Where the river, in the Vicksburg region, used to be corkscrewed, it is now comparatively straight -- made so by cut-off; a former distance of seventy miles is reduced to thirty-five. It is a change which threw Vicksburg's neighbor, Delta, Louisiana, out into the country and ended its career as a river town. Its whole river-frontage is now occupied by a vast sand-bar, thickly covered with young trees -- a growth which will magnify itself into a dense forest by-and-bye, and completely hide the exiled town.

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