True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-11-03
TIE TRUE AM ERICAN.
EDITED nv y0ssx GIBSON.
FAITHFUL AND BOLD.
n h w ORR VS.:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1898.
STEAM SHIPS,

STEAM SHIPS.
Where our public spirited men? Has the
late crisis entirely crushed their enterprise! Do
we intend 10 sit still and lie, New York run away
with the prize? We ask these questions with
view to ascertain, whether, are to make no
effort whatever to secure to city the immense
advantages of sea steam navigation. From the
apathy manifested by our citizens, it would seem
that nothing can rouse them from the e,harpv
produced by the miserable mal-adminisrra,ion of
the general government. 1t is of no use TO regret
the past. To say, that, had i, not been for the
commercial crisis of 1887 we should have ha d the
honor of fret crossing the Atlantic by the aid of
steam is poor consolation, at this late day. when
the merit of the achievement belongs to the En-
slsh. 1t remains r the people of this city and
state TO come forward at once in the cause Of
Atlantic Steam Navigation and to assert the dig.
nifty and superiority OF New Orleans as the Empo-
rum Of the great South and West. Will they do
s,1 Will they, with culpabe carelessness, let
New York 90 on Increasing and growing upon our
strength md renpng the rich harvest of our com
meTce and trade! Do we see the effect of such
| a course! While satisfied with il, the New
Workers have right TO taun. Us with cur depend.
ance up n heir great city.
| When New York, from her POSITION depended
upon COMMUNICATION with Europe by means of n
sailing marine, there was no power in America
| that could have deprived her of the precedence
She had and has line of packet ships not
equacd by any in the world; whether we look a,
the vessels or their Captains. A climate like that
of New York, combined with harbor accessible
nj all seasons is necessary TO sustain heavy nj en-
chant marine Not so with steam ships
| On the very hour in which the Sirius cast anchor
oft the Battery and proved the praclicabiliy of
Atlantic Steam Navigation, the scep,re of mer-
camille and money power passed from the hands
OF the Go'hamites. Steam di1uses ,ccaHh, mol
concentrates it. A direct trade can be established
with Europe from any port on the Atlantic by
means of this powerful agent. II ,ciN break M to-
tally all The er'sting relations of trade. The mere
dulous Will laugh at this prediction, but few
years Will suffice to verify it. All our desire is.
10 see our own city take time by the foreIock and
get her steam ships 10 ply direct between this
| port and Liverpool or London. We now paw in
the shape of taxes to New York upon our money
and cotton operations in six months ten times Nh 2
amount which it would take TO constructive such
vessels as the British Queen. What then? Would
II not be wisdom 10 embark in scheme that
would place US within t'ecnty days of Liverpool,
and save to our pockets millions and make us in
dependent of the New York ontrepol1
| The British Queen is 2O2J tons brr,hen and
when full loaded draws Is feet water, We're
she to visit our city she could pass over the bar
the Bazo with 10 feet draught. Which is til,
best route,-hat from Liverpool to New York
OF that fir ON Liverpool to New O,lcansa ALI
. md
| that tho latter is the best. With comparatiyelv
calm sea until you approach the Western Islands,
such vessel as the Queen could make twely,
miles an hour easily and that too day after day.
by touching a, Havana, the great mercantile in
lerests OF Great Britain aud the continent would
be benefited 10 extent calculated with the data
we have at hand now.
LOOK at the advantage which would be enjoyed by the
world at large if the great specie mart of Havana coud
be placed within sixteen DAYS distance of Eupland ,
But this is consideration of little consco uencc comm
red with the immense advantages to this Southern conn
try by establishing direct communication with the
English cotton spinner. Now, New York owes one h,f
OF her prosperity to being the money market of the South
west. With steam ship line running regularly to
England III twenty or twenty-five days, the heavy bust
ness done on Wall street in br, negotiable paper,
ana Dunk money would be done CITY,
lis is subject we mean to pursue until something
be done to assert monicd independence ofNew York
Steam is the agent that alone effect this desirable
Object Let the watch word, therefore, be with every
cltzen-SrEAM SHIPS to Europe-and let no man rest
IF m his labors till steam hips shall sail regularly every
half month to London Liverpool. We know that the
British " American steam navigation company of Lon
don will second our efforts They have one million OF
pounds sterling subscribed and paid up and we should
want funds, they will put in way TO get them ut
five per cent. interest per annum, More on Monday
EhtgrdtMg IHdtaHs.-Two schooncrs arrived yes
terday from Tampa Bay, having board between 300
and 400 indians. The schuoners were owed IN nv the
" Rodney" and the indians landed the opposite side
of the river, little above the second municipality fer
ry, where they encamped.
u Lecture Education will he delivered This
Evening, by Lucus c. Duncan, in the Methodist church.
corner Of Poydras and Carondelet.
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