Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-24
From the .Ne,r York Erprtis.
steam between california and China.

steam between California anu Shh"
We do not believe step more imPor-
tant 10 the commercial interests OF Inc
whole civilized world could be taken al
this time, than the establishment OF steam
communication between California and
China. BY the last arrival from San
Francisco, we are advised that Par'les
had left for the United States, for the ex-
press purpose ofnego,iating Tor one or
two frst,class ste amships, 10 be employed
as an initiatory experiment in the hitherto
steam.undisturbed waters Of that portion
of the great ocean which more d'recny
divides the Eastern world from the Con
,inent of North America. We predict
that in few years from now, therefore,
that one will be able 10 60 all the way TO
the city of Canton by steam via the 18TH
mus of Panama, and the port Of San Fran
cisco--in a space of time, not much more
than an ordinary packet ship now requires
TO make the passage to London, or Ham
burg, or antwerp. Once established, such
q line of steamers, it seems to us, must
secure an immediate monopoly ola large
and, probably, the most valuable proper
tiop of the rich freights which now make
"merchant princes" of those in New
York, Boston, Liverpool. and London, in
whose hands the bulk Of this trade Is TO
be found.
Itwould open a source Of pecuniaIy
pro6t 10 the projectors that could hardly
fail TO-, in the end, yield more magnificent
ly than the gold mines of Ell Dorado;
1.-The wealth of Ormus and Of Ind" would
literally be tempted TO our shores, and II
shared by other lands, these lands must
nav tribute 10 our facilities OF communl-
cation, and thus directly contribute to their
support. Instead Of bringing our teas
and silks and spices all the way around
Cane Horn or the Cape Of Good Hope,
we shall receive them in San Francisco,
and acknowledge receipt in New York in
less than sixty days. In other respects
the benefits which must inevitably ensue
10 commerce in all its subordinate rami-
6cations are, al this time, incalculable !;
thew are 10 be estimated only as If Asia
and America, the East and the West, had
mutually resolved TO annihilate space, and
throw open--one her golden treasures,
her steamers, her enterprise, her christi
anity and civilization The other. in return,
= field for the free exercise of all these,
such as the Anglo-Americans perhaps
never found before, but which. till now,
has been excluded from the world, by the
clannish exclusiveness Of a semi-barbaric,
but an ingenious, and in other respects a
most remarkable race.
We think those who perused The mas
,erly rcport of the Hon. Thomas Butler
king, While that gentleman was char
man Of the Committee cf Commerce IN
the las, Congress. upon this very SUBJECT
will no, have forgotten how easy and Prac'
,c,ble this splendid scheme was then
demonstrated TO be. Il needs not now
ma, wc Should add any thing TO that able
and ,ru,hiul. and. We believe. proPhe'lc
'.ncun'spl, true as regards the isamense
,nnortapce ofthe enterprise, and Prnpiieiic,
n una, IL plomises shall be the reward
IS N, na,j..n which shall successfully CAP
!, ,l,roupl. We arc DULY eiaa '''al our
,,ur,ry,ne n in California. WIN 'i'a' wise
60, /. hirl has titus far distinguished
,-e;r nr;l, an, carer. lave res olVed 10 en-,
a., s.L IN whirh so n.rrh OF glory 5'o
:. - no earned ion Iheifne~ s's'e.