New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-07

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It Is only within q recent period since tn
repeal of the British Navigation Iaws-that tn
attention of American merchants and busines
men has been closely directed to the imrnens
field open To competition and activity in til
Pacific ..s,@s5i M
Previously, our merchant ships were accus
toned to round the capes and do proftabl
carrying trade between New York, China an
Europe, and our whale ships to find q rich re
turn for their voyages and ventures in tn
North Pacific but whatever commodities o
Western America, the Sandwich Islands O
China, were to be transported either to Europ,
or this country, doubled Cape Horn as the only
Feasible route. The carrying trade was almost
entirely il English handa--the China trade ex,
clusisely few years since, however, Amer
lean vessels entered into composition clipper
ships were built, and the sway departed from
Great Britain. Our tonnage IN those waters
soon equal6ds II It did not excel, tnat OF any
other nation. But still the course Of trade was
westward, and Cape Horn remained point and
sometimes port
The discovery of gold IN California operated
almost miracuonsly upon the commerce Of The
Pacific. The treasure there wac discovered and
dug out by Americans, and sought an tAmeri-
can marset lts transportation around three
iougths Of the globe seemed unnatural anu I'M
necessary. Moreover, the immense emigration
from this country thither could neither afford
80 long nor % eo51&& q route. The old ideas of
transit across RanamA were accordingly re-
newed and carried into effect. First came mule
paths, then plank roads, and finally railroads.
Steamships were sent to run between Panama
and San Francisco conjointly with others run
ming from New x ork 20 Asplnwali. A new route
to the Pacific was opened, and every day has
proved u more and more feasible. expeditions
and desirable. Cargoes can be transported
from Canton to New York by the way Of Pana-
ma with infinitely more rapidly than by
Cape Horn-can, indeed, be sent to Liverpool
BY the same ronte IN a less period than by any
other u 9 line Of steamships were IN opera
ton from Canton to san francisco, the nayigar
ton Of the globe would be reduced from months
20 weeks as IT already has been from years to
months
TINS Y . view 81 me comparative tune nece s
sary " De employed ~ CARRYING On the com
MGfQetOf the HAC1tlC, anu on 1t depends much
that interests the people Of this country as well
ashore particularly the people Of this sec
tion. III The present immense trade of the Pa
cifc can be more expeditiously and cheaply CON
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was the superior speed Of our ships that took
the tea trade from the English there
fore. would be the result to us, and to commerce
in general, could the present time between
China and Liverpool be reduced one-third
And it can It is possible, in every sense of the
word. for the Amse;can pedple to INIT them ssI vss
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railroad from san francisco to the Mississippi
would accomplish all this.
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