The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-03

dshonorabe, without the people knowing anytntu
to the contrary, long shall we find kings and nun
listers ready to unite in any scheme to inJurc ~ O
retard our progress.
OF all the ports in the North sea, am decidedly
in favor of Bremen--lst Because il can be reaches
at all seasons Of the year; while Hamburg, Rotten
dam, Amsterdam, and Antwerp cannot. "a. BE
cause that port is the great embarking port for emil
grants to the United States. 3d. Because her trad'
with the United States direct is greater than that
any Of the others 4th. Because she lies in the very
centre of Germany, and has the greatest facility
internal communication with the surrounding states
5th. Because her merchants and government would
feel warm interest in the promouon and successiu
issue of the line of steamers. 9th Because she u
a republic, small in territory, but welding grea
bors in the progress of liberal principles which
Hamburg, from It's being under the influence OF Eng
land, cannot and dare not. 7th Because her people
enlerprising and LIBERAL energetic, and mt TO pro-
iect and execute the many projects OF trade emana
ting from, and to develop the advantages of, this IN
creased intercourse, which the lazy Dutch ana the
bigoted Fleming incapable OF doing.
By making Bremen the terminus, in the North
sea- of a line Of American mail steamers the United
States would thereby derive all the advantages OF
an exclusive treaty of amity and commerce with
the most moral and sensible government OF Europe
Their burgomasters, their senators, their municipal
authorities, would all be imbued with the strongest
would ever be ready with pen or purse TO put down
and correct any attempt at niuring us, and to adj
vocate cause among their numberless neighbors
Their watchful eyes and sagacity would keep in
allegiance such schemes as were lately attempted to
be practised under the guse OF treaty between the
United States and the Zoll-Verein. They would, in
fact be constituent part of the United States, and
all through this line terminating at their port Eng
land has found great benefit from enlisting the
friendly feelings of other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. her as
tendency over Portugal her control in the Spanish
cabinet, her management of the petty princes OF
India and her attempt to carry out the same policy
in Texas. We want similar influence In our be.
half in Europe, and that is to be procured in Bre-
men.
While we are talking of the terminus Of this line,
il may be proper to look at the port Of call in the
English channel.
BY stopping at, or rather passing by, Cowes, the
steamers might perform the mail contracts for Eng
land, France, and Germany. From Southampton,
distant from this place twelve miles, steamers leave
for Havre every day in the week except Mondays;
and from other port is the intercourse with Havre
so frequent, or so direct, as with Southampton.
Havre is the point in France to which the American
mail ought first to he sent. From Southampton to
London, the distance is seventy-seven miles, per-
formed in two hours. Cowes always be
reached in any weather, at all times of tide, and no
detention in landing the mail or passengers Spit
head, OH Portsmouth, is now used by the London
and New York line Of pa6kets but passengers COM
plain greatly at being put on shore off that place,
The British Queen" contracted to land her passen-
gers from New York at Southampton; but, to avoid
the delay paid steamer TO take them from Cowes
roads, where'she always brought up.
Cowes is now royal residence and the seat of the
principal yacht-cub BY coming to this port, our
steamers would be reviewed by the Queen and the
elite of the kingdom. 1t is as well they should
know we can do some things as well as other folks.
The North-sea pilots living here have SO good a
reputation, that many American masters put in here
in order to employ them.
. The mail for England might be sent to me in a
bag, covering the mail for France. That for Eng
land could be put in the post Office here stamped
by me for the English postage; and that for France
sent by steamer from Southampton to Havre, un-
der care Of trusty person, TO be delivered to the
consul at Havre. If each mailbag is sealed with
the United Sntes seal, they must reach me without
going through the post office FIRST thereby mourning
foreign postage Of eshtpehce per letter Ifan inter.
national postal arrangement is made, this precauton
would be unnecessary. BY this plan, great economy
would be achieved, by avoiding separate contracts
for England, France, and Germany.
No port in the English channel can offer the adj
vantages for carrying this combined contract into ef
feet, that Cowes does. As place Of call, the
French ports out of the question, they not
ai,cas accessbiewhch is essential, prevent deen-
ton, and insure certainty in the arrival and depart
ute of the steaifiers on fired days.
The English mail, if landed at FaImotith, might
reach London sooner than if landed at Cowes; but
then the German mail by the steamer would be an
ticipated by advces by way of London, which it is
desirable to avoid; and them from Falmouth there is
no communication to France.
Brighton is not accessible in bad weather; neither
is Dover. Plymouth and Dartmouth are subject to
the same objections as Falmouth, and they are out
of the way.
Believe me- y'y JOS. 'f Fy5b i5sIEE cRoskEY.
A. D. MANI, esd
Copy Of letter from an old and distinguished inhdbani
cfthe Isle Of Wight to A. ID. Mann, esq.
Cows, ID Sept, l645
DEAR Sir: Having, in the course Of conversation
with you, while here, understood that it was in
York and Germany, to call off some port in Eng
land or France to land passengers and mails, VEN
ture call your attention to of the advantages
possessed by this port, and which 10 to give
it decided superiority over any other port on either
side Of the channel.
up the English ehanneb the only deviation which
would be required f deviation it could be called) be-
ing the passing inside instead of outside the Isle OF
Wight. We possess at this port numerous and
xelI-reghlated establishment OF licensed pilots, an
interchangeable and enerprisIng race Of men, who are
always 10 be f0und IN all seasons anu I'LL WeatncTs
cruising in the English channel, ready to afford Their
services to any ships bound to this port. A ship
wishing to lard passengers at this port has, there
fore, only to take pilot off the Needles, and UP
to Cowes roads, where the passengers could be
dsembarked in smooth water, in perfect safety, and
transferred at once to one of the numerous steamers
plying between this place and Southampton; after
which, she could proceed to again in the prose
cution of her voyage, without moments delay Of
detention, and without any deviation from her
course. The passage from hence to Southampton
occupies about an hour; and that from Southamp.
tom per railway, to London, now performed in two
hours; so that the mails and passengers might be
delivered in London in three hours from their arri
val at this port. There Is also daily communica.
ton between Southampton and Havre, kept up by
powerful and we-appointed steamers, by which the
passage is performed from port to port in seven OF
eight hours and by which the mails and passengers
intended for France could be sent forward without
delay. Cowes roadstead is too well known to re.
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