The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-04
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1859.
MAILS BErwKEx AND HAVANA.
Mr. WRIGHT, (adm.) of N j., presented the memorial
OF Nora & Brothers. and Navarro, aud Navarro Il
Company who about to establish line Of steamers
between New York and Havana, Offering to carry the
mails at 81 so per mile bmonthy oftener at the
rate. Referred TO the Post Office Committee.
IMPROVEMENT OF LAKES HARBoRs-rlIE NEW YORK NE
Mr. SEWARD, (opp) Of n. Y, presented a memorial of
the Legislature Of New York for the Improvement of lakes
and harbo In making this communication, Mr. Seward
sad:-The Senator'S from New York charged by the
authorities of that State to submit to Congress CON-
municaton of high importance concerning the rec
procal duties Of New York and Of the United states
TO the whole country, on the subject OF the internal
navigation which constitutes the basis equally OF our
domestic and foreign commerce. In the year 1911,
only twenty-five years after the reorganization OF
the American Union under the federal constitution,
and eminent statesmen, appeared here and addressed
Congress the same great subject appealing TO the
legislature 10 construct or 10 lend To that State
her favor and aid in constructing an artificial channel
through borders by which TO connect the nav
Sot wonacrfu that the appeal was dsrerarded since
even Thomas Jefferson who seemed almost inspired with
prophetic forecast Of the working OF our great political
al least one hundred years. Less however, than half
that predatory term has elapsed and New York comes
before again tell them that unaded and Alone
she has executed the great enterprise how she has per-
formed it, what It's national benefits, and to invoke
only that small measure Of acceptance and adoption
which necessary to full and perfect fuon of those be-
nene New York. beginning in 1917 just after the second
war with Great Britain, completed in 1926 a navigable
channel forty feet wide and four feet Deep from Albany
at the he'd Of tdew the Hudson, TO Oswego on
the shore of Lake Ontario and to Buffalo, at the foot Of
lake Erie The SCALE adopted not In conformity TO the
great design but compliance with the cxgcncies Of hcr
financial condition. proved quite inadequate and she had
scarcely brought the channel into before she
began It's enlargement Practically that work is also
peted vessels of 240 tons burthen pass with
need of transhpmen Of equally from the lower
mississippi and from Lake Superior to the city Of New
York. the central seat Of American commerce, through
the Erie canal. four hundred miles long, seven feet
deep and seventy feet wide, built by that State alone,
her unaded resources, at cost OF 10000 600
New York, by the memorial we now present, seeks
10 propitiate Congress by declaring, as, indeed, II
may with the utmost ruin anat snougn sne Is not
she has generally yielded liberal support TO the policy
of extending aid by that government to internal improve
ments of other States She respectfully asks Congress to
consider that canal although local. constitutes in fact
only link in a chain or inland national navigation ex
tended now 900 miles from the Atlantic coast into tn
depths of the continent that opens 10 the general com
merce Of the United States new shore line on the st
Lawrence and the lakes of more than 5000 miles, equa
TO whole Atlantic water line with all its ndenatons
that the lake navigation Is in no sense local or sectional
that has all been subjected by the federal government
10 the revenue and the admiralty systems OF the Union
and has always been In the time of war the theatre
Of most brilliant and effective naval triumphs in tn,
establishment OF our true political Independence Tha
this inland navigation is the basis Of the commercial
aggrandizement Of the city Of New York, which has
already poured into the national treasury within the TWEEN
~ years since the Erie canal brought into enccua
operation, the immense OF $3.50 900 900; that Will
that canal annually bears freight Of the aggregate vauc
OF 300 900, is the basis Of annual 10 the
united states OF more than $40 OO0 The region tri
outary 10 the Erie Canal Is continually charging and 10
already drawing Eeghts Of cotton from tho lower Msss
pp while Ns trade Is augmented by every stroke Of the
axe IN the northwestern provinces Of British America
New YORK. in review Of the facts declares that her Erie
SnaI s work superior In its national operation 10 any
Htncai channel Of navigation constructed in any
country ancient or modern times save only the Grand
Canal Oh China The object of the state in making CHS
comm"ncauon, Is 70 make the foundation Of an appeal
harbors Of the United States M the two tormin or The
Erie Canal on lake Ontario and Lake Erie and Of such
other harbors az are necessarily used In connection VITA