Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-05-21

MAINTAIN that our whaling vessels in the Pacific can
Sed nome Their oil once year the shmuS pay the
tolls and make much more money than they now do by
Keeping Their oil out three years. and having 10 waste
ny leakage. 10 be recoopered, sc.
This railroad according To NV estimates-and thew are
founded up n authentic daa-would revoutionze The
whaling business entirety and by enabling owners to send
on vessels only large enough hOdthe proceeds of one
years fishing INSTEAD Of three the outlay Of Ills great in
teTeSt would be diminished one-half Will. tho racajns
wonu De Increased by allowing the vessel more time 10
Sh oy saving leakage, time employed in coopernu in
terest on dead capital, SC
There is floating capital of ST. 900 900 emploved in
this business which you perceive more than all our
present commerce with The entire markets Of the Pacific
Ocean.
maintain that the Panama railroad is wanted for 9th
fer purposes besides those OF hOrounhare to Cal
norma. The Panama is more convenient to South Amer
lea than any other route Ii would bring the travel from
ihere aud with the travel merchants and customers
through the United States. 1t would enable Richmond
to send her flour Peru in one 0u nth the fine and G
one malt The money that it takes her to send il around
Cape Horn.
1t would bring within three weeks the clffee ard su
sugar vi Choco which are now beyond the limits Of com
melce with U.s. Thus we should have connection with
Brazil IN coffee, and competition with the West Indies in
sugar.
would enable South Carolina and Mississippi to SUP
ply Western Mexico with raw c,tton, which our manu-
factories are now beginning To consume largely
Dt
expenses OF The Cape Horn voyage the Peruvans to Gu
tvae cotton 900 bales Of which cotton were taken last
year oy one house III New York. and in America ships
from Lamhayeque and Paeta in Peru to the Guadalaiars
manufactures in Nexico
since the government of tn United States has ouaran-
eu me neutrality OF the Panama road against the world
In arms malngln that there is some s Of oblostinn il,
see mat Inc Thing guaranteed be made available
ny 'di!9 % encourage the construction Of that work
: as eiltclually encouraging the growth o
COTTON Ia Feru as though she to Offer to the Peru
Wan Planter bounty OF cent pound on all he car
grow Cotton is Indigenous t. Peru. it blossoms anc
ooWS there the year round 1t meets the Nsssspp cot
oh IN uuadalaaTa with the advantage of nearly cent
pound ON account ofthe Cape Horn voyaoe. The Pan
ANA road would give the advantage TO the MississIpp
COTTON ana by falling 10 render this advantage available
10 the American cotton planter we are f,sterng rival
h'ees 10 one Of our chief sources of national wealth
maintain that this is wise; and that il is better f
heP build up railroad Panama than to her plant co,
ton fields in Peru
maintain that the Gulf Mexico and the Caribbean
sea are commercially speaking, possessed of more ad
vanages and than any other part of the ocea,
| in the wide world.
Bays and habors are commercially important in pro
portion 10 the back country by which they are supported
river basins are important proportion their extent
the diversity OF climate and the variety of productions
which they afford.
The extent of the river basins that are drained into tbi
Gult and Sea is greater than all the valleys Of ali tn
rivers that empty into the Mediterranean, from Europ
Africa and Asia, that empty into the Atlantic from Flu
rope, and that empty into the Ind ian Ocean from Asia
There the mouths of these rivers are more than 90 O
miles IN distance and six months in time under canvas
apart Here they are within few DAYS sail, with onl
2CtU miles OF distance between them There The rive
basins are all IN one hemisphere, and their climates ar
cohhed 10 10 degrees OF latitude and they have but on
harvest IN year. Here they are in both hemispheres
the harvest IS perpetual, and the climates embrace Y
degrees OF latitude, which include all the producing LAT,
thdoS of the East. There 70 exchange and bring bac
The products Of latitude 10 deg. n. with 50 deg. y
requires voyage al Of more than year Here il
done IN few days This sea is The natural cutie. fl
the produce Of river basins reaching from so deg mort.
to ~ deg, south This Is midway between two semi
conlnents-Norh America is on one side South Amerc
on the other. Open tile way across the Isthmns. an
you make this and gulf the centre of the world
placing them midway also between Europe and Asia
Enqlsnd and China
The route across the country and the route across tn
lshnus, 50 lar from interfering with each other 90 han
IN hand one Will beget the other; and whoever d.
rates the one, proves ALSO Think the impotanc
OF the other: and this is what, in my poor wav hav
been trying to do. Please lell your readers so, en-
obli5e your friend, Gin haste.)
A M. f. MAURY
WIN. C.. CARRINcroN Fer