New-York tribune., 1874-05-06
MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.
TIE PRESENT SITUATION AND PROSPECTS.
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE BY PROMINENT SOUTH
ERNERs-URGENr NEED FOR rMMEDrArE AID.
inv rap THE rRIaUsEI

TIE PRESENT SITUATION AND PkOSPECTo.
| AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE BY PROMINENT SOUTH
ERNERs-URGENr NEED Fo. DfaEDrATE AID.
lBr rELEoRArm TO THE TRrBUsE.l
| WASHINGTON, May 5.-An appeal has been
prepared behalf of tho sufferers by the nundaton Of
the Lower Mississippi country by C. @. Forshay ex.
| Gov. p o. Hebert, Col John McEDery, g. W. Morse.
and J. Madison Wells, with the approval OF Mayor Wts
Of NewOreans and OF the delegations in Congress from
| Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi Ths APPEAL
urges churches. Masonic Hodges aud ali beney yoeas
organ cations throughout the country, to take nms-
diate action to relieve tho destitute peoIo OF tho
1 over6owed districts. An estimate Il ciyen a,
! tho number OF people Leis without th~ ,n.a,s
Vi saDss'cnoo' W "H''A I" that there are 1850
" N0ui'!sna, 81 500 in Arkansas 1850 Ia Mississippi
anu 5000 Ia Missouri. The vssnesl Of the charitable
~ork required to provide for the necessities Of these
Peoplo SHOWN By the staement that 10000 day is
neede1 70 furnish them with provisions aud that 1t Will
probably be several weeks befofs the waters
VIII subside so that they can return to
their desolate homes and Ind mean. OF pro-
curing food for themselves sThese figures probably
exaggerated, being obtained by tax entire p,pu
ation Of the districts believed to OyerhOwei. without
making deductions Tor exceptional cases OF people living
elevated ground Of those who able to provide
for their wants. With all reasonable Deductions,
however the total number Of the destitute must be suf
celuy large to demand extraordinary cRors through
out the country for their relief
A DECLINE IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EXPECTED
TIE REPORT OF THE REFUSAL OF NEGROES TO
WORK CONFIRMED.
GENERAL PRES, DrsPArcHl
MEMPHIS, May 5.-There is no suffering or
desttuton above Napoleon (which has not or Is not
being relieved aud should be taken to send sup
plies to responsible persons at depots already estab
ished below point order that they may be prop
cry distributed.
Planters from below were In the city to-day trying TO
procure hands. They confirm previous statements In
regard to the large numbe OF coOred hands refusing to
make engagements, thinking Gthat the National
Government win provide for them.
The at this point has fallen about two inches
and a steady decline looked for. II safe to state
that from NowMadrd to che mouth OF WhIts River, on
the Arkansas side there - not single plantation that
is entirely submerged while the east side the damage
is trihing. The evees n Tunca Coaloma Counties
Miss, have thus far witAsrood the Good.
ACCOUNTS OF SUFFERING AND PRIvATIoN-TIMELY
ARRIVAL OF SUPPLIES.
w-ORLEANs, May 5.-A. +. ,iardis, writing
to The P,caGe from Black River, says the country is
submerged deeper than IL in 1867. Among the
people there have been great priT1uons aud in somo
instances suffering. He says:
Picture to your mind the condition OF our locality
when helpless widows and children are condemned 20
ngnt against starvation @ %ita t%o ana Ln ears a OF
plies rom the Relier conmittee o. New-odeans the
with horror to contemplate what our condition would
have been had not the heavensent chart reached d IN
time clay the donors never know what 1t Is To went.
II they could the effects 0f their noble acts they
w0dld ~ y realize that Is blessed to give than
THE WESTERN RrvERs-sIGNAL OFFICE REPORTS OF
THEIR CONDITION.
WASHINGTON, May 5.--The Signal Office re- |
ports as follows:
During the past hours the Mississippi has fallen
slightly II st. Paul: risen l inch from La crosse 10
Keokuk inches at Warsaw, and 10 Inches 81 St LOUIS
and fallen inch Cairo. Memphis and New
being feet aud inch az the latter place below tne
Do at reached April The Missouri hts fallen steadily
from Omaha Brunswick, aud risen thence TO us |
mouth an average Of inches. Tue Ohio has |
slightly below the latter place, and has also |
shown a tendency rise at Pittsburgh the Allegheny
having 10 inches at FreepOrt The Red River mas
fallen Shreveport tue Arkansas one rOot
Little Rock, and the Cumberland 20 inches at NASH
The MOnong ihela Is also reported u DC raining u
Brownsville.
The rainfall within the watersheds OF the several |
rivers during period has Ueen as follows; In
the Mississippi, vc-hundredhs Of lncn at ST. Louis;
III the Ohio twenty-five huudredLls OF inch at Gin
seventeenth hundredts at Pittsburgh. and one
teuth or inch at Inlanapois IN the TeDnessee SIX
nundredths at Knoxville; IN tho Cumoeriand' one
hundredtl Nashville, and none IN those OI the Siis
souri,, Arkansas and Red Rivers