Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-01-28
PROGRESS OF THE Acr

The New York Courier and Er,n;.
statistics of the steam marine Of thu, introduces
interesting remarks, from which we w. WIN Some
lows: n Il ldc'iwhat El
Fifty years ago, all intercourse mr..
was conducted upon the same nena among nation.
which had governed intercourse eigb,n Principles
years oeiore In trade, time and exnc,;o minded
,roduced no new elements. In msr.; had in.
little mad been added which did moi me aftifs
s'hHP Vi commerce AT its infancy ard en" he
~" I " san-Ine shape of helm-such = ~! 10 he
departure from established usage was Thing
distrust, and treated dangerous saiued WIKI
all these things have Undergone chances ulon. Bul
electricity, as mechanical agents. have Seam and
letters OF Ignorance, and opened the don,a tie
prise. We are no longer hemmed in Inv so 10 ener.
The genius of industry snd intercourse IOnlnenR
out the land. ~ ~ ''"iAs thrcagb.
In paper before Us, the Postmas,o, n
Philadelphia, writes TO his Deputy a, D. uenefala
= owing to arrangements have entered i'on ha,
from one city will reach the other in aS 'henal
weeks, which is saving of several dave Ou' thee
now the distance is performed in eleven 'le; and
hours. About the year 1928, the whistla " h1en
locomotive was heard. Now our canals and iae FIST
II united. Guild circunnavigate the globe TSTosds
ago. the first Geographic pole was ereced Hynyeas
we witness at this hour2 Wires strp,oI; ~ hal Do
continent 10 continent, and CONNECTING h. irNa
maniPuiaton-an intelgible, speaking yiha, single
shores of the Pacific with the shores Of ,b 's-le
But this application of steam to navioa,;o.A Atlantic
equal wondernent lis mission is los, n VI eSces
but what profound page do we ALREADY noa uiure,
On the Bird day of October, 1907, the sr Upon!
tor the Hudson river trade was launched TS Sansr
the earliest practicable attempt in the n,i us was
The steamer Comet, launched at GLASGOW 'u Saies.
four years after, and intended for the Uay,n ISL
the Clyde, was the first practical attempt in E
AT the close of 1919, that coun try had in dd
l46 steam vessels; while, in the United S,a,ne
TO the same period, there had been built G0N Up
classes, including our foreign steamers. The all
of the Ocean, between New York. prior to ISIT O!dse
three months performance. Now the dis,a,,I was
overcome in less than ten days. Even with a,s.
the trip from New Orleans to Pittsburo STdn
days, which is now performed in seven, From n.E
lin to Holyhead, in 1880, when Great Britain e., ,,uS
ed her appliances as next to perfect, eight bop
consumed, which now requires but three and ona'
ter. And such, in the brief space of ioryfye Tsa
has been the progress Of this indispensable ,Ts'
The first steamship which crossed the Atlantis T na
the Sirius, from Liverpool, arriving in our barbor
the 23d of April, 1888, and shortly after on the u
day. the Great Western, from Bristol, both vas.a,
making the passage in little less time than would,
present be required by one of our fastest clDren
This was the origin of the steam mail service bpwss"
the United States and Great Britain which has ba.
come an element in our maritime progress of susb
consequence. {"