The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-04

q The picture of an empress OF the scs
= vi. 70 presented, sending out from ever
: pOrt majestic array Of ocean steamers an
, s'.ans along her borders with the elm
, das. " AVE ~"
IN the year just ended every ship.yard Il
scotland and along the eastern coast O
Cn9.ano mas been driven to its utmost ca
pacl.y, anu even into the almost silencet
yaIus upon the Thames the wave of pros
reIlIy mas rolled, stirring into vigorous lifi
those quiet marts. In one word the ship
: Sunolng business of the United Kingdom
Ior last year was simply enormous. Flee,
upon Meet has been ordered, and, as our
correspondent tells the story, the wonderful
result mas ueen evidenced of a demand for
ocunercial pavles greater than even the
gIeantic resources Of Great Britain have
Seen aoie to supply. We OF the United
states are dying of atrophy while England
~ h1!ed to repletion with good things. In
tne United Kingdom 400, 900 tons OF ship
ping were built IN 1871, and the colossal
quill TO the order Of almost every recog-
niled nation, and seAt out to plough all
out the polar oceans on it's way to every
trading shore. One instance typifies the
wnoie. Years ago q native OF Massachu-
setts went to South America, identified
himself with the west coast of that CONT.
nent, and after testing his energy and abil-
ny IN constructing railroads, hi5 upon the
idea OF great steamer line to open up n
trade for it with the outer world. HIS
capital he sought in England. Perhaps the
liberal commercial code of that country at
tracted him bat be that as it may, London
furnished him with means. The line struck |
out from Liverpool via Magellan's Straits
to Valparaiso. 1t was Immediately demon
strated success. The monthly steamer
became fortnightly steamer, and then the
rush of trade demanded a steamer once
of In s1,
nous, and to keep up the necessary fleet
prodlgal orders for vessels are given. The
company keeps its steamers speeding to
and fro In Gordon which brings forcibly
20 mind the band passing over the driving
wheels in machinery and maintained in
perpetual motion between two terminal
POINTS. And to think that it is all the
york OF an American; and that were any I
'ther American to excogitate such another ]
uch cordon he must expatriate himself be- =
ore his theory could became fact!
IN the London Times OF one morning our /
orresPondent notes these amazing adver- L
lsed departures: For Bombay, vine steam '
rs ana three sailing ships for Calcutta,
ineteen steamers and four ships; for a
;hlna and Japan, fourteen steamers and t
Inc shlps-forty- two ocean steamers up at =
ne time for the Orient Once the promise c
1lght have been seen ready for one point v
the compass, but that murderOus code q
inch says You connot build Ships at home a
nd you shall not buy them abroad blasted E
1e fair flower. So far from daring to b
ompete with England, our best reliance ia e
'celve consideration in the press of bust I'll
ess, and that by surreptitious means we b.
lay De enabled to profit by those vessels RI
nr code forbids us openly to use. Even T
.oliand must be relied ON to help u.s., by 9.
as her merchants soon will. n q
ne from Antwerp to New York, and from II
ngland and Scotland other new lines are m
contemplation. No less than rs. 600 tons n,
shipping, over one-seventh of the total h,
image turned out in Great Britain in 1871. hi
g under order OF construction for New III
ork, this year. Foreign capital will own sL
I'd control them, and we of the IInited th
ates, though better off even thus than If &C
had no lines to us at all, are vet but ed
ere outer oarbarians, not SO we'll off as FRI
Chinese and Japanese, who, if thew W;
We no shlps, may at least buy them.
'giand is as ready to sell as she ia able Tn ey
lid, and counts among her customers an
'lgium, Holland, Austria, italy. Spain ex
lssia, Australia, China and the United wi
ates-in the latter case always under I'll
'ndlng that the trade is surreptitious pe
oone through middle-men. The vessels of
1t she builds radiate as widely as tho VIC
ans of central Gun. Could one Init sor
Use above the island and mark a single de-
Us departures the lines would strike in tor
many directions as the sparks flash from
lint int; Wherever trade is there plows the
ltisn keel. That ubiquity might have fro
IN ours-perhaps may yet be but Ger lr1
My under no Chinese sy stem ofisolation. spl
'lusion and torpor.-N. Y. World. ing
The story is told of Professor Agassiz r ros
he was poor Swiss lad, who, refusing v Tu
earn now to turn penny by his fathers snc r
De, began alone and unaided to spell out eue
alphabet of Nature in rocks and birds t e,"
beasts. This knowledge did not prom i S,ss
to help him on one whit among his ny"
shbors did not put shoes on his feet, n va,
successfnI hnsiness o;.1 f lapie nome god
chose to go wandering through the Alps INA INA
chet in hand, and often but sou in his nan a;n
ket, "a sum SO little" he said, "when a siis
hunger was SO big" So! hungry and m n,s
ced sjons of tb;s ,.i' oi ye"ts tne nan tina
cb he fenc;ed CD LII % language, it C