The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-01

STEAM FERRY-NEW YORK PROVINCIAL
lied.
From the London Cotton Plantl
Inc great manufacturing district of Manche ster
Is as last moving for direct trade with the people
who grow cotton and consume English goods. The
Galway line of steamers, originated in Manchester
may be considered as firmly established and the
Southern people have only to build upon this mag
nihcent foundation to secure that commercial indie
pendence for which they have so long sighed. The
friends of direct trade in Europe have already
pledged the hearty cooperation of the South. The
time has consequently arrived for Acknowledgements,
combined, determined action-in which local rival
ries must be forgotten, and the public good alone
kept steadily in view.
If our readers will refer to the map and follow
us while we trace the main features of the Galway
enterprise, they will be enabled at glance to I'M
derstand the amazing revolution in trade to be eff
tected by it. st. Johns in Newfoundland it will
be observed, is the nearest American seaport to
Europe. 1t possesses a fine harbor and an album
dant supply of coal. With fleet ships to run can be
made from land to land in five days. 1t is proposed
to have daily departures from st. Johns to Gal
way. In other words, Mr.. Dudley Mann's scheme
of an Atlantic Steam Ferry would be practically
realized. This daily communication by Steam
Ferry between newfoundland and Ireland would
be the freight and 'trave" representative Of the
Atlantic Telegraph. The claims of this line for
carrying the mails would be so transcendent that
the Governments at London and Washington could
not resist them. The travel would follow the mails
and by making proper arrangements, so as to give
the tourist through ticket with reasonable al
lowance of time to enable him to pause on the way
for pleasure or business, the New York and Liv
erpool route would be completely set aside. The
traveller from New Orleans for instance. could,
it business required it, pass through New York or
Boston, transact his business, and then proceed
on to ST. Johns in Newfoundland, take the
Steam Ferry, and in five days be safely landed in
| Ireland. From Galway he could 90 direct to Lon
don or Manchester, the Continent, rid Liverpool.
Returning from the Continent, he could take the
same route, saving time, money, risk, and discom-
fort. To the European tourist visiting America
this line would offer attractions almost irresistible.
| The very short sea voyage, especially on a track
navigated daily by superb steamers, would tempt to
the New World thousands who now are only de-
tanned by the present long, tedious and dangerous
route from Liverpool to New York. The European
tourist, could for instance proceed from St john
by way of the st. Lawrence river, to the great
lakes, visiting the Falls of Niagara in the route,
and thus penetrate into the very heart of the North
American continent.
1t is not simply in its influence upon travel that
this ocean ferry is entitled to consideration
But it is chiefly through its influence upon the coast
ing and lake trade of America that it will
tention Some time since we published an account
OF the actual sailing of ship from Chicago direct
to Liverpool! That enterprise will of course be
modified, and instead of the sailing ship, steamers
will be placed between Chicago and st. Johns.
| The produce of the lake basin, which concentrates
at Chicago, will thus seek By swift, direct and
nomical communication the European market
Leaving the lake district, and directing our at
tention TO the coastng trade of the United States.
we see at glance that st. Johns is destined
| to be the point of concentration for a coast
steam marine embracing fairly and equal
! equal terms the exporting and importing cities of
the great lakes and the Atlantic seaboard We
have every to believe that one of the first eff
forts in this new direction will be to connect Chesa-
peake with St. Johns. Steamers starting from
| Baltimore and touching at Norfolk would embrace
interests sufficiently important. If concentrated
upon one enterprise, to alone sustain line of Eu-
ropean steamers. The railway system Of Virginia
extending as it does south and west, would pour in
at Norfolk the trade and travel of that State n por-
ton of North Carolina Tennessee, and Kentucky
From Baltimore would be reached, through the
magnificent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the Cum
berand valley, the Ohio river at Wheeling and
Parkersburg, and a large share of the Western
trade.
The Susquehanna railroad, reaching into South
ern Pennsy lvania, would also be tributary to line
of steamers between the Chesapeake and st. Johns
We have been favored by friend with the project
to induce harmony of action between Baltimore and
the Virginia cities. The friends of this movement
in Baltimore and Virginia cannot do better than to
throw their influence into cooperation with the
! Galway and St. Johns enterprise. With such a
connection Baltimore would possess unrivalled ad-
vantages port of direct importation or entry
| for European goods.
We believe not premature in stating that
| this matter will soon be brought forward in Vir-
gina and Maryland We will therefore take
another occasion to dwell at length and in detail
upon the geographical position of Baltimore, its
| population, resources and natural advantages. We
believe that it is destined to supplant New York as
the importer for the Southern States of America
And this reflection brings forward naturally the
question what will be the effect upon New York OF
the success of this Daily Steam Ferry between Gal
| way and st. Johns? The answer is plain New
York will be placed practically as the seat OF
| earliest intelligence more than one thousand miles
| further from the Old World. To that extent she
will be isolated and absolutely provincalized The
| expectations and importatons of the tobacco and
cotton States will pass by her doors and seek a
point of concentration in the Chesapeake.
| 1t has been fashionable for certain prints in New
York to deride the efforts and aims of this direct
| trade party. The direct trade alliance between
Manchester and the cotton States through the Gal
way and st. Johns line of steamers will not prove
so amusing to Liverpool and New York 1t will
teach those who have so long grown rich upon our
property that the cotton power is capable of con
centration, and that in this age of commercial asso
| Citations such an interest must of necessity break
away from the artificial bonds which have so long
bound it hand and foot to an unnecessary inferno
date agent The tendency of the age is to 'direct'
and free" trade, and it is therefore not to be
dered at that the aspirations and wishes of the South
have found such sympathy and ready assistance in
Europe.
BANK CASHIER ARRESTED FOR EMBEzzLEMEST.--0r
Friday evening last, Edward L.. Houghton, Cashier
OF the Lltchheld Bank, Connecticut was arrested in
New York for embeZzement of $4,000, by means
of false entries. He had decamped to that city, and
requisition had been obtained from Gov. King for
!
way and Wall street, and shortly aiterward de.
livered to the Sheriff of New Haven county, He
has wife and several children. This is said not to
have been his first offence, he having been concern
ed with an operation connected with the Eighth
| Avenue Bank some years SINCE
| Mount Savage correspondent of the Cumber-
land AHegonian says that the skeleton of a woman
was found on Monday last, about four miles from
that place. All the bones were found except the
skull. Portions of dress, and velvet purse con-
tanning Sl4.56 were also found. The remains were
supposed to be those of a Mrs. Wadderbear, from
Pennsylvania, who had been seen in that vicinity
several times within the last two or three years. and
who was thought to be insane.
DEEP SNow.-0n last Thursday night week, the
l4th ult, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, there was
d heavy fall of snow in Richand and adjoining
.owhs In Ashtabua county, Ohio. A gentleman
VINO resides in Richmond informs us that the
:no" was nine inches deep early on Friday morn
l.s. ne says that the storm on the night pre-
ai1us was very severe and snow seemed to fall in
rlRE-Itoo Lives Lost l-On Thursday nigbt last
nre broke out in stable attached to Homes, Rev
cry, New fork, and thence caught to n five story
building, occupied by six families All escaned
except Michael Hertel and his daughter Catharne'
who were suffocated, and the bodies when found
were much burned. Twelve fine horses. valued a.
| S., 900, persisted. ~
| PIG IRoN.-The British schooner Levin;a from
Port George, N. s., arrived at New York on Sat
urday, brought cargo of pig iron, being the first
Importation OF the kind from the Provinces.