The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-11

oopstantly among rs. This has given an impulse
to our Western trade, and Ia; ocossoned coas,d'
" The Northwest on; Politics.-The giant North
west IL, in fact, beginning to perceive and employ
its physical ability ~ the commercial politics OF
The country With the conviction that the Missis-
sippi outlet was Of Indispensable importance, it
has decreed that all obstacles to the navigation Of
that river shall be removed from its sources to its
mouth. So the Des Holmes canal y under con.
6 feet deep. Tho smsller obstructions Of the up
per river, including the bridge ct Rock Island are
to be removed. or 30 modified as no longer 70 I'M
dared : dfsdse-bost,, costing nearly s4OO, 600, to
20 to work the Belise passes. Besides this, 81.
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati are declared ports
Of entry, and hereafter goods viii De impor.eeo
4 great change In the values imported by way OF
this customhouse. There are other evidences that
this great internal power will make itself ien IN
msnt II IL leviathsn, which has only made itself
known. 80 far, by spouting and an occasional lssn
Of ts tan When It's power shall be fully awakened:
Il III snap the ropee and splinter the iiepoats OIL
alone. The character Of national politics VIII %
| dxed by the millions who inhabit the Northwest.
| They are mostly Of European origin, believe 10
the divine right Of he majority, think that tno
| minority ought TO be hanged for the treason Oh
| difference Of opinion. In word, they have uans-
fused the doctrine of European des2ousm INTO sne
forms Of . popular government. whenever ILLS
l. uumeIic8l power buafl Oou1ou1a ~ fs1~A.s
anticipate moral revolution in the political ad-
ministration Of this Democratic republic"
| The prnpnaed -dippsnsions OF the canal above
described, as projected for uniting Prairie du
Chen on the Mississippi with Green Bay on Lake
| Michigan, across the State Of Wisconsin, are as
follows: The entire Improvement will be Z9o
miles in length, Of which lis miles, chiefly o. lakS
and river navigation, are in use. The looks VIII
be leo feet long by IS feet wide. The upper FOX
il not yet fully Improved. but now passes bArges
of greater capacity thsn those OF the Erie Canal.
The dimensions of tae water line through Illinois
| will be- when the canal II enlarged, lengtn l0O
| miles. with locks $50 feet long BY 20 wide COST
$40. 600 OOO These two latter works are not an
| tag ouistic and will make manageable water COM
| mupication betweenitl.e great chain OF lakes and
| urWards of twenty thousand miles OF navgable
rivers. including the Mississippi and its numerous
| tributaries and the Red River Of the North and
| Saskatchawan and British America. These i'm
| proyements, in connection with the short ship
canal, less than Daile long, between lakes big
Stone and Traver, viii open steamboat naviga-
| ton from Chicago or New Orleans to Lake WIN
| nepeg, which Is 709 miles distant from 81. PAUL.
This great sheet of water is as large as Lake On-
ta,io, and receives the Saskatchewan river from
the west which Itself Is navgable 700 miles to the
Rocky Mountains, within distance OF on miles
from The Frazers river gold mines. BY means OF
these improvements and the various snip canais
proposed or completed between Lake Mic ~
! | and the East steamers from Quebec, new OF 4
or New Orleans could be passed 10 tne heau
waters of the Missosri, the Yellow Stone ana tns
Saskatcbawan, a distance Of $500 miles oil inianc
!, | Wdtef ndtPn'o"'