The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-15

GOVERNMENT AID ron THE SUFFERERS.


sr. LorTs. March 14.-The Government
steamer Anita, which left here yesterday
with quantity of provisions on board for
the sufferers from the Mississippi floods,
will 20 direct 10 Memphis, where she will
probably Major Beuyaurd, and will then
proceed to Friar's Point, from which place
q number OF boats will be sent out over the
submerged bottoms, and all the people now
huddled together on bits OF broken levees
and other dangerous places surrounded by
water in that region win be transported to
places where they can be more comfortable
and properly provided for.
The Southern Relief Committee OF ST.
Louis will issue to-day an appeal TO the
citizens generally for money. food, cloth
ing, medicines, and anything that can be
OF service.
The officers and passengers OF the City
OF Baton Rouge, which arrived here yes
terday from New Orleans, say that the river
has an average width OF forty miles nearly
all the way from Cairo down, and with the
exception OF some sixty miles above and
below Vicksburg the levees are either
washed away or covered with water, ana
Of no practicable benefit.
New ORLEANS March 1.-THE breaks
on the line Of the Chicago, st. Louis, and
New Orleans railroad caused by the over
How have been repaired, and through trains
are now running again to Cincinnati.
ST. LOUIS, March 14.-General Bcckwith,
Of the Commissary Department, who has
charge OF the distribution OF Government
rations from this city to the Hooded dis
tricts OF lower Mississippi, has received the
following dispatch from Captain j. s.
Loud, dated Memphis:
al have Just arrived here. | found
Pemiscot county, No., In distressing
condition, being almost entirely submerged,
and about 1900 people entirely destitute.
The supplies sent TO Gayeso are being care
fully distributed, and will last until about
March 18th. More should be sent there.
The people will be in just as bad condition
when the water goes down. The Govern
ment, to prevent starvation, should care
for them nj least until May 1st. About 80
people at Hathaway. Tenn; $50 at Tip
tonville; 300 at Hates Point, in Tennes-
see; 1850 at Bayfield, Point; and | 800 in
the vicinity Of Osceola, Ark, are destitute
and badly in want. Some stores have been
received at Osceola, but they are INSULT
Gent"
General Beckwith has also received the
following from Captain Lee. dated Men,
phis:
Il returned here Saturday night. Ny
dispatch OF the 9Th instant was short OF
representing the actual restitution and the
magnitude OF this overflow"
NEW ORLEANS, March l4.-HOn. George
w. McCranie, Of the Oucllita Telegraph,
sends the following to the Times Democrat
from Monroe, La: The situation here is
extremely critical. A visit TO the leyees
above and below the city this afternoon
showed that they are in great danger.
Though IA large force Of men is at work on
them, there is not five minutes TO spare.
The water is oozing through the bank i'm
many places. The river here is six feet
higher than is natural bank, and more than
10 feet higher than the rear OF the city.
where the overflow j. higher than in 1876
and is still rising. The river Is rising at
the rate Of one inch in twelve hours. The
boat from Camden reports the rise all
the way down the river, which is only %
inches below the rise OF 1871 Nearly all
Of Trenton j. under water, and in some
places il is three feet deep. Business is
suspended and the roads are impossible,
communication being carried on entirely
by water. Planting along the river has
been suspended, and stock is huddled To-
gether. many dying from starvation. The
situation is worse now than before known
for twenty years. Rain is threatened to-
day. and should ii come, Monroe, the high
est point on the east bank OF Ouachta
river, will be inevitably submerged. Tht
condition Of the country is truly alarming