Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-21

water mark Of 1873, and still IL is rising
steadily, with more water corning from
above" fass 7sa
The same paper of the thirteenth fur
ther states: "The river at this point is
now one foot below high-water mark Of
1873. - ------ -------------- la
The same paper of the fourteenth fur
ther states: 1.-THE river at this point is
now nine inches below high-water mark
of 1873"
oREvAssE OF THE UPPER BASS LEvEE.
Besides the break in the leyee at the
Hushpuckany, which occurred some
days ago, and was noticed by rs at the
time, we have now news OF serious
crepGsse in the upper Bass levee, the
facts OF which are made apparent in the
following letter from General ThOmp-
son to Governor Kellogg;
PROVIDENCE LANDIEe, March IA.
:" To his Exeellency, p. kellogg, Governor:
The levee known as the Upper
Bass built during the season of 1928,
broke away at five O'clock in the after
noon, yesterday, and is this morning a
genuine cTeUdsse. Fortunately this
water viii only overflow some dozen
plantations, but me planters on these
will lose this 56Tson's crops if the river
should rep@- nigh until after too late
toplant: ...--.e =
81 win remain in this country several
days, and pass on down with my skiff
to examine and strengthen all weak
points. l have the honor to be your
obedient servant, an
an. JEFF THOMPsoN, State Engineer,
The creuasss will inundate all the
country back of the GoOdrieh Landing,
and has already stopped TIE running OF
the cars on the Vicksburg and Shreve-
port railroad. 1t will ill up and proba-
bly, overflow bayous Macon, Tensas and
other streams fiJwing into the Ouachita,
unless there be rapid decline of the
water in the river, an event which we
are glad to believe is probable. Another
and sudden rise in the upper tributaries,
or heavy and continuous rains along the
river below Cairo and Memphis, might
defeat this hops. .tL
FURTHER NEWS FROM THE CREvAssE.
The letter from General Thompson is
dated the fourteenth. Since then dis
patch from q reliable source, dated the
sixteenth instant, has been received
by Mr. j. f. Aicklen, as follows:
''MARcH l6, 1874 Z
~. F. AickleD, New Orleans;
"Bass levee is broken. Two hundred
yards wide.n -
Our neighbors may consider a break
like this in the levee tri2ing matter, a
"raw-head and bloody-bones,n or "ro-
NANCE" but the people of bayou Tensas
and bayou Macon country viii think
differently.
LANDINGS ABOVE vICKsBURG.
Captain Carleton, of the steamer
Kofi ruRa h. Oh
boat, Robert e. Lee, SAYS all the land
ings shove Vicksburg are over1owed by
the rise. In some places the water was
nearly over the levees.
AT CARRoLLToN.
An 0ttdche Of the Times Office, who
happened to visit CarrolIton last even
ing, found a serious crack in the levee
about one square above the Hickok
landing. A force of about twenty men
was working vigorously tc stay the en-
croachment of the water by driving
down planks and piling in brush. At
that point the water lacks only about
twelve inches of running over the top
Of the levee.
WHAT TO EXPECT.
From all the information we can gath
er, the flood has about reached its high
est point, anC subSldenee may be eX-
pected with reasonable confidence from
this time on. It is not impossible, how.
ever, for other breaks in the levee to
take place before the present rise shall
run out. Unless wholly unforeseen
changes shall take place, the lapse of
few days will remove all grounds for ap-
prehension OF further danger.
ARKANSAS.
THE ST. FRANCIS.
Wittsburg Ark Gazette, fourteenth:
"The st. Francis river is still coming
steadily up. The wate- is nearly to the
top of the bank Just below town. The
Mississippi is reported still rising. Old
residents in the swamp, and river men,
| entertain serious fears of an overflow.
If headwater from the Mississippi comes
upon US now we will be pretty thor
oughly ducked."