Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-17
Trans.PacIflc Nail service. ~

One e the greatest events Of 1861 Is the CONNECT
tng Of ths eastern and western henispheres BY 6
line Of hrss-clsss American mail steamers. The
Great Republic and the Great East are now in com.
munication by steam over the Pacific, and by cleo
tric telegraph under the Atlantic. The trans-Pa-
cidc steam ship line was inaugurated on New Years
by the sailing Of the Colorado from San Francisco
for japan and China direct; the arrival Of Kama
gawa on the 22d, and at Hong Kong on the both
Considering this was the most unfavorable season
Of the year-head winds sll Che yay--it was on The
whole very good voyage Returning, the ColOrA-
do will have the benefit Of the northern trads winds
and viii probably make much quicker rum
The time saved over the Isthmus and Red Sea
rOute was not very great-some ave or six days
only. The time once gained BY sailing vessel and
Hpony express from Japan 70 London, via San
Francisco and New York, was twensy-three days.
When the Paciao Rail Road is built, the saving Of
time viii be about twenty-five days between Hong
Kong and Lotdon.
The ice is nov broken, and the Arst entrance made
70 IN Asiatic port by an American nail steamer.
Africa, British India, in fact The whole Eastern
World, is yet almost Polar Sea 10 american steam
srs whilst British and French capital has thrown
network Of steam over the whole from Australia 10
Constantinople and from China to the Cape Of Good
Hope as ~.
The direct line Of the new route of course leaves
on Honolulu and the Sandwich Islands. that part
Of the service, Il Is understood is 10 be performed
By smaller class chips. Among the iters Of the
Pc.t-ofhce Appropriation Bill which passed th'
House was s5O0,ooo for the Japan and China mai
service, with provisions for showing tho Company
80 discontinue touching at Honolulu -. -
The Colorado viii make another trip before the
Few ships are ready, which viii be by the lst Of
Nay aad june respectively. aoF = 80
Except ia Californa this Pacific line has attracted
t little interest as the benefits which viii accrue
from opening communication with the East win in
ssree. mainly the Pacific States, This ought not 10
bss The saving Of {, 900 miles and thres weeks
time between the great ports Of China and japan
and the commercial cities Of continental Europe and
America, is great deal. withsuperior freight and
passenger accommodations trsae from Asis VII
naturally take the cheapest and most expeditions
route. -,. - -r,- 81 81 t-.Sstl
The magnificent ships which are building for the
Pacific Line will challenge the admiration Of every
American, especially If he has ever Waited the East
and travelled through the Red sei and Indian
Ocean with the thermometer at 1889, in the litle
black diugy screws of the Peninsula and Oriental
Line The ships Of the Japan-China Mail Line
are 20 DO i've in pumber--four Of them new ships.
The Great Republic and the Celestial Empire will
be ready TO stsrt round ths Cape Of Good Hope 20
take their places in the line, by the lEt Of May and
June. The other two new ones have been com
mOnced, and win be ready by another year. The
fOsr new ships are to be of uniform model, size
PoSer and strength, similarity contracted and
lifted up; they win be 5000 tons, and cost $i,eee
900 each s =
Business is fast improving IN Japan. A lac 70
pors OF Sir II. Parks, Her Britanic Aajestys Cen
sal nt Yokohama, TO Earl Clarendon shows that The
increase q imports Of 1865 were 100 per cent over
1854