New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-26
Germany-Her Railroads. &c.

direct from this City to Germsny-whereoi the
frst will start on Tuesday next, June lst " DC
followed ere long by spother.-is an event dest'neo
In exert a most important influence upon the Com
rnercisl importance Of City and the Intellectual
growth and habits Of our People. Hitherto we
have been content 20 receive our tidlngs and our
ideas of the Continent to q great extent through
British channels Heaceforth Germany land soon
FrauceI will speak TO US directly, and we shall
communicate with each other without interpre
ter. Henceforth, our Manufacturing and Mechani-
cal Industry will be more imminently exposed to a
second and dangerous rival in tho cheap Labor
cheap Wares and Fsbrics,-the Glass WooleDs
Hosiery. Prints. &c &c Of Germany. II is time,
therefore, that we scrape formal acqusint
ance with the new neighbors about to be set down
near our doors.
The new line Of Ocean Steamships passing
Southwark Of Ireland and avoiding st. Georges
Channel altogether. will double Lands End and
bear MP the English Channel to the Isle OF Wight,
and Of course to Portsmouth or Southampton-tbe
latter. we understand. is intended; for though
Cowes on the Isle of Wight is named as the stop
ping place for England, it will no doubt be found
more advantageous TO all parties To land and receive
the Mails and passengers the main land OF Great
Britain than subject them to the delay and chances
of such steamboats, as will naturally ply between
il and the Isle of Wight From Southampton
hrst class Railroad, complete and In good order |
will transport them TO London in three hours, or
nhoat half the time required TO reach London from
Liverpool
Thence our Steamships will proceed to BREMEN, |
one Of the four great Free Cities of Germany, stu
sted (lat $50 N. long. 90 Z at the head OF ship |
navigation the Weser, the second of the great
German Rivers empty ing into the North Seattle
river by which and its tributaries, Hanover Bruins
wick Hesse Cassel, &c. are watered. Bremen is
not now 80 large Hamburg, the chief city on the
Elbe some 50 miles farther east Of north but II
ia thriving aud rising while Hamburg is stationary
If not declining From Bremen there are regular
lines Of Steamships to Hull England, in &c hours
10 Amsterdam Holland, in 80 hours, and 70 Norder'
ney, North Germany, In Ia hours Above Bremen
the weser is nsvigaied by fifteen steamboats, 100
miles o where il is formed by the junction OF the
Werva and Fuds and the Fulda Itself is navgat-
ed by another boat for some distance to Cassel in
Hessia ION the various rivers of Germany there
are now steamboats, plying as follows Danube and
tributaries 80; Elbe and do 80 Ems 81 Main 9 :
Nscksr 3; Mosene and ssar 9 Oder 10; Trave
Lakes Of GERMANY, 1874
Ia RAiLRoAps Germany is now making rapid
progress One line 10 now in active progress, to
run from Bremen through Hanover, Hildeshem,
Cassel, Frankfort-onthe Main, Dsrmstadt, Heidel
berg Mannheim karlsruhe, Frieburg to Strasburg in
France and aisle in Switzerland, through the heart
Of Western Germany, distance ofsome 500 miles.
At Hanover il crosses the line from Hamburg by
Minden and Dusseldorf to Cologne on the Rhine
and the Belgian frontier. where it viii connect
with Railroads to Brussels Paris, &c. At Hsno-
yer, il connects with the Railroad thence, via
Brunswick. Magdeburg and Potsdam, to Berlin,
which is fifteen hours from Bremen. This Road
from Hanover to Berlin, 100 miles, is already com
pleted. From different points on this route, Rail
roads are in operation or 10 progress, passing
through Leipsic. Augsburg, Dresden, Breslsu. 81
beside the great line nearly completed from Ham
burg on the navigable waters e the German
oeesn by Berlin. FrankfrsS on the Oder BresSu
oderbers visnr:, aratz, Msrburg City to Trieste
on the ..drla,ic a little less than 900 miles, o
which tribe over 100 now remain to be constructed
ARailcoad of 81 miles from Altoona to Kiel opened
In ~, connects the Ebe with the Baltic, while an
other from Berlin to stsrgard loo miles, finished
ayesr ago. connects the Baltic more directly will
the great line to Vienna and the Adnstc. Still an
other line, nearly complete, connects Berlin Will
Vienna through Coethen Halle, Leipzig Dresden
and Prague. being about $50 miles long of wb'c
less than 10 remain unfinished. There srs man
lines Of less importance already comPl, ted or !
progress while one from Berlin q, Stettin an
Dsntsis, thence through Konigs1srg and along tn
Baltic 10 the Russian frontier one from Vienn
into the heart OF Hungary, &c are projected an
partly in progress. Th, natural effect OF the e
tablishmens OF our 'ane Of Steamships will be
stimulate the CAPITALISTS and merchants OF Breme
70 more spirited exertions for the completion
theirown tine, and OF any others which may be NJ
cessary to attract the American trade and emigr
tiou of Germany to their port TO which facility al
frequency OF trans Atlantic communication w
strongly incline It.
From an article contributed to the National
seisgescer. by eminent German whence
have condensed most OF the above facts We lea
that the aggregate lensth Of the Railroads OF u
many already completed. is 1900 miles VIII
Prus.is alone viii add $50 miles in the course
this and next year. The average speed oil the
locomotives 10 about twenty miles per hour se'
dents upon these roads are very rare while q
fares are lower than in this country varying fro
3to 5 cents per mile for hrstclsss passengers, sv
rsgiog about 2 een,s for secondclsss, while thir
class is carried for sversge Of about Il cent
znie. The well informed writer adds;
In reference to the commerce Of the uaIted Stat
with Gvrusby, u may be stated that the completion
tAs,s roads wiil 10 short time bring all m.nuts
turps districts that country into cont.
win Hamburg and Bremen sno the lstt-r places. bsir
sh. pu,pt Of t~rmustion with the Ne~-York ssesrn
Aor 10 rruspy Gill thus become the great staple pls
OF imports from the United States. ana export OF &c
man m.nafsctsrrs To me United sssirs ias ioeses
coputry to the United stst~s hsv. how almost eonce
sT,d An B,,men the plumber OF ems rants shipped t. u