Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-03-06

Whilst, however, such is the astonishing
neglect Of essentia home affairs, mails out
side of our country, upon the sea, have been
multiplied, and costly systems of transpor-
tation for travellers sustained from the fed
eral purse. .-.-
This system, partly naval and partly por-
tai, embraces four lines of sea going steam
ers:
l. Collins line from New York to Liv-
erpool.
2. Line -'r.u Bremen
3. " to Havana and
Vera Cruz ....s
4. Line from New York to Panama. CAL
ilornia and Oregon. as ..a ar.f
"The cost Of the service for the fiscal year
1854, on the several y. S. Mail steamship
lines, and across the Isthmus of Panama, is
as follows: Of ...I Fa...n st.r.-
New J OK to Live pool, Co1ns'lire
26 ouad trims 49,. 49,. 49,. sS5s.OOO 90
New Yo,k via Southampton 10 Bre-
men, 4 ,ouDd trips ........".... 1892 &c
New iorl; viz CoWes 10 Havic, II
ronrd riys...... .....''... 137,5OO 20
New ork and New Orleans 10 AS
ninwall, "a round trips, Including ..
"a round trips between New York
ond New orIeons via Haysna....., 2S9,oOo 90
Astoria, via S3n Francisco, 10 Pana-
ma, q round tr;ps .............. 3is,25O 90
=, q round trips ........... 49,. $4,000 90
New Orleans to-Fera Ctuz, IS round
n,ips ....... .............. ,...... 1890 co
Aspinwal 10 Panama 800. 1t9,i2I Oj
1'oial... ............ S2,C-3,0,U 90
Behold the annual cost of five Semi-Blonthly
mails upon the sea, being single mails 60
ing the whole distance outside Of our country
and people, having no way-mails, and ac-
commodating no State, Territory or people
upon the route. This sum multiplied into
few years reaches very many millions Of
dollars. But when TO this is added the
cost of the fleets which guard these routes
upon the Atlantic and Pacific oceans-the
expensive diplomacy and agencies expen-
ded 10 establish and maintain them-,thc va
rious incidents and micellaneous expenses,
your committee estimate that bonus of fifty
millions of dollars has been paid by the fed
eral government to this outside sea system
of mails, during period Of less than Ten
years! ..,.
Such is the contrast which your commit.
tee have 10 submit; absolute neglect of, and
hostility TO, the inland route; enormous par.
tiality to the outside routes by sea.
Your committee designing to be suceinct
and Just, but absolute in the exposure o.
facts, submit this Illustration. The immense
shock which would be given TO our Stalls
were the federal government to withdraw
from us the present system Of mail and 9TH
er transportation connecting us ultimately
with the Atlantic seaboard in our front, i.
manifest at glance. To compel us il
Missouri, by an arbitrary policy, TO have II,
other communications with New York thar
| by that over to the Gulf, and thence by sea
to assume that steam upon the water j.
rapid and cheap; that coaches upon the land
are slow and costly, would exasperate every
citizen by its absurdity. Yet this is done
when our mails and people are sent by New
Orleans, (even by New York, and Pana
ma to San Francisco and Oregon, ten thou
sand miles of circuit by sea, instead OF go
ing through by land coaches, only eighteer
hundred miles In fact, if the position o
our people be appreciated in sense Of gen
eral justic, the absence Of direct outlet tc
the ocean by the West, is a hardship arising
to The dignity of the severest national cal
ami,y. Within the Basin ofthe Mississippi
are nine millions of the American people
and upon their neighboring ocean front o
the Pacific six hundred thousand mort
sprung from them. An intervening vii
derness of one thousand eight hundred mile
sunders from one another these immens,
fraternal populations. This unhappy di
vorce, so dangerous 10 a perfect Union, anC
depressing to progress and commerce, i
caused and perpetuated by the partial rigo
of the Federal Government This doe
now, and has for a whole generation, ST
favored maritime interests and extension
that the country central to SO many pOpu
lous States and Territories is a blank, anc
overland travel has shriyeled beneath it
blight. ..4.tr.r 3d.. ..r
Your committee consider as too intimate
ly connected with this subject 10 be omit
ted, the extension of population across h'
central belt of the continent; the commerc,
consequent upon it; the transfer of gold
and the constantly swelling current OF eX
ports and imports. These all await the ini
tiatory step which it is the object of thi
company to make now, Past delays hav
shown more than sufficient time to hav
been given to meditation and has Iipened al
J things for action. ,f-., g,...
Gold is an existing element. The gol
current which sets around the world is, a