The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-23

cd that the entire south would never rise up
against the negro as the Pacific coast
had risen against Cinnamon. In conclu-
sion Mr.. Speer said: 81 maintain that il
is the duty of the American congress to
! protect the home life of the laboring classes
of our country. What matters it to us il
we gather large stores of treasure and be-
come as wealthy as Crnsus if the mass
of the people are miserable
and unhappy and ground down by compe-
tition with Chinese labor? In the Language
of Oliver Goldsmith
'Ill fares the land to fastening ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade;
Breath may make them as breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, .
| Applause.
The Flood.
NEW ORLEANS, March 14.-At midnight
the river was eight inches below the rise o.
1874. No further disasters to the levees
No further rise reported. Weather clear.
New ORLEANS, March 15.-Captain 7. P
feathers, of the steamer Natchez, tele'
graphs to-day from Port Gibson, Missis
sippi, as follows: 'Ships bayou leyee,
twenty-five feet high, broke this morning,
The break will cause water to RIM broadcast
over Tensas and Concordia. These people
| require llnHleuldle dSSlStdLCt VI tHtlC VIII
be great suffering"
West Baton Rouge levees covering as
they do a number of principal sugar par
ishes in the state, continue to be the subject
of great interest and anxiety. A dispatch
| from c. ]. Barrow, president of the police
| Jury of that parish says: "We are all right
so far and have held for our expenses over
81 800 per day, but tonight funds will be
! exhausted The river continues to encroach
| tla. ta ,NfD inohn1 in 81 hnnrS
All the levees have to be closely watched.
The river is now within three inches of the
highwater mark of 1874"
| About month ago the first crevasse in
| Louisiana, this season, occurred IN the
levee of Concordia parish, near the Tensas
| line. 1t was then stated that the water
| from this crevasse would be reinforced by
the waters of the 0uachita and submerge
Concordia and Tensas parishes. Monday
four crevasses were reported in levees along
the river front of Tensas parish, within a
distance of fifteen miles, which were going
to inundate Concordia and Tensas parishes.
To-day another crevasse has occurred,
which the report states will submerge
Tensas and Concordia parishes. Many
similar cases may be mentioned where the
rapidly encroaching waters have caused the
people to more than realize the widest ex'
aggerations of reported damage by the
overflow. ,
! New ORLEANS, March 16.-Milliken' !,
Bend levee remained intact at last account,
but people are on it night and day. The
wee in the rear OF Delta gave way yester-
day noon. The water rushed through with
such force that several small houses were
carried away.
The clerk of the steamer ]. N. White,
SAYS there are three breaks in the Hard
times" leyee, twenty miles above st.
Joseph, in Tensas parish, on the right bank
of the river; that the water from
these breaks flooded all the country for
many miles back Of the Mississippi river
and created great disaster to the farming
| interests of that section. He further says
some of the people of the regions back OF
Greenville have left their homes, but COM
paratively few homes on the bank of the
| Mississippi river have been deserted
| A letter dated March IL, written from
Mississippi county, Arkansas, which county
! has repeatedly been reported inundated,
saws: ave have not suffered much from
the water. and if it will go down within a
month from this it will not interfere with
making a crop, but our bend here is an eX-
ception to the general rule"
! GREESvnLE, Miss, March 16.-The back
water in this county is now about station
ary, and we presume it has fully found its
level in this vicinity. The extent of the
overflow can now be indicated. A point of
varying width IS maintained almost
entirely on the western bank of
Deer c eek. The eastern bank has
generally a narrow fringe above water.
Parts only of Williams Bayou front
are above Below here TO Lake Lee, front
places and places on Rattlesnake Bayou,
except those on the eastern bank of Black
Bayou, are not inundated. on the front OF
! Lake Lee places are all above water, and
| from Lake Lee to lssaquena county line
! the plantations on the river front are en-
/ tirely@ree from water. So are places on the
west OF Lake Washington. Those on the
east ofthat lake are above water, except
back portions Of them. This is an accurate
statement Of the condition Of Washington
county, the largest cotton growing
county in the state. South about one-half OF
| the cultivated land is under water; on the
most ofthe other, crop preparations are
progressing. People think reports from
I here and other points exaggerated. The
situation Is bad enough-almost appalling
/ in fact, when truly stated. Counties above
and opposite here are more generally mum
dated, and the distress aud loss are greater
| than they have been in Arkansas.
There is very little river lands not overflow
I ed except on the circle oflake Chicota. This
I Is high, and its natural protection eXcep-
tionaily good. Several Of the plantations
here have been recently purchased by Mr..
John &. Calhoun, for his land company, in
which New York capitalists arelargely in
I terested. This property and other places
in the circle Of the lake sustained little II
any damage from the overflow, and there
also blowing is going ahead. Messrs w.
A. Pierce and w. A. POllack. commits
sioners from this county, left this morning
for Washington, bearing q memorial TO
congress asking aid % rebuild our levees.
CrNurEATI, March ls.-The Iimes-Star
NazOo CITY, Miss, special this morning re-
ports the water one foot higher than in
ISL. The people are disregarding property
and seeking only n save human life. The
c1urt-houss Il crowded and steamers are
removing the sufferers as fast as they can
Twelve hundred were removed last night.
A cotton Clubhouse full OF refugees were
swept away and al drowned.
NV OrIraNs. March Is.-The resume Of
the week shows q large increase Of area
covered By the food waters from Helena 70
the mouth Of the Mississippi river. In the
Haz0o valley the vater j. reported rising
rapidly. Four steamers Of the Paris0t line
are continually trsversing that section car
ryinr supplies and taking out people and
stock. ntle Haz0o delta. from Nicksburz
% C1lduafer, q distance ny river Of over
40 miles and FROM the hills on the east 10
he uiszi.sirri river On the west. forty 20
sirfT miles n width. the greater part q
tte Land il submerrsd. including Cold
wnter. Trilnhntchie. faz0o. Sun1ower and
Der Crrek b0ttorns. Some los Of life Il
reported. The government stezrner Anita
"a Ficksturr Yesterday f1r this section -
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