The Portland daily press., 1882-03-07
THE INUNDATIONS.
More Breaks in Louisiana Levees and
Others Imminent.

More Breaks in Louisiana Levees and
Others Imminent.
NEW ORLEANS, March 6.-The Times-Dem-
ocrat's Lafourche special says at 10 O'Clock
Sunday morning, at Pittman's place, three
miles below here, the left bank gave way and
there is a sweep of water 80 feet wide and 10
feet deep. Three plantations are under water
already on the left on the Morgan track. From
the 44th to 46th mile posts the water is within
IS inches of the track. Efforts have been
made to stop it. The Morgan road has sent
for lumber, sacks and 200 men. There is
another serious crevasse about mile and
half from here, which started at the same
time. It is on the west side of the bayou on
Legardi's place, and is % feet wide by feet
and increasing This covers e. j. Gays and
Legardi's places already. Mr.. Pandely, su-
perintendent of the Morgan road, who has
been here, has ordered all section hands avail
sble to this point. The water has fallen In the
bayou foot on account OF the breaks.
BATON ROUGE, March 5.-The levees oI
West Baton Rouge can't stand much more
pressure A call is made upon the interior
parishes that will suffer from the flood that
will pass over the parish is case eur levees
should break, to send at once money to our
aid. A few thousand dollars may prevent
repetition of the disasters OF 1874
The people and local authorities of Point
Coupee and West Baton Rouge are not able to
defend the long line of levees extending from
d1QU6y 10 mOlSdllzd. LBO OeotC Los AZ AoAuo
for this purpose. The parishes protected BY
these levees produce $4,000 hogsheads OF
sugar, besides molasses, cotton and rice.
An Appeal for Aid.
ST. LOUIS, March 6.-Charles e. Blaybeck,
President and leading member of the Mer-
chants Exchange, sent the following message
to Mr. Lincoln, Secretary of War, this after
noon:
The Merchants Exchange and the merchants
of this city continue to receive numerous petit
tions for immediate assistance for the suffering
people of overfowed districts in the Mississip-
pi valley. The petitions represent the loss ID
material values almost beyond computation
and amount of physical suffering appalling. A
large number of people are not only impover-
ished and deprived of the ordin ary- comforts,
but actually dying of starvation and exposure
The calamity is so general and extensive tnat
assistance to be adequate must come from the
General Government as the only source of sut-
ficient ability to meet it. The aid already rem
dered is entirely inadequate to the great emer-
gency. A much larger amount is absolutely
needed to furnish the bare means OF subsist-
ence.
Fraudulent Calls for Relief.
New YORK. March GA New Orleans dis
patch of yesterday says: Up to this time Gov
ernor McEnery has received petitions from
Richland Parish asking for $500 rations, from
Cataboula Parish asking rations for four
months, and from persons in Concordia Parish
asking for relief Some Of the signers OF these
petetions are wealthy men and Independents
planters. One of them makes more than 1000
bales of cotton and has more than $50, coo de-
posted with a cotton house in this city. This
appeal for relief is contradicted BY responsible
citizens, who have written to the Governor
that there is no need for relief and it is gener-
ally looked upon as dodge to obtain provis-
ions from the Government free of charge Not
one of these points is affected by any crevasse,
and the Governor is watching matters closely,
%I,o%+ ifv Cf tho GovQrDuanf shall
not be abused by crafty politicians or penur-
ious planters.