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Show Water Spouts on Board tho "City of Pckinc " Newport, U. I., 27. At the meeting meet-ing on board the City of Peking this evening, Congressman Townsend, ef Pa., spoke of tho energetic manner in which the managers of the Pacific Mad Steamship Company had carried out their determination that tho American flag Bhould be seen more frequently on the ocean. Generous people look on with admiration at their efforts to establish American commerce, and a wise Government will not hesitate to lend it a helping hand to secure to the American people peo-ple its share of the Asiatic commerce. Our steamship companies are determined deter-mined also to have their share of the $130,000,00Oof freight money which is going yearly to Europe, and they will succeed. The speaker warmly eulogized. eulo-gized. John Roach for establishing on the Deleware a ship yard larger than any on the Clyde. His efforts, and those of others who are following his example, will soon make the Delaware Dela-ware the Clyde of America. The building of this e-hip has a higher significance, sig-nificance, however, than the fact of our capacity to build such vessels. premacv in the contest for the commerce com-merce o7-fcj0,0fX.000 ofpeople in the Kastern seas. We have to thank the builders of this and its sister ship for the commerce it will bring to the laps of our merchants and disseminate amount our people. Congressman Kellogg, of Conn., announced that he voted for the.tirst subsidy ever given to the Paeili ; Mail company and was proud of it, and hoped that in a short lime there would be half a score such ships as the City cf Iki:iy on the Pacific, and 1 that in a short time American ships i would take the place of German ami J English steamers on the Atlantic. Hon. Eraslus Brooks said bis heart ! rcsiKinded to the sympathy which! brought the head of tiie government with sum.: members of his cabinet , and thousands of the people here to: see this ship. He was glad that, though costing nearly $t,I''000, she j was built without a dollar of govern-1 mcnt money, because it shows that ! siiips can be built in our country by 1 skilled nieu without such a cuiitribu-; tion. The ship could not be equaled I fjr a like sum on the Clyde or any where in the world, and tho builder I had, to tiie speaker's knowledge, of-j fered to piace as g.oi a shij in every respect as the Wuitc S;.ir line int- ' "''- in the Liverpool deck?, for a like t'.ua as that which the Jiriti i funic cost. Alluding to the question I of Mibeidy he expressed the belief that I jin the great contest for supremacy of, i the ta And land, a nation should nut I i allow ii3 commerce to sutler !' any ! aid it can give. j .1. W. Simonton was called upon to ! ropond for San Francisco, and gavel a;keuh uf her wonderful proic", closing by expressing the setuimcut o 'us people as "God speed to tiie Pacific Pac-ific Mail Steamship Company, and ! may they go on multiplying taich !hip;k ihutoO until the sigii.tl hags ui their moving llecl shah nuuk the ! pathway across sea frutu shore to I shore." The trin so far lias 1-een nio.-l sue-: ccssful and enjoyable. Ihe steamer I will return to New York on Saturday. Satur-day. . |