Show OUR readers have seen been occasional notices no te of late birthe inthe telegraphic dispatches p te hes pa 0 the t h 0 bonnet bannet carre cre crevasse aie age the damage iud and danger it has caused and the apprehensions it 16 has given iven rise to to but although frequent allus allusions lobs lohs have haves been made to this sub jact th ey have hae been too meagre to gain any clear co conception n of the ibe actual condition of things at bonnet carre the editor of the sew sew new orleans aimes limes recently paid a visit to the scene of the disaster andin his issue of april he furnishes his readers with a short abort account from which some of the following particulars are taken these crevasses cre or breakages break ages of the mississippi beyond the levees which have been constructed to 16 keep them within bounds are almost of annual occurrence in louisiana but this year they have been on a more disastrous scale than usual the cause of which is said to be the bad state of the levees they chev having been p for some U ten rui rul yearb years ears earb past bonnet bonnel carre a small smail village forty or forty five miles above new orleans orlang hab has been tb the e seene scene of the main breakage this season but the 0 origin 1 of the difficulty there this season Is said to have been b e eil ell the act of i a planter who cut a road through the levee lovee to roll sugar to the landing leaving the breach and when the rising waters reached th found an outlet san itu and d then thin it waa a too tob late inte to pro vide a remedy for they quickly enlarged the gap until in a tew few days it was more than aguar tec ner af pf a mile wide the levee a at bonnet carre is about twelve feet high and extends at the same height for several miles each way vom 1 ha village through the open oben nig hig th V made the waters 1 rush at the rate of about eight miles an hour and have submerged this and several other parishes including about sugar plantations and comprising a district of country many miles in extent the waters presenting the appearance of a turbulent arm of the mississippi river being as much as ten or twelve feet deep they have now gained such headway that no mortal power can arrest their progress but a large force of laborers are engaged in constructing bulkheads to prevent further damage joithe levee the desolation and dams dama gein geln bon ne ner nef farre and hud vicinity is is unspeakable A short time since it was a beautiful and pleasant location but the people have been rendered homeless anu ana comfort and industry have been supplanted by ruin nuin and desolation bad as things are there one good result is likely to follow follow the present disaster which it is believed wiil will pre vent their recurrence in future the tile policy pursued on ba the lower missia oppi to prevent an outbreak of the waters has been jo build the levees higher and higher this custom afforded only present relief owing to the continual deposits of sediment on the bottom of thet the river which each year sear raised the surface level of the waters higher WE but by this tremendous crevasse at bonnet carre the waters of the river were made three feet lower and an arthey they have formed a junction with lake laie fonti ponti ehart chart raffi and the he supposition is that this will constitute a permanent canal which if not sufficient of itself to prevent the outbreak of the waters W in if future will pr prove move rove it is believed so benefI beneficial clai cial that other canals for a similar purpose will be constructed 1 ft t V W s khom ort oft ene eve THE tre inman steamer city of 0 boston osto oslo n as will be remembered sailed from halifax in march 1670 I 1 and aty was a 9 n never ver heard from afterwards ya r ds her disappearance was waa a cause of considerable excitement cit elt ement and newspaper dow gow doV comment dorment ment at the time captains of steamers crossing the atlantic were instructed to keep a look out forber for her but hut no tidings was received and gradually g 1 ra dually the convi conviction 9 i 1011 loii settled upon the public mind that she bhe had gone down at sea now there comnes cornea news from Shed Bhe shediac diac fac lac on the southeast south bouth east coast of new brunswick that a paper has been pi packed aked up on that F hore shore of which athe following ig is a copy march lisk ilsk 1181 ifor olty city of toli taij ship el Emin gover lover liala h alf full fuli now hiow go gaoa bye all look after my boy TH THOMPSON 0 gibe cibe be gone in two hours original nii nil paper paper is in the hands of a catholic priest at shediac who sent bent a copon copy on the ath by telegraph raph to his brother who ia is a lawyer at boston A copy was wab also sent to the agent of the inman line the name signed to the paper is 1 said baid to be one on e which whorls ia 0 on n ahe the isper raper list st of passengers which sailed balled on on the ill fated vessel THE telegraphic dispatches today to day contain an a account of f a singularly exciting scene which occurred in the city of parla paris llast liast last tuesday afternoon and which furnishes another striking illustration of the extremely volatile character of the french people we allude to the destruction of the napoleon monument or column in the place vendome which for years has been regarded as one of the most splendid triumphs of art in the french capital or in the world it was erected in commemoration of the victories of the first napoleon was of the doric order feet high with a bhatt shaft twelve welve feet in diameter it L was a stone column covered with bas of bronze representing the various fields upon which french arms under napoleon triumphed up to the year 1805 ana and by which he rendered himself theldor the idol of the fickle and glory loving masses of france some idea of the magnitude of these bas may be gained when it itis is hat hah they were cast from twelve hundred pieces of cannon taken from the russians and austrins aub Aus trans fc 4 r the account of th tiie tile destruct destruction loh joh of this won wonderful darful be humiliating in the highest alegree to every thinking reflecting frenchman the giddy mass maas mas wl esob assembled in thousands on the place vendome and the streets contiguous aud and manifested their impatience to see the work of demolition moli tion accomplished ja a a manner far i more co with w itil the chara chars character acter and mentaL standing of idiots than of rational men and women to read that national guards and citizens spat in the face of and struck and shot with statue of Emperor the which surmounted the column is simply disgusting and shows as clearly as can be shown that with all their love of pomp pageant and grandeur and with willi all the skill and ingenuity so characteristic act of the people of la lle belle france their mental constitution is sadly deficient in those elements necessary to rear and perpetuate a truly great nation or people this proceeding alone carried out and consummated as it has been under the auspices of the commune and its leading spirits proclaims it unworthy of existence for however useless the col dumn might be in and of itself it was acknowledge J to have been a wondrous rous rohs work of art aud they who deliberately pla Vla planned nned and by their rabid demagogue ism incited mhd th feeling of the ignorant amasses to demand and compel campel its destruction truc tion are vandals of the worst type aa jand tand d instead of their ability to institute a form of r government and proving their fitness to rule tule they only showdy such an a act et of folly dolly and imbecility fleir their fitness fora fona for a Oun dungeon geon the moral effect of the tha destruction des deb truc true tion af pf yih yie fee chu C column olumn on the place vendome will vw WIT think be powerful lyn favor avor of the versaille versailles government the government alt ait of the people and of law and order in france tile the triumph df of tee the commune m u ne howg no w as is in n 1789 would i be the bf exzes ar km misrule rule ruie as abi asi if thas hiti mus teus far tar be been in of slee sifi the e ll 11 inauguration n au liura of a new re reign in i n of terror its history thus far lioves proves this and this crowning act of folly in their pro gramme it is to be hopeni honed will prove the feather that b breaks beik the camels back the people of prance must know by this time that order and se bority can not be h hoped ope d for from paris tj lud lod iud id the beds reds and this a may and ought to so increase their adherence and loyalty to the government of their own choice atas c aa A ld d ins insure i a its speedy ed y tr triumph 1 I h 61 tl BUTLER had ft a rec reception eption from the colored fp eople of df the esth dinst and delivered an address to them in the most aristocratic colored church of that city jn in this address he bestowed unstinted praise upon on the negro race he contrasted their goodness and peaceable demeanor ith ith the condet white men in the south j the negro aften atter the day da of bf toil loll is well taught enough to go to nis his peaceful home and quiet aulet rest enough tb th respect every man mans a rights of person id d pr opery and the white man rides t night masked disguised and armed to t ille ilie terror of tiie tile the ilie people andhor and for the fa purpose L lepose of murdering the officers of the jaw vv or barnin burning the cabins of the peaceful 11 in draw drawing ing lug between the governing qualities of the two wb raca races he set bet forch his idea s in the for norm form n 0 of fl qu questions el s w which aich left no doubt upon the minds of his hearers as ae to which he thought was the ohp bette better r race to rule ruie in the south he asked 1 I submit to the calm judgment of the country upon fair and not strained comparison of the two races as they stand together today to day in south carolina which is the fitter to govern in whose hands life liberty and property are and will in the future be more safe in a gom pom community under government the of which class would any prudent well behaved considerate man mau rather cast his lot As to oratory and statesman statesmanship he statesmanship shir told of a speech delivered by a co colored 0 red colleague of bib bis from south carolina on the subject of the ku flux K lux bill which was so ao well delivered and so well considered and well argued that h he e would have been proud to have been the author tholof of it himself and he said baid he only wished that the one he was then delivering to them were half as good as if it was and then as to the negros willingness dingness lin gness sg to work tbt that was established now beyond a doubt also his lack of taste for whiskey he hardly remembered to have seen a drunken black man during the war the exper lonee lenee of every officer of the army who served with colored troops be he said prompted him to prefer negroes as sentinels over the commissary train carrying whisky supplies another thin thing hard had been proved and tha that thab tse the negro would fight he had seen them storm st ormin in solid column the works and a better ind and braver charge was never made the negro was patient tient taud tand and desired peace bud but blat he admonished ishm the southern menth men that ht t hey they had better not trespass too far flit upon his I 1 kindly nature for if said he be I 1 thib the government falls fails in its duty to p protect him and he once takes for hi protection rot edtion his hunters will quail and Ka before the determination of his defence and the courage of his battle and they may perhaps be shocked and stand aghast with horror at the cruelty of a peaceful and kindly nature when it is too much aroused and bursts thel ethdl bonds of patience under accumulated suffering and wrong complaints COMPLA INTS ines come from chicago of the expense to which the citizens are put to rai nai raise ralee sethe the grades of streets so as to ob 0 b tain the tho necessary drainage and alid to open and widen streets which would have cost little or nothing to lay out when the tu city was first settled these improvements prove ments make the rate of local taxation very tery high property there both ireal irgal and alid per pel person sonai aida alJa 1 Js said to be assessed at ht very nearly if not quite its aai fal cash value baij 16 the tax levied on it for general purposes pur posea alone is two per cent but beside this tax there are spec spee special ihl lil as assessments sess which hrc are only limited by t the cost or the tho work to 6 be done and which are made mith with very little rife reference renco to the wants pr wishes of the lowness owners of property of course in addition j to 0 these local ideal taxes there are those levied by the state it is suggested by the evening post of that city that the example I 1 of the state of ohio which has hasa a law fixing thi the limits of municipal taxation taxation for every kind of purpose be folla followed wed and if these limits be oven over over oven atee stee stepped ed that the whole tax he be rendered voi vol void vold the levies made on citizen have elave not only increased faster than his flis means mearis but mit have swelled far beyond the real of the public to this must b be 0 added heavy loads toads of debt the proceeds of which in the form of bonds were generally thrown away without any benefit to the masses taxed to pay them it is high time that this thing was stopped and anait it should be done at the earliest period j |