Year: 1874




affairs is not mending, and the report is
that a further rise has taken place. Ger
tainly the flood has not abated, nor has
the danger. Water is seeping through
at hundreds of points, and in some
places is running over in sufficient guam
titles to alarm the boldest. In the
neighborhood of the French market
things look better, as laborers have per-
formed much good service, and the Mo-
bile railroad construction trains have
brought in considerable sand and gravel,
which is placed where it will do the
most good. From that point to the
barracks there are but few places con-
sidered as liable to crevasse.


From the New Orleans Picayune.l


At noon Tuesday, the river in front OF
the city stood six and half inches
above the high water mark of 1871, and
still rising.


THE CREvASsES ABOVE NEW ORLEANS.
From the New Orleans Picayune.l


By the B. L. Hodge, which arrived
at late hour Monday night, we learn
that no new creVasses have as vet
been made anywhere along. The Nc
Cullom crevasse, about one mile this
side of Baton Rouge, is over hundred
feet wide and ten feet in depth. Work
men are still engaged doing everything
possible on both Of these, but it is not
thought much can be accomplished
beyond making solid the ends, so that
the breaks will not increase. The water
is flooding the entire country, and more
than twenty-five plantations will be
ruined.


A HINT TO STEAMBOATS,.


AS tha river is now at its hight, and
the waves from a passing steamboat
dash completely over the bank and add
to the danger Of the levees, it is suggest
ed that all steamers keep as near the
middle of the river as possible so as to
lessen this danger.


FROM SHREVEPORT.
From the Shreveport Times OF Wednesday,


Planters who live on the narrow river
below here inform US that the last rains
had very little effect on the river, and
that it is steadily on the fall. They do
not spprehend any further danger unless
a very heavy rise comes from above
and it will take a snorter, for the fall in
the river has got good start-Detter
down there than at this point.


NO NEW BREAKS.


From the New Orleans Times.


1t is some qualification to be able to
say that yesterday passed away without
any reports of new breaks in the levees
either above or below the city. The
fact is no doubt largely attributable to
the tremendous exertions which are be-
ing made to strengthen the weak places.
1t is estimated that not less than
twelve thousands hands are at work at
different places between the lower coast
and the northern line 1.-THE State. The
utmost vigilance is kept up night and
day. If like vigilance had been exeT-
cised from the very beginning of the
flood, no doubt some of the breaks
which have taken place might have
been prevented.


THE BONNET CARRE CREvASSE.
From the New Orleans TimeS.l


From the crevasse in Bonnet Care
bend the news is as bad as it cal be. The
wash there is beyond control, and all
attempts to close the breach have been
abandoned as being utterly futile. The
water rushes through at depth of ten or
twelve feet with irresistible force, and
already begins to pour into Lake Maui
repas. As yet the water does not cover
the track of the railroad, but such
must inevitably become the case very
soon.


CALM AND SETTLED WEATHER
would help the general situation very
much. In the meantime it behooves the
people all along the river to continue
their vigilance, and promptly repair
damagers as they occur.


APPALLING SUMMARY.
From the New Orleans Picayune.I


1t needs but general over
flow to complete the work of crushing
our commercial and agricultural inter-
ests and consigning them to that obli-
won where our political existence has
already gone; and this overflow is hourly
becoming more imminent. Already
there are numerous erevasses, some of
them in the richest and most fruitful
districts of the State; already millions
of dollars, scores of fortunes, and innu-
merable industries have been swept
away. Water is covering the fairest
spots upon the lower coast, in La
fourche, IN Baton Rouge, in Pointe
Coupee; and the great stream pouring
through Bonnet Care has filed the
swamps and water courses until 1t be-
gins to creep up against our city's rear
and threaten the very thoroughfares ON
which we pursue our avooations. In
fro 1t of us the sullen flood has mounted
six inches higher than was ever known
before, and in our rear it is, as we have
Just said, attacking US with stealthy but
persistent energy. We are threatened,
constantly and alarmingly, from the
northern to the southern boundary of
the State.