Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-07


Merchants Exchange and Other Organi-
cations for Further Government AID.
WASHINGTON, March 6-The secretary of
war addresses Gov. Chittenden. Mo-, he will
send 10, 900 additional rations to sufferers by
floods.
A telegram was received from the postmas-
ter at Vicksburg, stating the levee was broken
all along the river and,many people drowned.
RISE AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, March cat 7 o'clock this
guage at the river indicated thirty-sIx feet
above low water mark, showing rise of four
inches since yesterday morning, doubtless
caused by local rains, which fell in torrents
all yesterday afternoon and last night. Tele-
graph wires between Memphis and Helena are
down and nothing can be heard from that
point. Great fears are entertained that the
rains of yesterday have caused serious damage
at that place, as the rise here was UMPIRE
cedented and must have been fully SIX inches
at Helena. All the streams between here and
Cairo are pouring out floods this morning,
aud greater disaster to the country below must
necessarily result.
TENNEssEEANs ASKING AID.
MEMPHIS, March 8.-The following tele-
gram was sent this afternoon: Memphis,
Tenn, March 6. 1852. To Gov. Oliver T.
Hawkins, Nashville: Reports OF suffering by
the inhabitants of Tennessee in those counties
which border on the Mississippi river are
daily being received, and while the citizens of
Memphis are doing everything in their power
to relieve those in distress, 1t is evident that
what is being done is inadequate. I would,
therefore, suggest to your eXcellency that the
secretary of war be officially notified of the
distress which prevails in this state to
the end that portion of the amount donated by
congress-, may be distributed among needy
Tennesseeans whose lands have been inunda-
ted by the present great overflow of the Miss
Issippi river From most reliable source
learn that there are about 5000 persons who
reside in counties bordering on the river, that
are now suffering and should be provided for
the same as are the destitute of Arkansas and
Mississippi.
(Signed) NAPOLEON HILL,
President of the Cotton Exchange.
PROVISIONS OR STARVATION.
MEMPHIS, March 6.-The river here be-
came stationary at noon, and since then has
declined perhaps half an inch, with thirty
six feet on the guage. The rise offour inches
since Saturday night by local rains. Com
missioners Mangum of Arkansas and Hemin-
way of of Mississippi, sent supplies from this
point along both sides of the river between
here and Greenville, Miss. Every day
brings intelligence of widespread
suffering of the destitute people
within the deluged regions. Passengers who
arrived on the steamer City of Greenville to-
night report the river having risen eight
inches at Helena during the twenty-four hours
enuing at 10 o'clock this morning, at which
hour the steamer passed that point. The
levee in front was still intact, but backwater
from the overflow was gradually encroaching
upon the business portion of the city. The
levee between Vlcksburg and Helena was cov-
cred with stock in a starving condition.
Several RATS, with whole families aboard,
were seen floating down the stream. The
situation has become desperate in some local.
ties, and now the only question is of pro.
visions or early starvation to both human
beings and stock.
APPEAL OF ST. LOUIS MERCHANTS.
ST. LOUIS, March 6-Ckas. E. Slayback,
president, and some dozen leading members of
the Merchants exchange, sent the following
to Mr.. Lincoln, secretary of war,
this afternoon: The Merchants exchange
and merchants Of this city, continue to re.
from the suffering people of the overlooked
districts in the Mississippi valley. These peti.
tions, representing the loss of material values
as almost beyond computation and the
amount of physical suffering as appalling. A
large number of people are not only impov-
erished and deprived of ordinary comforts,
but actually dying of starvation and expos
ure. The calamity is SO general and extensive
that assistance to be adequate must come
from the general government as the only
source of sufficient ability to meet it. The aid
already rendered Is valuable and timely, but
is entirely inadequate for the great emergency.
A much larger amount is absolutely needed
to furnish the bare means of subsistence.
Permit us, through yourself and representa-
tives in congress, to appeal to the philanthro
py of congress for renewed efforts in behalf OF
suffering humanity in the unfortunate dis
tricts.
President Slayback also telegraphed to the
Mississippi river memorial committee, now in
Washington, asking them to call on Secretary
Lincoln and lay before him the facts in their
possession regarding the situation in the over
flowed country.
GREENvILLE, MISS.
GREENvILLE, Miss, March 6--The back,
water Is still rising and spreading. 1t is now
from six inches to foot higher than in any
previous overflow since the country was first
settled. There is but very little land above
water from the river front to the hills beyond
the Yazoo river. Greenville is secure from
any possible overflow, though the low points
were at one time threatened. Refugees from
overlooked plantations are cougregating here,
and resources to feed and shelter them will be
severely taxed. So far the relief agents have
not communicated with our local authorities.
Our board of supervisors have asked that some
of the government rations be sent here, las they
are needed Immediately. The sheriff of Boil
var county has lodged his prisoners in Jail
here. He reports very few plantations in his
county with even strip of land above water.
Consequently the loss of stock there will be
almost total. The levees are thronged with
negroes and stock, and their condition Is most
deplorable. As Its extent becomes known this
calami y appals. A tax sufficient to rebuild
the levees above would be almost insupport-
able, but that is only an item. Laborers have
lost tueir stock and moveables and are in a
panic-stricken and demoralized condition.
Could transportation be secured there would
be an exodus from here to the hills. The
dependency of planters and merchants is
deepening, At first this blow was reported as
a disaster involving losses and hard times.
Now it is assuming graver and
greater proportions. The most thoughtful
as well as the most sanguins look upon it as
disaster greater than has ever before been
known in the bottom country. 1t would al
most destroy the feeling of security with