The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-05-19
From the Daily Union.
THE MAIL STEAMERS TO BREMEN


THE MAIL STEAMERS TO BREMEN.
The Bremen ." Weser Gazette" of the end OF
March, leading paper of the public opinion OF
Germany-communicaie the news of a contract
having been made by the Postmaster General al
Washington. with Mr.. E.. Mills. of New York
for the establishment of mail steamer line be-
tween New York and Bremen, via Cowes, and
accompanies 1t with some very appropriate re-
marks. which we are happy to lay before our
readers. We hail with great pleasure this pros
pect OF more intimate union with the people Of
Oermany. we are already indebted to that
country for large proportion OF our population
decidedly among the most sagacious, industrious,
honest and useful portion Of our fellow citizens
Wherever they 90, the scatter the fruits of their
economy, industry, good management, and good
morals around them. The tide of emigration is
still increasing. 1t is flowing now to Ohio, to
Missouri, to all the States southwest of the Ohio
to Texas, and to many of the States on the At
lantic board. These and their descendants still
preserve strong sympathy with their father.la !;
and some means should be provided for their moro
immediate communication with Germany. These
steamers will thus encourage a large emigration
10 our shores of useful citizens we'll as provide
them with the means of communicating more
freely with their native country. Another ad.
vantage will be, as the " Bremen Gazette'' states.
to extend our commerce with the north of Ger
many, which is so we'll calculated to benefit both
countries. She has many articles that we want,
and we have many that she wants. And there
is no country in Europe that trades upon such
liberal terms with the rest of the world, having
free trade. few protective duties, and none pro
hlbltory. But establish this line OF steamers to
Bremen, and the facility of our communication
Will extend our commerce, and it will also make
1t an object of competition with the other CONNER
cia nations of Europe. to relax their regulations.
and extend to us freer trade. In these and
other points of view, we fully subscribe to the
suggestions of the {" Bremen Gazette, !" and res
pectfny hope that the present Congress will carry
out the proposed system with the greatest energy
and alacrity.
We are happy to be informed that the king of
Prussia Is, IN compliance with his former prom
ises, about to call delegates together in order 10
form constitution for his people. This will
form another tie for more intimate connection
between the United States and Germany
We learn that respectable agent from the
merchants of Cowes arrived in Washington to-
day, charged with the duty of representing the
advantages of the steam route by way of Cowes
TO Bremen.
From the Bremen Gazette
"We may congratulate all Germany on such
great and important event, by which this coun-
try will be brought to the United States as near
as England. which has enjoyed the privilege of
steam communication exclusively up to this mo-
ment. Our commercial intercourse becoming
thus most direct, one, that connection of natural
allies will be established, which the two nations
are so justly entitled to by their happy relation
towards each other, as, free from all impedments,
and the interference of colonies of their own, the
products OF the one couDtry-viz: tobacco cotton
rice, &c.--will be exchanged freely, and to an
unlimited extent, against those of the other-as
woollen cloth, linen, cotton, and silk, and half
silk goods, SIC. We repeat, it is an event of vet
incaiculable consequences, that Germany, as
whole, is on the eve to enter into such direct
commercial intercourse with the first and most
powerful productive country of the New World
with nation intimately connected with us. not
only by ties of blood and friendship, but also by
sympaihizing feelings, which are kept alive by a
constantly increasing emigration, as well as by
the existing great German population in the Uni
ted States, amounting to nearly four millions of
estimable citizens.
E" 1t is great political and highly praseworthy
measure on the part of the present administration
of the United States, thus to break dowa the mo-
nopolizng influence of third nations, injurious to
the direct intercourse with the European CONT
nent. 1t will, at the same time, prove the means
TO free the inland trade of Germany from many ex
listing membranes of interchange. by which the
consumption of American produce will be increas-
ed to great extent; and finally it will induce
the different German governments to adopt joint
measures beneficial to commerce, and to com plete
that great commercial union which has but too
long been counteracted by powerful neighborng
nations, checking the development of the direct
commerce of the United States with this cont
nent.
owe think ourselves justified in supposing that
Congress will share the views Of the administra-
ton, and that both Houses will not hesitate to
make the stipulated appropriation for the mail
service accordingly"
Sosthey, in his " Ou,niana," relates the fol-
lowing -" When | was last at -, nun
made her escape from the Irish nunnery. The
first thing for which she inquired, when she
reached the house in which she was to he secret.
cd was looking-glass. She had entered the
convent when only five years old, and from that
time had never seen her own face"
The last case Of mudesly, is that ola LADY, who
discarded her lover, sea captain, because in
speaking Of one Of his voyages, he said that he
Rugged the shore.
He who buys what he does not want, will soon
want what he cannot bnv