The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-19

Grand Levee-Full Details.
Our Civ Front

| OuF WY rTOnS
presents no apparent change; the river
remained at the same stage at dark as re-
ported in last evenings edition.
From the Mississippi and it's numerous
tributaries we have no encouraging reports;
''still rising" is the general cry.
Bayou Lafourche.
All reports from this stream are gloomy;
the old breaks can not be closed and several
new ones are reported. One occurred yes
terday three miles below Donaldsonville,
but as the citizens rallied in force it has
probably been closed ere this, providing it
was possible to do so.
The people of the Lafourche country are
in sad state of restitution, and much
suffering exists amongst them.
William Pitt Kellogg, by the grace of
Durell, aided by Federal bayonets occupy
ing the position of Governor of Louisiana,
having been called upon by delegation of
! citizens for aid for the sufferers of this sec
ton of our State, wrote note to Mayor
Wilt, who Immediately issued the follow
ing proclamation
| Proclamation.
| MAYoRALTY OF New ORLEANs.(
| April 18th, 1877. !
Citizens of New Orleans
| l am officially informed that many thou
sands of the inhabitants of Louisiana have
been driven from their homes and deprived
Of means of subsistence by the overflow of
the Mississippi River and its branches and
outlets, and that u great number of them
are in imminent danger of perishing from
hunger.
| In many parishes the devastation and snf-
fering are greater than ever before known
from the same cause. Although seriously
threatened, our city has been providentially
spared, leaving means in your hands to res
cue your unfortunate and afflicted country
men from impending starvation.
The large-hearted charity for which you
have always been noted, gratitude for your
own escape and pity for the suffering, will
alike induce yOn to help in the work of
giving immediate succor to the victims of
this double calamity of flood and famine.
In view Of the nece ssity:sfor prompt relief,
and in order to organize your combined
Efforts committee of well known citizens
will be appointed to solicit contributions in
money and provisions, and another like
committee to superintend the distribution,
so that full assurance may be had that your
gifts will be judiciOusly applied with the
least possible delay.
The relief required will be very large, the
flood extending over almost entire parishes,
and covering an area Of more than ten
| Thousand square miles.
The reverend clergy of the city are earn
estly requested to call the notice of their
several congregations to the danger, destitu-
ton and distress of the people in the over
flowed sections. l.. A. Wilt, Mayor.
Mayor Wiltz,
To-, %o, H. 10
nation, appointed three well known and
patriotic citizens, viz: Messrs l. N. Marks
w. B. Schmidt and B. NJ. Pond, to receive
donations for the overlooked sufferers.
Boeuf River.
r The officers of the Era No. 10, which ar
rived yesterday, report general overflow
along this stream.
| The Lower Coast.
From recent arrivals we learn of no new
crevasses on the lower coast, and no encour-
aging reports from those previously reported
Most all of them are we'll under control, and
the prospects of closing them are favorable.
| Grand Levee.
The reports from this place are conflict
ing, but that break may occur is not at
all improbable.
At Shreveport,
on the 18th inst, Red River he'd risen three
inches and was 26 feet above low water
mark.
| Latest from Algiers and Gretna.
Late last night the back water was
steadily creeping upon our suburban vii
lagos, and the prospects of Algiers, Brook
Ign, Freetown and Gretna will be under
water in AZ hours.
The latest advices from above state that
the Hickey levee on the right bank is now
flowing through a gap of 700 feet, and its
depth is fully twelve feet. All efforts to
stop this crevasse have been unavailing,
and there is every probability that broad
extent Of country will be submerged. The
water from this break will flow down to
Grand River and the Atchafalaya into Grand
Lake, thence towards the Gulf into Der
wick's Bay as an outlet, thus inundating
almost the same extent of territory as would
have been overfowed had Grand Levee
given away. 1t is with sincere regret that
we have to chronicle the above, and it il
hoped that all aid will be extended to the
sufferers
The statement which has been generally
circulated that the lumber sent by the Levee
Company was used in St. Charles parish and
Jefferson, it seems, was not accurate. Mr..
Soniat and other planters, alone, prevented
a break, and the lumber sent still remains
unused. The men employed were only those
hired by the planters.
Since the above was written, dispatches