The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-05

Bremen Company, averaging 5000 tons each, cost
about 5000 per day. and the three belonging TO the
Hamburg line about 81, $780, While the TIVE seven
sailing vessels may be az gregatei at 5000. The
agents OF the companies according to marine inter
national law, caano, dismiss the crews III this or
any other forei IN port. They, however cane nd
them PACK by other vessels and pay the expenses
n nv 10 IS expected That tAe war WI not
ien IN dismissing Dody Of able seamen,
speaKing German. whose places may, not
easily % supplied There we're some hopes during
the ne iilancy evlnced TO open hosties that trade
might be resumed, and both France ana Prussia would
mutually agree not to modest the merchantmen OF
tneir respective antagonists but this hope has died
away, as II is evidently the policy o. the French
N nr,s 70 MAINTAIN strict blockade OF all the
when has hitherto been annually increasing at a
most satisfactory rate.
nave been received Ivy the North German Consul
General from the home government respecting the
made To induce Cong ress to pass the bill TO admit
loegn snips to American register Tie owners
would now be only too anxious to dispose OF valu-
abe property which Is comparatively useless sur
reptitiOus coasllng trade might be done by sendng
vessels TO New Orleans via Havana ana evadinQ our
laws by clearing for the later port and from there
however, Is not the season for either the cotton
sugar lrade ana the crews OF these German vessels
would OBJECT To go to ports Infected with yellow
feyer BESIDES the steamers are too expensive 10 run
To make such trade lucrative.
TIE MISTAKE or CONGRESS-
In not passing The bill TO admit foreign ships to
American register Is daily becoming more apparent
70 the community, ana though trade with North
herman ports may be suspended splendid OppOr.
tunity presents itself for the admi sion OF very
1ne class Of vessels. One large shipping house in
our wealth n Congress had been Influenced to pass
such a bill as Will admit the ships, steamers and
vessels OF all nations that desire avail themselves
OF our flag, under which, when registered,
they cannot Change to another. Mr.. Nathaniel
Mckay. Inc shipbuider, says IN recent letter TO
the HERALD, referring to the foregoing:
This clause would only the class that ply regularly
between European and American ports II of
snip deses TO ke his ship TO party under another
nag ne should be alowoi but think bill to admit those
ships for the emergency should not be allowed They
might want to transfer again after the closes
In Europe The shpbuders talk and mporune Congress
and do all they they will not build ship, they.
have abandoned the business rather the business has
abandoned me- Tney all have TO try something else for
living lreccved letter To-day from Quebec from ship
owner satng that Congress the bill admit foreign
ships he Will come Immediately and transfer his ships under
the American flag
A number Of the agents Of German shp0wners ex-
pressed the Willingness OF their principals to trans
Ter thei ships under the American dag as more pro-
lection Will be given Them and not so many dicul-
ties experienced In obtaining crews, besides the
facilities given to American vessels IN all foreign
port are greater than those extended TO an infant
maritime Power such that Of Prussia. The
ST. 00,OOO worth OF shipping now lying Idle in out
harbor Is grievous eyesore 10 German citizens,
and tie interruption in trade, especially of petrO-
lenn, OF which Germany consumed Immense guam.
titles VIII cause some heavy failures.
Arrival of the Leipzig mt Baltimore.
|. BALTIMORE August A. 1870
The North German steamship Leipzig, from Bre