The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-30
WASHINGTON.
Those Foreign MissiOns-The Isthm us
CanaI-A Monster Railroad Scheme.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
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Those Foreign MissIons-The Isthmus
CnnaI-A Monster Railroad Scheme.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. "a, 1880.
Our foreign relations are at last re-es-
tablished, and we may now congratulate
ourselves that we have renewed our di-
plOmatic rapport with the old world.
The poet ambassador, who has been rep
resenting us at the bull-tights and nup-
tial ceremonies in Madrid, will be
transferred to the long vacant post in
that country from which we derive our
language, literature and laws. Mr.. Eos
ter leaps from Mexico to Russia, and Mr..
Morgan, of Louisiana, who has been
pracucing law in Egypt, will be assigned
to the post vacated by Mr.. Foster. True,
the embassies at Paris, Vienna and Con-
stantinople are vacant, but the ministers
appointed to represent us at these CAPT
tails have not resigned; they are making
the very best use OF their time in seeing
Europe and Asia, or visiting their friends
in this country. The delay in filling
these vacancies has brought out the fact
that an administration which is at all
DESTROYS of filling diplomatic positions
carefully, finds increasing difficulty in
doing so.
! The use made of many of these offices
of late years has made them much less
of distinction than they used to be,
and Americans of the right kind feel
more keenly than they used to feel the
dizziness of life in a foreign capital,
without knowledge of the language or
more than official access to its best soci-
ETY., and without recognition by the
diplomatic corps as professional breth.
rem. In fact, considering the changes
the telegraph has wrought in the mode
of conducting negotiations with foreign
powers, and the impossibility of making
diplomacy regular calling, it is ques
ton whether the work of all the existing
missions would not be best done by Il
single minister, having his headquarters
in Paris, free to travel about, and with
cOnsuls general under him in the various
capitals Cable Geographic connection
with all the world is every year becom
ing more complete. Rates from Europe
to America will this year be reduced
fifty per cent. The average time of pas
sage between Europe and America is be
ing rapidly reduced. Since the abbrevi
alton of time by steam and electricity
we are closer TO England, to France, ant
to all countries with which We have i'm
portant commercial relations, than wa
Baltimore to New York or Boston L
Philadelphia, forty years ago.
ApropoS of this subject Intelligence
has just been received from Panama tina
} work has been formally commenced ol
J the Isthmus canal, the little seven yea
old daughter of NJ. De Lesseps havin!
touched off the fuse that blew few hun
, dred tons of rock from the top of tn
: greatest obstacle in the route of the cana
ON the Cerra CclebIa range. NJ. De Les
; Seps is expected to arrive i'll New Yorl
next week. 1t, perhaps, makes littl
, difference whether he or Admiral Amme
: selects the route of the canal -wheneve
: we want IL we can take is, There is a
ready afoot plan for 1000 mile raj
road for establishing closer commercia
relations between the United States an
South America. This road will tap Ia
canal at some point and enable US t
throw hundred thousand men upO
Mr.. LesSeps' water route, if its manage
nIent shall be in any way unfayoTable {
our interests, before the combined Ell
ropean powers can embark half tha
number from their ports. or cours
this railroad is hypothetical, but so
the canal, in spite of the big explosio
and Lesseps' boast that he can get tWic
the amount required for its constructor
/. in France alone. II is just possible tina
the canal viii interSect the isthmus, an
2 prudent gamblers will not stake muc
. money on the question which viii frs
. reach the intersecting point. GAS.