The crevasse at Carrollton, Louisiana, has been closed. A break occurred Monday morning in the Mulatto levee, near Baton Rouge, and at last advices was forty feet wide and six feet deep, threatening all the plantations down to Plaquemine.
The Egyptian rebels, as they are called, fight with great bravery. So far, however, they have been unable to cope with their better armed and disciplined enemy, but it is reported that they are not at all discouraged, but swear they will yet drink the blood of the Turks and their allies from England.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
⎧Office of the Prairie Farmer,
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⎩Chicago. March 18, 1884.
There was a better feeling in banking circles on Monday but transactions were not heavy. Interest rates remain at 5@7 per cent.