The Anderson Intelligencer

One of the scenes encountered by a relief steamer sent out to succor the submerged planters of Louisiana, as she steamed along one of the narrow streams bordered by forest trees, is thus sketched:

"Down these aisles of shadow, to the regular splash of slowly moved oars, there moved along a little flat or barge about twenty feet in length by nine in width. In the centre of it there was a heap of plain country furniture-a bedstead, table and two chairs, and over all two mattresses. Behind this were piled pots, kettles and pans, representing the culinary department. In the bow, in a chair with a rawhide bottom, sat a young wife of twenty, with a little girl of eight months on her lap. On her right, with sad features and doleful faces, were four deer-hounds, and behind them, resting on the beds, an old shotgun and rifle. Pulling at the oars was the husband. Hardly two inches out of water, the flat moved along and passed out of sight. It represented all the worldly goods of a young planter saved from the flood. He had some forty-five miles to go to reach his former home, and yet the wife sat there composedly, satisfied because she had with her all she held dear."