The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-13
AaAls very sslis tuiiy d. g0uf uoetlielt sqrT9nt-
. w. NJ, MEREpITE, Secretary of tAe Treasure
Hon Speaker Of tlle iouse Of Repfese1.at,e-.

INcREAsE eE WESTERN CoMMERoR.-Some
idea may be formed ofthe great increase of trade
with the West, by referenoeto MIRA. c. MOTIONS
report in the last number Of the journal II the
American Institute, which shows the afliortnt Of
shipping on the lakes at various periods. In 1925,
thereAwere but thirty forty small craft and ope
steamboat Of $50 tons barthen on Lake Efie-tils
first steamboat having passed through Lake Michi-
gan in 1896 or 1877 In. 1915 there were On the
lakes, above niagara Falls, sixty steam vessels,
| having IN average tonnage Of 23,090 tons and goo
| briggs and -schooMers, Of $4,000 tons the whole
| costing s4;600,000. The shippiag Of all the lakes
in lSlG amounted TO 1886 S36 tensy and was valued
al S6,000,00O. The amount OF merchandise trans
ported that year was 1856, QoS tons while that Of
1871 was -2,071 SOB tons, showing that the trade
| had nearly doubled in FIVE years. Tile number Of
passenger transported in SIC was OO0 and the
value Of this business was estimated at 81 2jO 900
! The value of lake commerce in, 1871, according
to the report made 10 Congress, exceeded Sill :,
6,000 or only S13 zoe 600 less than the value Of
all the exports Of the United States in 1915 and
nearly double the value of all the products received
at New Orleans in -lSl6-5 by the Mssssippirive
IN all the imneuse territory, which surrounds the
, great lakes and which now produce ssurprsing
amount OF commerce, there was in SIG, but onC
organized State, and the total population did no
! exceed 100000 souls. 49,
g At the present tme,- there is cluster 81 81,
large States about these waters. containing pupu
lation Of between four and i've mil ons Of inhabi
? tauts.
Embracing the-Stotes ana Territories, who's
! trade will Goat over these lakes 10 an Easter
= market, we have,sn area o8 nearly 800 goo sluar
miies, or an extent et territory three tunes laFg,
s as the kingdom oGPrussiai and nearly twice a
y large as FgaHce,
& In 1887, the wheat and -four passing lakes Err
,, aud Ontario, 10 be forwarded TO market throug
: the Eric canal amounted te oRy about So 600 tons
s. whiie,,in iSj5, che amount was 4S6, GOO tons.
Is t. An. iron-naster in Fragen, Germany, ha
r lately taken out patent for new species of pud
ding furnace which he employs for the purpose q
converting the iron into steel during the pudding
= operation The product is stated 10 be Of supeto
J quality, and is,-of course, much cheaper
ARTrIcIAI LEe.-8Ir. Yerger, of Philadelphia
has invented an artificial leg, which, the n Y Mi
\ r0r says, for ingenuity and efficacy has never bee
. equalled It is made entirely Of steel, and in sue
S manner that the motion OF the knee, and Of Ii
4 joints Of the ankle andsfoOt are produced.
e DIsTURBINs 4 ScHeoL.-A gentlslnanin New
r burypOrt Mass. being displeased with the trea
e ment Of his child in of the public schools, wei
j. there to demonstrate with the teacher, but 81
q has been commenced against him, and he was he
5, to bail in $500 for disturbing the school.