The Arkansas banner., 1845-06-11

LOW, and tbox.c aeA ni ship canal and d then 'aeIsfo1s 1as, p ;.{ wagons m into Lake NIlebiarsana ch raal &a 2 with the forces thus lrgan' colIgg Ys D and mire, and across 'Hbi;l9ecied, b;9 th | IS to be invaded, Toron,.lll n,ll and bi land canal taken, and lO eaphp struck downs am mn Lower l pie, but l would ratbo. ' nO sOlde 5 nal and the ,chole Vallo,rl I trust u to h than to the thriving 'y ci,, # Tor hi
 unpleasant to Jack Tar in nele i
 1as1 his craft upon trucks, '' and m the ne. ae bulls. '''' sIen of
 The circumstance tb,t ',
 wholly within our own ,,a' Lax Lake
 the straits which connect 'tlfloq :, Lakes Lake, are also wholly ours ' w T5A
 dered impossible, is reaso. and D ale the canal should lead raoVl into ,5,, ,lf erence to any other. And ',la' ,Sa. la leason IS as good as tboussaG9' u s.G'!sa so other considerations 'uIsa,d' wh;al t Lake as the proper basin G,,l, fo. l}' Po
 taTy tar :, work. , The Northern 1pl poia, '3,'
 nal T! to it would be about lbrae pO'll d.
 ,5ud9 it, e!9 to the south of the ',es ner,SesI Sss the kldeau canal. 1t is H'a''ll also Fl that the spring season on f,Io sfs W. W| two or three weeks in advanrs rs s1 7 same latitude on Lake Erie s,e'''V ooI or two ago, the papers inioms1 Tn lower part of Erie was l4,gu nacta1
 feet high, Therefore frIASa in v., VI might be commenced five or sf,' .;r Tier through this canal than ,bra,1 bn dc, deau canal, and earlier than ,I' on Is lhls circumstance, should wa, var I \ the winter time, would enable r
 m force on the Lakes several vs, the enemy could get there at all, eral,on ,li' of no small importance e'
 There IS another reason: tbe lords the shortest route. Of i's
 rent, this river is one of the nos streams for navigation amonr a,' l5. to the Mississippi, and at cost t per mile, it may be made as y', D,r year round as the MissiissDpi fl, canal would be l0O4 miles lon lopp
 ready commenced and far advaH,. completion, upon the scale of s, the top of water line, thirty-sr A tom and six feet deep. Five nl1 be ample to complete it, with tIe capacities of the British canals.
 should be completed on scale u rate with Its importance, and ina thy of the nation: connecting lb river with the greatest lakes in the link should be of piece win ends, and fit to hold in close union nIileent proportions of such d therefore l suggest the propriety of as to the practieability of making without a lock at all, except one al to be without lift, and simply for the supply of water when necesssT
 The level of Lake Michigan is d of tho Illinois river, and the only E the fall would be too great for an river.
 'slt is a fact not well known,n sv the Geographer, "that loaded boat. water, can pass from Lake Michiga lInols river, and uice uersa Ilin presents much more the aspect q than that of a river. During the ance of spring flood, loaded bOal' tonage may be navigated from the the Ohio, up the Mississippi and I CTS, and through the Canadian sea aract of Niagara, withom meeting | gle rapid!"
 Here, therefore, is a channel pc by nature, and indicated by the provements of Illinois. Let us selves of it; and if the conncclic made by an artificial river, without ing the lower country with an ovt It be done. l cannot express an to the practicabllity of such ihlf IS worthy of investigation Such would improve the low water nav the Mississippi to vast extent, . give that noble stream noble he'
 But whether the channel be a river or canal, its importance to country is beyond calculation, part of 1t would this importance much as by the city of Saint Lot geographical position of this" sa! ollet in his report on the Upper Sis favorable to a remarkable desI ted a few miles below the Juncll of the greatest rivers in the worl' natural central depot of all the ducts that reach it by navlga' thousand to two thousand miles two rivers and their innumeraOle St.. Louis is emphatically the Far West, comprehending wlthlI ! the extensive regions stretching Mississippi and the Pacific ocean tant expeditions to the North ol must start from St Louis; and ne their fruits are gathered together the proceeds of the fur trade, as mineral and agricultural produc' whole northern basin oi the whence they are distributed to markets of consumption; eliher sissippi to the Gulf of Mexlco' D,'ah to the Atlantic States, or through the Lakes, and other opened communication, to the seaooa'u adas. IT.
 Itis worthy of remark, and ne lS, ical position makes it obvious 'n' of internal improvement can pv a U of the neighboring otates' .,. hns .ns East or North, or even oy .nos ., hereafter be formed to the NOT J without becoming subservlen' e, Y ests of St. Louis. Hence llie ~ souri has not deemed it wise to | tily in such expenditures anu the true spirit of the tlme' mnv,' .l"r on this score. events at this day