The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-21
Boston Responds.
Aid for our Inundated Dis.
trictS.

There is, perhaps, nothing which so
greatly eXcites sympathy in individuals or
in communities as personal suffering and
calamity. Boston, the intellectual centre of
our great country, having herself just
passed through a terrible ordeal, and having
endured great suffering and poverty in con-
sequence, is the first TO respond to the APP
peal in behalf of our unfortunate and sadly
stricken people.
No sooner does the story of our woes reach
her than she generously stretches forth her
hand to assist. She does not stop to inquire
whether the people over whose homes and
acres the waters of the merciless Mississippi
are madiy rushing, are Democrats or Radi-
Gals, Orwhetler III the late war they wore
the gray or the blue, but putting away and
sinking torevera all bitter recollectons of the
dreadful past. she steps forward nobly to
| the rescue of her fellow-countrymen.
| That Boston should have responded first
| to the cry of Louisiana in her distress
regard as peculiarly significant, and we
accept it as an evidence of that return of
good feeling and good fellowship, which
was interrupted only not eXtnguished by,
war. OF this, we are quite sure, that if i'll
| the breast of any Louisianion there I'M
gered feeling of resentment or any unchari-
| tableness towards the people of Boston, this
| touch of nature, this spontaneous ebullition
of sympathy, will crush it utterly.
Mayor Witt has received the following
telegram in response to his of Sunday:
Hon. L. A. Wilt, Mayor of New Orleans
BosToN, Mass. April l9.-Your dispatch of
yesterday was received. | have called a
meeting of our citizens to take immediate
action in response to your appeal for assist
ance. Please forward further particulars.
| SAM'L C. CoFT, Mayor
The following dispatches have also been
received:
BosToN, Mass, April 10Th, 1874.
| To Nessrs. A. Baldwin Co., John c. Gaines,
Ptesiden. OF the Citizens Bank:
| The Mayor of Boston has received a tele
gram from the Mayor of New Orleans IN re-
| lation to the nundation of a large portion
of your State.
At meeting of our citizens called by the
Mayor this day, the undersigned were APP
| pointed a committee to ascertain more pre-
cisely the extent and nature of your wants.
|
Mayor of Boston
| l. State the probable number of acres of
land under cultivation which are submerged
and the effect on the crops of the coming
season, in case this overflow should snbside
within thirty days. 2. State the number of
towns and parishes which are inundated.
;. Give your individual views of the neces-
sites of the case. GEO. I. BALDWIN,
f. r. NUDGE,
| AVERY PLUMER.
| FRANKLIN SNOW,
| EUGENE II. SAMPSON.
BOsTON. Mass, April 10Th, 1874.
| Baldwin, New Orleans:
A committee of citizens, appointed by the
Mayor. have telegraphed you and others in
order to know the exact condition of affairs
| in Louisiana. Act promptly and reply. We
hold an adjourn meeting tomorrow at IL NJ.
| Boston desires to assist.
GEO. P. BALDWIN
In response to kilograms received from
Boston the following telegram was sent:
New ORLEANS, April 20, 1874.
| To the Mayor of Boston:
The overflow in Louisiana extends over
the following parishes north of Red River,
including the Ouachita Valley say Carroll,
Madison, Tensas, Concordia, Onachita,
Franklin, Catalonia, Morehouse, Richland,
Caldwell, except Il narrow strip along the
kbanks of the Mississippi where the levees
NtRve not been entirely destroyed. The
Sbtaker levees having given away causes the
ToverfOw of all the lear lands, the water
extending back above and below the broken
| levees for miles.
The area of these parishes is over two
millions of acres, of which two hundred and
i fifty thousand are cultivated in cotton, and
one hundred thousand in corn. No means
Of estimating the losses of many hundreds
of small prOprietors in the way of gardens,
| fences and cattle.
Below Red River, in the sugar region,
there are twelve or fifteen crevasses, over
flowing, or seriously affecting, the drainage
of the cultivated lands in the parishes of
Pointe Coupee, East and West Baton Rouge,
Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche,
Terrebonne, st. Mary, st. John Baptist, st.
Charles, Jefferson, Plaquemines. and St.
| Bernard.
The area of cultivated lands in these
lower parishes severally injured, produces
thirty thousand hOgsheads of sugar. The
number of people in the State who are par
TALLY or totally ruined cannot be less than
twenty-five thousand. many of whom are
in absolute want of food.
The reports of the continued rise in all
the upper rivers indicate that there can be
no fall in the next sixty days Should the
fall occur at an earlier day, nothing could
be made in the sugar lands.
This continued high water will increase
the number of sufferers to probably fifty
thousand.
Tho number of towns overlooked is seven
Our individual views are that the necessi-
ties are very great, and that your people
cannot too promptly respond to the call of
the Mayor of our city.
| (Signed) JNo. G. GAINES,
JNO. PHELPS,
| Z. S. KEEP,
ALBERT BALDWIN,
| EDWARD DAVIS,
| C.. H. LAWRENCE.
The following copies of kilograms explain
themselves: