New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-07

tween production and! consumption. A
Mr.. Tiff, who does not comprehend the
mathematics of commerce, visits st. Louis
to persuade the shippers of that city
that
The distance by rail from St. Louis to
| Savannah is some two hundred miles less
| than the route from st. Louis to New York,
| while the water route from Savannah to
Liverpool is but little longer than from
New Orleans to Liverpool in fact many
ocean men decidedly favor the route from
| Savannah.
We suppose this paragraph contains an
error, and really intends to compare the
| distance between Savannah and Liver
pool, with that from New York and Liver
pool-not New Orleans. The distance
from New Orleans to Liverpool is 500
miles We are glad of this, it will afford
an opportunity Of explaining to the Sc
Louis Dispatch the true theory of its
foreign commerce. Suppose st. Louis
wishes to ship bale of cotton 60 New
York. Then it is, Of course, better to
send It direct than with a reinstatement
at Savannah, and with three-ouarters
per cent insurance coastwise, to New
York. If the bale be consigned to
Liverpool, then its transi5 svould be
thus: By rail, assumed, 90 New Yorlo
1900 miles; from New York to Liverpool,
BOO; total, 400 miles. By rail to Sayan
nah, assumed, 400 miles. From Savan.
nah to Liverpool is two degrees Of longi-
tude west and nine degrees OF latitude
south further than from New York 70 Liv-
erpool. We may safely estimate this ad-
ditional distance at 800 miles, making the
voyage from Savannah to Liverpool 1900
miles, or total OF distaaceo from St.
Louis to Liverpool, via Eew York, 400
miles; via Savannah, $500 miles. The
comparative time would be, via New York
to Liverpool, st. Louis to New York.
1000 mnes, at fifteen miles per hour, four
days twelve hours. To Liverpool, BOO
miles, at twelve miles per hour, ten days
six hours; total, seventeen days eighteen
hours. St. Louis to Savannah, 400 miles,
at fifteen miles An hour, three days TWEEN
ty-one hours. Savannah to New York,
1900 miles, at twelve miles per hour, thir-
teen days eighteen hours. There would
be a difference of 600 miles and of three |
days in favor of the New Gork route to |
Liverpool
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