Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-03

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IN Tie most important 10 The South eyer
;nfo The councils of the nation British statesmen,
Who have carefully examined the subject distinctly
foresee that the day ia not distant when the Euro
pean nails destined for the West indies, MsxlcS
wich Islands, Australia, China. &C., must pass over
the continent between the Chesapeake and the Gut
The mail matter whichis now conveyed from Eu-
rope to those countries annually amounts to some.
thing like fifteen millions of letters. and an equal
number of newspapers and pamphlets. We will
suppose the Leviathan, when completed, capable OF
making the run from Milford Haven TO the Virginia
Cape in seven days. and that the closed mails which
she brings be conveyed from thence VIA the over
land route to the Gulf, and from the Cult through
Mexico to the Pacific in six days more; it requires
no stretch of the imagination in that case to per-
ceive that the Isthmus of Suez and the Cape Of
Good Hope and the ST. Thomas routes will be aban-
doned. There is now q monthly communication to
Melbourne via Alexandra from Southampton. The
contract for carrying the mail by this route requires
the service to be performed in fifty days. II the
Pacific, with the aid of the Leviathan, or another
vessel equally expeditions, can be reached by the
Virginia Capes in thirteen days, it is not calculating
too sangu,nely to believe that the run from the "a
cc Melbourne will be Iro fhonon ,'h tbrty
Tins in the American route there would be saving
of twenty days. If this can be effected, who can
undertake to foretell how great will be the future OF
the South1 Its bosom will be the highway rot on
II of the European mails but of the travel and 9TH
er intercourse of that hemisphere, with the world
beyond us.
Another important movement has been made in
the House in behalf of the foreign navigation OF the
South The able and accomplished representative
of the Charleston District, Mr. Miles. has asked and
obtained leave to introduce bill to authorize the
"Atantic Steam Ferry Company" chartered during
the recent session Of the Virginia Assembly, to pur
chase such ships as it may require for its service
wherever constructed, and that they shall be placed
on an entire equality in every respect with vessels
built in the United States. This we regard as the
first direct blow that has been aimed at the monopo-
~ which Abolition States enjoy in shipbuiidng:-
Why should Charleston be forced to purchase ship
from Boston when a similar one could be bought at
a lower price in Glasgow? Or, rather, why should
foreign built Ship owned by American citizens. be
submitted to the same regulations in our ports as
ships owned by foreigners? Down, we say, with
such restrictions on commerce. They have weighed
long enough, incubus like, upon the prosperity OF
the country for the benefit of Yankeedom. Step by
step we seem last to be moving in the proper d.
rection. The thanks of grateful nation will mani
fest itself in due season for this demonstration against
abominable policy of exclusive favors to class in
terest"