The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-04-17
ABOUT THE OVERFLOW.

Sheriff is here with me. 1t is the larg- |
est, highest, and meanest water that
ever was here-a foot higher than in
1862. They baptize converts out of the
second story windows of churches.
Please, telegraph the weather man at
Washington to close up the trainy and
stormy department for a season, and
let us have a little 'hish rising mercury
Yours, without respect for any one
while this water lasts, Il. L. d."
From the Vicksburg Herald, 13th.l
The river continues stationary, but
will probably be rising by this evening,
as there is considerable volume of
water coming out of the Arkansas
river, which is now rising with 16 feet
3 inches on the shoalest places. The
at st. Louis. The Ohio is declining at
Pittsburg but is rising at various other
points. The indications now are that
we shall have few feet more rise
here, enough to put the river up to the
high water mark of 1867.
NEW ORLEANS, April 1O.-Crevasses
are reported at the following planta-
tions below the city in addition to
those reported yesterday: At Max
Martins, Casmerc Daplisses, Pierre
Collettes, j. G. Gray's, IIttienne, Dol
ages, Stanton, st. Charles, Greenwood,
Belchasse, Francois Cornes and Tres
sagnier's. -Four of the eleven are said
to be serious breaks, being one hundred
feet wide and very deep. Tho water
has risen one inch during the past
twenty-four hours, and is reported
running over the lcvce at many points
below the city.
NEW ORLEANS, April l2.-River
stationary with one inch above high
water mark of 1871. The Bonnet Care
caevasse is reported one hundred and
twenty-five feet wide and fifteen feet
deep, with water pouring through it
like Il mill race. 1t can be heard for
miles.
NEW Orleans Picay une, 1lth.l
In pursuance of our Well-timed sug-
gestions the city authorities have gone
to work bulkhcading the cutters and
cleaning them out, so as to drain the
levee Of the surplus water left there by
the heavy rains. The next thing in
order is to fill up the great holes about
the batture, also to grade tho entire
space with shell and put the crossings
in complete repair.
When all this shall have been done,
and done well, the Administrator of
Streets and Landings will be entitled
to- the grateful consideration of every
man doing business on the levee.
1t is no small matter to fool with tho
interests of this important mart. Steam
bOatmen know very well how the
money goes, which they are made to
disgorge every time for tho privilege of
bringing freight and business to the
city. They know, too, that railroads
enjoy this same privilege, free of
o4,o
citous about having the wharf dues
which the above pay applied to keep
ing the levee and it's approaches in
repair.
The time is coming when the right
of the city to charge for wharf space at
the landing will be vigorously con-
tested, because there are elements at
work which must eventually free this
river Of all port eXactions.
LFrom Vicksburg Herald l3th.l
Our signal telegra.ls this morning
report n rise of fifteen feet in the Ohio
river ut Cincinnati yesterday, and an
other rise ut Memphis. In the lam
guagc of the poet, "this do settle it,
"A rise of sixteen feet in the Arkansas
river and of fifteen feet in the Ohio, in
one day, just dispcls all hopes of an
early decline, and the people living in
the Mississippi Valley might Just as
well call up their stock, and move into
the second story of their dwellings, and |
be done with if. From the way things !
look ut present, there is only one point |
we could recommend for perfect safety
from the high water, and that is the
cupola of the Courthouse. We have
an abiding faiti, that that point, ut
least, will be safe from the cncroach-
ments of the river.
New Orleans Bulletin, llth.l
The following letter, which has been
kindly furnished us, tells Il sad and
narrowing tale of devastation and suf-
icring which appeals strongly to our
sympathics:
IHtnonAu<, La, April ., 1879.
N' l.. Robertson, Esq, Howard Association
uy Dear SiI'-The inuntatiou on
Bayou Lafourchc, some four miles
aoove this place, has covered the farms
OF many small planters, destroying
their crops and gardens, leaving no drV
ground for their cattle and poultry.
iheir condition is in the extreme dis
tressing, and the people here, without