The Virginian

St. Louis May 11—High waters.

The rise is at this time considerably higher than it has been for many years. The water, in many places, is over the banks, and the low lands, for miles back, entirely inundated. The inhabitants have been compelled to leave their homes; and some of them, after in vain waiting for the waters to subside, were forced to make the escape from the upper shores. By recent accounts from the Upper Mississippi and Missouri, we learn, that the lower rivers are very high, and still rising. Great fears are entertained that the water will keep up until joined by the annual June freshet; in which event, the safety of New Orleans, and the country bordering on the Mississippi, will be much endangered. As it is, the loss to individuals, navigating on the low lands, will be very severe. Many of the farmers have had their crops swept away, their wheat fields entirely drowned, and put in a situation at to rear even the necessaries of life.

The Mississippi presents an aspect truly by majestic. No barrier can be opposed to its progress: it mocks the feeble devices of man to stay its course. It presents an expanse of water on which whole navies might ride with perfect safety: and upon, most appropriately describes the appellation of the "Father of Waters."