The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-08

Mr.. A. DUDLEY MANN, speaking, doubtless, by
authority, has publicly notified ''the citizens of
''the slave-holding States,' that the steamship
Great Eastern is at their service if they ready
to guarantee her adequate employment The as
surauce being first given Of a return freight sufi-
Gent to Justify the expense of the voyage she wi Il
re>enter the Chesapeake on or about the first of
November next, 'preparei to convey TO Milford
"Haven thirty thousand bales ofcotton; or seventy
give thousand barrels of -four; or three hundred
"thousand bushels OF wheat Or corn" she would
prefer however, "a mixed CARGO but whatever
staple products may be shipped to England in her,
it is desirable that the charges for transportation
'tshould yield the sum Of seventy-fve thousand
"dollars" We are further notified that ''she will
''also be in condition to accommodate five hun
'dred first-class passengers" and any number OF
valuable parcels. If it can be demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the Directors that the requisite
amount of freight is to be had, and that cargoes
to the same extent will be regularly furnished at
stated periods hereafter, the Great Eastern will
undertake to inaugurate a system of d.
rect trade between the Southern States
and Europe, making annually, between
Hampton Roads and Milford Haven eight round
voyages We should cordially advocate an en-
terprise of this kind if we thought it practi
cable, but we feel satisfied that the conditions
could not be complied with, and that the project
would result in a disastrous failure. 1t is not so
easy a matter to concentrate at given point, and
at intervals of forty-five days, such an immense
amount of staple produce would serve to freight
& steamship of such capacity as that of the Grea
Eastern. Nor could reliance be placed upon
a sufficient number of passengers to make up for
any deficiency in cargo. To carry out scheme
of this kind Systematically, and with that precis-
ion and certainty which are essential to its success,
would be- under any circumstances, work Of
time and would demand that scr t of combination
of effort which is not to be expected in novel I'M
dertakiug. To steamer waiting for her cargo in
Hampton Roads, the cost of lighterage alone would
amount TO no insignificant sum, and as the
staples for export must be drawn from many diff
ferent points, and must each their several entire
pots by as many modes of conveyance, the period
Of ten days allotted for the steamer to remain in
port would be heightened out Unfortunately before
she was ready to make her voyage. This alone
would be fatal to regularity of trips, and would
necessarily deter travellers from taking passage in
her We do not say that the Great Eastern could
not be proftsbly employed in our waters but, TO
be so, would depend upon degree of harmonious
cooperation on The part of the Southern States
which they have never yet eyinced, and which
would require sacrifice of conflicting interests to
obtain. That direct communication With Europe
by steam would add largely to the material pros
Of horn IN
to that of Baltimore, has been too often acknow-
lodged to admit now of being called in question:
but any system of direct trade, to be successful
must be built up by q process of gradual develop
ment, and in the earlier stages Of the enterprise,
could only be carried on in vessels of infinitely
smaller tonnage than that of the Great Eastern.