The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-12-08
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY Y, DEC. s.

/ group Is located, opens IL Ielu U ch-
terprise such as the history of the world has never
known. The rising States of the American con-
federacy on the northwest shores, and the newly
settled province of British Columbia, called into
existence, peopled, and impellcd in their career
of commercial greatness by inexhaustible sup
plies of gold and silver the growing republics
of Central and South America the embryo
States of Australia on the south, and the older
nations Of India, China and Japan on the
west, with hundreds and thousands of large
and small islands scattered through its length
and breadth, make this ocean the broadcast field
ever opened to commercial enterprise.
We referred a few weeks since to the COM
merce with Japan, and showed there that public
expectation had not been realized in the hopes
which had been raised of a lucrative commerce
with that nation, and assigned plausible causes
for the disappointment. In time, in the course
of five or ten years, no doubt, all these obstacles
will be removed, and the foreign supply and
demand for that extensive country will be as
regular as the trade with any nation.
Our attention has recently been called to the
reports made to the American government bylts
official agent in Amoor, Mr.. p. Med. Collins,
who was in Honolulu a few years since, and be-
came personally acquainted with some OF our
residents. Mr.. Collins sets a very high estimate
ON the opening now being made for American
commerce in that new country, and furnishes
many facts of public interest. Manchooria, the
country through which the Amoor river runs,
has a large population, made up of Russians,
Tartars, Chinese, &C., and being under Rus
sian rule, is open to the trade with foreigners.
All tropical productions used there have to be
imported, and the traffic in these could probably
be carried on By our merchants with great profit.
The fact, however, that the mouth of the
Amoor river is filled with shifting mud banks
which extend for one hundred and twenty miles
down the channel, almost to De Castries Bay,
through which the way must be CROPPED amid
turbid waters by soundings, slowly advancing
when the wind is fairest, anchoring when it is
not where the knowledge of the pilot of the one
year must be renewed the next, as the channel
shifts, and that from the 10th of November to
the Oath of June-a tedious seven months win
ter-the rivers mouth is blocked with ice, dis
courages the hope that we were about to see
forthwith a new commercial Ell dorado opened
upon the west of US as the Pacific coast had upon
our east. The loss of the bark Mezta on these
shoals last spring, and the probable loss of the
schooner Sophia, were an inauspicious commence
mcnb Oh our trdut Will LitC huiOOi
But Mr.. Collins informs US that the newly
founded city of Nicolaiosk is to be removed from
its present site near the pouth of the AMOR to
one of the bays on the g6lf of Tartary, south of
its present locality, probably Suffren Bay, where.
it will have the advantages of a harbor of easy
access and open throughout the year. By
glancing at a map, it will be seen that the course
of the Amoor is almost parallel with the coast.
1t is proposed from the new site of the city to
make a railroad across to the river, thereby cut
ting of the difficult navigation of the mouth and
striking it in a lower latitude, where the winter
is shorter and the ice breaks up earlier. From
the welI-known enterprise of the Russian govern
ment, and in view of the immense advantages
now within her grasp, it is not doubted that
these plans will be speedily accomplished. The
Amoor with its afauents is the river Of Mancho-
oria, a country already, for the most part,
yielded to Russia, and destined soon to become
hers to the Chinese wall, and peopled by twelve
million souls. One of the branches of the river
extends within three days journey Of Pekin.
The natural resources Of the country are of the
greatest extent and variety. In no other coun-
try is there such an encyclopedia of mines.
Hardly any metal is wanting. Upon one branch
of the river is found tin, upon another copper;
in one section iron, in Others coal, gold, silver,
platinum and lead. The population will require
every tropical product. Already it is noticed
that the great interior markets have been affected
by the opening of commerce to this side the
world. set is said that the trade during the
late fair at Nigne Novgorod was generally good,
and the amount of merchandise sold generally
fully supported but that in the sale of refined
sugar. which was formerlv an article IF very