The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-15
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1858.

.,o ottention of our merchants and capital
~. g., ,be paramount Importance of establishing
3;roc. trade with Europe by means of steam
,,r,roIIers. and have pointed out the means W,
i,a.-ossod for the adequate support of a regular
line Of Ocean steamers; the cheapness with which
,,,,,I;cs Of biuminous coal could be shipped di
roctIy from our wharves and the opportunity tina
presented itself for touching at Norfolk, going anG
returning We are perfectly satisfied that Balti
more alone could sustain line of steam-propellers
without regard to aid from any extraneous source
but knowing that Norfolk is the central point
towards which several Southern and South
Western Railways are converging, and that the
passengers and products reaching that city, on
the way to a foreign port, would, also, afford tc
n line of steamers, from this city, additional Sc
curity against The possibility of failure, it became
essential that we should notice the fact in con-
necon with the enterprise advocated. W.
were conscious, moreover, that the citizens O
Virginia have, for quite number of years, beer
DESTROYS of establishing direct trade with Europe
from the Chesapeake Bay; but that their efforts
either to establish line themselves, or to induce
foreign capitalists to do So have proved abortive
W
they would gladly cooperate with Baltimore il
the purchase of a sufficient number of steamers
for ocean service, or if not in the purchase, tina
they would at least assist in furnishing portion
of the freight and passengers A letter
written by Governor WISE, and recently pub
lished in the Norfolk argus, affords us al
opportunity of recurring 10 the subject. In tn
letter to which we have referred, Governor WISE
addressing himself to the Virgnans, and looltin.
simply to the means of Virginia, acknowledge
that while direct trade with Europe is all i'm
portant, it requires, to make it successful, a larg
capital mammoth steamers, and peculiar mercan
tile education. He thinks, too, that the Virginiar
are premature in attempting to establish lines O
ocean steamers, before they have completed the
works of internal improvement, and piled thu
paJtipm of commerce on the quays of the Chesa
peake But while he considers it would be diff
cult to build up, at this time, direct trade with
England, or the continent of Europe, he claims
that there is another trade naturally and legit-
matcy belonging to Virginia, which only wait:
for master merchant to develop it. ~ mean, u
he says 'rhe trade with South America, the Wes
"Indics Brazil, Buenos Ayres and Paraguay. y
With reference TO the advantages that might accrue
to his State from the opening up of direct Steam
Communication TO Brazil he points to the fact
that at present there are mails to that country
from the UNITED STATES He says:
ENGLAND has mails, Belgium has mails France has
mails and Brazil has mails carried by from Rio
Europe but United States have Coffee NAV
he falling ard flour rising, and TIE European United
States merchant may start in the get intelli-
gence home The letter to Trieste will direct by team
and the -four it sends for be half way back whilst the
letter for Rchmondhas 90 Southampton in England;
getting there it finds England has steam mail more
direct to Halifax St Thomas and to Halifax letters
have go to Richmond by the time they get
here the prize is won by the Trieste trader in Rio.
Such indeed is the truth, and the disadvantages
to which those of our merchants who are engaged
in trading with Brazil are subjected in consequence
of the delays arising from the reception of their
letters by so indirect route, could scarcely have
been more fOrciby stated. Governor WISE does
not; however, desire to urge a mail line; but to
present data for the estimate of profits on a COM
@'ercid line from Norfolk TO Rio. These are his
points:
1st. We-the United States-have no steam lines in
connection with South America; though they would as
the South. " '''
I'd. We having steam line with South America and
European Powers having several serious
~ injured thereby. Europes and intercourse
is enlarged at expense.
Sd. would start line at Norfolk oucb NJ St Tbouos
the great distributing point of the English and other
buco Bahia and Ri 10 i'roaoes thence to Pernam
would connect with Monteyideo and Buenos Ayres
4th. The distance would he from:
Norfolk to Cape Henry, East, 50 miles
Cape Henry to st. Thomas. s. $50 E. / 261 miles
St Thomas to Barbados, S. Az F., 44O miles
BBaroaa9es 70 PeTnambuco 5; 49]4o E. $50 miles
1eIianl"Ico 10 bahla, > 80 " 500 miles.
pam palla no. /? up ~ ~; fr 10 , lo W" $50 miles.
Total distance, 4756 miles, in n days at 200 miles per
day
Guiding st9ppageS and all delay about two hundred miles
81 ""t' dIu Is, ths distance TO no from Norfolk would
take at least a days and so days only would be required
Tor rSnn 9n 10 tat port and but little more to get re-
'o EL MN! MN I I -a!rg e., i. -,oo . ,
't lNo rIsg P,oPcerS' say OF lZoo tons each, would
soon h" reonred Oh 'he '"ue' ana four would
baT h ] o O.. f UhtIea states to those countries
nav pn inTch less than the imports This is mainly
rope by steamers Our articles compete with those
and freshness in Which, the Iatta ,'I % snr I m
steamers -
.,..,.
hetiIln@ 10 the statistics OF the Brazilian trade,
nc ,,,l1-Lol :. mr., uz :,
f''''0' Al 41'''' . -N''c'""" Mo9"|"'e, he
shows, that while the imports from the UNITED
Sr,rr, bo,.c c,II,, q, c... - -
'i"iA' i''' l'i'eH vi fourteen per cent. IN twelve
Years, those from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cbiaa1, of
Ooi'''""s onlehs vi
~o''VH Soo"s-l'" Increased seventy per cent,
Hathouob tho corsu,,,n+;or of pr,,;I; ,,,o
A1nf N..,t D.,
eof ,ot ooasra =; ,,''T '''n nan III amount Al
contends tbo, that tl,o 49, a,,aa.:oS :
'''(''' '''''' '''o great q"eS'ioh Is
and yoas to ea and 9ppa o enough n in Richmond
N"r f con steamer Of 1000 Or 1900 tons between
lion to one million on of c from quarter OF mil
ont Immediately to Brazil and depots of coal be
speedct policy to draw to US European foreign trade
To which tbo Nav v,r,- d., ,.o--
replies:
MATHEMATICIAN.
found and there were emtanr eno"eh m virr 10 P DC
tan wand strikes us that the projectors of the under
or at lea4 [ro1n Baltimore Baltimore is close at hand
trad Of hat rSco c "a ,rgs ca" {%Gro$ mari as ne
re I Sn;s Of Nargoad is reilly the commercial capital Of
S md New TogE Us 'S @ee as Shared by f@''aae'
"yrr wse,s scheme Of steamers ,a,uu.
Norfolk and foreign ports would not we fear have for
rally concsnra @ IN a W rn In all ean countries na@
on account Of certain advantages of position sometimes
fixed its seat Ionr aDors oat where once 1t has
m1rns population which it creates and whose wants
keep in rodlen paths boJ - .S Is -. &c gl n: 10
its seat it only c by Of nwsr mas maue
ret II VIII OPERATION such as, suspect are not
o can sara,, l.'Y, We Union south OF baltimore"
Of tho De-, -. ''0 any thihg 10 lhe comment