| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| February 15, 1861 |
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| The Mobile Register of
Wednesday says: |
| From all parts of the interior
we hear of high water and the destruction of property. Bridges are
gone, and the back water rendering roads totally impassable, is quite
general in South Alabama and East Mississippi. |
| Of the damage to the railroads
in Mississippi by the recent heavy rains, the Kosciusko Chronicle
says: |
| The Mississippi Central was
broken at three different points; the Mobile & Ohio and the
Southern {(of Mississippi)}, the New
Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern roads were damaged more or less
in half a dozen places. |
| These breaks have proved a
great annoyance to the traveling community and have thrown the mails
in the greatest confusion ever known, and caused heavy losses to each
of the above named roads. At the latest advices they were about all
ready again for the accommodation of through travel. |