Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-10

of them will either 90 there have to move some
miles higher up on Manhattan Island the great ncon
venence of merchants and others interested in or con-
neced with the building and repairing of ycsses whereas
Williamsburg, by of splendid steam ferry boats
be reached in few minutes with the greatest COM
fort and without fatigue
This removal Of the ship yards win Of course be
panied not only by the workmen the different branches
of carpenters caulkers riggers, samakers joiners,
painters &c. but also by all the bosses or heads OF these
respective professions.
When the aggregate number Of the persons now en-
poyed in these different professions taken into view
with their wives children and servants depending on
them and all those who furnish them with their needful
suppeshe tailors hatters, shoemakers butchers pa
kers &c., it viii probably not be an estimate to say
there are twenty or thousand persons ncud
ing families and servants supported by the construction
and repairs of merchant vessels of which in hye years
at least three-fourths employed by New York ship
will be located without the corporate limits of the
city AS before stated, however, notwithstanding all
this and other similar items, New York is destined still
to increase though not in the ratio she has been
ing rapidly Uthrr eitic until the latter
at the position and their growth is checked
from the operation of similar causes.
New York so far as natural advantages
is the finest location for commercial city any other
in the world except Constantnople Your readers gen.
orally may be disposed at first to dissent from this opn
on but think little reflection they will adopt it.
Look at the map and the countries surrounding,
whose natural commercial connexon is with Constantine
pe Look at the great extent of the shores OF the Black
Sea- and the immense tracts of fertile country which are
drained by the Danube the Voga and other large rivers
that empty into it. Look at the extent and fertility Of the
hills and wales and plains Of Asia Minor ut Egypt and
the whole southern shore of the Mediterranean with its
proverba fertility for the last thousand at the
southern shores Of Europe the sea- and of its
surrounding territory and its truly magnificent climate.
And why lis asked with these advantages snot Con-
stantnople as great greater commercial city than
New York The answer is at hand. 1t is because the
population naturally depending it commercial en-
porum is like that of the United States Give to the
of the Black Sea and the banks of the rivers empty
ing into it the territory of Turkey in Europe to Asia
Minor Egypt, Tunis Trpol, and Algers to Dalmatia,
Italy and the other nations the Mediterranean shore
of Europe similar population like that of the United
States turn the present hundred millions hum
dred and fifty millions which nhabit those countries
into what American citizens are, with the intelligence,
enterprise energy industry and information which the
latter possess and with their political institutions, and
New York would sink into comparative insignfcance
commercial and financial city to what Constantmople
would be. And the natural advantages of Constantine
cumstanee of the character Of the large population with
which her prosperity and commerce identified has left
and will continue to leave her far very far behind in the
OF population, wealth, commerce. and emnence
every point