The news of the floods continues to be very serious.
At New Orleans the Mississippi River has reached the danger level, and the severe rain-storms which have visited the country during the past week have made the people in the city very anxious.
Certain of the streets are already swamps, and the river has risen within a foot and a half of the top of the levees.
The convicts have been sent out from the prisons to help pile the sacks of earth on the levees, and companies of engineers are stationed at all the weak spots along them, to guard against the banks giving way.
All along the river people are sending petitions to the various mayors and governors, begging them to forbid the river steamers travelling during the night, and to have them move as slowly as possible during the day. The wash from the paddle-wheels after they pass has done a great deal of damage, and in many places has helped to break the levees.
In several of the river towns all business has been forbidden, and all the men ordered to go to the levees and help to shore them up.
The slightest extra ripple of the waters at New Orleans brings them over the banks and floods the streets, but the banks are still safe.