The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-17

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The Great kastern-Hcr Future.
The Great Eastern left our shores yes'er-
day. after what we may venture, we presu'nes
to call avery lucrative trip. Her original
cost WAS about feoauoo steriing-that is, four
millions and a half of collars. Her present
own.rs maid about half that sum for her, and
weshould suppose they Will realize by this
trlp a: least S2uu oo0-thak l., eight per cent on
their Investment. Ii this could be kept up
she woulc soon pay for herself. But that is
cut OF the question. She is great spec Iacle
no douot--the greatest, we are Tree TO confess,
we ever saw. But the majority of people do
not care ahout seeing any Spectacle more Than
oace in their lives. Even before she left our
Shores, curiosity win regard ~ her had
greatly declined, ana we learn from the New
York papers hat when she came in from her
Southern "Trip lew days ago, she excited but
little interest.
What, then, is TO be done wi tn her in fnturel
That is the ques lion, which the stockholders
are most deeply interested IN answering. As
trade Is coad nc ted now, It is evident that she
viii not answer for the merchant service
Suppose she were 10 enter the har Dor OF New
YORK rext month, laden with a full cargo OF
Or, govas Any merchant can estimate the
ttirc, that the sudden throwing of nineteen
thousand tons OF dry goods upon the market
would have. Itwouid tum bic down prices IN
pei Iect crash, ana rms out OF number along
a4lA hem. Ii would render dry goods Il drug
IN The market. Suppose she should be loaded
with hardware, railroad iron, and goods "
that uescrlp non, she woulds bring over more
ihal couia, o. any possibility, De sold. Sap
pose sac brought over full snip-ioad of emf
grauts. She can bring 10000 trip What
would be done with them Where would
they be lodged How could they be fed D
Where would they fud employment
GA the back trip, The difficulties she would
create by going ont with full cargo would be
equally great. At this very time, if ever she
mas n chance Of striking a stroke in the carry
ing line. The demand for breadstufs is con-
siderable on the other side of the water. Sup
pose she take out full cargo OF wheat. She
can carry very nearly 100000 bushels. Would
hot he arrival Of such cargo make Mark
Lane sIaIe' OF, suppose she take out flour
She eau carry 100000 barrels aud upwards.
OF ali The chlmericai schemes we have yet
heard of, however, that of engaging her in the
Virginia Trade is The most chimeTIcal. On one
trip she can carry $1,000 hogsheads of tobacco,
considerably more, we believe, thau We're ever
least half, We suspect OF the whole crop of
Virginia. Imagine 10000 hogsheads tuulbled
down IN Liverpool Ct a single dash, TO say
nothing OF the difficulty of getting such a
cargo together. Or cotton, she can carry So
90 bales trip,a cargo quite sufficient to Gre
ates unusual nutterng in Liverpool, if she
could get TO Liverpool, which she cannot. On
her return trip, be IL rene bered, she is to
bring over 1900 tons Of European goods. How
are these goods 10 be disposed of when they
get here Where are they TO go ! To whom
are they to be consigned How are they 10 be
gotten rid of! We are speaking, now, of
single trip. II is calculated thar the Great
Eastern can, with ease, cross the ocean in eight
day., and that, if fully employed, she can
n AXE a dozen trips i'll the year Let US sup
pose, however, that she makes only ten. To
Fl her uu her out-irps, W. shall REQ uire three
hundred thousand hugsheads of to bacco per
alnum, if she carry 10 bacco olly eight hun.
d-cd ana tiLy thousand bales Of cotton if she
b. Il cotton ship ouIy. Halt of each would
give her 10000 hogsheads and 425, 600 bales In
tne c. use OF the year she would bring in one
hundred and ninety thousand tons of foreign
Cd. AGAIN, We ask what would be done
VITA them AS to turning her into an emf
ant snip for Our waters, that is out of the
q .->liJn. How could the lower country of
Virginia dispose of 100000 emigrants brought
over ia the course of single year
Something has been said about converting
the Great Eas tern into troop ship. That ex-
perinent would not pay. She can take out
tIadia lC,OOn soldiers at a single trip. and
take back as many. This, we take it, is as
rr,nta number as rhe British government
ever sends OUT or recalls in a single. year The
a pix har anil
gle voyage, out and back, a year. This is not
what ship owners require. They want cen.
slant and lucrative employment for their YES.
sells, and vessels will always go where they
can get a cargo quickest We have heard
Baltimore merchants complain, that the
splendid clippers built there very frequentl
went out and never returned They 90 to
New York, where they can always get a cargo
on short notice. There is no port in The world
IN which the Great Eastern can accomplish
this. AS mercantile venture, as the trade of
the world is now conducted, she is a failure
Il may turn out that, sAssns future day, the
manner OF carrying II on, and its increase in
quantity, 0Ay undergo such radical changes
that the services OF such ships may be re.
Quirrd. But at Uoao she is greatly too ca.
pscio~s ~ any commerce in the world
II ps1A rs to reflect that the G treat Eas tern
must b. laid aside as a useless bulk We feel
towards her an affection almost as great rs
though she were a human being. We regard
her as the most wonderful piece of mechanism
thas ~ world ever beheld. She is the index
In wood and iron, of The worlds progress In
the arts and sciences. She is the embodiment
Ct all the discoveries in science, and all the
improvements in machinery, made within the
lasteigh, years. she is the type and exempiar
OF the 10Th century. But we cannot bring our
selves 10 think that she will pay expenses. at
least at this stage of the worlds progress.
The Harvest in the West.
II is believed by competent judges that
throughout the Sta ties North west OF the Ohio
the harvest of 1860 will be at least fifty per
cent. heavier than any one preceding it, and
that this region will have an aggregate sur.
nlME Of kundred