Highest Water Ever Known

Vicksburg, Miss., April 13. - Tuesday the gauge was 51.35, a rise of 4-10 in twenty-four hours, the highest water ever known. Information received here is most diseouraging. The flne plantations of Colonel E. G. Kiger and others and the Brown plantations at Brunswick are all under water. Boats are wanted everywhere to rescue people and save live stock. All hope of saving t.he levee has been abandoned.