Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-07-07

/ DRBcr TRADE WITH GERMANY.-The ocean
steamer, Washington, which sailed from New
York on the first of June for Bremen, touching
at Cowes and Southampton, will open direct
communication between this country and the
Continent of Europe, which will superoede, for
the purposes of commerce and travel, the over
land route of the Cunard line. The establish
ment of the direct line, is an event calculated to
exert an important influence upon the CONNER
cial interests of this country and Germany
An Intelligent German has written long COM
munication in the National Intellegencer from
which we gather some interesting facts in sup
port of this view of the subject. This writer
calculates that immense importations of Ger
man cloths, Silks china-wares, &c. will be car
ried through these steamers, and that great
portion of the less INDECENT emigrants will pre-
fer the same conveyance. And he is sure that
nearly all the correspondence between Germa-
ny and this country, not merely, but all CONT
mental Europe east and north of the Rhine, will
prefer this channel.
Bremen is one of the most important of the
four great free cities of Germany. 1t is at the
head of ship navigation on the Weser, above
which the river is navigated one hundred and
sixty miles by steamboats,, of which there are
one hundred and thirty -four plying on the riv-
ers and lakes of Germany. Bremen is also the
centre of the great network of railroad con-
Meeting frs It with Western Germany, and run
ming through the heart of five hundred miles ;
next with the Belgian frontier, where it con-
meets with railroads to Brussels and Paris =
dred and ninety miles completed with Trieste
on the Adriatic, a little less than one thousand
mile, of which only one hundred remain to be
completed. A railroad of "a miles from Altoona
to Kiel, opened in 1874, connects the Elbe and
the Baltic, while another from Berlin to SUIT
gard, log miles finished year ago, connects
the Baltic more directly with the great line to
Vienna and the Adriatic. Still another line,
nearly complete, connects Berlin with Vienna,
through Goethen, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden, and
Prague, being about $50 miles long. of which
less than 70 remain unfinished. Many lines of
less Importance are already completed or in pro-
gress, which will attract the American trade
and emigration of Germany to Bremen. The
aggregate length of the railroads of Germany,
already completed, is $500 miles, while Prus-
STA alone will add $50 miles in the course of
this and next year.
When these roads are all completed, vast ben
Gifts may be expected to be reaped from the ia
cilities afforded to trade and travel by the line
of American mail steamships. In a short time
will be brought all the manufacturing districts
of Germany into immediate contact wit Ham
burg and Bremen, and the latter places, being
the point of termination with the New York
steamer line TO Germany, will thus become the
great staple place of imports from the United
States, and export of German manufactures to
the United States. The tobacco trade with
Germany, and the emigration from that country
to the United States have now almost concen-
trated in Bremen, the number of emigrants to
the United States having increased in the last
year to upwards of 10000 per annum. Facili-
ties for communication exist already on a great
scale, and the railroad thence to Hanover, in
connection with the whole railroad system of
the interior, must give new impulse to the
commerce of that port.-Buf. Erp.