Avoca plantation, on Bayou Benuf, has & 0 1
osres of cane and corn under water. On the
Bayou B.af, from Brashear to tle railr ad, U
teen plantations under water; at Chene, five
plantations under water with a number of
small Islets, of dry ground, occupied by swamp
ers; Shoefer's. three plantations and twenty
families in distress, asking assistance to trans
port them. They are now living on raila. On
Sweet Bay Lake, fifteen families are flooded I
out; on Black Lake, sixtee.n families; on Laura,
sixteen. All the front and a portion of the bus i
ness part of Charenton is under water....Center
ville and Pastersonvilla are partially under
water. On Bayou Teche, oh forty plantations.
15,000 asres of ceaue and corn are entirey
dieroye4, and 5,oOasores submerged. From
the Techetown, upon fiteen plantations, ,OuO0
acres of cane and corn are destroyed."
A diagram of the tooded country in the
States of Arbnsaas, Misslssippi and Lonis.
sas shows an extent of fourteen thousand
fourhundred square miles, or a bit of land
four hundred and eighty miles long andthirty
wide. An overflow so.extensive and destr
tive is without a precedent in the history of
the Mississippi Valley. The damages to grow
ing crops and property in general are vari
ously estimated at from fifteen to twenty mil
lion dollars.
umm11eN.
A wretch named John Sullivan, who com
mitted an outrage upon a flve-year-old girl
at Guelph, Ont., has been found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged.
A Madrid dispatch of the eist saywthat the
Carlists have been compelled to abandon sev
eral important positions, and that the siege
of Bilbao is practically at an end.
