Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-04-28
COTTON LAND


in these parishes in actual cultivation
is ascertained to be $50, 900 acres, be-
sides 10000 acres in corn. These estl-
mates include only the large places,
leaving out hundreds of small farmers,
and all estimates for cattle, hogs and
gardens, The population of these nine
parishes is 20, 1884 whites, and 54.O33
blacks, according to the census of 1870.
In the sugar producing parishes ascer-
tanned facts discover an equal if not
greater amount of ruin and suffering.
These parishes are Point COupee, East
Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge,
Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, La
fouroe, ST, James, St. John the Bap-
list. st. Charles, Terrebone, and Pla-
uuiminies, The overflow in these pa
FISHES covers nearly 100000 acres,
titled and untitled, including pro-
duction of
THIRTY THOUSAND HOGsHEADS OF
SUGAR,
large production of rice, and some
small farmers of whom there are many
hundred, who lost their stock and
pretty much all else they possess
The population of these parishes &C
cording to the census of 1870, was So
36S whites, and AZ 24l blacks, making
a total of l22, 500, from which must be
deducted East Baton Rouge, as small
portion of that parish suffered from
the overflow, and that section being
five parishes, 1850. In all the parish
es named it is believed that more than
q, 900 people are now in actual
SUFFERING FOR NECESSARY SUPPLIES
OF LIFE,
that in less than sixty days the num-
| Der of those whose circumstances will
require alleviations will increase to
more than 5000 persons.
| Above we present all the facts as far
as ascertained by the Relief Commit
| tee up to yesterday.
| Mr. Jno. Claw, OF st. Landry Parish,
in speaking of the above says: l have
| Just seen in the Times this morning
an approximate estimate OF the extent
of damage which has resulted from
the overflow, in nine northeastern
parishes of this State, which includes
/ only the parishes north of Red River,
and then passing at the mouth Of said
river over to the parish of Point Cou-
pee The estimate includes all of the
parishes between the Mississippi and
AtChafaIaqua rivers to the gulf, which
is all very correct as far as it goes, but
resulting from the immense body OF
water which is coming down the val
ley of the Mississippi and Ouachita
and Black rivers, it passes across Red
River some forty miles from its mouth
and meeting with no obstruction until
it reaches the levee OH Bayou DcFlace,
it
SWEEPS WITH IRRESISTIBLE FORCE
over its feeble barrier, and occupying
a breadth of-country from twenty-five
to thirty miles wide, through the east
ern portion of Aveyellsand st. Landry
parishes, and covering all the lands in
that region. which includes within its
limits a large portion of the Elost pro-
ductjve lands III those Two parishes, be-
ginning at Moreanville and washing
| around what is called the big end of
Bayou DeGlace, down to Simsport. q
distance of more than forty miles 10y
the meanders of the bayou, which is
thickiy settled thence down the low
lands west of Atchafalaqua River be
hind the plantations on that river liz
undating them from behind. Within
the limits of land thus submerged, are
not less than 10000 souls, including
white and black, mostly laboring clas-
ses, but no doubt some of the proprie-
tors are in a suffering condition, or
account of the almost total failure of
the crop both of corn and cotton, al
of tie wet weather last year.