New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-11
"A NEW CHANNEL FOR ooMMnRcE,

A NEW CHANNEL FOR COMMERCE
1
Within short time one of the leading New Yorl
daies has published certain accounts of that country
OF Eastern Asia called Mantchuria, lying north o
China, and varously set down on the maps as por
ton OF Siberia, and Of the Chinese Empire though MOI
properly of either Of those great divisions OF the Ash
attic continent. These accounts have been received
from an exploring party, despatched by certain mer
| OF commerce and acting under the auspices Of gov
eminent, We believe, and in fulfilling their mission
the first steamer has assembled over two thousand
miles up the Amoor. mighty river, hardly inferior
to the Mississippi, and with tributary, the Son
gari, only inferior to the Missouri Up the Amoor
the explorers sailed into the heart OF ASIA leaving
the outside world when they entered its mouth in the
southern part Of the Sea of Ochotsk, just north of
the northerly island Of the Japan group navigating
through an almost unknown region, and finally
reaching, in their southwesterly progress, beautiful
country, fertile, genial, and thickly populated by
micivilized people, to whom the faces of Russians
were almost as strange those of Americans. There
they found Mantchu cities of from one hundred
thousand to three hundred thousand Inhabitants the
places of few Of which are marked on any map. The
amazing fertility of the country supports vast
population, heretofore more secluded from inter
course than the Japanese though not because Of hos.
tity to communication with the other nations of the
world This nation confesses some sort Of traditional
allegiance to the Russian Government but its control
practically amounts to little or nothing and being
well.dsposed, peaceably-inclined people, satisfied
with their condition and not angered by tyranny,
they get along really very well with but little govern.
ing there are few law-breakers because there are
few laws to break.
The accounts Of these explorations have not re-.
ceved general notice from the press of the country,
and the unrehecting reader will be apt to glance at
the matter and dismiss 1t along with the many items
OF passing interest which daily attract momentary
interest amid the mass Of newspaper literature. But,
1t properly looked into, the conclusion must be sug
gested that these explorations are among the most
important of the age for they pointing ont to the
world, the world of commerce and industrial enter.
prise, what it has been loudly demanding for many
years past tits pointing ont the true and only gate
way into central Asia, the means of communicating
with the unnumbered millions who inhabit that vast
and peculiar terra cognita, with its abundant mine
raj and other valuable products, wherewith to pur.
chase the manufactures Of the enlightened world from
which they have ever been shut OUT it shows the way
OF opening new and great market, of tapping this
mine OF wealth to trade and commerce, which has
never been worked, it's undeveloped richness only
partially dribbng through the broad belt of Chinese
and Indian territory on the East, and through
Tarary and Russian Siberia on the West. But now it
is shown that the enlightened world need no longer
trade through such exacting agencies but can 60 d.
rect to fountain heads and Gull there the rich fruits of
enterprise
This AMOR river is the only gateway of approach
to Central ASIA for it is the only navigable river the
mouth of which is attainable that extends far into
the Interior 1t is as readily navgabe as the Misss
spp for though the pilots of the steamer were entirely
UNIFORMED she ran fifteen hundred miles up the river
in twenty-five days only, frequent and lengthy stop
pages being made The explorers found at the large
Mantchu cities thousands Of traders who had come
with merchandiseladen horse and camel trains one,
TWO, three thousand miles, thinking the longest of the
Journeys well done If they reached their homes
again in years time, with the dearbought fruit
If their adventure. The Mantchu country is the
great mart of interior ASIA and should be the depot
or that with the rest of the world, as it will be
when commodous steamers are put on the river to
bridge across the less productive and inhospitabe
yea border Of near a thousand miles in width which
The lower portion of the stream traverses.
That portion of the world most interested in this
relations with new country, more ex.
ensye and popuous than the United States East of
The Rocky Mountains is California and to her its
benefits will enure The trade of Eastern Asia will
naturally go to the Pacific States, and upon it they
must chiefly rely for the building up of the CONNER
,ia, and perhaps political empire of the West, which
will one day crown the coasts Of that great ocean, 1t
will naturally belong to the Anglo.American country
If the Pacific coast for 1t is the nearest or most at
ainable portion of the manufacturing Anglo.Ameri-
IAN world, whence the markets of the civilized and
emi civilized nations of Asia can be supplied. Al.
eady the trade is heavy and it is constantly enlarg
ng, and we expect that, ere many years, lines Of
steamers between the occidental and oriental worlds
will traverse the Pacific they now do the Atlantic
between Europe and America while the sailing feet
will be many fold increased. The opening of this
trade with Central ASIA via the Amoor river avenue
Of access will be just into the Pacific countrys hand
md would stimulate it considerably and employ feet
If ships. The distance from San Francisco to the
mouth of the Amoor is only about third greater
han from New York to Liverpool.