The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-11
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THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY IL, 1855

THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY IL. 1855
y GfRDLE OF LIGHT AROUND THE WORLD
We have already noticed the arrival of Mr.
T. T. Schaffner, editor of the American Tele
graphic Magazine-the gentleman who so
recently came from near the Car, and
brought such statements of his plans power
and popularity among his people. Mr.. s. had
been on grand expedition for the establish
n,ent of a Telegraph line around the globe
He obtained important grants from the King
of Denmark and the Emperor of Russia
His scheme is TO start from the Coast of Lab.
rador, cross the Greenland Sea to Iceland
thence to the Farce Islands, and thence
across to the Norway coast at Bergen. From
that point, the line is to be carried to Chris
tiana, the capital of Norway where two
branches are to go to Copenhagen and Stock
holm. The Danish Government binds itself
to furnish proper connections with the Eu
ropean and British Kingdoms. Mr.. SIS
scheme then goes onto ST. Petersburg thence
10 Moscow and Kazan, whence crossing the
Ural Mountains, it proceeds via several cities
| in Asia, to 1rkOutslz, a city near the great
| tea country in Chinese Tartary. From that
city 1t is proposed to proceed to Ochotsk, and
across the Gulf of that name t. Kamtschstka;
and thence along the AluetiaE Islesto Cookies
| Inlet or the American coast; thence keep
| ing along that coast to Oregon and San Fran
cisco, and by line across the country to
| the frontier Of Missouri, where the girdle
will become complete.
Mr.. Schatfner thinks the scheme highly
practicable, and considers the military sys.
tenn of Russia will afford the best protection
to the long line through the Territory of the
Gar lie makes great calculations on the
commercial benefits to this country from his
line. American enterprise can accomplish
Il great DEAL but this scheme is one whose
difficulties in the frigid and barbarous re-
gi0ns in which it is located can hardly be ex-
aggerated.
PATENT LEGIsLATIoN.-The New York He
raid observes that it has not heard much
this session of Congress, of the renewal of
the patent monopoly legislation of the last
| 1t thinks it possible that the leading members
of the lobby corps, as detailed in the Letcher
committee reports of the last session, may
be on hand, with their kid gloves, oyster
| ,uppers, revolvers, and pin money; but the
| reporters and newspaper correspondents are
uncommonly quiet.
| This John Letcher, the man who has sig
nalized himself by speaking to the point, and
never departing from his subject, has be-
| come a great terror to evil-doers. They are
as quiet when John is about, as so many
hungry rats in the neighbOrhood of a fierce
and vigilant grimalkin. Hence their silence
and caution at this time. They feel as if an
| animated rat trap were constantly at their
| heels, insisting upon swapping them up.
e The formal and ceremoniOus style in
which royal personages are spoken of in
| Court journals, contrasts pretty broadly
with the free and easy manner in which
American writers speak of the head of the
Republic. For example, Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald, desert
bing the Presidents appearance at his levee
on New Years day, says: Frank looks used
up. In dress, he is a perfect Broadway
swell; but his face looks haggard and care
worm