The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-19

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terfere with the suhjssts Of Anststa aud Tar
key, endsavorine 70 Asow % she yske.
81
rAe city = new Cork.
A table Of STATISTICS Of crime pao'isneu =
the New York Expssss, expiodes ply 80.
.,r.,,.,v the commou notion that the New
yorkers ARE ahead Of all the rest OF the coun-
,rv IN law breaking and immortality. Tne iacts
and nsures show That the great ouik OF the
cr,m,pals are from other paris OF the world
wni,,t II IA prohable that rural life II, In gem
.~~, ,.o.t fAvorable for the cultivation OF vir-
en-. ~ NAV BE- doubted whether there 10 any
,.,.. civ. either In Europe or America, whose
,or,,..ion n, more moral and orderly than
The permanent community Of New York.
II would DO harsh judgment II the resident
.ociety Of Washington or New Orleans were
;udsrd BY the transient population which &C.
cupies those cities In the winter. Fernaps 10
CITY in the world has suffered more In reputa-
ton from the same cause than Paris. 1t would
n. hard To convince an EnglishmAn or Ameri-
can tina, Paris il not the most dissOlute city
IN thu world; but it would be harder still to
oroys Il. On the contrary, facts aud figures
show that there 10 less licen tiousness In Paris
than in many European cities, whilst the ru-
r., population Of France 10 As virtuous as
that Of any country. But the gay capital OF
the grand nation attracts all the pleasure
seekers Of the earth to that great centre OF NJ
traction, and to them It owes its bad name
New York 10 suffering from the same misfor-
tune. and from the additional one of . bad pc.
lice and an elective judiciary.
Indeed, 1t may be questioned, whether any
city in this country possesses a population
combining more admirable qualities, on the
whole, than the stable population OF New
York. the men whose forefnthers have been
identified with the city from an early period.
We do not refer alone to the enterprise ana
public spirit by which it has always been dis
tipruished. but to its freedom from all provin-
ciali.m and every kind Of narrowness. to Its
innumerable public and private charities, and
to the eminsntly national and patriotic spirit
which, from the beginning TO this day, has
made and kept it an American city, having
nothing Of section in or about it, and belonging
as much in feeling, and we may add, in charac-
| ter, to the South as to the North. We say in
charact tel, and, when we say 60, we refer 70
those to the manor born" who, with the
| restless energy and acuteness Of the Northern
| mind have much Of the enthusiasm, frankness
and chivalry of q Southern CLINE. Thusm much
IL due to q great city, which suffers more than
| those who denounce her, from the rufianism
| and crime which the maelstrom OF her vast
has drawn within her borders, and
which, owing to those wretched innovations
upon her old constitution, miscalled reforms,
by whjch every office is elective and every
BODY an elector, she is unable to control and
punish.
The transatlantic Passenger Traffic.
1 S>ro etortlinu facts nnOn this suhippf do.
| rived from British and American official
sources, would seem to indicate that such ves-
| sells as the Great Eastern cannot be built too
| soon for the demands Of the great ferry be-
tween the Old World and the New. The
Philadelphia North americas copies tables and
by which it appears that the
westward passengers from Europe, emigrant
and all other, were as follows, for periods OF
ten years.:
Aggregate. Yearly Av'ge
1920 to ls:s~--~.".: Isl sss as',s3
Isl ISL to to i lsss inclusive. s.s j s sss.ss
l. Tss 1 1ssa nss ~ hand rs '0 Wi tn the as' ~iiit ts9: IS,n these s:s
statements it appears that from the INST to the
i i5a% P Rs.,oa The or in nor ss a Of t4ssei p w sssa Was
tenfOlo, or f,Om Is UOJ annually to l4 wv annual
~: again: the second decade as,,as gives the same com
creaAe beng tenfold for an average OF sixteen
yeays-the 81 OO annually OF 1870 TO lS9 being IN
Gre ssed to 37U wv annually for the average OF 1851
to 1856.
1t also appears that the travel to Europe in
creased tenfoid for corresponding periods,
though the numbers were, Of course, Ear less.
| From le4O to 1850 the total Number was 81 ,92l.
or 5,492 annually; and from 1851 to 1856, le9.
| 900, or $1,000 annually. The number in 1856
was 39.5l9, and in 1910 about 4,0OO-in sixteen
| years an increase of very nearly tenfold. l,
| is Justly asked, if these have been the figures
| Of transatlantic travel during one brief era
in the history of ocean steam navigation, and
with all the disadvantages of high fares, dan.
gers and casualties attendant on the intro
| duction of such an agent as steam, what aus
be the progress Of The traffic during the mex
| fifteen or twenty years, during which we may
expect the most important inventions and i'm
provements! In view of these facts, and o.
the prospect of a development of American
resources and of every branch of industry
which. in the next quarter of q century, will
cast completely into the shade all the wonder
ful progress we have hitherto made, Mr.. BRu'
MEL was not far in advance~of the age whet
he conceived the idea of a steamer which
could cross the Atlantic in a week, which
should be go constructed as to ensure safety
and comfort as well as speed, and which coult
carry i've thousand passengers. Whether h
has succeeded in the execution of this idea, W.
shall soon know, but the requirements OF tn
great ferry will soon bring such a ship into ex
istence, even if the Great Eastern proves fail
ure. When there is such a ship, a strong ant
seaworthy ship, and the price Of comfortably
cabin passage is reduced, ~ it soon will be, t
fifty dollars, the predicted sight will soon b
witnessed Of zone hundred thousand Ameri
cans going to Europe every year, and half tina
number Of Enropeans-besides emigrants-
going to America"