From the St. Louis Times, Oct. 20.
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4 .Nc7v Route.-About week since the goods of one of our merchants (Mr E.. C.. MARCEL which had been purchased in New York, arrived in this city by the way of Chi cago. The goods were sent up the New York canal, thence by schooner to Chicago, thence in wagons, to the rapids ot the Illinois river, where they were again shipped on boad a steamboat for this place. This experiment which Mir MARCH has made, and the success attending it are important, as it has establish ed the following facts.

 First, That goods shipped from New York by way of the lakes, will even in the present state of the improvement ofthe route, arrive here in twenty five days, or less than half the time that they are usually obtained by way of New Orleans.

 Second, That the cost of transportation by the former route will be from one third to one-half less than by the latter. In the pre- sent case, the freight paid on the goods was only of the sum charged on the Orleans route, and the goods were insured from New-York to Chicago for per cent, whereas the insu- rance by the way of the sea is 2l per cent.

 Third, When goods are shipped by the way of the lakes, the merchant can calculate almost to certainty, within two or three days, upon the time of their arrival great CohVChiehec, to say tne leaSt, put one which he does not at present possess.

 Fourth, The probability that the goods will be lost by the way when shipped round by sea- taking the cost of insurance for the criterion, is as 2 to ], or five times greater than when sent through the interior. This is an important consideration. For, even sup posing the goods to have been insured to the full amount of cost and charges-which we believe they seldom are-yet the merchant must necessarily sustain the loss of some two or three months business-and that usually in the best season of the year--upon the fai- lure of his goods to arrive

 These facts appearto us conclusively to es- tablish the superiority of the new route over the old one, and to shew the importance of whatever improvements may give facility to the inland transportation.

 he water communication is now complete all the way from New-York to St. Louis, with the exception only of the distance from Chicago to the Rapids on the Illinois river 75 miles, Why should not a Rail Road con stiucted here, prove alike useful to the coun- try and profitable to the owners of its stock {? That it would be so in both cases appears to