New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-15
Commerce and Extent Of the Lakes.
An Albany correspondent Of the New 7 ork Com
nercial Advertiser gives the following interesting

An Albany correspondent Of the New Y ork Com
mercial Advertiser gives the following interesting
items:
/ have been looking over the annual report af
the Superintendent of the Eaut Ste. Marie ship
canal. This canal was built by New York and
New England capitalists, prominent among whom
il Mr.. Erastus Corning, Of this city. Pr Il the
largest class Of lake steamers are enabled to pass
from the lower lakes into Lake Superior and to the
copper mines thereof. This canal is 5694 feet in
length-the fall to be overcome is seventeen feet
there are two Lift locks, each three hundred and
fifty feet in length, sixty feet wide at the bot
tom and seventy feet width at the top. Congress
granted the Company in 1852, in aid of this work.
100000 acres of the public lands Tho receipts Of
the company for 1853 were SlI 400, and the expen
ditures s5600
Lake Superior, thus opened to the navigation
of the largest class of steamers is the most extern
siye body of fresh water yet known on the globe
and its shores are rich In inexhanstible mines Of
copper ore, and the best and strongest iron
yet discovered. There have passed downward
from this lake the past year 66 600 tuns of iron ore
and 1900 tuns Of copper ore. The total valuation
of all the property passing through the canal, IN
clnding provisions, etc, for the miners and others,
is, in round numbers, sl0,000ooo. The day q close
at hand when this great northern parfof the Stata
of Michigan will be organized into separate State
and probably under the name OF SUPERIOR Even
now, the people In this region talk Of the feaabE
ity Of 2 ship canal some three hundred and my
Hudsonas Bay. Imagine yourself one of q pleas
ure party starting from New York for D summers
trip IN Staunch steamer, VIA the Guif of st. LAW
renee, the Canadian canals, the great lakes, and
this canal to the Arctic ocean. You can keep the
idea to cool off WITH when the heats of next sum-
mer invade the sa,lctura. Wild as this may now
seem, the child is now old enough to read your
paper who will yet take this very trip.
l. FIRST TEA ON NAsTucKEr.-The Nantucket In
quirer relates this laughshe historical incident:
/ Edward starbuck, the Miles Standish of our IA.
and who came from Salisbury with Macy aud
| others. had grandson, Nathaniel Sfarhuck, Jr.,
/ who was engaged in making voyages 10 China.
Prior to 1850, he returned TO Boston from one d
these voyages. and thence to Nantucket, bringing
with him the first box Of tea that was ever landed
ON the island. The town waS then rest Of the
present site. The Starbueks lived upen d farm
Il near Maddaket. The owner of the ship I'd which
, Mr.. Starbuck was attached came here from Boaton
to make him visit. Mrs. StaTbuek was desired
by her husband to make cup Of tea. She said she
knew no way to cook it. Neither do |. said ne,
/, g bat make II the best way you can.n She faeA
4 bell-metai KETTLE and boiled up about a galieh-
!. She arranged the table like good Hife via g
silver porringer for each guest, sugar cream ~.
n On came the tea in silver tansafd. nsa s..
they were all seated at the table, ars. s.sfeaoA
a said to her distinguished visitor = na.s .aaee g
dish of tea for thee, but fear nave no. oos s.
,f It should be- and would like to have thy opinon.
aWeIIH u said he, ssas you desired my opinlens I
-. n,nst saw a spoonful of this beverage would ku
IS aither Of ms at the table, He then instructed her
how to draw it. having been accustomed to It's ase
h When dome they returned to the table, and had
one of those ovial sttings usually enjoyed BY our
:, conpiyal ancestors
a ERaArua EXTRAORDINARY. An up.eountrg ex-