Washington telegraph., 1851-09-10
Correspondence Of the Telegraph


New YoRK, Aug. 20, 1851.
The Collins steamship Baltic, winch arnveo
here on Saturday last, made run wnich oea'S
even the famous passage OF the racine, IN ,aS'
April. The Battle has run from wharf to
wharf in MIN. davs I3 hours and 25 minntes.
TnIs is the shortest passage across the AuaA"o
that has ever been made.
The. Baltic brought over 140 passengers, among
whom were Horace Greeley, OF the ir,n"ne' an1
several other distinguished persons ne whos
and waves have apparently had bat little effect Oh
our friend Horace, whose attract'Ue appearance
remains unatered.
there is lille of interest in the English news;
but the commercial advces are favorable. lie
Liverpool cotton market was firm; the prospects
of the harvest were promising, AID trade IN general
was hourishing
ine American steamship Pacific left this port,
for Liverpool, Saturday, about six hours alter
the arrival of the Baltic The Pacific carried out
u passengers, anu $4l 900 in specie; and she
makes one of her usual quick voyages, the news OF
the triumphant honeward passage Of the kalte
will be current in Liverpool ,oithin three ueeEs
after the departure Of the latter vessel from
England.
! The Democrats Of this city are in most un-
manageable ss.nuss'' Being deprived OF Guy,
State and Federal patronage, there is no longer
any common bond OF union to hold them together.
| Money has always been the leading element IN
their political campaigns; aud they have always
! had heretofore cuance at some puoc treasury >
| whence they could draw supplies wien Their
brethren in Office could not furnish SUFFICIENT OF
| the "needlul." Now, however, they are cut OF
from all those sources oil pumder on which they
| have 50 long preyed, aud are compelled to depend
| upon the voluntary contributions q the more
hopeful members of the party. Bat, inasmuch
Dine-tenths oi the party in this city is made up
J nj s. E.n,n In,
Boys" .'ShOulder HitterS," "sjhtsters," ct id
genus omne, who have always been accustomed
to receiue money for their valuaUe services in
Tightening respectable people from the polls, the
! s'vountarY contributions are dshea eningiy Y
meager AS yet, there has not been money
enough raised to furnish the "untenIiied" with d
| drink all round. Something must b. done the
| party is clean gone forever. Nothing will save
Locolocoism but winGiall from some source or
other, for the "boys" will never Muster strong
unless they drawn out by the smell Of good
liquor and the merry jingle of the "dInes."
Ii our namby paInbY, himsy, spurious republi-
| cans, who have been able to cross the Atlantic
with money that their dead fathers grand
| fathers were not ASHAMED to work hard for were
blessed with few brains, they would not be so
| everlastingly whining from lhe Werd's Fair,
Though the columns Of tue American press, ai
the scanty display Of American productions
Why cant these jackanapes understand thai
all sensible honor for having pro
auced the best plough in chriStendom, than they
| would have done if we had sent d diatnpnd to the
great gathering twice large tile famous
Koh-i-noor, which Queen Victoria nov retains in
her possession, knoWing ii to h4oe bern stolen?
In the positively and obviously used arts, our
excellence is suriily conceded by the Bnlsh press
and the sum of their criticisms amounts merely
| to this-ttat we choose to confne ourselves to
beating every other people in manufacturing wha;
cannot be done without, and that we find ii more
profitable to buy trnk-ts of natnns Whose
inierory developed faculties admirably qualify
them for excelling i'll trifes.
However let us leave off comule ming the
peacockism of the Old World, and turn to the
contemplation Of the solid progress Of the New
Some twenty years have elapsed since the frs
railroad was opened IN this country; aud such mas
been our astounding progress in this glorious tri
| umph OF modern SCIENCE, that at the present mo
me nt the iron horse traverses i0,2o7 miles O
track, and lO,O92 miles more ara in the course
of construction. Until within u very few years
! the Northern and Eastern States alone cu
up and through. by iron roads; but now, with the
exception Of Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Arkansa,
and California, the shrek of the steam whstl.
pierces the ear in every State of the Cnion; ano
| IN the three first named States, roads are now
being constructed, so that, when few month:
more shall have gllded by, they also will be able
to boast of their railroad communications.
New Y ork, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, ,Geor-
gia and Ohio take precedence, in the order in
which have written them, in the extent of lines
actually in operation; but when the works now
being constructed finished, Ohio will hold the
third place, while the young giants OF the West
Illinois and Indiana. will push IN their claims for
the fourth and filth ranks.
The capital already expended in these under
takings far exceeds the entire banking capital Of
The country. 1t amounts to $3O6, ,607 ,954 and is
continually increasing in the ratio OF per cent.
Yours truly,
PETER PIKE.