Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21

| the lower coast and the northern line
of the State. If vigilance had been
exercised from the very beginning OF
/ the food, no doubt some of the breaks
which have taken place might have
been prevented"
The people of Jefferson parish, be-
tween Carrolton and Kennerville above
New Orleans, have addressed a petition
for aid to the Governor, as the laborers
formerly at work on their levees having
been taken to Bonnet Care, they are
unable to protect themselves.
Country newspapers of Saturday
last from different points Of interior
Louisiana impart additional details as
follows:
"The crevasse at George Wilson's,
twenty-five miles below Alexandria, Red
river, was drawing the water off very
fast, and it is thought would relieve
Alexandra entirely. The last three
days rain has injured the planting IN
terests more than the overflow. A tel
egram from Fulton, Ark, ON upper Red
river, of the 9th, says Red river rose
five feet In thirty-six hours, and heavy
heavy rains had fallen for three days.
The river continued to swell"
At Delhi, North La, on Saturday,
the situation is thus related: Bayou
Mason, Joe's Bayou, Tensas, Willow
Bayou, in fact the whole parish west
and north of Walnut and Roundaway
Bayous, is now under water. The loss
of stock has been immense, and this
has all been caused by a revasse in a
levee which the Louisiana Levee Com
pany has been building every year since
its organization, and for which it re-
ceiyes so cents a cubic yard.
From all around us the pitiful wall
of distress from inundation reaches us.
The railroad track for half its lengthis
submerged in water; the Ouachita is
full and running over, and the beauti-'
full plantations along its banks are
covered with seepage water and over-
flow; the same may be said for a good
portion of the B9uf river and Lake La
fourehe country; a portion of the town
of Rayville is under water; back water
has crept up the ravines and drains of
Delhi, rendering some of our streets
impossible for pedestrians; the water
still covers about half the parish of
Madison, while the remainder is N i'm
minent danger of inundation."
AT Monroe, on the Washita, so miles
west Of Vicksburg, the picture a week
ago was thus depicted: From this point
down to Trinity We are not informed
of any serious damage, except that the
town of Columbia was partially SUBJ
merged several days ago. The levees
at Pargoud's, Morrison's, at Cuba and
Waverly were all IN more or less dam
ger when last heard from. The break
ing of either of these leyees would be
unfortunate, but not disastrous to any
very large district of cultivated lands.
The river from Camden down has over-
flowed its banks, and is rushing in a
tremendous flood, running the rich and
beautiful country and making every
thing desolate IN the extreme. The
river is full of drift, dead cattle and
wreck Of every description, and hum
dreds of families are rendered home
less.
Down IN the sugar region below the
mouth of Red river, in Point Coupee
parish, the food ON Saturday last is
described as follows: "On Thursday the
water was passing yer tbs Jewell, Co
lomb, Bovard and Taylor levees.
People turned out in force and set to
work In earnest, patching and raising
the levees at these points, so that at
nightfall they could be pronounced out
of danger. During Thursday night
the levees protecting Waterloo gave
way, and the town is now entirely over
flowed. The levee IN the rear is pro-
nounced safe. The Grand levee stands
firm. A good many bands are employed
in raising it at the points where the
water threatens to run over. Part of
the Morgan Bend levee is in a very
critical condition"
In the Lafourche sugar region, still
farther south, the latest advices report:
"a large crevasse on the Mississippi
has inundated the False river planta-
tons. A break in the levee near
Thibodaux threatens the destruction of
the cane and the unhousing of many
families. To date, the cane and corn
crops of St. Martin were reported IN
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the upper line of the Moreau planta-
ton, about three miles above Thibo-
daux, on the right descending bank of
the Lafourche. The following planta-
tons are almost entirely inundated: d.
Triche's home place, Aureliien Braud
& Brothers, Leonard Lasseigne, Maui
reau, Lorio; whilst the plantations of
Jamison, Live Oak, r. Perkins and
Leche are partially under water. The
whole of the Chaskey and Choupic set
Elements will be more or less injured,
but to what extent is not known.
On the east side of the Mississippi
the break at McCullom's, two miles be-
low Baton Rouge, will prove very dam
aging to many sugar farms lying be-
tween there and the bayou Manchac.
This latter bayou was, a great many
years ago, one of the branches of the
Mississippi, and vas used by the old
French settlers on the sea coast as
their most direct line of communica-
ton from the sea to the upper Missis-
sippi, before the discovery or entrance
through the present mouths of the
river. 1t was never, however, except
In high water, adapted to navigation,
even by the smaller class Of vessels,
and was closed more than half a Gen.
fury ago. The Manchae empties into
the Amite river, the chief tributary of
the large and shallow Lake Maurepas,
which in turn debouches through Pass
Manshac into Lake Ponchartrain. An
enormous volume of water may thus
be conducted into the lakes, which
though disastrous to the plantations
below Baton Rouge and to the oyster
bed in the lake, viii reduce very per-
centiblv the STAGE of the river 70 the