The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-09-26

Tie Steam Contest Between England and
Azaertca.-The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writing on Saturday, the
18th, has the following important announcement:
Some time since 1t was made public, that the
Cunard company about to construct a line of
properes, like the city of Glasgow, for the purpose
OF carrying freight and second-class passengers.
| The announcement created much talk in our marine
| circles, and alarmed our packet ship owners who
| saw IN the movement the downfall of their lines
They according y consulted together, and deter
mined to commence Immediately similar line of
propellers, and steal march on the Cunarders
Their keels will be laid in few DAYS John Bull
can't injure much, and before he is done he will
ind that 1t IS no easy matter to compete with the
energy Of our szsns GAYS se sf he Contract has
been changed, and she will be made a propeller.
In five years from this time the greater part of the
| carrying trade between the Old World and the
New will be done by steamships of different kinds
1a-s1---ssJ-- .lliSe-We COPY the following
Just tribute to the enterprise oil our lisy-l-.s f
an able article in the last number of Hunts Mer-
chants Magazine;
1t is not little surprising that American
mechanics have haas ~Al, - '-''-'''s. .l,e.'.--A-
much less to successfully compete with those OF
England, Who under the influence OF wholesome
laws, Throwing every sea, both by wind and
steam, under the fostering care OF that commercial
policy which characterizes British nationality and
against tine Tue TlVhlEy lIldL IS GOWN on
| the Western World. 1t requires but glance at
the geographical position OF the United States to
satisfy the thinking man that they have more to
win lose in this gigantic race than all the world
beside and notwithstanding the warping in
Huence of the restrictive laws upon American COM
merce enacted in barbarous age, the historic
page has never shown equal amount of i'm
provement in any science or art (under similar OPP
pressve infuences) as is exhibited in the COM
pete adaptation of American ships to all the pur-
poses of commerce.
"Within a period of thirty years her packet
ships have grown in size from 400 to 1000 tons,
and her ocean steamships from 800 to 5000 tons
burden. 1t should not be forgotten, in connection
with this that although to Americans belongs the
honor of first navigating the ocean by steam, yet
they relnquished the main field of enterprise to
embark more largely into more lucrative invest
ments in sailing ships, and, after a lapse of neal
thirty years, they again launch forth on the billowy
tide of competitions and in less than six years, are
enabled by their success to silence the roar of The
British lion, whose hombasc belowings were
echoed through the entire English press and al
this, let it be remembered, has been accomplished
, in the very face of the most unfavorahle laws fO
The measurement of shlps-laws that actually in
vite fraud, and encourage avarice, to endanger TIT
lives of confiding passengers, and those whOSt
home is on the deep; while her rival has the hes
laws that are now known in the Commercial
f world"