
and several dwellings ruined.
1t is believed that the sugar crop is seri-
ously injured, and the loss to planters very
large.
The steamer Sslver Heels sunk at Carroll
ton. She was driven by the gale upon the
bank. Upon going down the river, her stern
tilted down into the water, ran in through
her rudder-hole, and soon filled her.
The boat had been under seizure for four
months for debt of So 600, for which amount
she was insured. She belonged to the La
fourche Navigation Company. The boat is
said to be worth $4,000. The insurance
company it is said, will pay the loss, leaving
the boat to be raised, which can be done by
any parties who feel interested.
STEAMERS AND coAL-BoATs SUNK.
The steamer Vicksburg, which arrived
last evening, gives us report to the effect
that all the coal boats in the river, from the
mouth of Red River down, have sunk. A
stern-wheel steamer, name unknown, has
foundered below Baton Rouge. Three steam
boats were blown ashore below Donaldson
vile. One of them was the Cincinnati
packet Stephen Decatur. AT Bayou Sara
the wharf-boat had been blown up the
Bayou, and at Baton Rouge the wharf-boat
had been torn from her moorings, and blown
three miles up stream.
The loss by coal boats at Willow Grove
we have already given in summary-say
about $l50,000. The following is list of
the names of the losers, together with the
number lost by each; Cory Il Peterson, two;
Robin & Jackson, one; Pollard, two; McClus-
key, six; Watson, two; Hill & ODonnell, four;
| Milford, Hawsville, three; Spencer Field, two;
Gas Company, two; Nimick, Hawsville, three;
| Nimick, Pittsburg, one; I. Jones & Co., two;
| Miltenberger, one; Menard, five; Tassey, two;
| Steamship Company seven; Towboat Asso-
citation, three Nimick, Hawsville, one-half;
Steamship Company, one-half Total, forty
| nine. -
The DR.. Bdtey, cattle steamer, had her
| chimneys pilot-house, and hurricane root
blown off at the Stock Landing. The ship
| Independence, which drifted across the river
and damaged the Grand Duke Republic and
| Chdrnlsr, is hard aground at the foot OF
| Canal-street, and will prove difficult to get
| off. -H
STEAMERS AND MORE CoAL-BoATs SUNK
. sUGAR-HoUsEs BLOWN DOWN.
! By the arrival of the steamer Lizzie SIM
mons this morning from Vicksburg, we have
received the following account of the dam
age caused by the storm of the lst inst, al
Baton Rouge, and in its immediate vicinity
along the river. Eighteen coal-boats be-
longing to the company that own the yard
| opposite Baton Rouge were sunk, and the
Maison Mining Company lost three of their
boats in the same manner, both companies
losing together 10000 barrels of coal. The
steamer Uncle Ike, belonging to and used by
the Baton Rouge and Crosse Tete Railroad
Company, was sunk at the company's wharf
no one lost. The boat will prove total
| loss. The old steamer Ndtchez, used as a
wharf boat at Baton Rouge, was blown from
her moorings to the opposite side of the
| river, some two miles above the city. The
steamer Henrietta was blown alongside q
barge loaded with iron, and sunk both il and
herself in a short time Two boats belong
ing to the State were also sunk near Baton
Rouge. In the city no damage to any con-
siderable amount occurred, except to the
roofing of the Harney House. The clerk oi
| the Simmons informs us that no damage was
sustained by any of the numerous villages
along the coast though several sugar-houses
were blown over.
GREAT DAMAGE TO THE SUGAR CROP.
The Della observes concerning the injury
to the sugar crop: 20
The terrible storm of yesterday and the
| night before is another and the crowning
disaster which the staple production Of
lower Louisiana has sustained this season.
Starting with almost an entirely destroyed
stubble, by the bad winter, our cane crop
next encountered an extraordinary drouth,
which had dwarfed and enfeebled the plant
cane to degree that a few weeks ago pro-
duced q general dependency among the
planters. In the upper regions of the sugar
district, and on the high lands generally,
| there has been little more cane produced than
will be sufficient for planting next year.
Many very large planters viii not start their
mills this season, but will prudenty save
their cane for the next years planting.
Previous to the storm of yesterday very
sagacious cultivators estimated the probable
. | total orOr az I kn Onn hnr.akaado ao.afncf oOl