The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-10

Monroe and Phillips counties have thou.
sands OF sufferers in destitute circumstances
| should judge that there are nearly, il not
mlly, ,la,Wo persons needing aid in the state
to-day They are tenants and farmers of
small means who have lost their all by the
overflow. Houses, farming implements,
stock-everything has been swallowed
up in the Hood, To them the
outlook is gloomy, for no matter how in
dustrious they NAV be they cannot imme-
dlately get employment and must therefore
be fed at the public expense for time at
least, fear that many will die OF actual
starvation. Relief boards are busy dis
tributing rations at all available points
throughout the overilowed districts The
work Is going on as rapidly as can be cf-
iected, but the trouble is that there
are so many needy that il will
he impossible TO supply their wants
IN time TO prevent suffering, if not actual
starvation. Judge Mangum, whom | ap.
pointed commissioner of the relief fund is
working zealously. He has appointed sub
his work efficiently. A considerable
quantity of rations have been dis
tributed. | hardly think that the
amount voted will he sufficient
Congressman Dunn is of the opinion that
an equally large quantity will be needed
II will be many weeks before the sufferers
will be able to help themselves, and the
threatening aspect of the weather indicates
that the worst has not yet come II may
be that the generous people of the whole
country will be appealed to for aid. No
one without experience of such disasters
can form any correct conception of the pres.
General ID. McRae, assistant secretary of
state, said to-day that the overflow had Sc
Arkansas back ten years. II would be int
possible, he thought, to raise crops on the
oyerilowed land this year other, than cotton,
and that could not be done unless the water
| subsidized shortly and allowed the ground to
dry out somewhat in time for the
spring planting. Experience demon.
strates that corn will not
grow on land immediately succeeding
an overflow, and these thousands of acres
will be rendered wholly worthless, unless
the water recedes and gives the planters II
chance to plant lands in cotton.
General McRae also said that the effect
of the overflow would be to drive hundreds
of people from the state; that the colored
people in the overilowed districts were al.
ready beginning TO emigrate to Tennessee
and Missouri in large numbers, and that
more would follow.
vlCKsBuRG AND VICINITY
| NIcKsBuRG, Miss, March 0.--Weather
clear and cool. The river rose A inches.
The gauge reads forty-iive feet. This IS the
/ highest water since 1874. A Herald special
from Mayersvillc says the stock from
the plantation on Streets bayou
are being driven into that place for
safety. The water is rising in that stream
ut the rate Of one inch an hour. The i'm
preston is that the low lands and lakes this
side of the crevasses above Greenville, have
been filed and the water is new coming
down the bayou. If this is the case, We
know not the extent of our danger.
IN TENNESSEE.
CI"cINNATG, March "a special dispatc
to the Times.Star from Nashville says: Tn,
Cumberland river rose five feet last nigh
and continues rising with alarming rapid
ity and there is every prospect of repeti
tition OF the January flood.