The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-02

REMARKABLE RIvER.-The Florida Sentinel
contains an account of the examination by com
mittee of scientific gentlemen of the river Wa
cissa, in Florida with view Of testing its capa-
city for water-power for manufacturing pur-'
poses and the practicability of connecting it with
the ST. Marks by canal They found water at
the head of the river irtytscO feet above the high
water in the St. Marks, at Newport The. Sentl-
mel describes the Wacissa river as one of the
natural curiostes almost peculiar to Florida. 1t
takes its rise, like the Wakula, in springs OF tre-
mendous volume, forming an immense basin with
bold shores, from which it in S. S. e. direc-
ton, in deep and broad stream, about fourteen
miles, to swamp, where most of it disappears
through subterranean channel, by which it is dis
charged into the Gulf This river is said to con-
tain greater volume of water than the Potomac
or James River and like all rivers having asimilar
rise in Florida, It is affected neither by drought or
fresh, affordng one steady, uniform and unvarying
current all the year. Any conceivable amount OF
water-power can be obtained by means of the ca
nal proposed, and it will not only be unfailing but
an1aryiRg. The committee are of opinion that
more than ten times the water-power of Lowell
can be found there at small expense.
ENGLISH FREERoLDERs-The London Cores
pondent of the Boston Chronotype writes as follows
of great change effected in English freeholds by
the Anti-corn-l law League:
Among the various movements going on in Eng
land, the least important is that for the self
acknowledgements of the working classes, by the pur-
chase of freehold properties qualifying them to vote
| for towns and counties. This movement was origl-
| nally suggested by the Anti-corn-law League and
it enabled that body to place such numbee Of
voters on the record for South Lancashire and the
West Riding of Yorkshire that the Protectionst
candidates were at the ensuing election ouSted from
two of their strongholds. 1t consists simply in the
purchase, by whoever pleases, of tenement, or BIT
of land qualifying the possessor to vote under the
old law that admits to that privilege all forty shil-
ling freeholders Cobdens quick eye and ready
tact picked out this ancient piece Of constitutional
ism, and his sagacity discerned in it key where
with to unlock the doors Of hitherto elite Legis
lature to sturdy of all conditions in life. His
exploits with it in the two counties before named
so terrified the Squrearchy, that they ceded in time
before their resistance had produced by reaction,
vigor of vote-making that would have already ex
| cuded them from some Of their own mmemoria
counties Golden now processes to regret that the
| Anti-corn-law demand was not better resisted BY
the aristocracy, because of the wide suffrage tina
grew up month by month, so long as the resistance
lasted. There is little cause for his regret for
sstanee enough is still left to harden the hearts o
oak under British ribs; and any and every grea
agitation which involves a strife of purposes be
tween aristocracy and srtisanship will reproduce
| the vote making in its measure.