The prolonged floods of the Mississippi have in (Trio places
become worse. In Southern Louisiana the bauie of the Bayou des Glaises burst and a wall of water fro ten to twenty feet high rushed across the neighbour country. The New York correspondent of the Tim says that this wall of water is as wide as from Gravese to London Bridge, and that the roar of its advance be heard for miles. At Melville the west bank of t Atchafalaya river gave way, and houses in the town 11 swept from their foundations. Fortunately, the pea had been warned. A curious phenomenon was seen the Old River, which flows from the Atchafalaya into Mississippi. The suction of the floods caused by burst banks forced the Old River to flow backward5. crest of the floods has not yet reached New Orleans, the engineers seem to be fairly: confident that the Cl will be saved.
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