Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-03-30
The Floods In the Ohio and Tennessee
Riyers-Great Destruction OF Pro-
EVANSVILLE. INDIANA.

has the following
The great food of waters continues
to increase, and is assuming most grand
proportions. 1T is painful to contem-
| plate the vast suffering, loss of proper
ty, and perhaps of life that will ensue
in the great Southwest. Whole dis
tricts in Arkansas and Western Louis
lana are already devastated, and the
calamity is still spreading.
Nearer home we have melancholy ac-
counts of the Inconvenience. suffering
and destruction that prevail. In the
lower part of the country, in what is
kno wn as the Bayou. families are driv-
en- from their homes. Smoke houses
some of them with full stock OF
provisions-and other out-buildings
nave been swept away. Many fami-
lies have moved across to Henderson to
find home and shelter, and two fer
ry-boats were engaged on Monday and
Tuesday In ferrying over stock. Much
stock has been lost, and vast quantities
of corn have been submerged and de-
stroyed. We heard yesterday Of q
large pile of corn i'll the timber where
boats cannot reach it, which was near
ly covered with water.
Yesterday at noon the roots of the
Old Elm, the last landmark on our
shore, was covered with water. and the
embankment around it was washing
out, and portion of the wall had Civ
en- away. We should be grieved to see
the old relic of the past washed away.
The floods of ages have beat against its
roots, and it still stands as a venerable
Patriarch, or as some aged cbieftain,
who has buried all his tribe or kindred.
NASHVILLE.
The latest we ave from this point
we copy from the Dispatch, as follows:
The river has been rising continuously
since our last report, Saturday night,
and was still Using at the rate OF half
ali inch per hour last night. It was,
at 4 p. M, within four feet ten and a
half inches OF the highest point attained
| by the flood Of 1947. To our distant
readers who are acquainted with the
| localities IN our city we will state that
| the water at the north corner of Broad
and Ffont streets is over the pavement
and nearly touches the walls of the
house. In front street below Broad,
the steamer Aid and several coal boats
are moored. In Market street below
Broad the water is foot deep or more
in depth at one point, and is fast en-
croaching upon the cotton warehouses
in that quarter.
A gentleman came down from Leba-
non yesterday reports the heaviest of
rains in that section Saturday night
and Sunday, and all the streams over
flowed.
Another report from Monticello and
Somerset, KY, received here yesterday,
says the upper Cumberland is higher
than it was ever known to be-and that
a rise of ten feet is yet to come down.
At the present stage of the water a rise
of thai much there will not bring up
the river much here.
The Republican Banner of the same
date says
AS for Nashville it is no longer Nash
vile. The whole northern district of
the city is yellow sheet upon which
destruction is written in ghastly lines.
We have sort of jungular Venice where
the junglers once held nocturnal revel
and domain; deluge pours through
1 the chambers and corridors of that
brilliant hemisphere, perhaps to purify
them. Hercules seems to have con-
verted himself into a skyey god, and
turned the rivers of the clouds into our
Augean stables.
Some very bad people have been
drowned out;" and, also-for the
foods of Heaven, like the dews, fall
equally upon the just and the unjust
many of the best of our citizens, rich
and poor, have shared the same misfor-
tune. Many thousands of dollars are
literally sucked in" much real bodily
danger and suffering are reported, and
perhaps we shall be called upon to con-
tinue the disagreeable recital, for the
"river is still rising"
Already out of the banks there is no
restraint upon it. To stand upon the
suspension bridge and look below, one
may well fancy himself midway between
sea and sky.
NEW ALBANY, IND.
The New Albany Commercial says:
The river is now very high at this
place. The lamp posts along Water
street stand far out In the river, with
the water nearly up to their tops
Some of them have been broken down
by drift logs. The railroad track and
turn table, near the wharf-boat, are I'M
der water, and most of the houses from
Upper Fourth to Lower First street,
have been vacated. Capt. Reamers
mammoth warehouse, against which
steamers now land, is about a foot OF
more above water, but it may yet be
compelled to go under before the river
falls.
The country from here to the mouth
of the Ohio, has been flooded for about
four weeks, and the people need not
expect relief for two or three weeks to
come. With the river so high, SO
many houses nearly half covered, corn
cribs, barns, stables and fences deep in
the water, a heavy wind at this time
would do vast amount of damage,
setting everything on the low ground
afioat. The steamers Gao land at but
few places along the shore. The mail,
passengers and light freight are fire.
quently sent ashore in yawl. Some
tunes, with great hazard, skiffs go from
the shore to the mail boats.
A HANDSOME GIFT.-The family of
the late John p. Grocer, says the De-
laware Republican, have given the
large, beautiful and substantial edifce
near Westchester, Penn now occupied
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