New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-02

| i ne lOe5-ctste SCattH says
The river has fallen, and is still falling al
this point. We can not account for the sud
den fall except by attributing it to the ere.
vases which are now running both above
and below us. BY the reports of the State
engineers WHO have visited the various
breaks, many of those breaks will not be
closed until the river falls within its natural
banks. The engineers seem to have come
| to the conclusion that all they can do is to
| attempt to check the widening of the
| breaches. In the meantime a large extent
OF country is under water, many people are
| driven from their homes, losing their crops,
| their cattle, poultry, etc. Thus far her
| vile has no crevasse of her own, but por-
ton of the parish on the Crosse Tete, Ma
ringouin. Grand river and the back lands
on Bayou Goula may yet suffer some.
The Donaldsonville Leader says:
The levees in this parish, so far, have
| been kept up by the exertion of its own
| citizens and not by anything that has been
done by the Levee Board, who failed to
come to the rescue; and thus it has been
! that the planters had to come forward and
| do all in their power to keep the water off
| their crops, or lose all that they had la
| bored for.
| MIR. Thomas O'Malley also deserves a
great deal Of credit for the energy he dis
played III building the levee opposite the
| town, and inst had it completed when the
old one gave way; thus it was that the
largest portion of this parish was saved
from overflow and destruction. We were,
| indeed, glad TO see the police jury coming
to his rescue by appropriating five thousand
dollars of parish bonds in exchange of five
| thousand dollars OF State Indebtedness
We have heard great deal of talk and
complaint made by parties who have no
tax to pay, who say, Eve pay our levee
tax, and have nothing to do with the
levees.' That sort OF reasoning will do
very well in time of low water; but in times
like the present, we deem it the duty of one
and all TO do what they can in keeping the
water from ovolfowing tthe land and de-
stroying the crops. 1t is poor time for
argument as to whose duty it is, or ought
TO be, to fix the levees; but everything
should he done to escape such catas-
trephe.
We copy the following from the Pointe
Coupee Echo:
We take pleasure in announcing to the
public and our friends of the neighboring
parishes that all danger from overflow with
us is pretty well over. The river at this
point during the commencement of the
week had fallen several inches, but the late
rain or storm which occurred on Wednesday
night last caused another rise or swell in
the river, which now, however, is speedily
Had our levees unfortunately given way,
several parishes, which are protected by |
them, would have been involved in our disas- |
ter. and the Chief State Engineer would have |
had another opportunity of witnessing an
other Niagara III miniature, and philosophy
ing upon the uncurbed velocity of the waters
of the Mississippi.
The rain which we had causing the STORM
was most acceptable, and was greatly
needed by the planting interest. Both cot
ton and cane were suffering from the
irouth- and the ground had become so
baked and hard as almost to render it i'm
possible to bar off either cotton or cane.