True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-10-24

Steam 10 EurODC.-3lI The ClIG5 Ui the NO III
are ava kc ming the importance at having steam
pack,ss to run between their ports, mad those of
Europe; how is it thcn that New Orleans still
| SUM No city in the Union needs thcm more e,
yet takes 50 little pains to procure them .
Our port is peculiarly crcumstanced to proh by
every thing connected with Steam Naviga n
onr speculations in peculiarly call for
the earliest information Of the markets, and il IS
easy 10 demonstrate that steam ships could each
| us, direct from Liverpool, much sooner than the
Express Mail can bring us tidings from the 'Great
Western III New York. While all inorma-
lion is received through the North, our m erchans
must be content with such spcculations Nsw
Workers decline: as long they hear the state
Of the m arReIs eight days before us, they will al.
ways have the opportunity of enriching themselves
at our expense. What then are the plain dictates
even OF pure ssfshness! To establish line of
steam ships of our own, or to make some arrange
menrs with some Of those now huiliingin Europe.
To offer them such inducements sha Il make it
profitable to them to make this their port Of des
nation. There are many advantages in navigat-
ing the Intermediate seas between the Mississippi
| anI the Mersey, which OF themselves may be
deemed n bonus.
In her voyage towards tho Southern Ocean,
steam ship could travel all the time nj her best,
speed, unohsructed by those storms and hea d
seas which all vessels trading from Europe to the
North must risk, and which lately delayed the
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which, the track would bring within her reach three
or four dep6ts for fuel stores, in of accident
| in the Azore4, Bermuda, or Cuba. To each of
| these she would always command whatever pas.
sengers were going; while no inconsiderable item
of profit would accrue from sowage, up and down,
our river. The citizens Of Baltimore, and Phi
ade lphia are mak ing vigorous efforts to share in
the profit and glory, which New York now mono
pnlizes. The Philadelphia Herald of the 10Th says
"Onr readers will learn with great gratiic alton,
| that the Committee appointed tor the purpose of
| preliminary arrangements TO secure a line of
| steam packets 10 connect sPhad e!phia with the
| Old World have written to Liverpool to ascertain
the estimates and cost OF constructing boats, and
the matter connected with carrying out this deeply
important measure. They are good men and true,
and we trust they will not for II NONE nt relax IN
their Efforts unr this great project shall he
cessfutIy accomplished Philadelphia mechanics,
Sc, them to work, can build good line at steam
! packets be reared 10 ,he world, and ali {
want is 10 give them the opportunity to do 50. 1t
must be done"
Though Steam Navigation must necessarily he
valuable to all, vet to it bring more profit
than to MS, One successful operation in our
staples, which a days advance of the mail might
cause, would pay for the ship that brought the
news A large portion, perhaps the majority, of
those passengers who now crowd the "Wesern, y
aud the "William," are citizens of the South, and
West; TO all ofthese our city is far easier of tccess
/ than New FORK, and besides them some hundreds
who do no. now 90, would, were the means so
slose,vist Europe as commonly as they now do the
North. Conveyances always beget voya.ers, for
it,s tfite indeed 10 say in these day. tina, the
more facilities the more travellers: will then New
Orleans still continue in the tear, even when
wealth calls on her to advance.