The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-02
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
OLD MQRI II ANA

Since the failure of the Atlantic Telegrapb Com,
pany TO lay cable across the Atlantic public at
tentlon has been turned to routes now available for
making the desired connection between the Eastern
anu the western continents. The most feasible
route appears to be that across BEHRING'S Straits
which would require teegraphic connection be,
tween the extreme Eastern and Western portions
OF our own country, which is very necessary and
| desirable measure. In reference to this project
! the New York Journal Of Commerce has the follow
| ing comments:
If the European and American continents are
| ever united by an available and permanent tela
graph line, are inclined to think it will mass bv
way OF Northern Asia, crossing at BEHRING'S q
straits, which are ony thirty-nine miles wide in
LATITUDE 20 to 66, where the weather is not colder
probably, on an average than in Iatitudn 5O on tb
eastern side of the American continent A tale-
gaph on this route is entirely practicable and
from any very. formidable difficulties excent tbe
expense; ana that can easily be provided for, bv
the wealthy nations through whose dom;n;ons !.
will run. Without reference to a connection Of tba
Two continents, the United States will very soon
nave line OF telegraph to the Pacific coast. and
tnere IN Is already line in operation from England
to ST. Petersburg 1t will only remain for R1sso
Great Britain and the United States by Joint con-
venIon, to provide for the construction Of the line
from st: Petersburg to Oregon, or as the case now
stand. stands from m St. Petersburg to Missouri UNITED
States The wire will be long one but il
can be constructed without asking father Neptune's
leave, and every foot of it will be within the
commons OF Russia, Great Britain, or the United
o.ates; each OF winch nations will be able to pro-
tect and operate the line within its own limits
The experiments already made with the OCEAN
line, reveal the immense difficulty, if not the utter
lmPossiolty, OF constructing, keeping in order
ana operating such line. The proposed route by
dor, &c, although it would avoid some of tha
NEST formidable difficulties connected with the
direct Ocean route, would, we fear encountar
others scarcely less fatal in practice The intense
coiu, the barriers OF ice, of immense thickness
resting sometimes upon the ground, and then per
chance hoating off, wire and ALL and other tron-
bles resulting from the extreme high latitudes
through which the route would pass are very Sc
rious objections to it, to say the least All these
objections will be either entirely obyiated or
greatly diminished by taking the Behring's Straits
route, which, though longer, is on the whole more
avaliable-the wire would be moree easily protected,
repaired and operated, and would have the fnrtber
advantage OF not only connecting us with Eurone
but also with Northern Asia; and from Nortbern
Asia branches might be run, connectinp us as we'll
as Europe, with India, China, &c. The territory
along the whole line is habitable. Clusters of nonn
lation would soon be gathered around the teIe
grahic stations, in the coolest and most DESC
late portions of the route. A break would he
promptly discovered, and easily repaired; whereas.
at the bottom of the ocean, it would be attended
with difficulty, delay, and heavy expense Let
England Russia and the United States say the word
and the work will be done.
The Alta California of the 5th remarks that mwbat
was considered an inordinate shipment of goods
from Atlantic ports will turn out to be (atleast
so thought) not more than enough to supply the
new demands for the north coast, and so perfect
revolution has been created in this city,
The people of Tennessee will be called upon to
vote on the first Thursday in September next upon
the question of calling Convention 'to revise, al
Ter and amend the constitution of the State of
Tennessee" "
The Staunton (Va.) Vindicotor says: 1t is now
certain that the wheat crop is failure in this coun
w. Ihe oat crop is also very much injured and
our farmers now have only their corn to depend on,
winch Is in fourishing condition. II
,,, The large mills of Haxa, Crenshaw &c Co..
W W arwlck Barksdale, Dunlop, Moncure Co., j. |
brummell Co., and S. McGruder's Sons in Rich |
mona, nave resumed operations, and are now daily
turning out vast quantity of -four.
The Rappahannock Baptist Association held its last
annual session, which closed few days ago. at the
Drulngton Church, in King and Queen About !
thlrty clergymen were in attendance and on one |
aay from three to five thousand persons
Thirteen of the inmates of the Washington work |
rouse made their escape on Friday last, by wrench
ing asunder the bars of the room in which thew
were confined. NY
The Steuben Central Committee at New York
state that the receipts from the festival On Monday
and Tuesday amount to SS00-leaving, after de-
Quoting the expenses, clear profit of $7OO
The brig Huntress and cargo were sold bv tho IT
>. Marshal at Key West on the Goth inst. The brio
was purchased by Captain Curtis for firm in that
city, for the sum OF SIX hundred and ten dollars
I The first party from the Frazer River gold dir
lngs, by the Minnesota route through the valleys
Of the Red River of the North, the Assiniboin and
the Saskatchewan left st. Paul on Monday 26th ult.
The Republicans of the 18th Congressional Dis
trict of Ohio, now represented by the Hon. Samuel
3. Cox met at Columbus on July %. Mr.. IIucius
Ease, OF Licking, was nominated unanimously.