The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE DRAINAGE.

• (From the New York Sun of Sept. 12th.)
The draining of the Ever Glades of Florida, a project
agitated in Congress by Senator Wescott, of Florida, and
which has been reported upon, is exciting general interest
and attention. The Ever Glades extend from the southern
margin of Lake Okechobee some ninety miles towards
Cape Sable, the southern extremity of the peninsula of
Florida, and are in width from thirty to fifty miles. They
lie in a vast basin of lime rock. Their waters are entirely
fresh, varyinc, from one to six feet in depth. Their usual
level is more than twelve feet above that of the waters of
the straits of Florida and of the Atlantic Ocean, but of
course not so great above the Gulf of Mexico. As the
Ever Glades extend southwardiy from Lake Okechobee,
they gradually decline, and their waters move in the same
course. They have their origin in the copious rains which
fall in that latitude during the autumn and fall, and in the
overflow of Lake Okechobee throw swamps between it and
the Ever Glades. •

The proposed drain will, it is estimated, recover over a
million acres of waste land, of the most valuable kind for
the production of many articles for which we are indebted
to the West Indies and foreign countries, as for instance,
compty, yam, casava, ginger, polka, Sisal hemp, indigo,
tobacco, cortez cascarilla, canilla alba, sarsaparula, sugar-
cane, pepper, bush and vine pepper, tea plant, orange,
guava, Otabeite plum, shaddock, lime, hog plum, forbid-
den fruit, lemon, Jamaica apple, grape fruit, citron, sugar
apple, banana, pineapple, cocoanut. plantain, sapadilla,
sour sop, Avocato pear, mango, mame, olive, mame sa-
pota, boxwood, lingumvitm, mahogany, titi, and ship
timber.

The expense of the draining will be from 5'300,000 to
£500,000, to effect which it is proposed to grant certain,
public lands to the State of Florida, the State in consider-
ation, to assume the work. The drain is to be effected.
by cutting canals from the great lake Okechobee to the
Atlantic and the Gulf. With Lake Okechobee are con—
nected the vast swamps and numerous strews whose
swelling from rains overflows the country sought to be
reclaimed, and which with little expense can be more
directly precipitated into the lake, and which only require
an outlet to the ocean and gulf to free over a million acres
of the richest soil.

The distance of the lake from the eastern coast is less
than forty miles in a direct line, and does not exceed fifteen
miles to the navigable waters of the Caloosa-Hatchee, and
a similar distance on the west side will reach those of
Loca-Hatchee, the fall being sufficient for the'proposed
cuts. Besides the land reclaimed, equal to the whole
State of Connecticut, it is proposed to make these canals,
capable for commercial purposes, thus shortening the die-
tr.nce to the Gulf and avoiding the Florida reefs, upon
which in three years 1844, '45 and '46, property was
wrecked or damn; ad to the amount of 83,086,80 Q.
Furthermore, the reclamation of these lands will im-
mensely forward the settlement by increasing the produc-
tiveness of the State, and extensive settlement is all that
is required to render Florida one of the richest states of
the Union, rich even as Cuba. The project is a great and
feasible one, and if it can be performed by the State upon
the terms proposed. Congress should not hesitate in sans-
dolling the enterprise.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(BY EXPRESS.)

An insurrection has broken out at Baden, and a Provi-
sional Government has been established, of which M.
Struve is at the head.

LONDON MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

Consols are a little firmer this morning, having been steady-
at sffi for account, and Wl* 4 for money; India Stock 2374,
the June Exchequer Bills 275. 395., the March 30s. 3-Is., and
India clouds 35 pin.

LONDON CORN MARKET.

k7ESTERDAY,

The import duties on all foreign corn have now reached their
minimum points, and stocks are offering duty paid.
At this day's market there was a moderate supply of English
Wheat, which met a slow sale for both new and old, at 2s. per
qr. under the prices of this day week. Some holders of foreign
offered at a similar reduction ex ship rather than incur granary
charges, at which there was a good inquiry, but many refused
to submit to any decline.

There is stilia large demand for floating cargoes of Indian
Corn, but the firmness of holders, and the small quantity offer-
ing, check business.
There was no change in the valueof Barley, Malt, Pease, or
Beaus, which were in fair consumptive demand.
The supplies of foreign Oats being quite sufficient for our pre-
sent wants, tend to prevent any advance; an,d this article was
in slow request at our previous currency.