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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Inundation of Chicot county, Ark. (search)
cot would be able to meet the exigencies of war, but a new calamity--one quite unexpected — has fallen upon us. On Thursday, the 16th inst. the inexorable river cut its way through the narrow neck of land which separates it from Lake Chicot. Since that time the water in the lake has risen at the rate of two feet per diem, so that, as we write, it is within a few inches of the bank. We are cut off from all land communication, and many plantations on the river and lake are materially damaged. Some planters are engaged night and day in erecting levees, and the greatest anxiety is felt as to the issue of this irremediable disaster. Those who have most suffered on the lake are: Judge A. H. Davies, Judge W. H. Sutton, E. S. Worthington, Mrs. G. Read, C. C. Stuart, and Johnson Chapman. We do not exaggerate in saying that these planters will suffer to the extent of $150,000. We learn that the river is rising rapidly, and that there is every probability of a general inundation.
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
not growing a cotton crop was fully entered into. Finally, the following substitute, offered by Dr. W. S. Gibson, of Mississippi, was adopted: Resolved, It is the opinion of this Convention that every planter throughout the Confederacy, in determining the character and extent of his crops to be planted, should bear in mind that it is reduced almost to a certainty that the armies of the Confederacy are to be supplied almost exclusively with provisions from the cotton States. Judge W. H. Sutton, of Arkansas, delivered an interesting address upon the subjects embraced in the following resolutions: Resolved, That a special committee be appointed by this Convention, whose duty it shall be to inquire into the effect of the operation of the several protective tariffs passed by the late Federal Government —— commencing with the tariff of 1815 and 1816--upon the agricultural productions of the staple-producing States, and that they report at the next meeting of this Convention.