Cloudy - warm - delightful. Went with Mr. Beirne to Clark and Orange Grove sugar houses, where he met Mr. Edwards, the founder from New Orleans and arranged for new vacuum pan and tanks and centrifugal and clarifiers for Orange Grove and Riverton.
River is said by some to have risen an inch since yesterday.
Wrote Mr. E.N. Pugh (in reply) to his letter informing me that I had been elected a Vestryman, and Delegate to the church council of "Ascension Church" - accepting the position.
There was a caving and threatened break in levee at Kelly's about night fall. Went there immediately, but found sufficient precautionary measures has been taken to secure embankment for the night. Mr. Bateman there, helping. He is to send me a report of the condition of things in the morning.
