The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-08
IMPORTANT STEAMSHIP LINES.
New Nail Lines to China and Japan, the
"a Wost Indies and South America.
THE REAL WAR WITH ENGLAND.
&c. sc. sc.

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monthly mail between New York and Rio Janero Brazil
calling at 81 Thomas, Pernambuco and Bahia which
was Lot 70 tho New York and Brazilian Steamship Com
pany will 60 into operation the Goth of the present
month
The contract a compromise between the Spanish
house OF Asencio Co. that Of G. K Garrison OF
shis ctly, each house owning one-halG
Congress at its last granted Conditional sub
sdy" q tl6o0oo to be paid annually ten years for
carrying monthly mail to Brazil provided that govern
mont would pay like sum.
This tho Emperor agreed to do, and the Postmaster
General In pursuance OF the law of Congress- adver-
tsed for proposals for building ships Of not less than two
shousaad tsM burthen TO make monthly trips between
Che ports abese mentioned With OF starting the
hne at once, which could be done In less than one
year now ships were to be built OF the first class
ships Of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company will be
despatched monthly until new ships are built. -
These two lines-one Brazil the other TO China and
! Japan and the Sandwich Isands-are, perhaps, the
most important, on some counts ever established by
the United States governm
Both Of these lines coming into contact with two
Of the most powerful steam lines In the word-lines
shat have been In successful operation twenty-five years
-each-the Roy6 Mail Steam Packet Company and the
Peninsular and Oriental steam Navigation Company.
These lines have their headquarters at Southampton,
England running weekly AMI semi-monthly TO the West
India islands Brazil Rio Janero, River Plate and other
South American ports.
Tho Royal Mail Company's ships touch at Aspinwall,
which the only American port these ships call at
where there American steamers.
From st. Thomas, winch is TO be the principal stop
ping place for the Brazilian steamers, ten different
radiating lines of the Royal Mail line Mexico Central
America, the Spanish MAN, &c, keep up continual
communication.
Tn Y,lv
twenty eight steamers making weekly and semi
monthly trips; distance rum II ,4O2 miles; subsidy,
81, 900, being So 40 mile postage receipts,
$534, 62S-total miles rum 81, 200.
The above is of tue monster lines which has
mon0polzed the West India. Central and South Ameri-
can trade for tho last twenty-five years which the Bra
&lian mail line will come into contact with
Tho other line which the trade Of the whole
Eastern world s the Pennsuar and Oriental Steam Navi
cation Company Starting from Southampton, these
ships communicate with all the principal ports in the
lEastern world. l.4 ta
In July 1885, this company owned SO shps aggregate
tonnage 124 u.s. The distance these ships is % 112
ames making grand OF $751; 1914 miles annually
Al tho twentieth annual meeting of the company held
IN London, December s. 1900 among other things was
eated that the expenditure for coal the last year had
bsen ~ 900; that the receipts Of the company
wsrs el2 expenses. $l2 235 0oe mail subsidy
1000, 600 ..sa .ats.slsrf at
Tho mail subsidy Of this line when first started, in
T18lO was IS per mite The subsidy amounts now TO
81 SIX per mile Gross postage receipts, $soo,sso.
( Tho foregoing is given with a view OF showing the
difference between that Of liberal policy and that pur-
sued BY tho American gov ernmeut. -
The tsadc Of this monopoly is to be broken
nnts By American line Of steamers, running between
San Francisco and Hong Kong China touching at Homo
A,,uu 0~na .in1 volap de L,,S Tar
Tho Pacific Mail Company have contracted to build four
nrss class side-whee steamers of from $500 to 1000
tons each, 70 run monthly between the ports above
named Tho ships TO make twelve round trips out
and back. The annual compensation il five hundred
Ahousand dollars service 20 on or before the
st u January, 1857 The ships larger than any Of
bths English or French lines Sd
rho advantages which England and other European
counssies will derive from the American line In the
ling Of time and distance the Pennsular and Oien-
hal Steamship Company, are immense
1hs line from China aud Japan, via San Francisco,
10 England and other European countries will be from
awenty 10 twentysx days quicker than via PeninsulaR
and Oriental Mail line by tn. cut. The line
ll b bound TO produce entire revolution In the
Easteen World and Europe in the saving of distance and
3mA the distance between shanghae and Southampton,
wis Peainsuar and Oriental line is eleven thousand
hundred and seventy miles length Of passage home
lwards sxtyfve days; cost hundred and eighty
snvs dollars.
In April 1884, the American ship Kingasher left the
port Of Ksnagawa Japan for San FRANCISCO where she
arrived In nineteen days-sx days quicker than
made before snce-dstapce ruo, four thousand four
hundred and twenty nine miles. Important dispatches
sent 10 the NEW YoRK HsaAID by this ship, which,
ON the morning Of the twentieth day from Kanagawa,
loft San Francisco by pony express and In, days
aished in the HERALD the way to Liverpool and
In lees than eleven DAYS published In the London
z~ss being forty two days frm Japan II takes sixty
ave days go to Southampton by the Peninsular and
Oriental line, being wcntyfor days longer than by the
former, through New York city. fs'PssS, "'' &
the London Times VI publishing the from Japan,
devoted half . column in urging the importance Of
making the California the great mail route
between China japan and England, instead Of
che roundabout way OF present. Ordinary passage
between Chcs, Japan and San Francisco by steam, stop
ping ct the Sandwich Islands, would not ordinarily
py more than twenty-five days. The splendid results
achieved By the California roue, In which the Times
knowiedged the Peninsular and Oriental line shamefuly
bgaten moro than three weeks were strongly urged
reason for establishing such line Victoria vancouvers
usand port in British poss sons some two or three
days sail from San Francisco was named as the head
quarters OF the line
I The Times said the British government would reap
golden harvest from Pacific trade by extending the
1Ine 70 Panama 10 connect Aspinwa with the royal
mall steamers; all this coud be maintained within terri
cory Independent Of the American government
The importance OF establishing line Of steamers b.
.tween San Francisco and the East with view Of pro
Sding some Of protection 10 American ships
Ahe China and Japan Il we expect 70 compete
icessfay with other nations, cannot be estimated
That the line would prove immense there car
DO NO reasonable doubt the passenger travel alone
besides the valuable packages OF freight letter mail
Nc, which would be drawn from the Peninsuar ant
Oriental line, would be very great. Europeans them
eelvss would prefer this route Of travel
What Englishman instead Of swetering in the torrit
heats Of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean thirty forty
ihcrnanrncfar runa hiohar In