Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-01

sion, which has the true ring. and which we
believe represents the feeling Of the better
portion Of the South toward the North.
In the Dominion Parliament, "Wednesday
night Of last week, the bill to regulate the
construction and maintenance of marine
electric telegraph, the main object Of which
is to prevent any company from possessing
monopoly OF landing cables at Newfound-
land, was read third time During the
discussion, Mr. Mackenzie said the govern.
ment did not intend TO take charge Of the
telegraph lines. He also stated, during a
discussion on the militia bill, the vote on
which was carried, that the government in
tended to place the whole force under the
control Of major general Of the British
army, to have it less numerous on paper.
but better paid and organized, and to estab.
lish military college, on the West Point
PLAN for the thorough training of officers.
President Grant has vetoed the imitation
bill His veto message is cool and clear.
headed and in it he says that it causes him
regret to refuse his official signature to any
act Of congress, but he cannot feel clear in
sanctioniug any act leading away from re.
sumption. His message will not call up re-
sentiment on the part of congress- as in the
days of Andrew johnson, but both houses
will probably pass an act relative to the
currency of such nature as will meet the
presidents views aud receive his signature.
Among the Washington dispatches of Sun
day we notice the following "The Senate
finance committee will, this week, consider
the House finance bill. IL is thought by
many conservative men that a bill may be
framed acceptable to the Senate, combining
the feature Of redemption proposed in that
bill with the right to issue additional bank
notes on condition that certain proportion
OF legal-tender notes be withdrawn at the
same time, aud many are of opinion that,
it such bill shall be reported from the
Senate committee with provision author
izlng free banking, it will pass the Senate
and House and receive the approval Of the
president" The senate tried the vote on
the veto message Tuesday, and the result is
the imitation bill is dead.
The river bottoms along the Mississippi
from Cairo, ILL.,, to the gulf are submerged,
and there appears no indication of an abate.
ment of the food. Perhaps some of our
readers do not understand that the soil along
the banks of the Mississippi is principally
aluvium, and that the process of washing in
which formed it is still going on. As con-
sequence the bed Of the river rises, and the
people on the low lands near raise the banks
to protect themselves from inundation, so
that in many places the surrounding country
for miles is below the level Of the river.
The unusual rise of the river this year has
washed away these levees until the water is
entirely beyond control. and the suffering is
great. In Louisiana the spring was un.
usually early and crops were in advance of
last season. More rice had been sown, corn
was showing finely, cane fields we're already
green and promising New Carol parish
may be taken for a sample Of all the coast
region, and there ~ plantations will make
no cotton, ii may make half crop, and
20, unless the floods increase, full crop.
Other farming business is entirely ruined.
Below New Orleans is the richest and
and most fertile portion of Louisiana, now
deluged for the first time in rs years. On
the former residence of Judah p. Benjamin,
IL miles below New Orleans, q large sec
ton OF the levee has been swept away, and
several sugar plantations are already over
flowed. On Greenwood sugar plantation,
20 miles below New Orleans, east bank, is
the largest crevasse on the lower coast
The volume Of water which rushes through
this opening has inundated aud destroyed
the crops on fourteen immense sugar estates
and many highly improved farms. After
this, all the way down till the levee lands
terminate, are many small orevasses, from
90 to 100 feet wide. Nearly the whole
Latourche sugar aud rice district is flooded
aud laid waste. This bayou aud coast land
which the Hood is thus desolAting and dew
asting before the war produced nearly all
the sugar consumed in the United States.
On 1t has been produced all the rice crops
OF Louisiana. The suffering is great, es-
PecIally in louisiana, and prompt measures
have been taken by the government aud the
cities for their relief. President Grant, be-
fore receiving the resolution of Congress au-
thorizing the issue Of assistance to the Lou
lsiana sufferers, had directed the commissary
general to send all the rations he could, and
according y the United States commissary
at New Orleans notified Gov Kellogg that
he would turn over to the governors order
800 900 rations of meat, bread, beans or
rice, at the rate of 10000 daiy,-enough
to sustain 10000 persons for % days, aud
relief committee have been appointed in
New Orleans for the distribution Of supplies.
Boston contributions already amount to $685..
600. Worcester has sent $780, At st.
Louis, last Friday, nearly $4,000 and
large quantity Of supplies were raised in q
few minutes. The New York cotton ex-
change has sent on $4,000. and contributions
from other places are coming nobly forward
to the relief of the sufferers. OF the 81.
O00, 900 acres of alluvial land capable OF
being planted to cotton and sugar only about
100000 acres are now above water. OF
this area 100000 acres are cotton land,
but only about 100000 acres would have
been planted, the average yield of which
would have been 800 600 bales. Should the
flood subsde by the first OF May half
crop might be raised on a part Of these
lands. Should the water remain until the
tirst OF June, no crop at all could be pro-
duced. The probabilities are that in any
contingency not more than 300, 900 bales of
cotton will be produced this year on these
lands. Careful estimates fix the amount Of
the sugar crop now destroyed at 10000
acres and this will be total loss, the floods
having destroyed the ration or last years
sprouts, as well as the new cane. Reports
Of floods also come from Alabama and Geor-
gia. The lower Ohattahooohee River is
overiiowed along its entire length, and con-
siderable damage has been done, The crop
prospects along the Tombigbee are anything
but encouraging The river is higher than
during the great food Of 1874, and is still
rising News from the Yazoo valley is bet
ter. The rivers there are falling, but the
greater portion of the best lands are still UNI
der water Tuesdays dispatches from Lou.
isiana state that the water has ceased TO rise,
and it is hoped the worst has been reached