The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-02-28
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From the NetO York World
george Francis TrGiN's Letters.
YHREE-FoURTH SEAS OVER
On BOARD THE SCOTIA,
Innunr,r Ii 1863.

tHREE-f OURIH IDEAS OVER. !
On BOARD THE SCOTIA,
January IA, 1868.
Fair wind, thirteen knots and half,
on the high seas, Why don't we say,
the waves are down on the low seas p
What sail I write about Were Bay.
ard Taylor here he would talk about the
sun going down, or the moon going up,
white-capped pillows, mosquitoes, stormy
petrels, and mountains in the clouds -
Humboldt said that b. Il. had travelled
further and seen less than any ether man
living Were Horace Greedy here be
would give his Recollections of Busy
Life, making an occasional allusion to
Thurlow Weed. Were Raymond here
be might give an inside view of the Phil.
adelphia convention, and Seward might
tell US when be intended to wind up his
correspondence about the Alabama claims
But your correspondent, not being poet
or3Jpolitician, will have to talk figures
ships, commerce, and America.
NO AMERICAN FLAGS IN NEW YORK
HARBOE.
What sad sight to an American
The Danish flag, the French, the Prus-
sian, the Spanish, the Dutch and the
English flags everywhere, but no Ameri
can bunting. Everything in New York
is foreign. Foreign jewolry, foreign dry
goods, foreign toys, foreign ships, foreign
bankers, foreign merchants, all our ioan-
oial and commercial business managed
through the Bank Of England Tue rot,
tcnest institution to-day in the world
outside the British national debt.
Ten lines, but no American steamer
Hamburg and Bremen Line, Glasgow
Line, French Line, Guion's Line (Guion
ID credit Mobilier and Foneier copartner, }
Canadian Line, Cunard Line, North Ger
man Line, Inman's line, London Line,
and two or three more not in my memory.
What disgrace to American shipowners,
American bankers, the American Con.
gress. Vanderbilt's jealousy and avarice
and Browns mismanagement destroyed
tue Collins Line. But are we never
again to see American steamships on the
ocean ? Those Collins boats we're q
credit to our mechanics
The Vile dc Paris, Saint Laurent
Pierre, Europe, and Napoleon Third arc
the finest steamers in the world -Four
of them were built for the Credit Mobilicr
in Glasgow. If the French government
can vote subsidy, cannot oar govern
ment do the same. Why don't you wake
up your merchants aud wake up Congress
Tell Congress you will devote the steamers
to carrying negroes to and fro between
Liverpool and New York, and Thad.
Stevens would move the previous question
and the Grant would become the Law
Give Cuaard his due. It's wonder,
full line. Punclual as mail coach--reg
ular as an express train. Fer q years they
have met their sailing days-arriving at
time, without losing steamer, passen.
ger or letter. Yes, Snannon lost the
Columbia-and one or two passengers
may have fallen overheard, a sailor may
have broken his leg, an engine snapped
the cross bar, but no mortal accident in
twenty-seven years. Boston was at its
zenith when they started. Their great
success is said to have arisen from their
taking their departure on the Fourth of
July
Twas 10 1910 they touched our Boston
wharves. TIE Columbia, Arcadia, Ba-
tavia ard Hibernia, touching at Halifax
This was the first quartette. Then came
the second edition of boats. The Cam