New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-27
NEW ORLEANS:
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY q, 1852

ouR STEAM MARiSE,The NewYork Courier and En-
qurer introduces statistics Of the steam marine of that
port with interesting remarks. from which we ex-
tract Tia" following:
Fifty years ago all intercourse among nations was
conducted upon the general principles which had
governed intercourse eighteen hundred years before In
trade time and experience had introduced Gle
mrnts In maritime affairs little been added which
and even i'll the cut of "A saithe shape of heln-such
thing departure from established usage regarded
with dIstrust. and treated dangerous innovation
But MI these things have undergone change. Steam
aud electricity mechanical agents have dissolved the
cttcr Of ignorance and opened the doors enterprise
We are no longer hemmed in by continents TIE genius
of industry and intercourse stalks throughout the
universe
IN u paper before US the Postmaster General at
Philadelphia writes to his Deputy at Boston that owing
to arrangements have entered into the mail from one
city will reach the other in about three weeks which
saving Of several days time : and the distance is
performed in eleven to thirteen hours About the year
1928 the whistle of the first locomotive in the United
States heard Now canals and railroads if
united would crcumnayigae the globe. Ten years ago
The trlrgraphic pole erected What do we wit.
at this hour? Wires stretching from continent to
continent and connecting by single manipulation-an
Ineligible, speaking vbrationthe East with the West
Europe with Asia--be shores OF the Pacific with the
shores Of the Atlantic
But this application of steam to navigation exctes
equal wondcrment Its mission is lost in the future but
what profound page do We already ponder upon On
The 81 day Of October 1907 the first the Hud
son river trade was launched This was the earliest prac
cablc attempt in the United States The steamer Comet
launched at Glasgow in 1911 four years after in
tended for the navigation Of the Clyde the first prae-
teal attempt in England. At the close Of 1919 that
country had in service 1l47 steam vessels while in the
Emitted States up to The same period there had been built
1000 OF ll classes, including foreign steamers The
voyage the between NewY ork prior 1911 was
three months performance, Now the distance is
come in less than ten DAYS Even with steam the from
Newtlreaus Pittsburgh required twenty-eght DAYS
while it is performed i'll seven. From Dublin to
olyhead. in 1850 when Great Britain esteemed her APP
pliaucss next perfect eight hours consumed
which require but three and quarter. And such
in the brief of forty five years has been the pro-
ress of this Indispensable agent The first steamship
(which crossed the Atlantic the Sirius from Liverpool
NrriSed in our harbor the 23d Of April 1888, and
-l0rtly after the day, the Great Western from
Bristol both vessels making the passage in little less time
than would at present be required by of fastest
clippers This the origin of the steam mail service
between the rpted States and Great Britain which has
become element in marine progress Of such conse