The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1875, Page 4

& THE FLOODS IN FRANCE Harrowing Details of ‘the Deadly | Effects of the Inundations. —_-+—_——_ | | THE RISING OF THE GARONNE | Widespread Ruin in Gas- cony and Languedoc. HORRIBLE SCENES AT TOULOUS Finding the Bodies of the| Mutilated Dead. The Aliar of the Church of St. Nich- clas Covered with Water. THE FLIGHT FOR LIFE, Thousands of Souls Carried to Eternity | from an Earthly Sicep. A RIVER TAKEN PROM ITS ANCIENT CHANNEL The Body of the Marquis of Haut- poul—Nobles Beggared. THE DEAD UNNUMBERED Tombs Cverturned and the Remains of the Dead Washed Away. Heroic Action for the Relief | of the Sufferers. | PRESIDENT MACMAHON’S VISIT. -——___— Charity Universal—The Confines of Coun- tries Obliterated in Its Cause. By the European mail of the 29tn of June, to | hand yesterday, we have still more juli details of the effects of the melanchely Visitation which has | befallen the terrmory of the French Repubilc in | a the shape of river inundations, One-sixth of the | soil of the whoie country has been desolated, | @ Toulouse 1s the centre of the most black aud heartrendiag waste, and the entire Valiey of the | Garonne bas been stricken. The living were swept | te death from their beds and irom tnelr firesides. Tne remains of the dead were carried from the | tombs. Churcues were invaded by the water. The Altar ef the Cnurch of St. Nicholas was swept and | ‘he Consecrated host and sacred vessels carried | away by the fuvial tide. Nobles, workmen, /ar- mers, and paupers were equally stricken, A novie Marquis lost his own life during a gallant endeavor to gave tue lives of his neigndors. Dead bodies are found, horribly mutilatea, at almost every eddy of the current, Tnousands of people have lost their liv so many, indeed, that it is | \otimated that the exact number will never be | known, The exertions which are beimg made for | the relief of the survivors are most praiseworthy, | the discuarge Of the obligation of charity having anited persons of all creeds and ciasses in a grand | eqort. | ENGLISH REPORTS FROM THE IX-| UNDATED DISTRICT. | {Toulouse (June 27.) cor:+spondence of London Standard.) The warm-leartei peopie of Toulouse were greatly toucned by the prompt and spontaneous Mark 0 sympathy given tuew by Marshal Mus- Manon, aru on his arrival here yesterduy utter- noou, diler a jong aud tegious journey, the en- tuu@usm Which greeted him was more imposing and impressive than the firing of caunon ald toe Tinging of bells and otver outward honors which Were the viticial welcume of the Cniel of the State. Tne jouruey from Paris is greatly lengta- ened by the Interruption Of the line between tou- louse ana Bordeaux on Wbich eX»reases run, and the omiy cOmmuUDIcation With Paris is via Limoges, Whicu, thought sherter in poimt of leag'h 1 over by singularly slow trai has DOW KUbSided AlinOst as Tapidiy asic Tose, aud on gazing OM Lae scene oO; ruin and ae- truction the waters disclosed as they receded it diflicuit to realize that sucu un amvuunt of struction could have been the work ef a lew hours, fHX RUSH OF THE WATERS—THIRTY-PIVE THOUSAND PSOPLE CLAMBERING FOR LIFE Your resdeis will, uowever, be able to form Beme nouive of the nature of tue Calamity if they Wil Ungersiand that ot. Cyprien, che Tavaged Buburo, stands with regard io iowlouse very Mucu us suuthwark does to Loudon. Yne Garonne Funs Letween Youlouse und St. Uyprien, and OM ago, Ad the od fortifications wre comparatively | #4 especially among the solaiery. turee sides Lems in st. Cyprien in its beud, every part of tne suvuro being cousideruvly below sue Bormal level oi twe river, from which it 1s pro- tected vy embankments. On Thuraduy ast, alter Severs) Guys’ heavy rain, aod receiviig au influx DI Water Leyoud ali precedent from the mountain Streams that fed it, 1! ruse upward of eigut me- tres, swept away the tWo suspension bridzes, and bursting over (be embankments ou the svath sive, pisaveuy laid the Whole oi the place under wate any C! the wouses, Lelog ath uuu plaster, speed- Ly collapsed under the rusn of toe wacera, For neariy ten hours It was impoasivie tu aford as- sistance to the suferers, ald 26,000 men, women aad children were Clambering vut Of the way of tue walters, The greater uumo-r were eventuaily saved through toe pluck of the garrisoo and the heroism of a tew civilians, Who, like the Marquis @’Hautpoul, ieil victims to their zeal. CANNOT NUMBER THE DEAD— TERRIBLE SCENES IX AN AWPUL EXTREMITY, It 18 not known, aud cannot ve Jor some time to come, hoW mauy bodies way be iyiog under the Gévris of the snuttered houses, One of the local Papers talks of 16,000 victims. Lt is probawle that that number, and wore, o: artisans Dave jose weir little a1; but the dead bodies as yet recovered may be tured at 310. THB CHURCHES OPEN FoR BODILY The Howeivss TeiUgees ate bv oicia! sod privace charity; un J Bad Cutiolc communiies in Toulouse vie with each other in dispensing reile, The Provestaut WwmMple Wis beeu turned Into a temporary refuge for woweu. ‘OLDIEKS IN DERD AS IN NAME. The couauet o: the trovps wae praiseworthy in Kiieme, 16 e418, whlid the cra vt men, Women wud cuLOred Wuiting ato if SUbMer“ed cusement required Lo smail Merve, wud several of (hese Zaliant ielions were Growued in their attompts co ave ills, ‘Ine sito Of the Carastropie just BOW ls ukcene OF deso- lation, but it Is DOL picturcaque. Tus svii being Clay, You Wave 10 Wade in Lue streets knee deep ia Water, While every WOW and then a Wail totiers and falls to tne grouad, Sodiers lu tatigue dress Gre Luay Clewling Fhe ruins, Hut ib wii] bea jong Operaden, uu were is & rumor that ayoumie Will be ‘esortod to, A strony detscament is stationed at the ouly bridge jeft *tuuuing, vad DO due Is BiloWed to go Over DOL tue Maw inbable tauts o. the subarh, WhO are Wor Kita iM seas of mod to try aud save some Of thelr gouds and Chattels vom the wreck, and these sre provided wito ec.al permis ou, THE BODY OF THE WARQUIA D'MAUTPOUL RECOVERE body ©. the Alarquis d@/Hautpoul was r Morning, « iow iniles duwa tue rive: ALBIX O'CLOCK this aiteruvod, Was a fh taniities, FRIENDS ¥LOOKING INTO TOCLOUSE. Toulousé is just bow crammen to overfowing, From ali parts of the nemucoruvod peovie ace | NEW focking t@ to m@uire for mi irieugs, aud there is ré.son to jear reported missing may be lying smobn mud of the Garonne. IN THE STREETS AND CEMBTRERY OF TOULOUSE? Omolvuses are passing through the streets of Toulouse to receive trom house to house gists of food, clothes and bedding for (he destitute und uaked, Mauy dead horses, some belonging to the artery, are foauug in tue flooded streets, TOMUS OVERTURNED ‘The cemetery is greatly injured, Many tombs aud Monuments are overturned of cracked, DEAD MODIEX MUTILATED, Dead bodies, borriviy mutilated, are found every momeut, Many can only be torn piecemeal from (be rus which crushed them, | DEAD BODIES CONSTANTLY SEEN DRIFTING DOWN STREAM, [Toulouse (June 25) aennerane of London Post. No positive retura bas yet been received of the number of victims of tae Inendations; dead bodies found every woment, aud are con- & WATER WAS af 1S HEIGHT IN TOU- VRE AWFUL SCENE 43 KBPORTED 10 3. (Vrom the London Telegraoh, June 29.) From Toulouse a graphic description 1s torwi.rded to the Debats OF The aspect Of that city When the InULdBHOn Was at its height, ‘The inbabitants as- suvied Oa the quays and on the Stone bridge, and followed with terrified eyes the work of de- struction, Property of all sorts was being swept away by the wugry Wayes; piles Of timber, car casks, Caltie und Reavy piabks were huried fn th fight sgainst & piers o1 the bridge. hour alter the precaution had been taken to clos the Dridge of St, Pierre it gave Way with @ crasn, and it Was quickly lolowed by the Baths Raynaud und the lurge public washhouses of Yourmay ana St. Merre. At last, as i ALL THE KLEMENTS WERE COMBINING against tne unforiunate town, the large roiling mills Oo: Bezacie were discovered to be in flames, wail» another fire broke out ur the Port Garuud, in & house that was eptirely cutomd trom any chance of succor. aud in tue Rue des Amidonniers were abandoned ou the water rashing into them, and were of course greatly damaged. Two houses fell at the Port Garaud, aud it 1s believed that two women are buried im the ruins. On the Qual de i1ounis tne rise of the water Was so rapid that many iam- ilies Could only be rescued by means of the win- cows, THE TUGBOAT stationed at St. Pierre was carried away by the jurce of the torrent and was capsizeo. Four or five persons were om board at the time, and as tre Vessel Was borne away they uttered cries of despair. ‘Their tate is us yet unknown, A HEARTRENDING SCEN took place at tue Hove: Dieu, wate! Surrounded aud flooded by tue river. All sorts of conveyances were speedity placed in requisition, and the usfortunate paticnis were removea be- iore the Water rose too high 4s promptly us po sivie to Lue Military Hoxpiial, IM emaiouses, Tags artillery Wagons, Ali the ofliciais, the Sisters and the surgeons behaved gamirably in this work of rescue. 4 SINGULAR TRAGEDY. Among many (rayical oecurreuces the following shows prominent mnesseuuer trom Churea of Sept-Deniers arrived at the arculery bar- Yacks and asked for volunteers to save jour per- 80S mprisoued 1b @ house Surrounded by water, ‘Taree men at ouce departed in two boats, accom: panied vy thre? sauors. Tney rowed over tue inundated curnieias between the Garonne and the canai, UNL Chey arrived vu, posite the al named church. ‘there the first boat, manned vy two Sailors and one artilleryman, was suduenty seized by tbe current, became ubmanageabie, and Was uriven away toward tne Garonne at a Jurious iate. The occupants of the other bout were just enabled ty escape the current, and were thus preserved irom an alinost certain death. As was entirely 5 a | to the persons snus up in the house, it was foand lmpossibie Lo rescue Lhem, abd jears were enter- tained that. owing to the force Of the water, tue bulidiag migut succumo at any moment. FROM THE SURROUN DISTRICTS. Although we nave the fullest accounts from Tou- louse, it must pot be Imagined that the ravages of the disaster Were conned to that city. On the contrary, terrib.¢ accounts pour in irom the sur- Founding Gistricts, the Moous having extended over a Vast space of the coumtry, From L'ariéze lerrivie news continues to arrive, At Veraun it is stated Oliy houses are destroyed, eiguty un- | lortuuaie persous buried in the ruius, with about 500 head Oi cuitie. Thirty-iour corpses have been recovered and boried uiter identification, The villages of Lavastide and Besplag have been en- trely enguiled. From larn-et-Garonne the news 13 also disas- ‘he Garonee aud the Tarn have been very nd the overflow was the inhabitants we unabie to carry anything away. cr 1 ilies are homeless, ana Many aD perished. mals have At Gers and Manssevé mauy houses have been | Washed down or bav Mon- suffered injury. At tesiung they Were enabied to drag a woman from in. Under the rains Of & Louse Lhat hau salen in the towos and villages of the Basses-Pyrénées there Las been greatdestruciion. Bridges have been carried away; uo bave been inuudated aud greatly 1ajured ; the crops have been partiully destroyed tn some districts; several animals have best drowned, apd at Juut @ shepmera lost his ie. A correspondent of the Soir bray ion ocd trom Agen tuat tue bodies of a number of cate Lave Veen jouud in the felds; that mourming and ruin verywhere; that the exchange aud markets tre ned Only victims. journal says Vout a slab uJ Marole wil! perpetuate ihe devotion of tue army of Touloase, I twill bear the nawes of the soldiers and citizens who perished 1p deavoriug to Save the suderers irow the inun tion, ihe JAm).Jes of the soldiers Wao Jel Victims to tueir devoluog Will participate iu the distribu. Now of alms. ANOTHER INSPECTION APTER MACMAUON'S, LX THE St. CYPKIEN QUARTER. Afier Marshal MacMahon had Inspectea the scene of desolation last Sunday tue puolic were allowed to visit \ue principal streets o: tne Paa- bourg St. Cypriet, and reiative to tars the corre. sponuent of ue Paris Figaro, M. Gasion Vassy, coutributes to the pages of & al The 1di- Jowiug lurtuer deta: tropue:— “Every moment boul eng tound, for the most part horribly mu |, some having to be literauly pulled out piece by piece from the rubvis: vy wulct they hud Veen buried. Houses still cou tinue 10 fall, and au uLlortuuate soldier has just been crusned by one, Th describe by means of thi Gesouated fauoourg. At Warks What # short time appy howe, Furniture, nen, property of every de- seriptiev, is miugied in imextricable coniu- sion with tue bodies of men, women, cail- drea aud domesic auimais crushed out of Shape. in the Kue de Hayonne | was shown tne huuse under Whicu Dr. Brun and bis iamily had been buried. Further on is that wuere Al. Wol- juru, government Commissiouer to the Council of War at jowlouse, perisied. | then see tue Con- Veut 01 the Carmeiltes periectly gutted, and many other weil kKnuWu spots Walch are nothing out mounds of ruobish. Piace de Low the state of tue rauing which eucloses the ofice fur the cuilecion of tue town | dues may give one am idea of the fury of the waters, the doors having been beaten in and (ne iron bars actually iwisted. in the uvenue of the ‘Patte wie’ tue trees are thrown to th» ground, tue eas lamps are toru up und tne work of de- struciioa has been thorougnly uoue upon tye right hand 48 well a8 upon tue leit o! wiroever strolls | along tne spot. Itis wortuy of remark, however, tout tae only mous pressure of the fuods ure those but jong be uniujured. The Kue ce Tournejeutiie may pronounced to have deen utterly blotted ogt—it | bo louger exXiwis—and the ‘Aliée ve la Képut- liqae’ pas suifered even more than the ay Due of the ‘Patie a’(ue;’ there trees, ‘8, and gas'amps cover the ground thickly, aud the Koll itself 18 most deeply tora up oy the rusning stream which cou:sed over it. in every di aster oue comic incident, at the le, presenots itself, aud 4 curious lostance o1 {oat been related to me, some soldiers p: y Some ruins in the Aliée Bon: eres Of ‘Vapa.’ To rack tue sounds and dis. cover Tie locality from Wuich they proeceded was but the work of 4 moment—to Tombed victi@ Was that of some hour Tather disappointing to the galiaat teliows, after ail their exertion aud tou, to Hud tnat, although their iavurs bad Dot been to vain, they had only rescued a tine gray parro. irom a untimely end. It is #ad to have tu state (bat itis terrible disaster lias Veen seized upou as a fine opportunity for a | gang of wretches to curry on a syatem of plunder. | Several attempted rovbértes have veen jeported, but the ruiansk were promp:ly detected, and, | ‘Tunlouse being 1 & state Of siege, Wil be speedily disposed o| according to tueir deserts. ‘Lhe soluicrs, too, WLO have devoted themselves to their Work with such courage su devo- top, have, in many ivs‘auces, been grossly in. sulvea vy ‘a number Of ‘roughs,’ who sre bow wnuer arrest, Yesterday the corpse of tue Mur- quis d’Hautpoul wus reco towether wita those Oi (he seven persons he had vainly endeav- ored to rescue, =e details of lis death aie 1 t—One of the first to aiake any effort to Save le, be sad entered a boat w:th » peudarme oD carried away efecteu nis es Pp by clinging to @ shutter; vut tee Marquis @'Hactpow Was leas Jorunate, ior W H@ weized & wus Jet it wave wav under bis weiyht, aia he no more. The euvirons vi Toul proportion to the tuwn; f.deed, & Of (ue Huods May be Ostimuled By The feCl taut ut Moigsec (ue Garonne bas changen iis bed and how Hows iu thatit vecupied more than One hundred years ago, tour kiomelers distant from the cau. Be 1b OlleG along previously to The present state ol misery aud desolavion Whied its Waters buve brought Upon this Quosppy dietrict. DEVABTAIION IN LANGUKDUG AND MBNAOR IN GA8- e a! es jr cony. (Parte (June 27, Bian) correspondend of London New Purls thinks of nothing but the foods, whica are devasiauing Languedec and menacing Gascouy, e aud looked heipiessly On the scene Of desolation | ir | Una Jew voards of a thir. floor in another dev- a ‘Yhe manulactories at Bazacle | the | uve | At the jocality known ag tne | walls which lave resisted the enor. | ie | arte heard faiat | rescue tue en- | YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY Nl, 1875.— ‘RIP LE foods abate rn ad accounts of the sights pri el by the depopulated towns and villag: over which they Nave swept. them all. The usity of cause ana unity of effect are terrible in their simple suvitmiry, Herowm seems powerless to struggle against the terrible floods. It remains to be seen What cuarity can accomplish in relieving these who hav with toeir lives trom the implacable waters. “THE FAUBOUKG ST, CYPRIEN NO LONGER E ‘The Faubourg of St. Cyprien, this evening »'ates with graphic brevity, no longer exists. 1t will take lony years oO reconstruct the houses turn down vy the rising and ebbing Mooas, The Bigh strect of S'. Cypricn, whien hau grown | unger the forclag mOuence of the ratiway to be an Importaut quarter 0: Toulouse, has the Inundarion, Lt stilt noids its nead erect, but is badly damagea 4 Soaked from almost tue third flour tu the busemeut story, Many of its | houses are marked ior blasting. “Uhere 1s not & siugle house standing round tue Place du Chare- 2. ‘The streets converging on it are BLOCKRD Ur WITH FALLEN DWELLINGS. has been suddenly egected. | greater number of persons than was supposed | Wok reiuge i the upper stories and were killed | When the uouses tell ne DEAD BODIE3 OF A WHOLE FAMILY, grandmother aud two the ruins of the Place don, locked In each other’s arms, ated babitativa & Man oO: Ufty years was found crouching in a corner. He dil not dure to move and Was ui paralysed trom terror and the | Oxity of bis position whea taken down, He hud prevailea on bis wife tu fy before the Noods to | Nigh-lying part of Toulouse aud remainea to take | care of the Louse, which ne feared in the contu- | sion robbers might enter and plunder, The first nigut of tie deluge ‘he walls cracked and shook | and most of tuem tell, burying fifteen of tne in- mates. THE CLERGY OF ST. XICHOLAS, ou their return from the procession to the Black Virgio of La Daurade, were overtaken in the Place | @a Coaredon by tne rising Garonne and wok retuge 10 @ house, [rom Which, afier passing eight | hours between life and death, ‘they were rtiliery pontoons. A deacon is sata reason when he felt che wails shake. ponderous cut stoue pillars, which were beld to- | gether with molten lead, lie fat on the ground. | THE TREES, | which were old and shady in some plac | torm Up by their roots, und in others broken. Ube distance of @ kilometre tuere is scarcely a house standing. ‘Ihe head of the medical school | reported tuis moraing that, accompanied vy a staff of assistants, he Went throug tue quarters irom whica the water had retired in search of | wounded peopie, He did not find one. | BVBRYTHING HE MET IN UUMAN SHAPE WAS A | CORPSE, The slaughterers attacued to the abattoir were every one drowned. iu the streets braucaing off tne Rue de Bayonne, the proportion of houses de- muolished ts about One in every teur, But wher- ever the water has passed dynainite, itis ead, muust ve used. Moreover, there Is not. It 18 sure mused, a single ruiu that is uot also a tomb, IN THE CHURCH OF SY. NICHOLAS THe WATER COVERS THE TABLET OF THE ALTAR. In the Charen oi St. Nicholas the water covered the tablet of the altur, carrying away the Sacred vessels and hostia. A CLEKICAL STUDENT SEEKING UIS PARENTS. One of the tragic sights which Marshal Mac- Muoun Witnessed in fis Walk round the Clouse Was @ young Seminarist Clearimg away Wily leverish haste the ruins of a bilck house. He momentarily bent his nead to oue side, us if striving to cateu sound Which he hoped (0 tear, but which did not | reacu tim, He hud beon there from dayureak, in- | sensime tu the rain, seexing lor his latier, motuer aud sister, Who lad cmigracel from Auvergue to be near hun at Toulouse. Nobody on the Mar- Sbal’s staff bdd tue couraze to speak to him, THE FOUR GREAT IRON FOUNDKIES of MM. Delpie, Messounie, Lamoureux and Bourge | no longer exist. | THE DANCING ROOMS | of the Grana Orient, tne Warehouses of MM, | Olivier, Estrade aud Groc, aud the old Hotel Massablau have been also swept away, Great hus iso been the destruction of inills. Those of the Croix Pierre and Bonchauge are marked tor dynamite. A WIDE DISIKICT UNINHABITABLE. (he whole of the Kues de Novars, Vileneuvilla and aes Canveites are uulnuabitable. Eleven bodies were taken this morning out of @ tullen house in the Rue St, Nicholas, which 1s also severely damaged. Lhe gurden oi the Feuiliants | ‘Was strewn With the bouies Of wen «ud boys Who bad cum ed into the trees, some Of whicu were uprooted, und irom otuers of wuica the relugees jell, overcom? prodapiy by fear and exhaustion, Dead men apd dead horses drift througu the low streets—or rather where low streets were. The cemetery being under water, Juneral ornameuts Noat on the yellow tiuc. sized bouts speak of Those woo jived In them aiew days ago are be- | wiidered when they come back by the ruin waich | Jt 18 found tnat a far | fron rau gate of the Avenue de Bayoune aud iis | Ove 18 struck with the monotony in horror of | n oMcial telegram eat resisted | | have been eve’ more terribie than they Were. | power to alleviate tne distress. crews engulled by the vielence of the currents, which rushed sud edd.ed in all direcitons, STILL MUKE TERKIULE DETAILS. AS 1 write fresh and terribie details arrive. The paper mili ol the Avenue Maret, which was in- Buread against tire jor 300,001, but not against waler, 18 @ total Wreck, ‘Ihe deatns ure far more buUmerous than has Leen feared. Photographers have 0een telegrapned ior to come and PHOTOGRAPH THE DEA who are brougut 1p tumbri | and cannot possibly be kept there ior i ton. Long lines of drenched and famiue-stricken people of all ages wait belore tue Hotel de Vilis Jor the G:6tribution of victuals, The court yard is Bareat hospital, nto wich wagon /oaas oi suiter- (ers are coutinually feteued vy toe artillery. All the public bulidings, except the residences of te | Mayor, Prefect anu Arcubishop, have been requi- gitioned until otner asylums can be provided ior the houseless population. The Vietlus o th ) rain are iM many cases almost naked, SUMPRISED IN THEIR BEDS , aud, 1D Making away for ti to dress themselves. THE ANCIENT CAPITAL of Languedoc was a wwa in wuich work was eotuiued aud wi | patriotic juad iaised amoug tnem in 1870 | Phew positioa now terrs.e, and must be tor some time. This Visitation wowd have not | | Weighed sv heavily ou eas tariity population. ‘The French puor 1uvariably tvest a oud deal of | money iu strong auusehold and body linen. One of the harrowing sights is the contents of the drawers and presses, which Were kept wito ouse- | | wilely care, foating like scuni on the widened Garonne. ous and neat about their beds. ihey heap up woollen Matiresses, sowe o} which handed over tv children when the time comes tor tuem to marry aud settle. these household guds of the Joulouse working C.asses, afd public charily, however genervus, caanot possioly restore thei, FIFTY YOUNG LADIES RESCUED FROM 4 BOARDING | SCHOOL. | ‘The flity young ladies of .ue submerzed board- ing schovi In the P.ace ces Feuillauts pave been saved, aud went to their respective nomes this | mowing. | NOBLE SU¥FERERS. |. Auong the propertics devastated is one of tue | De Kémusas family, | _ M. ve Belcastie, the legitimi<t Depu'y, bas done | Wouders in relieving tue sick aud «»meless poor, | who crowd the pubilc buidimgs. His sen W, | the Marquis de Laurens Cuswiet, aud the Coste | de Beyouén have wiso bevaved uouly, ibe one cunsuling Jeature of tuis Calanitous inundation | ie Loe great amount Of hervisu it has vroug! A KIVER SWEPY FROM ITS ANCIENT CHANN Accounts irom the Garoune Vecoue still more terrivie. At aluissac the river hus deoniely 10) } saken ics former ced aud flows tour kilometres away in an @ucient channel. | PRESIDSST MACMAHON’S VISIT TO THE SCENE OF | DESOLATION. | [Paris (June 20) co: respouiencs of London Stan- | Gard, | Marshal MacMahon, wito the Ministers accon- paoy lw, arrived at Perigu: ix THis imoroing aud | weveu. te wilt reach | winu-es past two P, the Department 0! th eux ut quarter past 6 uguin at quarter to OWvise ut twenty-five The juss of property 1a Ot-et-Garcune Js ag great ae in tue Haute-Garon: be number uf houses destroyed at Muissuc 1s 170, and at Magistere ifty. Enormous damage Nas a 2@0 Caused at Bag- néres and Bigorre. ‘Tbe ol the Wuters at Agen has reached tweive metr jnuadated, but the flood is now subi ‘Youlouse the: e are 20,000 persous home i WHAT ME SAW AT TOULOUSE. | [Toulouse (June 27) correspondence of London btandara.) | Murshal MacMabon ai teuded 1uass at six o'clock (hig morniog, and aiterward paid a visit to the artso! the iown wuicn have been inungateu. @ first proce ded to Uuie aod Fernouiiet, two limportabt Villages, where aut u single house re Tuins standing. be went through the ruins aud bebued mouey to the Mayors for t: ite: of tue sucerers. rhe pluin 19 @ complete waste, ‘Yne people receives the President with loudly prociaimed je@ings of gratitude, On ui retura yo Toulouse the Marsal Visited (he worksuops OF abd the entire town 1s At the tudustria: qaatters of ihe town, ‘This w ternoon he proceeaa to Montauoan, His Visit has had @ cheeriog eect upon the pop- ulation. [toulouse (June baat spondence of London vos Marshal MacManoo visited Tarbes to-day, and Wil go to-merrow to Auck aud Agen, returaing Ou Friday to Parts, M, woulfet Will return to Paris on Wedpesday, MASONIC AD TO THE PARIS FUND, (Paria (une 47) Serimeyvagenve ol tue London ies.) The appaliiog detaiw Oo the tata! foods in the south, Which wre even More disastrous than was | Gf Orst Veloved, have ci varel tue most projouud geneation ip Paris. half of the sudc:ers in On udmirabie manner, | Buoscriptions are being got Uo in al q jong ail classes. Ali tie nowapap Opened lists, and the theatres auuouny To suy toe aecouuls Which reveh Us from the | benelt perforinraces. weenie of we wdallou are bariowing, Woud Amony tie suuscribers to the fand (ander the evi Weak. We ure appalied wt the spectacle of patronuge of Marshal wacManon) is the Grand Man deiplessness tu tigut against the Water, Kige Of Fieemasous, Who send 4 firat sabserip- mvasion. Kain or taree weeks’ duration Bi drowned the aueceut, popaious and nigbly Yaed Juulouee, kvery ew minutes we reo walt tion of 6.0001, ‘lo-day collections were made at ail the Paris chureaes. | Poor people tuere ure als> very luxuri- | ure to be | ‘The river nas swept om | ihe c.pital is surring in Oe | | reaaily recnee a that nothing in is every rea aniing to mite the shape of human aid will be ate the suderimgs of the victiins. “Ulericus Rusiicuy’’ writes 10 @ 10) as follows :—"1 took your account of gad ca- lamity that bas falien upon the south of France | jato theepulpit with me yesterday morning, and nade uv &ppeal from tt to my congregation. Al- | taough RO neftice Was given, the uppral Was to, and a sam of £4 2s. bd. Was collected, aps if you can find a corner for this in your tufuentiai paper other country cler- | gymen May be ioduced to Iollow my exampie.” | LKGISLATIVE ACTION FOR THE RELLY OF THK SULYE- KERS. [Versatiles (Jane 28—kvening) cerrespondeace of Londou se) In to-day’s sittiag of the Natio Was resolved that a subscription spould be opened | amoay the wemvers On benalf o! the suilerers by the loundation, and that a funeral service should be periormed on Wednesday at the chapel of tae — of Versailles tor those who have lost their ves, M, Dufaure stated that the information received was uot yet sufficiently precise to enable the gov- ernment to fix the amount of the ald that would | be required, but be urged the House to vote M. Depeyre’s proposal making a graut ef 2,000,000L Jor the reliel of the distresa, ‘This graus was then unanimously voted. TOULOUSE ON TH NORTH SIDE AND THE SOUTH. [fouiouse (June 28) crguapeadense of tae London 4 Nothing can present a greater contrast than the north aud south sides of the river at Toulouse — sual aspect undisturbed und its pursuing thelr ordinary avecanions, ‘the otuer like u piace whies has beea bombarded, THE ¥AUBOURG ST. CYPRIEN 1s, ip fact, @ town of itsel vi Toulouse what the Surrey side of the Lhame: to the Middlesex shores. The quarter 1s denseiy peopled, or ratner had 25, inhabitants, most of tuem of the worklug clas: thouga outside the | town Walls are villas and cottages belonging to wealthier people, Througn the quarter run ave- ues OF trees, and around it gre felds o! corn und Market garaeus; in suort, under ordinary circum. siances it must be a pleasant enough place to live in. ‘Lo describe what St. Cyprien is new is ulmost impossible. itis@ town of ruins, Tne Garonne is now i unning in its patural bed, but all over the inundated quarter are po.ls of water aud rank river mud; trees ure uprooted, gardens are mere swamps and streets hall-dried water courses, with here and there great cracks and yawning gaps. Lo some places the houses are heaps of rub- bist, 1n others the walls are leit standing, with pictures Or articles of attire hanging ou them. Io one strect through waicn 1 passed ouly turee nouses were standing, and this is probably the case | in @ dozen other thoroughfares, Everywhure Gangs of soldiers Were at work demolishing wails, coiulecting lurmiture aud making the roads pass- able, while the owners o1 the rains weie, somo helping With u sort of resoiute iury, otaers sitting on beds or mattresses gazing Vaguely at tue rubbish which represented tueir homes, Some of Lhe mere energetic iamilies were picnicking and couking their midday meals in the desolate | wardens, tee women bright, if not cheertul, tae children playing 4bOUL as If nothing had bap- pened. The despoudeat were just toe coutrary, the women sitting With their laces buried 1 tuelr | haads, and tue boys and girls lying Wuddied to-, wether among the broken beams una heaps of plaster. The roadsides were lined wi'h wil Kinds OL arucles, irom four-post Ledsteaus dowa to blankets dd bonnets, aad in several places the small shopkeepers were drying, or ratuer at- tempting to dry, their stuck iu trade in the sun, Outside the varriers the scene ty tae sume, Wita the addition of lurge swamps, whicu were ouce vineyards ana curatleids, and of littie piles of wayly patnted boards, oace forming portions of sulnmer houses. THE TOWN WALL itself, @ solid lime of concrete, has in one place been throwa down quite fut, aud alittle futher ou two great beams, ut least thirty leet long, buve cowpictely barred one of tue gateways. Nothiny, however, suoWs the force of the oo@ so mucin as the rus of the suspension bridge. arly ball tae bridge itself bas been firmly and ecurely laid by toe Water on the bank, where, tn- acea, 1at first mistuuk it jor a landing stage. Only one bridge 1s How stunding—namely, the old stone one v1 St, Pierre, Hud it been carried away the losses on the St. Cyprien side woud MACMAHON’S KGOBPTION. Marshal MacMahon, General de Clasey and M. Bufet, with toeir suits, spent ail Satucday aiter- vou iv Visiting Lae quarters Of dt. Cyprien ana | St Micnel, Where they talked freely witu the suiferers. [hear tue Marshal said it would be | better, considering the hot weather, to burn all the ruins of St. Cyprien, tor the oder Irem tue retuse and also frou the mnuny vudiscovered dead | bogies 18 ever now scarcely wieravle. The Marshal | sald, Moreover, that he hud uo laea of the extent Of tue destruction, and would do everything tn nis He aiterwara visitéd the HOpital St. Jacques, the military nos- pital and the tobacco mauulactury, Everywhere he was enthusiastically cneered, with cries of “Vive alacwunon 1” ie especially complimented the Baronne de Sandrans, Wile of toe Preiect; the Comtesse de Fenelon und other iadies tor their ex- eriions, aud publicly thanked Seecr Pellégrin tor | her labers, At balfpass #ix yesterday moroing Lue Marohal Attended 1nass, uud Lnmediacely alter lelt or Fenvuiliet, wuere Only ove house una tue church are ieit stanaiug. Os nis retura vere he | distributed decorations to General du Lessol aud other officers aud privates. Lhe Way iu which tao seluiers Lave Worked aad ure working is the Ioewme Of generai admiration. ‘To- @ large bouy of engiueers is expecied. In the evening there Was @ recep Jul ul tue Prejecture, aud ix this wornibg the Marshal wad vis companions leit for ‘Taroes in curriuges, tue ruiiWay communication beiug iuterrupted, 2 ‘THe MARQUIS DB HavTPOUL NERAL. | At ball-pust lour o'clock yesterday altsrnoon | the Marquis d’faucpoal, who lost his life in trying | lo save Others, Was buried, ihe lugeral proces. | #10n was followed vy thousands of pevple, tor tke | deceased was, indepenueutly of his nobie aearh, | much reapected 10 Tvulouse. oumber of | SHEET. Devan to fall faster than ever, Is nas mot sim ceased, and there are uo vigns of an end of this Jeariul weather. For seventy-two hours the down- pour has vow continued, aod there haa Bot yes deena singie break in the clouds, ‘The wind ing become less cold (he accumulated show has melted and the river bas swelled up, so that the piles of the bridge of Foix have disapoeared, and the channel is insuficient to carry off the flood of water. HOW THR BRIDGE OF THE ADOUR WAS DASHED AWAY—SEVERAL PERSONS CARRIED OFF. {from the Lien Public of Tarbes, June 29.) Frow daybreak the eutire leugta of the struc- ture Was crowded with people, too busy 1b Waton- ins the passage im the stream of trees, gates. artl- es 01 furoiture and other things, tv bave any apprehension of the aanger they ran, Ata quar- ler before one some Work ven, noticing the Water Gasuiuy violently against the piers of the bridge und the food wttaiming tue crown o1 the arches, Saw the masonry begin to opea, A locksmith named Barthes was one ot the lirst to perceive tue dunger, Which he at once annvuuced, begging ue crowd to retire wbonce, At Hirst no attention Was puld to the Warniug; bat some men em- ployed ut the arsenal came betund the store ef M. Kozes and saw the dust Dy ant the mortar give way, on which a workniau called Conmet hurried away and joined Bartaez in giving tne alarm. Sill the idea prevulicd thar (he Whole Incident was o Plece of pleusautr), Bul on seeing tose two ueu, pale and terrilied, tue people began wo leave ine bridge. At that moment AN OSCILLATION was felt, and the panic reached ifs beight; a few seconds later a delubation was heard, like the riag of severai pieces of artillery; 16 was tue bridge which had given way, precipitatiag witu it several untortunace persons mto the river, ‘they ure said ouly to have been tour lu number, and to have succceded tn savlug toemselves, anu We sincerely trust that suca ts the case, THE CRASH ed by the cries and lamentations of the populace; one caling out for nis brotser, another Jor his son; tis one seeking Ms wife and thas other her husband, Alter tue firs: moments of terror had pasae ‘owds hurried to cross by the raliway briage, Still Intact, 1n Order to reassure their lmilies aud treads. THE BASIN UF THE GARONNE, (From Galignant’s Messenser, Juae 29.) The lamentable disasters caused by the tuunda- Uons impart a present interest to tne iollowing igecarepnicas Getalls concerulug the basin of the Juronne:— ‘The boundary line of that valley 13 formed on the west by the mountatas of Bigorre; on tae south, by the Pyrenees; on the east, by tne Watershed, dividing the streams, as far as the chain of the Loz¢re, ‘he river rises in the | Vai q’Aran, on the Spanish territory, — ve- tween the peaks of Muladetta and Mont Vallier; 1¢ pisses througit the varivus depurt- ments leading to tae Gronde. The direction of its course 1s at fret from southeast to north. west; then the Bigorre range compels it 1o wrn shurply 10 the portheast, 43 far as toulouse, alter passing which city it Nows as origiually, Tout piace, at this moment suilering from the ravages of the Mood, coumuuicates With the Atlintic by the Guroaue, ang with the Mediterranean by the Lauguedve Canal, Below Toulouse, and in the city sell, the river bed traverses a conunuoUs Plain until 1c reacues the seu; its Caauneils Loe veep, Which circumstance gives rise to irequent overtu wings, and Liat cause explains the terrivie deVastatons made far and wide by 1s waters, Which tugre i8 uotbing to restrain. ine navi- gation, oiten interrupted by the shailowness ol the stream, is carried on by means of 4 Jateral Canal for a lengtn of 200 kilometres (fve- clguths of a mile each). The Garonne has a mean Yeloc.ty of three kliometres an hour, aod an aver- uge preadtn of 200 metres. It receives the ‘arn as an afiluept below Moissuc and euters into the Depurtment of the Lot-et-Garoune, where it is jomed by the Gers, After passing Bordeaux ihe | river unites with the Di ne, alittie distance below that city ata pia lied Le Bee d’Atmbaz, and the junction of those two rivers lorms the Gironde, ud estuary Which attitos in some places & Width of fourteen khomotres, and discharges itself into the Aianuc between the Fort of Kuyan on the north and the butiery of Graves ou tae south, ‘The tribataries ol the Garonue ar :—on the left bank, the Pique, Save, Gers und Baise; und on the right, the sulat, Ariege, Lers and Yarn. was lollow BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS. (Frou, the London Standard, June 28.j The south of France has been tue scene ofa terrible disaster, if, indeed, we can write cor- rectly im the past tense of a calamity the opera- ton of which is, perhaps, mot at an end, and the proportions of which have certainly not as yet been iully ascertamed, We know enough, how- ever, of what Las occurred to /eel that the Upper Vailey of tue Garonne has been visited by one of the most fearful kuoGations on record, the worst sufferer being, partly 19 consequence of its pos!- tion, but puruy, no doubt, also by reason ef is greater size and extent, the city of Tou louse. We hear of houses beiug overwhelmed and leveiles w the ground by the giant force of th» irresistible current, and even an entire quarter, tat of St. Cyprien, being | eutirely destroyed. We may pardally measure the suddenness of the event by the numer o! the dead. They seem to have besn surprised tn their houses, and we cau chly hope that their passage out o! life was mercituily rapid. Wo seem to be Treading of & vast anipwreck. The destruction of aningls has been great, numbers of cattle and sheep, a6 18 tavariably tue case on such OCcas.ons, being swept aloug by the swirling waters. Alier this Tecord of the jogs of human Life and the use- iui aad ball-boman beas's which men’s wants and habits have domesticated it seems almost a waste | Ol COMpussion tuo Speak Of the imunuduted feids | | @Nd the destruction of the rapidly ripening crops. | Wrarmamert unknowa, vut bodies are fouad at.) Hut yy tae survivors the Wnolesale de station | ‘’s SUSPENSION BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY, wil keenly felt, Many of them are already | ‘At Muret, ia tne Haute Garonue, tue s naion | BoWmeless, aD any orhers Will soon be Wander. | bridge bi Deen destroved utd many hoases | lug about striving to decipher amid the mudocy wrecked. Roqu ‘od Pinguguel, two viiluges decors ieit by the retiriug Waves the buunaaries near, are Masses Of ruins, in the Ariége, ut Sc. Lizier, ae parts Of tue town nave oeeu loodea, 4, 1a t At Moul farn end Garonne, the cnurch | has iailes, At Golicen oviy Jour houses and the | church ure stauding, At Lamagstere many houses bave lallea aud the bridge has been cur- | rid away. in the Hautes Pyrénées, at Tarbes | apd Other places on the Aoour, houses nave lailen | aud all the crops are d AtSargmaet ali | tne houses were inuadates eral Heids and the bridge demolisned, =. AT Pau, according to the jatest intelligence, the railway communication 1s cus olf, THE NOTED DEAD. [From the Paris Figaro, June 27.) Among the kuowu deaths are named the Mar- Quis d’iuutpvul, who fell a sacridce to ais devur- eduess; M. Woliard, reporter tu the Council of War; Doctor Brun and tamily. Worthy of record is the suneral of a suld-er of the Iwenty-toird regiment v1 artillery, vamed Reyere, who aiso, alter Having saved several per- suds, died a Victin to Mis devotion. Tne Colosel | aud ail the oflicers of the regiment were preseut | at the grave; anu tue former gave wis emotion @ briel address, In Which the Jull»wipg purase greatly affected tue bystauders:—‘May le receive a Weaven the reward reserved jor those who ie for the guod of their couutry.”” 1EF DESPATCHKS TO PARIS. (From Galiguan.’s Messenger, May 27.) MONTAUBAN, Taru-cL-Garoune ‘Tne flood has exceeded by une metre tue bizhest on record siuce the beginning of this century— Dameiy, iat of 1585, Alusost ail the meadow janus are a ied, The waters of tue Garonue aud Taro Dave swept everything away in their passage. Ihe agricuiturisis. surprised vy the Yuplaity 01 the rise, Were unabie to remove any- duiny from their dwelilugs, auu are vow in great | distre.s. = Assistan Water. of the toWD s.tuated OM tue leit bunk oO} the caval was submerged, and several Louses had italien. | ‘Tue waters ure now failing atthe rate of ive rivers formed u single sueet of The part | centimetres an tour, Advices fruim Albi also con- firm toe diminution of the food. } Pav. | ‘The ioundation is dimimisning. The materia | jos: are considerable, we railway between | This toWD @nd LouloUse Is cut In several pla | Below Pau the service is also interrupted ut Bile | ere, but is Oped (rom (wat piace to Paris, 1 AGEN, | | Aagistere and St, Nicolas, | and becweea Uou-Kucun- | LORDEAU. The maximum rise of the artineut of tue Gireade was :eacned to-day. Tue re ect left this morning for [évile wits the gov- einmont eogimoers, xO ucciaeats are you re- ported. MONT-DE-MARSAN. Tho rise of tue Adour at Aire has reached fii- teen feet, At Peyrenerade the Gaves vus reached @ MuxXigm of over e1zitoon leet, communes of Aire, Uazeres aod Groom re inundated, Lue doue is considera! TARBES. ‘The waters of tue Adour ure falling, Toe bed of | the river has changed velind tue arsenul. Tue Taliway service is inierrupted, i MANSBILLES, Steady rain 8 fulling in te sont gion, and i duing injury to the cor | aod Alpes-Mariuimes have sudered from droaght, | 4 violent storm accompanied With Gull bas OUree | in the environs of Grenoble, | AN DDIRNSH LANDSLIV CAUSES HEAVY Losses, | (From tue Avenir of Porx (Ari¢ge), June 29.) | | ) A coosideravie lanuslip took piuge Garing the Bight of toe 19th wt St. Autoline, Letween this Town aud Jarascon, on the road tu Spain, Pro- lovswnul MOO CotMate Bt 20,000 cubic Metres the | mass of earth @od rock hich descended irum the | Mouutuins. AC (ue ame piace & Blip oF lesser | Importance Caused thé ini of @ acadvidiug io | the tuonel In course Of Coustruction, ‘iuose | were, lowever, ovly ® smail portion Of tue | disasters Wuich lave stricken tie Deow ment of the Ariéee. The earth Was already saturated with water, and the mouarainis Were Aull covered Witn snow at an altitude 60 iow ua WAS Dot reulembered LY Lhe vldeRT Lniaut tantot the department at (his season of the Sudaenly, curing the miznt oF Sunday, We raid ve | | Vanished, | to prevent @ recurrence of a caiamity Waieh Woe oftheir own plots of ground. Their fences will be wone; tocir ditches will be filed up aad made level with the sureounding soil; fatniliar land- marks Will bave disappeared, sueeplolds Will have vineyards will be laid jow, dud the lately Waving grain and fast-sprouting maize Wil be leat in the wide expanse of conglomerate | mineral and vegetuole litter, The soll of tne Garoune Valiey is peculiarly rich; and in addition to the progucts we uve aiready named fax and potatoes are grown ia yreat abundance. itis not | ditticult to uuderstund now the lamentable event has been brougot uvoul, Toulouse iiselt stauas Mm the middie of the vast plain o. Gascony and Languedoc, but the Garonne, on buta sides of Whica It is built, is fed by swt mountain tripata- res, which s00u slriuk aug sul more rapidly swell in Volume; whist # ittie way before it Yeucnes the city its course 1s much ovstructed by | uppedimicnts which oaly Lbeiguten the mischiel of | au inundation. ‘Tne Cauai du Midi, an important work, which, ruuuing eastward from the Garonne, thus con- beets Joulouse butt with tae Mediterrasean and the Atiantic, wilds botu north und ease of whe elty. On the left bauk stands the dt. Cyprien qourter or suvuro, Which 8 described as being « complete Wreck, It is connected with tue city proper by toree brisges aud in its mds. ure two | Jarge hospitals, Whicu provably contributes a cou. siderabie perceitaze of the deat bodies onad tnere, ‘Lhe town is built irregularly aod its vlaer | sirceis are Qyurrow aud tortuous. But is more | modern worvugiiares are broad, habdsome and | commmodious, Rud 1 is provable that in this newer aod beter Coustrucied quarter the damage wrougat hus been ucituer so extensive nur 80 Serious, The essociatioas of most persons with ‘Poulouse @re raiber of a romantic tuan of a bu uesslixe kind, dud they naturally think of © days When troubadours sung of gallant kniguts aud smiling lilies, and When the “gay scieuce” | Was esteemed to be tie Most lupor tant matier in Ife, But we m dera capital of che Department of the Haute Garonsce is a thriving piace of ludusiry aud commerce, und the seventa on the lst of the sarge toWus of France. We may form some cou- ception of the Misery Which must have been to- flicted on it by the fuct that tue Municipal .ouncil hus at Once and Without devaie subserived 10u,000f, for ihe Imimediite reliet of tho suierers, aud that tue government has applied w the Legisiatare tor credit 0! 4 similar umouat to ve ap- piled to the sane Object. Tus ralway commun canon Of the neignvornood with the rest of the world is Interruptes, Tue irst- eccuunts na.urally spoke ooly of the town itseli; but later intelligence coufirwed ine suspicion tuat tie | Vicinity Would nut bave desu spared, Nor is tt tne | immediate neighbornoog wione which has sul- | ered, Fenouilllet, a Village sume jour wiles dis- | tant, has lost all its 400 homesteads, with the ex. ception of ture, from Mau tae imterigence 1s Te- assuring; but Lucion fas peeo beavily visited, ine Adour has overflowed its banks, carrying eWay OFlogea aud cottagesat Bagneres (de Bigorre. At Uarcasloue, io a neighboring depariment, the crops = have =beea ~=—eextensively sab. merged, and the Garonne rolls towaid Bordeaux aud the Atiantic between juwming banks. Marsiat MacMahon himself, accompanied by the Duke Docazes, General du Cissey wid & Iran of alten tants, tas Hasteued to Inspect Lue Sceue Uf Lho uisaster und LO sucvor tie fadiy afilicted populauon, aad rythiag, no | doubt, wi be done to re th reas of the | pourer sud most belpies: oftiva of the popu pb tion. Douvtiess, too, engineeriag science will be called iu, though voly woo late om this occasion, | Teprowen tO wouera scieuce, The neiwnournoud of toweriag @Ad suoually suow-Oupped moun tar Jorins @ pecullar didicul.y iu the treatment oi dangoc avisiug tyoim u sudden overdow of Ww: DUC LL ia Got Credibie taws (ue diillculty i oue with waioh tae skill and opaieoce of the French na ieo Cannot Cope sucess ully, THUBE THOUSAND HOUSKY DOWN—SIXTY MILLIONS fs ae IN PROPKRIY KNOWN 10 HAVE BREN (From the London Post (editoriil), Jane 29) ‘Tue gougraphicat posi ion of France, actnougd in Many Tospects Wiguiy luvored. is wUCD ws LO CULHL UPOU large diste.cis OF the county w imulllty 40 be suddenly ce.dged vy the uverdow uf Mouded TiVers. At Toulouse such idundations nyve oceurre | every tweuty yours—ur, wt leas!, 1 191d, Lsso wud 16d6— Although wever beiwre w tag mame OXUE 48 we preseat, or with the calamitous eousequences to iife apd propery Whicn we are wow called Upon to | record, in 1850 ine whore Valley of tue Kiole Waa Visiled tn a simnilar iuaner, ‘The streets OL Lyons Wore ivf tuyy days traverses by Quats, aud LOE | Va Se me | taute, while the oficers of bis star et only tr nd cattle, but bridges, churches, houses, even wie Villages, were swept aud at numbers of peop! @ either drowned or buried amid fallen ruina But when compared with the mundation which hus now, all ovners sink into comparative iusiguificance, A wi ayo to-day, our correspondent tell4 us, the Riv Garoune, at Toulouse, was unusually high, but ae serious danser was apprehended, and no precaw tionary Measures were takeu. On Wednesday the Waters rove rapidly, aud vy ten O'clock in thd inerning they bad reached the level of the flood of 1895, At two o'clock two arches of a bridge and lweuty houses were swept away, and the foating swimming baths and lavatories Were torn iroat thelr moortoys und uuriied down the torrent, At live the water overflowed the parapet which pri Vects the populous quarter of St. Cyprian; at otX i Was tem ieet deep inthe streets, be! DIght this Quarcer was cut Off trom tht towa, tae three bridges of communication vei: aenienaae All night the crash of ialing housed ao THE CRIES AND SHRIZKS OF SUFFERERS were heard, Ou Thursday the food vegan abate, and the water had ialiea six feet evening. in the town of Louloase alone, it 1s said, 900 persons Have perished ana 20,000 are left dex titute., Nearly 3,000 houses Bave Jalien, and the destruction of property 18 reugaly estimated at from £12,000,000 to £15,000,000 sterling. ‘tue whole valley oi the Garonne 18 sald toresembie @ Vast luke, covered With Iragments Of the ruins of the tow, a8 wellas with wreek brought down fro nigher districts, and dotted wise corpses, some o Luem weurlag the costume of places twenty leagues away. Although It 18 upon this particular district that test force, yi NTS ‘the camuity has fullen with the gr THE NEIGHBORING DEPAR’ have also been terrible suiferers, crops tuve been extensively d ueies de Biyorre the adour hay carried a bridges aud coitagea. At Verdun (Ariége) more than Uy bouses have laller, and many persons ave been drowned. In ‘Tara-et-Garonue crop: have perisved; ana kilometres from Touleu of four bundred ure leit between Bordeaux and Loulouse ts cut places, and the wuole country 13 subme. power of the surrounding districts to ussist tue yreatest sufferers is crippled by their own losses, and the communication wich distant parts of country 1s greauly laipede: doubtful wueta tle description Of Waat has actually Dappeved wiil inclade even the greater part of tne calamity. As te Waters recede & surface saturated with moist uce Will te eXposed, abd buls surface will ve strewn with the corpses Of men and animals in every stage of decomposition. Expured to the extulatious hence arising there will be a larga populatiou reduced to absolute want—dependent Upou churity ior ull the necessaries of life, desils ute alike of cloches, of 1ood, Of shelter anu of em- ployment, To communities thus situated disease comes With foutsteps thas are neither tardy not uncerta.n, and it ix only by tue most prompt and energetic aid from exterual sources that ime tue habitants of Toulvuse caa be saved from grescer iis, 1 such be possible, taan those ave already voraliou tact. {H3 CAUSE OF THE CALAMITY, In order to lorm an idea of the causes of uudation it iy oniy necessary to gl.nce at the physical geography of the departments in which 1 has occurred, Toey he on the northern siopes ol tre Pyrenees, and are intersected by humerous und rapid rivers, of which at jeast four unite to form the Garoune belore 1¢ reaches Toulouse, ‘There bas been heavy and contimuous rain over the whole Of the wountuin range, and @ fail of snow a¢ Luz, where 1t would directly sweil the head waters of tac Garonne. It 18 said that at jeast @ contributory Cause 18 furnished by the great destruction of timber in the district during the last century. Jrees not only absurd water largely from the soil, but they al suriace rom belog baked aud bat ry and whey check the rapidity and abrupt sun, ness with which rain would otherwi: reach the ground. Wen it ialis unimpeded upon dry and barren bill sides, it will TUO sYOTR Chem ulmosé as Ireely as Irom the slop. ing Yeo.s Of houses, aud a iew hours willcarry the Warer of the mountain storm to swell the Vole uve Ol the uearestriver, Tt 18 easy ty De wise uller the CVent; but 1D a district 80 situated there is great room Jor measures of preventiog, and the riparian sucuorities, Wuoever they may oe, snould be luirusted With powers commensurate to the magnitude of the recurring evs, Wuich, by wise precautious, they might do much to mitigate or uvert. sven the tay feeds woicn sometimes oo. Or 18 this Country are Olen greatly aggravated by locai neglect, by sums suting up Ol the chauael ofa sticaui, OF ‘by sunis Li-placed bridge, watch urns 1 Ovstacie to (he Passage Of ao unusual body of water. In rivers which are labie ty be swollen 4 Mmountala torrents channels should be made the ob ulceasing suliciade, aod the span and coi liom 0; uridges suoud be determued by otacr Lbhan purely ivcai cousiderationy, MACMAUON AND NAPOLEON II,—HOW THE CHABITY AND ENGRGY OF BOTH HAVE BEBN TRSTED at DIFFERENT PERIODS, (erom tne Loudon Telegraph, June 29.) Not #@ 1u8tunt too soon di areal MacMahon and lus stall make their way to the deluged Gide trict, in England tue speearause of the Uulef of The State on Lue sceue Of a great publi woulu be deeued wholly unuecessary, Would psruaps elapse ere Parliament was oillcl- wily INaue acquainted with the extent of toe mis- for tuue and tue need for alleviating it by » grant @! pubic money; Whue, even in America, woere the Unlef Magistrate 1s generally ready to anawi @gy popular cau on bis persunalmerposition, tne presence of the Piesigens of the United States at tue scene uf 8OMe ‘iresuel” On the Mississipi oF ann ue Cuiders Of seme COlossal COUUAgration at Boston or New York ur Ubloayo would vertuiuly not be Geman e4 by pusle optuivg, But, in France, personal yoverumeas, altnough ite princip:e 18 iIndiguavly Kouuted by &o uavanced benool Of pollticiaus, 18, Iu practice, accepted aud relied upon io cases 0: UuUsual 1, nue Ouly by all suuaes Ot party, but by millions Who are got politicians at wil, on BUCO O Casualty aa th o1 tue rising of the Garoune occurs, tie Freaou snow tucamselves to be in that precise kimd of de peudeuce upoo the Onier of the siate which was our OWD couultion La tee duriug the dre ol 1sv6, aud When Cuarles IL, 10¢ ouce 1D his Ite, a! the Stute some service by repairing ty Lue scene of the uisaster, by pergonaily direcuuug and encouraging the elfoorts of those Wuo were endeavoring to extinguish the fames, aud by uctually urrestiug§ their progress in or. dering whore olocks uf houses to ve vlowa up with guupowder. And thus,tvo, many generations later, did the Emperor Nicbvlas render valuable personal aid, oota moral and material, to tne population of St. Petersvurg, alternately cowed uud frenzied as they Were by vie ravages ol tbe cholera wad by tne burning of tae Winter Palace, A people who are incapabie of goveruing or who ure nol suifered to govern themselves must needs uve suuie one to govora taem,and io evil \imes it 13 lm peratively Mecessary that the goveraor snowd be on the spot. if the turacuck bas to telegraph to Puris for orders, aud if the prefect is uucertalo us to What the aiinister of tue luterior will say to < = him if he directs & broken siuice gute t repaired it 18 OOViOUS that tuings ure w go awkwardly; but When all | olliciils ure like prostrate and panic-stric by the occurrence 0! some ove: Whelming dls: ” there is owiy oue rewedy lor the evil aod tua is the unmediate evolution ol the Deus ex machina, Jupiter, or at least Cesar, must come, wheter ne be enperor, King, military dictator, or constitu. tional president. Tue action taken by Marshal MacMahon, equally humane, gracefai, energetio Aud politic as it must be cuasiuered, Was at the sume time @ matter of simple necessity, and it was based strictly On the lamous precedent set ina plinuar crisis Deariy Lweauty years agu by tuat Bove ere Whose memory has Deen t.ecated wi! uch cruel ingratitude by the people ior wuose wellare he aid gv muca, Beginning ou the s0th of May, there were IN THE YEAR 1356 dreadful inundations in France, Vast tracts of jaud between Paris and Lyons aud oo wares fot sea were laid under wa Roads wud railways were reudered lutpassable. Human bodtss, carte, furniture wud agricultural produce were vorne aloug tue rusnibg torrents, aad Lhe streets of Mauy towns cuuld be traversed only in boats, As tne Urwaus rallWay station the water reached tae jourth story of tue buildiug. At Yours it was lea feet aeep, At Angers the Immegse siate quarrica were su)mergod and 10,000 men were throws out of employment, 1a many cantoas whol villaxes were swept away, and at Lyor wh tl inuudation was chiefly let u we censely populated suburds of tae Guile jouere and the Crvix Rousse, the amount o misery and destitution caused by the flooas was Weil Ligh incalculavie, Yne Emperor Napoleon Ill. B&W at ounce What was to bedone. Without losing 4 moient he took an express ior Lyons, ud there getting on horseback, snd with an opeu @ rove out Lag iullot gold at his suadle-vow, anoug t tie tales, that be bad to dismount irom ols tou boat; Lut he WAS abuut the district all sae liveloug day, entering one wretched alley an carrefour aiter anothe: hearing frum tae tops Of hovels aou the windows of uaurreta twe pinints of the half-drowned pinnade ther ih funding money to the distress people, there were hali-learted economists w 1 uiter times, accused Cesar of thought prodigauty in thus scattering his wlmes instew! of nd lovestiy 6 an Fr that tue uplorLunate creatures oa th the casement, ly poor aut K nd ruined aod famisning; here came @ tine Wheo Freachimen, alas! o 1b the Guiiotiere Buu Lue Croix Rulisse, cuald jound wuo bad jorgottes his patient courage au: his buanty altogetuer, and out of whose minds, while they Were fgating lor shadows, the memery Of bygoud Buwtunes Lad Whoily faded, THE PLOODS IN THE AUSTRIA TERRITORY. (Vienna (June 27) Correspondence of Londo Standard.) In Consequence of Waterspouts fearfal incoae tions bave tukeu place in West Bowemia, Moravia, Carintiia, south Tyrol and Banat. Several raik Ways Wore iajured and Many biiages, horses and Herds OF cattle Carried aWay, ‘Toere has ala been #ume loss of Luman lilo, Tae harvest iy several digtricte Ww bat " stroyud. - alba