Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-23

Is. at this point. She had an entire white
crew. Darkeys. look sharp. or in a short
time o lr occupation will be gone.
The Luminary will pass down to-day
for Vicksburg and the bends. She is the
L. ;. mail packet. Capt. Conway is mas
ter and Mr.. Lehner clerk.
fhe Natoma win, as usual, back out to-
day Tor Augusta and all points on White
river. She connects with the railroad for
| Little Rock, and for landings
/ above, Capt. VIM. Ashford Is ia com
mand, and her Office is I'm charge OF Clas.
and John Smithsr.
The ''old reliable" Commercial, with
John b. Davis on the roof, Is the regular
| L. S. mail packet for White river to-day.
She makes close connection with the Lit
tie Rock train and with packets for upper
White river. Jimmy Thompson and Char
ley Sharpe are her clerks.
Capt. Henry G..Sniith, President Of the
st. Louis Packet Company, is in town.
A project is to be brought to the stten-
J ton of Congress, ut the next session, to
make q new mouth for the Mississippi
line of the unfinished James River and
| Kanawha Canal, across the mountains In
Virginia. The proposed work would be
400 miles long, and would make q codtin-
uous water communication from the sea
westward 10 the II 900 miles of navigation
in the Mississippi Valley. 1t is claimed
that such a work. w~ouldincrease the value
| of Western produce a hundred millions a
wear. while cheapening bread in the East,
because, As estimated, Western grain
would save full two-thirds of the freight
now paid by the consumer and the pro
Queer to the carrier.
The New York Commercial 4drerttseT
1 Of the 18th inst. says: The new life and
spirit which has been infused among the
| Southern people sincet the close of the wal
manifest themselves in the vari Ius enter
prises and improvements when are being
undertaken. The Lake Borgne Canal is .
! project of interest to the North as we'll as
the South, and the woi d r IS that it should
not have been undertaken years ago.
Lake Borgne is ten miles below New Or
leans, is forty miles long aud fifteen
broad, and connects with the Gulf of Mex
leo by PascagOula Sound, and with Lake
P~ontchartrain by two passes. Not long
since a company was organized to eonnec
the Mississippi river with the lake. The
| distance between the two is only five
and a half miles, including two and a hall
miles of Bayou Dupres. The proposed
canal is to be $50 feet wide ana II feet
deep, with locks $50 feet long and IS
feet wide. When il is completed the
distance from New Orleans to Mobile will
be shortened fifteen miles, and 10 the
deep water of the Gulf of Mexico fully
seventy miles. Seagoing vessels drawing
less than ten to twelve feet of water, will
then be enabled to sail within fifteen
miles OF New Orleans, thereby saving
rs miles of towage up II down the
Mississippi. Machinery is now being
shipped from the North 10 New Orleans,
and by the end or this month five large
dredgeboais will be completed aud ready
to begin operations. II is expected thai
the canal Will be finished and in working
order by the first of Jniy next.
A distinguished Texan, temporarily re-
siding in Washington, y. c., "Opens up TO
the CAroaicle, Of that City, a plan for in
land water communication let weep the
Mississippi and Rio Grande thusi 'iRy
digging aud dredging about $50 miles the
waters of the Mississippi and Rio Grande
could be connected for steaming and
barge and hatboat navigation. This
would give about $500 miles Of increased
navigation, and place Texas and the Mis-
stssippi aud itst tributaries in close neigh
borhoOd. A canal could be easily built,
as most of the work could be done ma
chinery, and, as there would be but lew
locks, the expense would not be great. Ii
would be fed mainly by waters of the sea
and from the various rivers, lakes and
%lagOons, u all of which the tide Gibbs
and flows.
InSIact OF the jurisdiction OF tue United
States oyer all tideWaters heipg exclusive,
would render the action of Congress nee
essary for the CONSTRUCTION of such a
work; besides, the lagOons hat would
have to be dredged cut are more obviously
under the exclusive power of the general
government.
Perhaps no work would be easier to
build than a canal of this sort; certainly
none that would be more remunerative.
IL would open up 10 the COMMERCE Of the
world Z57,t00 sqnare ihiiss OF productive
territory in Texas, and abOht 80 900 In
Western Louisiana. The freiehts Of salt,
lumber and cattle, saying nothing about
sugar, molasses, wool, cotton, and every
description of other merchandise, would
alone olive a rich return gpo.r tie INCEST
nIent. The trade with Mexico fOufd'aIso
furnish a good business. Cattle c5uld'be
loaded at any point ON the rivers, and
brought in The finest order. on stablel
riggca kIrgss PrSEeiiea By tggbeats, ~
the Northern market.
Such a canal would supply the lpmber
to renasF tho lever Mississippi VALUABLE
as a navy yard. rev snWects'aFe az mars
Importance 10 the natioh. The North
west Is directly Observation-Disclosures aad
Pennsylvania more than any other two
States, without itis Ohio and Indiana.