Show Tbe Floods Gt Louis 9The GlobeDemocrat correspondent at Helena gives the following fol-lowing view of the situation There is not more than two or three spots of dry ground between Memphis und this point and EC < res of the best farms in Arkansas and Mississippi are in a complete com-plete state of wreck most of them abandoned aban-doned and the owners and laborers fled to higher ground andcattle standing in the water Evjry ginhouse is filled with colored peopled At Harbulls land log eighteen colored men and women in two boats moored to the trees on the loodtd banks waiting for a steamer to take them away There is not a foot of dry land Forty skiff loads of colored people and their household goods were seen at various points seeking for ground to rest on At Starling the colored people peo-ple horses and cattle were discrimhately huddled in the upper story of the only tore there At Star Landing j the d ellinRS are full of cattle and the gin house full of negroes The prospects are certainly favorable for a big rise below here as the flow of water from St Francis river is undiminished The river hero wtll then be at an unnreci tnted height Helena Ark 9The river is stationary station-ary since yesterday with fortysix feet eleven inches on the guage It was also stationary at Madison yesterday and robibly falling t6day A decline is confidently expected here on Sunday work on the levee is still going onward Confidence in their security m this vicin it 7 is fully restored The country below is entirely submerged |