American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-02
LOUISE AN \.
AT NEW YORK.

Cotton Exchange for the sufferers
Mt New Orleans. Subscriptions tor
tire relief of those suffering by over
flow in the South reached several
thousand dollars ard targe additions
are expected. Mayor Havemyer
has issued an appeal to the citizens
for aid.
GOVERNMENT RATIONS.
WASHINGToN, ID. G, April Is
The President has signed the bill
providing for the issue temporarily
Of army supplies 10 the people on
the lower Mississippi in danger Of
I starvation.
CONTRIBUTIONS AT WORCESTER,
MASS.
WORCESTER, Mass, April 23.-
! Worcester sends to-day five hun
dred dollars to the Mayor of New
Orleans for the relief OF sufferers
from inundation.
CARROLL COTTON HALF RUINED.
NEW ORLEANS. April "a. "A let
ter from planter i'll Carroll parish
says:
'.From overflow there Will be
twenty seven plantations in this
parish that will make no cation at
all, eleven places that may make
half a crop, and twenty nine that
are good for full CROP
STARVATION IMMINENT IN POINT
COUPE PARISH.
A resolution of relief meeting of
the Sixth ward, Point Coupe parish,
states that in consequence OF Il
large number of persons living be-
hind the grand levee having had
their homes completely swept away
and nothing saved, they being com
pletely cut off from all cOmmunica
ton with other parts of the parish,
it is essentially necessary that i'm
mediate relief be afforded to prevent
starvation.
HICKEY CRETASSE BEYOND CON
troll.
The levee cOmpany'S engineer,
Van Felt, reports the crevasse at
HIckey's beyond control, fully Il
quarter Of mile wide and ten feet
deep.
Hickey residence, two story
frame cottage with eight rooms,
was taken up by the floods and car
ried to the back part of the planta-
ton, where it lodged against trees.
WEST BATON ROUGE AND IBER-
| VILE PARISHES.
| Almost the entire parish of West
Baton Rouge and the whole Of the
/ IL Ijap,-,IIn 1x-in thn
right bank of the Mississippi: ap
pear to be under water.
| CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEW YORK.
Five thousand dollars, contributed
| by the New York Cotton Exchange
! for sufferers by overflow, was re
ceived to-day.
| CONTRIBUTIONS AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, April 24.-NearIy two
thousand dollars and large guam
tity of -four, corn, meat, bacon, Nc,
were contributed in a few minutes
on Change to day for the benefit of
the sufferers by the overflow of the
lower Mississippi river. III tae
committees appointed "Wednesday
are at work, but have not reported
yet. AT Il meeting of the general
committee this afternoon, it was de
! cidrd to invest all the money col
Iected in food supplies and ship
them to New Orleans in charge OF
an agent selected by the committee,
who will deliver them to Mayor
Witt.
| CONTRIBUTIONS AT BOSTON.
BOSTON, April 24-The fund for
| the relief of the Louisiana sufferers
amounts to fifty thousand dollars,
with continued subscriptions.
MONROE ON THE VERGE OF STAR
WALTON.
MONROE, La, April est is i'm
possible to give an idea of the eX-
tent OF the overflow here. Water is
| higher than was ever known. The
town is an island two and a half
miles long by half Il mile wide,
from which there is no exit except
by boats or swimming. From the
crossing of the railroad and Desard
street back is one wide sea. Boats
come and go from Oakley'S. Peo
Pile living in the rear have been
driven in. All the vacant houses
are taken, and several families are
living in the courthouse.
Business is almost completely sus-
pended, but houses are open.
Fully one thousand people in town
have not ratiOns for three days nor
money to buy any. Stock of every
description is gathered i'll town and
starving.
THE SUBMERGED PLANTATIONS.
On Desaird Island almost all the
plantations are under water. OF
Loco acres, Capt. Phillips has out
only about 150. OF what has trans
pired below we krow nothing.
Pargoud's home place is two feet
submerged in the yard, and no
passing below. Trenton is under,
from Crossley's residence up be-
You'd the business houses of the
town. from six inches at the foot Of
the principal street and ten on the
river bank to eight feet in the rear
Gotten is brought in and goods sent
out to C!aibourne, half mile, III
fats.
| AT Beads and sStandifcr's resi-
dences the water is two feet deep in