Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-19
THE THREATENED OVERFLOW.
Latest News from ali Direction-LiffIe
Damage and No Danger.

anu NO DUuSeF.
From the Memphis Avalanche, March II.
VariousrumOrs having been circulated
concerning breaks In the levees at points
on the river below this city, careful in
quiries were made last evening from
people who arrived during the after
noon by steamers from below, and the
following information was obtained {:
Capt. S. Basket, of the steamer st.
Francis, and a residentof Walnut Bend,
Arkansas, said that he landed his
vessel at many places on his upward
passage, and he neither saw or heard of
crevasses or overflow.
On Saturday last Capt. McCan, who
is Superintendent of the Mississippi
levees, and resides at Austin, some
sixty miles below here, rode all along
the lines of the levee on the Mississippi
side as far up as Commerce bend, and
returned on Sunday. He found all
levees solid, and they manifested no
signs of giving away at any point
From the clerk and captain of the
Napoleon packet Geo. W. Cheek, the
news was elected that there had been
no overflow anywhere above Napoleon.
Steamers In landing occasionally threw
little wave water over the banks, and
on some places seep water has made
small ponds in low places, but no harm
has resulted to any plantation, nor has
stock been drowned, nor has property
of Importance or value been DESTROYED.
The boat landed at Harklerodes and
took on cotton, but heard of no break,
either there or at Tunica, Star Landing
or De Soto Front.
From the captain of the Pine Bluff
packet Belle of Texas, an old river man
and careful observer, the news was
gained that backwater from the Missis-
sippi extends one hundred miles I'D the
Arkansas. At Col. Williams place, a
few miles below Red Fork, there was
five inches of levee still uncovered, and
some alarm was entertained, as the wa
ter was still advancing, but no injury
has yet been experienced there or else
where.
The information from the White
river valley brought by the steamer
Bannock City, which arrived at dark,
was less cheerful. The water was de-
Ginning from Augusta up, but consid-
cradle trouble and someloss of property
had been incurred by the people. A
few dead cattle were seen at various
points drowned out by the overflow,
and at other places stock was standing
in the water, with fiatboats, and hands
busy ferrying them back to the hills.
The Bannock City went above Bates
vile, on White river, and to PocahOn-
tas, on Black river, and while the late
rise was sudden the overflow was not
wholly unexpected, nor were the resi-
dents, except in a few cases, surprised
or seriously damaged.
Residents of the lowlands along the
Southern rivers, subject to inundation,
are naturally on the alert during the
rainy season, and are seldom UMPIRE
pared for sudden freshets. The recent
open winter, almost free from ice, snow
and heavy freezes, as it has been,
was calculated to inspire the belief that
the spring season would be wet and
rainy, and that the rivers would all be
flooded to a greater or less extent. The
news from the upper country yester-
day, however, encourages the opinion
that the present high water will speed
lily subside, and no additional damage
Will occur until we have more heavy
rains. The river has fallen nearly six
feet at Cairo during the past few days,
and late last evening the water gauge
at this part showed a slight decline,
while at all points up the country the
waters were declining. Private tele-
grams from Louisville yesterday stated
that the towboat Charles Brown, with
a coal feet, had passed through the
canal on her way to st. Louis, there not
being water enough on the falls to ad-
NIT of her passage by that channel.
The people of the valleys south of here,
who for some time past have been So
hcitous, need feel no apprehensions of
being submerged. Within the present
week the water will be inside of the
river banks all the way from here up.