The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-06
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Inundationn.

| AhC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MORE RAIN IN THE WEST THE WATERS, Al
| MEMPHIS, PINE duff, AND LITTLE RocE.
MEMPHIS, August S. Heavy rains prevail
The plantations on Islands Nos. 10 and 81
are submerged. at New Madrid the food
is running through the sunken land to St.
Francis valley. The river here Is risluc
| steadily, and slowly encroaching on exposed
plantations. The creyasse at DeSoto front
| Is repaired.
A dispatch from Pine Bluff says the river
rose ak inches this morning, and Is within
four feet Of high water.
A telegram from Lite Rock reports an
other rise with twenty. five feet on the gauge.
DAMAGES. TO CROPS.
CINCINNATI, August .5.--It Is difficult at
| present to form more than rough estimate
of the damages done to the crops by rains
and the overflow in the Ohio Valley, but it
is believed they will be heavy. The wheat
crop has suffered severely by the cold weather
IN the spring, and half OF what was planted
in the winter was killed. Of the remainder
it is believed one-third is hopelessly lost, and
| the remaining two-thirds partially damaged,
| though it is believed the damage will be
much less than is generally expected. The
acreage Of wheat sown was larger than last
! year, and the relative yield as compared With
| last year will be fifty per cent. less. The
chief damage to corn is in the river bottoms,
where the crop is total loss. That planted
on the higher ground has suffered princi-
pally from being broken down. The acre
age was much larger than last year, and the
prospects before the flood were favorable for
an unusually heavy crop. 1t is now thought
there will be q fair average crop; not much,
if any, less than last year. Much depends,
however, upon favorable weather for the re-
mainder Of the season.
The oat crop has suffered more severely
than either wheat or corn, having become
beaten fiat and so badly damaged toat it will
be impossible to harvest it. The portion
saved will be very small. Barley suffered
severely from the cold weather, and but little
was growing. Of this grain the quantity
saved in condition for milling will be COM
paratiyely insignificant. Hay promises
partial crop, but Of inferior quality.
SPECIAL RIVER REPORT.
WASHINGTON, August $50 p. k.-Du-
ring the past twenty-four hours the Ohio
river has risen % inches at Cincinnati. two
feet at Louisville, one foot at Evansville, and
ten and half feet ut Paducah, where it is
now four feet and three inches below the
danger.line. 1t is from two to five feet above
the danger-line at stations between Evans
vile and Cincinnati. 1t has fallen and is now
below the dsnger.line at Marietta and Pitts
burgh.
The Mississippi river has risen Six inches
at Cairo, two inches at Memphis, and is ris-
ing at Vicksburg, but has fallen at st. Louis
and Warsaw. 1t is now four feet and half
above the danSer.line at Cairo and ten inches
above at Helena.
The Missouri has fallen slightly at all sta
inches ut Nashville.
The floods will increase in The lower Ohio
and central Mississippi during Friday and
Saturday. Heavy local rains are reported
from the western portions Of Tennessee and
kentucky and southern Indiana.