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Show Bv the overflow of tbo Mississippi Mississip-pi river It is estimated that one-fifth of Uie sugar and lieu lands are inundated in-undated and the crop ruined, popular pop-ular sentiment is strongly Jn favor of making the levets a national Instead In-stead of a slate system, so that the lives and property of the people who dwell on the banks of the "Father of Waters" may !e protected. 1 1 is a strange tiling that it is gcntialiy necessary for wmo accident cr calamity cal-amity to happen before the need of any improvement or reform is visible visi-ble to the public cye |