Rainy - raw - disagreeable. Could not go to Church. Mr. Duncan F. Kenner called in morning and paid a long and pleasant visit. Does not think, as yet, there is any cause for anxiety about an overflow of the river. Pressure in Ohio River, alone, cannot affect us. It requires a great rise in at least three of the great effluents of the Mississippi to produce an overflow here. Mr. Kenner does not think the new mill (for pounding this cane, cut up into pieces) promises much. Can only be effective on a small scale. Does not think there are likely to be any great improvements, speedily, on the 5 rollers and "the automatic ram" or feeder. He considers the latter a very valuable invention - chiefly as an insurer against breaking - but he fully agreed with me that it could not make an inferior, weak set of rollers turn out good bagasse. He declined to stay to dinner as he was going to take the Steamer Gay in the afternoon for the City. He was exceedingly cordial and pleasant and said he hoped to see much of me.
Wrote Captain Albert Perry thanking him for the copy he sent me of his grandfathers - Mr. Valcour Aime's - Diary, which is quite interesting and contains valuable memorandum about sugar production and the cultivation of the cane.
Mr. Brand - bookkeeper - dined with me and spent some time after dinner.
