The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-10-14
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THE GREAT FLOOD IN oRLEANs-IMNExsE
DAMAGE DONE-ONE-HALF TEE CITY UN-
DER wATEl,-ABOUr POIIrIcs-THE M
POgrANcE OF RE0IsTERIxG-LErI IT BE
DONE AT ONCE.

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! NEw ORLEANs, OCTOBER eth, 1868.
Friend Dcn,ocrat-In the afternoon o
Thursday (this day week ago) it bega,
to rain, the clouds that had been fioatin,
over our city became more dense, and th
wind commenced to sing mournfdl dirges
for summer past and gone. Tho waite
came down freely in steady, unvaryin,
shower, and lasted until Saturday night
making one of the longest, most drear,
spells of weather within the "memory o
the oldest inhsbitsnt.. Friday night wal
very dark and forbidding, and the wine
which had changed to the North, blew /.
perfect gale, and rs it shrieked and howlci
in fury around the corners and through
the trees, those who were within door,
congratulated themselves on their gooi
luck The rear part of our city wa,
visited by -. ~. 81,
81 es5li "A GREAT OVERFLOW, j ~
caused by the waters ofLake Ponchartraif
being driven in by the high wind, assisted
by the water that was drained from on,
streets into that district. To make mat
ters worse, the canals broke in, iafte,
which the water spread rapidly, submerg
ing nearly half the city. On Canal street
the water came in % far as Robertson
street, Zone block on the river side of DR.
stones Hospital) and all the rear mart Of
the city was under water. During the
past few years that section has improved
greatly, there were many fine residences
and gardens all through it and the houses
were quite thick As far down Is the HALF.
Way House. All over that part as far
back and mp and down as the eye could
reach, there was nothing but water, in
many places it was six or eight feet deem,
Like the majority of people in q city, the
people out there we're in the habit of do
pending on the markets for supplies, and
consequently were caught with little in
their houses in the shape flood, and were
unable to build, fires to cook what thew
were fortunate enough to possess. Tho
suffering was very great as they werc una
bic to come in for anything, except in
boats, which were hard to obtain. Skiffa
yawls, dug-outs, RATS and ali manner Of
impromptu water-crafts were in demand.
and those who had them to hire made a
good thing ont Of it. On Sunday good.
sized sail boat was sailing around on Ca-
nal street, near Claiborne. The villages
on the Lake shore are all under water, the
bath houses and wharves have been wash.
ed away, and the Ponchartrain railroad
trains have been compelled to stop run.
ming. The cars on the Canal, Claiborne.
Girod and Main streets lines of city rail-:
roads were also unable to mako their trims.
IS the rear parts of their roads was cover
ed with water. 1t will take several weeks
to get these roads all in order and repajr
damages, which will amount to thousands
Of dollars. The damage applies not only
70 the present, but extends into the future;
there were in the submerged district.
many fine residences, surrounded with
6ru;t and .h.a .-- - = =, J" ' ~.
,,-'., ~ ' Ia :, '.o0'' grape arDors and
Ai .neso ornaments and I'M
are destroyed, and it will re.
80 .ny ", yo"is ~ 1es'ore tnem' and the
49, 80" WI u0s.. n'any ito" setting m
80 f $50 = 'Ao o''s.
a DEMOCRATIC NEGRO WOMAN.
Aunt Emma is very intelligent negro
woman who does washing and DAYS work
herself and two OF three chill.
lren by her industry. A friend asked her
,he other day if she was q Radical, and
Emma replied with much disgust. "me
Radical no indeed, TIM Democrat. What
or be Radical and 90 agin INV own
olksq What the Yankees done for me :
tell you, 'dey take me wsy from q GOOD
lome, where ebberv bodv l;ked mo ~.
allus had nuf to eat and cloves to wear
free, en- well we'se free to starve eff we
ant get work an to die eff we'se sick. An
ley humbug the men and git dem to jtne
lere sieties jist fur to git dere munney to
Import dem white fellers. Lobe dc mig.
,ers ali ha! guess dey do I seen nuf nv
lat at Port Hudson. Bless you! see de
lead niggers piled up dar as high as dis
louse, and what dey do wild EN- Jist
lump em IN Q ditch all together, ma be not
'a'i kivered up at dat. Now if dem mig