New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-10
About Grevasses-Threatemcd InundstiSn
of Lower Louisiana Il spectators a
Visit 10 "a CrCvnsse on tho Mexican
Calf Rns.ronh.
From oar special Correspondent.
ar. CnANLks HOrEl

From. OK special CoTrasponden''
d. Cn,srss HorKt, NYw-omE.ss, L@,}
Jan. 81, ls63 )
Not long ago there appeared IN TIE Deltd the
only loyal newspaper published in this place.
statement accredited to Col. I. Is. Thorpe, City
Survsyor-who certainly ought TO be an authority
on the snLect-o the rather startling effect that ~
rex. month the whole of Lower Louisiana might 10
undsr waier The levees above, said the Colonel
had been 90 much damaged By the construction Of
Rebel batteries in addition TO the neglect inevitable
N war time that on the rising OF tue river 10 liz or.
d1ary altitude, there was every reason 70 aPpre.
bend crevasses Of enormous magoitude, sufficient to
accomplish the general indiscriD mate swanpng OK
all of us. Without ventuting an opinion on Tie
metter. or initiating CARLYLE, who recommended the
sinking of Ireland under the sea Tor limited p9iioo'
g.. cleap and elleclual means of regeneratlng that
island. cannot but believe that good deal might
be said in behalf of such celuge, as lnHoVlhg
both tho cleaning out Of treason IN TINS Stale and
tbe drowning of the innuuelabe seoundrels VINO,
since our advent in IT, have done their worst to JUS.
,;fy the Sontbern estimate of the word Yankee"
IA The mearest, most graspi9g, most unscrupu-
lous uame s the English language. ailide
n the bordes of so-called +" Union" spe sulators
III, contrycrs Of the huge net OF mercantile v'liany
which seems 10 lave mdellaid the whole o! our nil
i,ary administration here all being fish that came
within ts ueshes. Their existence cen only be JUS
,ifs.l as akin 10 the plaques Of frogs aud ice IN
Egypt visited upon the people for their hardness Oh
heart, and preceding the more appalling but less
odl0us uuushment of the deaths Of the iirst-Dorn-
which, by the way, has already come upon us, ootn
Ioyast aud rebel. II it should be followed IN TINS
locality by q universal aOyqds through the eonve,
nient medium of the Mississippi FOR one shal
hardly dispute the Justice OF ii, so omnpresent arc
the evidences of rascality, lack OF pstno.em hha
miserable self.aeeking surrounding me. ~ Is .Iu0
that we have an honest man at the bead OF sna"s
nobody disputes that-but we need hsI'ues- ,n;s
of then,-.) purify such an Augean s1aoie NO tha
D.partmep OF the Gulf has becomes ana pcinIaff -
turning of a river into IT, after tie DEM sou II
ion. would be the best as the snof.et' I acus.
,ho Muse OF History were not periecu! snrmise
toned 20 this kind Of sewerage, a.s nv m silent
that she would hold her nose anu ln;eai,e ebspter
DISGUST. when she comes 10 lnis ue Rebellon.
IN tne niJ.o. o;oes knowing that they exist, IL 70
Seels ..h.,ber fhe Southern estimate OF Nor.heru
nav not be tie night one after ai' and 70
/ despair Of our soiii'y :"
deserveJ; i not what set out to write about how
ina "ud turn from it gladly. TIE Del1a's warn
% On the subject of crevasses rendered me curious
ana hearing that one--not imporant-had occurred
wirIn an easy distance OF the city, resolved 10 90
and see It, which accomplished after the ioi!eWi0e
manner: ;,. .a~.,,v
II was clear, cold, sunny morning. esifny
lW0.thy 9; y Neslas.a yalaayy, Yss&k-SAs