The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-19

parous from which the report was prepared or 70 The
report itselfp The answer is obvious.
W. have examined some Of it, Consular reports, and
have found them mostly OF little or no value they
either behind the times or contain serious ounders We
wish the compiler of the State department report to UNDER
stand that all the principal tables regarding oommeros
with South America, and its population, 20 are chiefly de-
reign publications. while our general remarks with tie
gr obg and OF the subject are entirely our
own or this we hope inc n, win .sse
he did former occasion when we pursued tne same
elaborate article on the commerce OF China
On the Ali OF February, 1885, we stool a. wnsrf On
the East river New York. and saw the ,hip BROOKLYN
Of 44b TONS Capt Rich .rdson, sail for the Sand wca
slAnds California She had 1856 deck ana three caban
passengers all Americans from the middle and New Eng
land Safes, aoDg whom were number OF MOI mon.
wards landed her emf, rants IN California having lost
the voyage i've passengers and one seamAn Inc veeso
was SCI by A. g. Benson, under contract WIN me
government TO carry emigrAnts to the Pacific coaR, N
AT that time California had not been acquired BY Ne
The world was dragging "s slow length along in
merciA pursuits The South American States were dor.
traveller who assembled the Juan river In Nicaragua
In bungoes or the Chages river negro canoes and cro
Some Of The emisrsns who went out to California b.
the ship Brooklyn were the nrst to discover gold
in Suffers mill race From that day new era opened
upon The OF the world and the progress OF
kind The discovery Of gold fields in Australia resulted
from the discovery Of ,hose in California; gold digging
mm grants from the latter to the for fret made Ne
discovery. From nine TO ten years have elapsed
since the frat gold thrown up In Suffers min
race, and 900 Of gold have been added 70
the wealth OF the world.
what Is the RESULT vast increase In commercial
intercourse and expansion oil OVER the world New terri
tories have been rapidly settled and maured into States.
New towns have sprung into populous existence The
steamship and calling tonnage Of h. world has been vastly
augmented and while cities have been founded, old
ones expanded with renewed vitality The old town
OF Panama, In whose old church turrets the ancieue
bells had for centuries called It's voaries to vesper,
and borne witness TO the Silence solitude and decay
around them, oled new era for the South American
States when the first hardy band Of Yankee emigrants
camped thin their sound On that day new order Of
things dawped upon the town, upon the lsshmus, upon
South America and pom world. Soon the evening gun
and the railroad whistle competed with the old church
bells breaking the evening Stiffness or In waking echoes
through the morning air The fret Of the South American
States profit largely by gold discoveries was Chilli She
produced what the gold dggers wanted, wheat and -four
been opened South American States Of the Pacific
How far they are to profit by II will depend upon the
OF the infusion Of the higher and more energetic
| TO which We haTe referred, who will aid Ia CIV
ing them more permanent forms OF governmeoe
and laws, with greater advancement In all The
arts OF life. To exhibit the progress OF CON-
between the United States and the States OF South
America propose to do 30 three different periods,
viz
lst In 1s4s, before the discovery Of gold Caiorna
3D. In 1851, after It's full developement, and
3d. In 1856, ending In each case with the financial ye
OF the United States, viz the 30th June.
the Uni with Mexico and South America just prse
10 The discovery OF gold In California compared with he
1851 and 1885, subsequent TO the discovery Of gold
| In both California and Al stralia