The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-10-18
Above low Change,

New 0reans..... Is 3
Rittsburg .'........ Q
stfLouis ......... . 0
*Below high water mark Of 1874. T4.oro,
NELSON lOROM,
Sergeant Signal Service. y. s. A.
Eva. Isabel Martha, Blue Wing No. 3. James
Howard, Alvin, Belle OF Shreveport
Departures.
Eva. Isabel Blue Wing No. 3, Ouachita Belle.
Thompson Dean. Dawn.
TO Arrive.
Mary Ida. Alvin, Blue Wing No. 3. upper
fGoa. Gava,, 'ssap sa lower c9ast Coy Allen
Frank Pargoud Greenviiie: Biz sunfioWer..
Opelousas Natehez.. vicksburg.
R,eslan. weather cloudy, y, windy and threatening.
The Baatrop. from the .ouachita and Bertha,
from the Atchafalaya, failed to arrive on time.
presumption was that they were stuck In the
mud In Old river. 1t was rumored. however.
turn to-day, and ii they get here in time viii
ieave without doubt.
Memphis states that the Scudder would leave
there at dark with 1900 bales
seveh1an ealtlon OF @ y2m modore Rolling
about the Goth of October. It will be a much
larger volume than heretofore.
Inc Future City lost 80 hours aground on
The Martha, while on her way down Tuesday.
and while landing at Bellechasse 1anked into
rudder stock. She had to discontinue the trip,
and was towed back by the Eva the latter boat
viii s ready T. eaye without ta s her
The renowned Frank Pargoud leaves to-day
The James Howard, the largest cotton earfier
niioat arrived yesterday from Cairo and Mem
sp a al t2esy Fl
semi. monthly packet. The Howard has un-
Capt. D. r. Pegram. with the efficient and atten
y j. rst H. Chassang al qea In charge Of the Office
cotton and 1000 sacks seed, The first trip last
rived on the 10Th October, with 5sl7 bales and
The d. ii. Durfee leaves Saturday for Alexan-
aFla h,a ana drand Eeore, In place OF the Bart
The Big Sunfower. from Atchafalaya will
arrive to leave Saturday. her regular day.
The Natchez VIII arrive to night from vicks-
burg and return $ turday as usual.
The machinery for the cotton mil at Natchez.
Cairo and will be brought thence by river.
Inc ked River TRANSPORTATION Company's
steamer Col. A. z. kouns Mart Kouns IL, COM
port.
The Belle of Shreveport arrived yesterday
from St. Louis, and is announced to return to-
The 81. Francis Belle leaves daily at 1880 a. m.
from Bi.nville street for Westwego, running in
Railroad to Donaldsonyille.
r The so.I,ey newy lower coast packet Alvin, W.
eavas se4ye todav master 2. ;o. Henry kous CLERK
lower coast to Quarantine Station.
Inc regular tri-weekly coast aud Donaldson
all plantation landings in daylight;
The spendid passenger and pnited States
foE drssnvS vlcksbsg sas and nsi sps andnsps, q H.
uu roe oe he ewer eaas snd as
The NJ. |. line steamer Mary Ida, J.. A.. Ruiz
master. leaves to-day. as usual at 10 o'clock for
The fine steamer John FL Hanna. james P.
McElroy In command, leaves tomorrow at IL m.
P s9n Rge Sas Sad andn Capt
John j. Brown master s. 1s streek clerk Jerk eaves e
Tomorrow at D. m. for Bay you Sara.
Exchange Clippings.
Cincinnati Commercial, October Is:
A raft of 240,0p0 feet Of square walnut timber
left Des Arc on White river. few days since
to be hoated to New Orleans and from there
sshipped direct to LIVERPOOL, 1T belongs to
strong force to continue getting out square TIM
Der for foreign shipment
New ALBANY. Oct. 1.-THE Zoe Bryarly passed
her barges on the rocks opposite Peckinpaugh
i'i The ct. Paul Press says:
For the average cost of is miles of American
railway, the Upper Mississippi. now that the
Des Moines canal Is completed. could be made
yond that to New Orleans, for the largest boats
that are used in our upper waters. For one
subsidies Iayiabad he
Union and Central Pacific railroad for the bene-
lit OF private corporations. the great common
could have been made available for commerce
a hundred times greater than that which flows
The process Of Capt Edwin Bell. of St. Paul,
for building wing dams and applying the pro.
cess to the Improvement, Of the Mississippi
about year ago. and $1,000 was appropriated for
the construction OF the requisite machinery, but
through the opposition or. indifference of army
engineers, the appropriation was never applied
to the purpose contemplated. 1t is said that he
is prepared to. prove wing dams can be put in
other He says he IS ase to
prove to anyone accustomed to the run of cur
rents that he can cut deep channel through
any reef between St Paul and Memphis in
twenty-four hours, so that it Will remain open
4 correspondent @ says of changes In the Mis-
souri, river: A few years ago Brunswick was ON
the Missouri; now it is on the Grand river. The
mouth OF Grand river used to be two miles
ABOVE. now Ii is one mile below. Grand river
and large tract Of new made land now lie be-
tween Brunswick and the Missouri river. 1t
happened in this way: That at the, old mouth Of
Grand river there formed bar, which in time
became dry land separated the two rivers,
lengthenlng Grand river three miles, and
changing beyond recognition the former ap-
pearance of the country
Memphis Avalanche October 16:
The packets from above report feet at Bulle-
tin and other shoa places little more. From
below pilots report feet at Choctaw and feet
above Helena. The Arkansas has scant 20
inches below Pine Bluff. and White is shoal, but
has fair packet stage. The lower Ohio has but
30 inches above, Cairo but it is rising few
INCHES, and will be some better few days hence.
ton receipts by river on this date last year we're
TIA bales, and yesterdays record shows receipts
of 1864 bales, also $50 sacks of seed cotton and
$3.50 sacks of seed.
Vick-burg has % feet of water at the new
steamboat landing, a mile or SO below where the
old one used to be,