The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-16
n by : White man. I'VE have given, 1om time to

den by white man. We have given, rom time to
time, the shipments Of the dus to England, as evi-
dences of the richness Of these new discoveries.
Their yield is great r-they turn out the dust In
larger quantities to the painful of earth, and they
roll out bigger lumps, and chunks, and more of
them, and of finer gold, than the riches placers Of
California.
The cor sequence s, that they now realizing in
England the gold t,vors which experienced here
in lS49-the year of the great exodus Of our popu-
lation by land and sea to Calf mia. Whole
columns, and indeed whole pages, Of vessels up for
Australia, saiers and stt amers, constitute promi
ncnt feature of the principal journals Of London
and Liverpool. The tide of emigration from those
ports is changing from the west to the east and the
late convict colony of England-as much dreaded by
may criminals as he halter itsel-is now sought
by people of all oasses the LAM Of promise, and
hope, anu fortune, and happness-the real Ophir of
King Solomon-the real I'll Dorado, of which the
old Castiliars only dreamed-and the substance
and reality Of the golden visions Of Arabian ro-
nance.
The contagion Of these discoveries has exten ded
TO our shores. Already dozen vessels, mostly
from this port, have sailed or Sydney and Port
Philip, with wei assorted cargoes, which viii
doubtless yield a golden profit, and with an az
eregate of not less than a thousand passengers,
notwithstanding California is some thirteen thou
sand miles nearer than Australia by the present route
of the Cape Of Good Hope Such is the pitch ofonthu.
sssm in England, that the steamships Great Britain,
Sarah Sands, and Cleopatra, at Liverpool or Cork,
have had their days Of sailing respectively adj
vertised in the New York HERALD The compa-
MES owning these vessels have discovered that
emigrants may be had here who will sail 70
England, and thence round the Cape Of Good Hope,
ano across the dead expanse Of the Indian Ocean,
rather than be disappointed in their determination
to have hand in those astenishingly rich gold
mines Of Australia.
Here, then, we come to tie application By tie
Cape of Good Hope it will take hundred days
d1eot upon average, for smiling vessel to reach
Sy dney, from New York. 1t viii probably require
the whole Of that period, with the chances of delay,
TO make the trip by steam to Liverpool, and thence
by steam to Sydney. On the other hand, the trip
may be made from New York, by steam, via Panama,
and thence directly across the Pacific, in thirty days,
or tbrty.two or three at the outside. Ten days
from Liverpool to New York would therefore, re-
duce the trip from Liverpool to Australia to forty
two or three days, the American route being in
Gull and monotonous and unbroken ocean pas
sage of the Eastern route. By the American
route we have the city of New York, Havana,
the isthmus Of Panama, and the numerous
clusters of the islands of the Pacific, lying
in The way, stopping places, and asdepots for coal
and fresh supplies of water and provisions. More
room and more comfort can, therefore, be given to
passengers than by the Cape route, which requires
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sions, for crossing the dead waste of the Indian
Ocean OF six or seven thousand miles. This differ
ence between the two routes is positive and perma-
ntnt advantage in favor OF the Panama route, of
the most practical importance.
What We want, then, is line Of steamers from
New York, via Panama. direct to Australia. The
CunaId company, with that commercial sagacity
for which the English nation is justly distin-
gushe5, in process of establishing such line in
connection with their Transatlantic steamers. No
doubt it will pay splendidly. Ii is our object how
| ever, to call our steamship compan es to this new
and glorious field of enterprise. Cannot Collins and
| Company, or Rowland and Aspinwsll, or George
Law and Company. or Vanderbilt, separately or
collectively. establish line Of sem-monthly ste
ers from Panama to Port Philip and Sydney! An
enormous fortune would be the sure return for the
undertaking. 1t would diver large emigration
from the United States and draw OF the bulk of the
profitable emigrants from England. These passen-
gers on their return, in touching at New York,
would leave with us goo5ly share of their golden
earnings. From what California has done for US we
may form some idea of the fruits that may be reapei
from Australia. The prize is at the option of our
enterprising steamship companies. They can win it
if they viii. Let them collect the data examine
the facts, ard make their estimates, and we feel
sure Of the early establishment of line of splendid
steamships between New York and Australia.
Mr.. WEEsTER's Position AND PROSPECTS, The
position and prospects Of the distinguished states
man of Massachusetts, are now in the process of So
lution at the two extemities ofthe Union, in way
which will tell on the country in few weeks. We
have already placed before readers the important
accounts furnished us Of the popular movements
menced in North Carolina and Georgia, having for
their object the organization ofconventions, the
nomination of electoral tickets, in each of these
States, favorable to Mr.. Webster, candidate for
the Presidency. The complete defeat Of the whig
party in North Carolina, at the recent election, has
broken up the Scott movement in that State, and
given q decided impulse to the conservative wings
in favor Of Mr.. Webster. convention, consisting
of similar popular elements, is to be held in Macon
tomorrow, the object of which is also to nominate
electoral ticket, to be supported by the friends of
Mr.. Webster at the next November election. More
than half Of the counties in Georgia have already
been recorded ashayiDg sent delegates to thsimpor
tant convention, and there is doubt that almost
every county in that leading Southern State viii be
represented in the Webster Convention tomorrow,
at Macon.
These movements are doubly and trebly impor-
tant at the present time, as they indicative Of
the determined and positive purposes Of the
vative whig portion Of the people Of the two great
States Of North Carolina and Georgia. Similar
movements-because there are similar materials
will, no doubt, follow in Virginia. in Florida, in
Alabama, in Louisiana, and probably in Tennessee.