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CALIFORNIA LINES.

UALIFOhftA LihHss
Arrangements are now In progress for the construction
Of underground npe fron 81, Louis 10 San Francisco
BY concert OF action on the part OF the Atlantic, American
and the several Western teeg spes there's good
70 cpse speedy teegaphc connection between
london, Newfoundland, New ORR s,d san Tfsrosoo Ths
dsianea 70 he bull 10 about 800 miles By the rous pro
posed and ie coat u estimated al about 81 500 900 BY
the Of the ne telegraph machines OF Prof Hughes
will doubers be practicable ~ no distant period 70
intricate between New ork and San Frsncsco sh about
The same facility " We now Communicate Nth Wash
irgton.
The only telegraph Tine present In operation u Gall
forrs II believed 70 be the one from Fan Francisco
Hysvie bu, there severa others Ia course Of con
structon.
orders have been sent 70 Aushss for 2io niles Of tee
graph material We cannot REMINDER the places ooa
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Ofuos or INK Nsw YORK. NswyovSDLAyp)
AND LONDON TG poRAru CoNrssv,
10 Wal street, New York, August 20, 1851
To TIE kKxnrss o. The ASSOCIATED Piss
GESTLxNcs-In view Of HE national importance o. ne
great work ln progress. and sbouto DO osrsunmaAsA
By the laying OF tue transatlantic cable, and tho deep
crcst taken by the pebble In the Of the entep
have tho pIsasure sideot or tho Esw York. New
fouDdland and London Telegraph Company, and also ~
President oribe American Telegraph Company OF ndsiss
you the free Of lines the arrival Of thu seam
crs al Newfoundland, for any communications you ~
desre to rsnsm having references 10 the Ia ing o. la,a
Ing OF The cable and The Incidents connected thercvfsA
PETER cooPS2, Prs.Ass
General Resolving once 81 wall street
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GRAND SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

The ret fact that presents ITSELF In considering the e.
ects which must result from tho Of the gres
submarine enterprise s the annhila.on Of both spaee
and time tween the Old and the New Worlds. One
Of the principal objections urged sgans Its prAotoa-
billy was tho dnculty in procuring . battery NJ
f1oienuy strong to hansmi, . pulsatica scros ~
Atlantic through SIMPLE conductor. Is has, how
ever, been proved tina, II no. only could be done.
bat that . strong eectrc current could tdnsnsa q dt
character distance Of tro thousand miles in hays
second. The staten mt Of few facts will show The
derf effect which viii DO produced by the sucosssSui
laying OF this cable. The london Exchanges closes al te
O'Clock, and he difference t,me 1ssecn Tat cy and
N1e Tol is four hours and forty fire min,aes
~U recere nc report Of the price Of consoss al e'epsn
O'Clock in e morning, IN time for oar opsrators IN Wan
street. ne movements 10 Ae London and NHo Fork uoney
naTla wiR hereore appear in tie epnin9 editions Of tie
NEW York HERALD on the same day which ting
may take place The British Parliament may someses ~
late oock and their session. are occasionally
prolonged til tsso in TIE mornin9, bit the result Of 0ey
deliberations 'uiQ reach ~ about ten O'Clock Of tie PIE.
codng erenino, time enough TO be pslsted in Ae h.
RAID Of he ner, day, simultaneously piA the report ~
LONDON nxs. Then, again, our great msrca allie 6rms
send the!T orders through to drercn. part OF Es-
rope and oounermsnd them with the same rapidly shosA
they ind their interest to do 10 hardly possible
ealsuAe the effect OF this stupendous undertaking. 90
when accomplished there canno. DO doubt suooc
In pccuniary point Of vies When III considered ~
will be connected with the various land lines both
aides OF The Atlanlc, endirg airy eyk thotisond
'ailes in EUROPE and 1rty three hoigand IN Tie Urid
SIde and 10 b. connected ,r in s,rass to Aica,
Aau and Australia. Its immense value will Do seso and
it, wonderful results fay appreciated with tho Allan
tic line In operation may safely predict that In ave
ten tho daily occurrences In ASIA Europe Afroa
and Australia win DO published In the HERALD with NE
loans appears Ia columns. Such IL the op,nn
OF ourselves and OF those who have Lad losg expsea,s
In elea raphng, and who predict tina, In few ysars
two Submarine cables viii DO required instead or one 10
peorm the business offered for Transmission besvsea lhs
Old and New Worlds. En- dront
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rHK cfTT RKPUBLIoass IN TROUBLE
The recent action OF The Republican Central Conmsses
In providing ihA, the delegates 10 the stAs ooays
should be elected by oonveotou instead OF directly By
their constituents creating Considerable troub,s In sAe
republican ranks, A. IL Supposed there Ia atis oasr'
under the IN mbIe somewhere The ollov wing tire ruso
luton OF the General Committee
Resolved. That the Rep ublcAn Associations
Fourteenth greet. Represented In the Rcpublcan Osscnl
CcmmWee VIII assemble In their ecivs ~
ballot three delegates crnvsn,ou 10 be held al 10 -
broadwny (stuyv-san Insutue) September seloGn
r. NJ buch convention viii select and afsw
mates from each Assembly distc, south OF se
present the republican parry Of ibrir rspectIve disc S
Rel ublcsn State Convention be held aYrncSs On u
30 OF septsmber nert Also, the l0h day o. eectemb
oclcck' r. n, the several ward sssocaipas nostn
gates and two a represent their osivs Asss
biyoevtcs IT, the said Byrnrute Convention. -
The matter has been mooed In The ward aseoaauon 40
last night the Seventeenth ward republicans had Ne -
lect before them, when resolution was paessd
In The cal Of ihe Gcnerti COMMITTEES 20 NJ 90 TINS ees-
ton concerned but declaring that hsseAnsr deenaD
10 conventions must be elected By The psssss wnom No.
were suppoped 70 represent -
Tho whole difficulty hes In tho ayrAngemsu aza
arrangement OF ward and DISTRICT boundary lines rAAs
BY The last Legisaiure In the elecson OF Adermeeaad
Assem- big men entirely boundary hines have besa
tabahed while In the chooe OF Senators, Counc&snen
School oicsrs Election Inspcotov, and the Ike IN cd
wards arc recognized. This makes "oonfusioa, wurus
copfounded, and II win take an elecor several wpesu
hard study 10 keep thoroughly poscd In the machioe q
our o,,y politics though the system obong 10
DO naag arAied cotton up expressly FOR hsheceat =
aaro,t polhoians
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seoes, bu. the Line d par. Of long line from sss Frs

pecng but the Line d psr Of long line from 6a~ iran
cisco 70 Oregon.
RECAPITULATION.
ns ssmaled number oe mlss Of Telegraph Linz east and
north or New York b-
Miles.
OK wire strung upon posts. IL 500
Boulh and south west Of New York
Or SSe strung uroo pc.. II SEQ
Wet and northwest Of Buffalo and the Ohio
or posts Observation-Disclosures. S,OOo
or wire Aturg upon posts. ................ 10000
making grand total IN the whao country OF ab sHs
twenty I've thousand miles Of posts, upon whch aore
strung about thirty three thousand miles OF telegraph
wire
The nominal capital inves cd In ihs existing lines es
mated At 81 GEO. but the aoaa cost Ct construction did
not pro ,aby the balance having been
sbou. equally divided the Contractors who built
the lines and ths Morse pa.eptees.
The estimated namber Of passing over all the
aer c0coo per anngm, about l 100 each business
day.
TELEGRAPHs In OTHER PARTS OF AME-
RIGA.
LINES II CUBA.
IaIes3 he goyernnen. In Cuba built = series OF limos
tending from Havana to oil the pri acpa. ,nts upon the
bland sad introduced tho House sohlnss The limos
we're lady built ond have been BADLY managed. About
years ago thc Housa machines d'scardei and
the Aorse established but the lre Sill work irregusrly,
owing 30 dogroe to the prevalence Of am SpheTio
electricity All tho lines upon he island are controlled by
ths goYsrnmenl
Inns IN MEXICO.
Some aigh years siuce party or Americans and Mex
Cans built large ex.on. Of lines leading from the sa
and from Vera Ce q but Of the lines yielded
than tsf expenses and al the present time there
Is only poor apology for line between Vera Cruz and
Mexico
LrsEs IN NEW GRANADA,
The o1ly line In actual Is the Railroad line, bull, for
that company In 1856. extends from Aspnwa to Pa
mama, and works very regularly.
LIkAs IN SOUTH AMERICA.
One two lines IN course Of construction from the
capitals Of Chs and Pera. bu' there are none In scias
operation,
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fact nat depths Of usar two miles wore fsQussIy -.
eouasorsd or Tie ultlA = sscoen OF The sstsrprss,
hossvss Nr. Brett, In pap resd esfbrs The Roya In
gtuton In London In March ssl, sned has he did no
euteronin the slghtest doubs
or the me connecting Europe and Africa there remain
only IFS miles 10 DO completed. Bona and Aisefs ere
already co..cc cd By selegrsph - that when this
lance 6pxecused, Franco Will be psood daily Commit
nlcation it'll her African colonies
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TELRGRAPHg PROPOSED,


variety Of schsmss have been spsxes sd Tor ooneos
Ing Great Britain by telegraph with hsr Indaa ,mpre
We shall briefly notice two of them which appear ~ u
otter the greatest probabilities Of realization.
The point OF departure Of both these lines 10 Aezsa.
dria and their oni terminus Kurrachss, where heF
win connect with the Indian siegrsphs One hne passes
under water 70 JANA and Eeiencia and then Overland "
kessopotama to Bussora and then submarine down the
Persian Gulf to Kurraohee, The other s overland -
EGYPT then submarine down the Red Sea to Alden. and,
running parallel 70 tho south coast Of Aoa, Terminates
Kurrachee The advantage in favor Of the Eaphraass
valley route s that shortens the distance from Ensianl
70 India by about 500 miles Against this is urged
sand miles Of country Inhabited By tho Bsdouns ssa
therefore requiring body Of 81 least fifteen thousand
cavalry for it, projection This objection does apply
to the route the Red Sea, whoh besides has ths
tage of exiedng concessions The Euphrates Company
though incorporated, has yet received grant.
plan for connecting the West India Stands With Europe
In influential quarters. Il u proposed TO extend the
telegraph 70 Savannah, and from thence the Bahamas
from New Orleans The southeastern point or the
United States and from thence tho Straits OF Florida
cables could be laid down ach Guiana Trinidad BY
way Of g. ThomAs and ipciudrg the whole OF the Antilles
The latter place could be reached from st. Thomas BY suA
and teegaphs along the Spanlsh MAN. From Colon
the wires could be carried acr0ts tho Panama Railroad n
the western terminus Of shn ine from which hsy could
be extended 10 the numerous wealthy towns on the New
Granadian, Equadoran Peruvi IN, Bolivian and CHILEAN
coasts from Buor avenura to Valparaiso This ne With
the proposed Pacific line through the United States 10 The
Pacific, would place Europe in Immediate commun sAttoU
with the gold mines or California the silver mines Of Peru
and the pearl fisheries Of Panama. From Hagapa aore
the Mexican Gulf the City Of Mexico Itself could easily be
project spoken OF TO uact the indian upes by way
or Penang Singapore, Batavia and King Georges 6ocnd
with the Australian colonies Of Great 8rita.a The mind
loses ieef in the contemplation OF sach masnihoess
schemes.
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RseArA-A regatta took place yesterday n weAa..
ssn opposite Fifty shira street. in which svus four cse,d
boats entered. large number Of people wey, c.
ec,ed 70 witness the raos which analcpa,sd wouA
be quite spirited bus she start one the Gro o ,ss
boat on which tie hopes OF large nzmbw Of tAs spss.
tors seemed 70 be centred broke oar and was onss
queniy thrown oct OF eli CHARGE for Success TUo a ~
two oarsnsn TO row alone bui they soon Toll or ana ths
nrs and second prizes were taken By the NO bcais s-
longing 10 the Metropolitan Regatta Club Of wlIamsuvs
The Mckay taking shs hrss prise, and the Newman the
second. There was siso raoa pg working boats vtsh
two pairs Of SOULS, rcved By bsys-some OF them s6av
luxe o7cs-vblch wa yea By ,he BACK yack,
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THE FIRST MESSAGE FROM THE OLD TO
THE NEW WORLD.

has been agreed upon that the nrst message 6ansn
ted by the Atlantic Telegraph sha be sent by the Quesa
England the Predent OF the United States Mr. Cyr0
W. Field suggests that the message shall be the Scripture
,cxt"Those tenn God hath joined let not put asun-
dsr'-s appropriate message for the occasion. kr
Buchanan, whsn 1t proposed hat the nrs message
should pas between the rulers Of the two nations u once
asrented ard wrote the following letter TO Mr. Field
Mr. DEAR sIR-Accidentai oircu mstances which I need
net detail prevented your kind letter Of the 10th ut beng
brought under my poiioe snt this morning now has
ten say will feel myself much honored tho nrst mea
sage, you proposed cent tho Atlantic bs from
Queen Victoria 70 the President OF the United aes-AAd
need not assure you he will eudsavor TO answer Il In .
spirit and manner DO coming great occason Yoefss
very respectfully, JAMES BUCHANAN.
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road, 30. &C, making In all range OF 800 miles or
line, AL on rsllroads esp'ai ABOUT s~o,ooo-esrninr
A line OF telegraph was built from Milwaukee 10 Green
Ray, from MI vsakie 70 Madison thence 70 Gslcns from
Chicago 70 Gacsn, with sewers, branches 10 illinois and
Wsconsn-sl built by Hotchktss Powers 10 1sip and
1850 Five hundred miles were operated 70 yeas nj
Oss and these operations suspended. A part OF
this line from MIvaukie 10 Janesviis then 10 Madison
no. belops. 70 the Wisconsin ssas Telegraph Company
and IL rebuilt on the railroad rhls company has nos
two hundred miles On the Wscorsn railroads, all
Sustaining themselves under The management OF Q.
sholee, Nj wsuk',
All The above use the pqe-,e instruments A ure Of
PsSsio 10 Lcu,sviIe, via Cleveland and unciansa and
from Cleveland 10 Chioago-aboui six hundred mes-by
the Sev York and ks,i,spP Valley Printing Telegraph
mere vas also q Morse line, built by wade, from
rssbu-g 10 Fort wayne, via the Pennsylvania and oslo
soua The Beeionsne Railroad 800 cos, abou, $50 per
mile: all working In cepneoton with railroad business
J. g Lee aiso built the Cincinnati and g. l. ,us Tes
rraph Wis Ipdis oils and ferre Haute-40o miles.
The companies occupying this ground now nre-nrst,
the wesern Union Telegraph Company, wit, Q capital OF
ESQ COO BY ccn.oasuos ns Ns- fS s
nie and Michigan telegraph Company, the lake Lfle
Telegraph Company, the Southern Michigan TELEGRAPH
feosrs Com IEUy; The cevsisnd, oolam6as and Gin
cinnsu Telegraph COMPANY the Cincinnati and ~ Louis
Isl.esph oomTany The Ptsbars Cincinnati and Louis
graph COMPANY nv eases toe P,tsburg and Fort Wayne
line and B.leicn'alne lines, by purchase
Inc MesNrn nion CjnpsnY hes about 1000 miles on
sire al work. and seads about one million Of meisases
per snnum over iu wites
Scent, ,be lrpo sni sl'slylppl Telegraph Company
a. described hogf se e about $50 600 messages per An
nue.. 1hbi, a. Hiso nate Telegraph % psny, as
above describe is Oesine,s is smal-ssy 5000 mes
NeE York and Ma stlppl Valley Printing telegraph
Oompar yOfgsnizsj April 1851 Capital sooS $500 600
This company have Substantially constructed line, equip
ped vi House printipg telegraph ins,ru mcuts, tn
Offices Al Buffalo, Dunrrk, Ere, Cleveland Ootu Rus
Dayton CEr.1ss, Frandogt and Louisville me une vsi
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

Ifsny one be still uncoDviuced Of the impolicyo
An Extra Session of our expiring Legislature, We
beg him to ask the next six advocates (if he can
find 10 many of an Extra Session, what they would
have the Legislature do, and note the purport and
cou,istsncy Of their several answers. We are sure
this experiment would prove conclusive.
One Of the champions of an Extra Session ilu.
inmates the public through letter in The Times,
as follows:
an cannot be Denied that the present state Of our
srancial system has grown out Of credits loo widely
sItended for the specie basis in the State Instead OF
having one dollar in specie for erery hre IN cash ha
biities, which experience has shown to De sate our
banks have not hsd one in ten. To bring down this
synsnsiop TO the safe level within rinety days would
Tababy ,uin three ourths Of our business men, and
~ lie same time destroy the assets OF the banks ana
The support of thousands within our own State VINO
deus1d upon dividends rents and otner incomes
Ndv no administration Of the present Law can prevent
the Iuin consequent upon this state OF taiDgs. IL VII
ali be accomplished within less than ninety days-tne
maturity Of ell notes under dlseount-uness tne Leg
ature ste pc forward 10 calm the fears woich me aW
now epgeIoe1s and restore the confidence which has
BE- CT utterly lcst-
"Iet the Legislature be convened without delay.
let them In the case of s solvent banks, extend the
ien dsys notice to twelve months or condition that
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
ia the heat policy. This

Honesty is the best policy. This is a bit of
proverbial philosophy" far transcending all the
wisdom of Upper, and which has yet lost some
thing of its knob by iteration. The predominant
idea in this millennium of barter is (or was last
week, before our quicksilver aid so pertinsciously
toward the buIb) that it is good to be honest, be-
cause that virtue will bring banl-credits, corner.
lO.s, railway shares and fine 'hlp' As this desert
of Winter stretches before u.s. to the bewraying of
so many confused feet the smallest moraist will
dscern without spectacles that opportunities of
tuition in higher and better Interpretation of the
venerable saw will not be wanting. We are in q
fair way Of finding out how many men and women
have assumed 8 virtue, and have been bolstered in
their righteous walking by their food and clothes.
We are to have brave chance Of learning that
equity Of nature may be its own exceeding reward
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

Il should not, il must b done By mut.s =.
operation and concession on both sids.. ~.
giris must learn 10 command their tsmpsr, 49,
keep the unruly member more under coot,,J -
the master must 20 arrange their Susips,, = !.
fording reasonable rest 10 their shop. vnO.'
relays or otherwise, a. not to oyers.L At
strength. The present seems to be tim.
the experiment might be fairly tried. Tia 49,,
of shopkeepins must be REDUCED 70 tAs -.
point to keep the wolf from the sAop. dos, ~
labor. market is full Of young women ss.kia, -
ployment, who can be had at low nss Of -.
peration. And the chance Of abe-AodiaJ ,a."
men to get some self supporting occzrsm !, -.
10 one over that Of young women. But tIs., -.
must remember that civil and concilistOy u.,n.-
and an absolute nsensibility to the iupertu.n...
and proyocations Of customers, are the sns "a
most indispensable requistes for the business.
To return to tho recruiting among tie Looa~
'prentices bold it is seriously urged, in many qv,,.
ters that the example Of the United States in IA
war with Mexico be followed, and q corps Of vi.
unteers raised, to be partially oficered BY Asu-
selves and with fair chance Of promotion sM
career, in case they should distinguish themsslvss.
Should the mutiny in India hold its own or uais
head against the troops now there or on their wsy,
il is not unlikely that something of the kind may bo
done. There are thousands and tens Of Aousnas
of young men among the poorer gentry and tAs
middTng orders, who would rejoice at spch
chance of seeing service and having cAncs 4
success, if it could be done without the loa Il
caste consequent on enlistment into the ranks d
the army. The chief obstacles are those iuserpossl
by the redtspists, who foresee endless difficul6a
from the interference of the volunteers with -
regular troops, especially in the mstter of prone
ton. But it seems to Us that our own exaupk
might govern, as well as suggest the experimeak
Let the volunteers be enlisted merely for the vss;
let promotion be unlimited in their own cosps
though the higher commissions would necessarHts
held by experienced officers, at first; LET there BE- an
equality of pay, and decorations, and pensons, in
case of wounds or death in service, and we i'm
aQine that there need be no clasbing Of the two
interests. And, probably, among the merchsats'
clerks some new Give might appear, whom u
might be ne harm to transfer to permanent CON.
mand in the regular army. IT, in addition to this.
bounties in lard were offered, as in our case-anl
land would be cheap enough if the English pro
vail-a mi-military colonization might be sstab.
Ished, of great service to the maintenance Of tho
British supremacy. We throw out these suggss-
tions without hope of fee or reward. But when
we remember what we owe to the volunteer sys-
TEN, how ii gave us Pierce, q Gushing and Z
Pillow, we cannot but wish that its blessings might
be extended to our Er gsh cousins in their pressed
distress.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

Wheat ard Flour; q month or txo hence, it VIII
bave added Corn and Pork 10 the list Of its avala
be staples. To buy these at such prices a. Will
should place funds and credits in the chief marts OF
TIE West at once. We trust this will be done; but
we cannot say that Mr. Nathan Appleton will have
at oil contributed to it,
We can hardly listen with patience 10 Mr.. Ap-
peton's arTaignment Of our Banks as having con-
trscted their liabilities from One Hundred and
Eight Millions on the Sd of July to Seventy-one
Millions on the 10th of October, under the lnfu'
epce Of panic, and without the slightest neces'
sity." During all the former part Of this contrac-
ton they were pressed by constant and heavy
drain of Specie to Europe; during the latter part,
by similar drain from nearly all parts OF our own
country. Balances usually kept here were drawn
down to zero; bankers were here from all quarters
praying for help, and selling their returned State
Stocks at runous rates TO enable them to ride out
tie tempest. Short and ftful were the slumbers
of responsible Bank officers during this terrible
crisis; no digger on a Canal or Railroad would
have envied cashier in Wall street could be have
realized the anIieties and apprehension' OF the
latter. And now to be told that the contraction
which was from day to day absolutely forced upon
them-which was fought step by step so far
as integrity and good faith would alow-was wan
ton and wiIlful; that they might have expanded
when their curreIt ia,ilit es were returned upon
them every twenty. four hours, is what was to have
been expected rather from Ward-meetng shouter
than from retired merchant and statesman like
Mr.. Nathan Appleton.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17

Whie the overwhelming majority received by Mr..
Otsro. the candidate Of the National Democracy for
every friend Of tie Territory yet that qualification
greatly ENLARGED by the assurances Legislature
viii exhibit even greater preponderance in favor Of
our party Out Of the 70 Representatives in the Lower
House, l9 are certainly National Democrats, and
lion, we are suie have the sympathy Of two Ike
vise with the Coupoi. Out Of l3 members of that
body. we certainly have 10, and probably IL.
We have been Informed that complaints have been
made ~ Wsshineton City agsnst the official cor Auct
of Gen. william Pelham, SurveyOr-Gene Of New.
Mexico OF the particular chsrges preferred, or the
s,outd, for ,btm we ars DOT cognizsnt.
New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-17
Msss4lnrk Dailp Gribst,H
SATURDAY. OCTOBER II. 1857.
TO oORREsPOEDEETs

xborbe, In ,.ndins US emances frequently omit 10 men
flor me name Of the -Oce very frequently the
nans Of the Stat, 10 which their paper 10 70 BE- sent A.
ways mention the name OF the Foot oTee and Sfsh
o notice can be Of anonymous Comm1niosonl
ever Intended for Insertion must Be suthenoefed ~ ne
pse address Of the wrternot neoessxJ for pueuos
Ton, but - guaranty Of his good faith