The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-24

pass into the bourgeois class and preserve their ind
vidual liberty. While speaking OF emancipsuon, 4
has given in its adherence to that great measure,
and asked permission to organize comm"'ees WIN
view TO its accomplishment
Journey or Explorssfen In ths East
(Frcm the London star July 81
The expedition Of the three brothers Schiagint-
welt To India Thibet and Turkestan for the purpose
of observation on terrestrial magnetism aud other
PHYSICAL characteristics OF the globe as well as on
the geology of South and Central Asia, has 80 far
been brought to happy issue that Two Of the bro,
well stored with the results of labors which spread
over three years of incessant travel The third
brother Adolphus, was known in 1856 to have made
his way towards Yarkand, in Turkestan and, unfor-
tunately every direct trace Of him was lost for
space Of sixteen months In the meantime rumors
had reached the Punjab that the bold young travel
Ter had lost his life in war carried on by the Turko-
mans of Yarkand against the Chinese, in which he
had been compelled to take part by the former who
were his entertainers. We are, however glad to be
able to announce that the Delhi Gazette of the I'd OF
June, contains the following notice which gives hope
that he may still he alive:--
News has been received Of Mr.. A. Schlagintwe who
said to have passed the winter evidently hs last wnter)
ct place called Aekilupg about ve marches this side
Of Yaikand and Aktak is possible that the gov
depuied part Of the world by competent authority
and that he duly protected this be not the case the
and the persons Who have brought the should be
very closely questioned The news has come from leh,
Qsdak) capital Of Little Thibet, via Zshtkr; and the
Of may be thai the same par
ties msy have conveyed letters from Mr. schlagntselt
bimself
This latter supposition is most probably unfounded
The Prussian Consul at Bombay, however. thought
the notice worth transmitting to Berlin, so that fur
Their inquiries might be made, perhaps by way OF
Siberia and Khokand. The consuls letter-the
contents of which he took care to have
telegraphed from Marseilles to Baron A. Hum
boil porlin mi w
brothers there, as they had just gone to London;
and so Baron Humboldt, in his paternal anxiety
about the fate of every scientific traveller, took
upon himself to open the letter, and he has sent
to London, accompanied by the following charac-
teristic note, which we have translated from the
original before u.s. and in which the tremulous char
acters betray the highly advanced age which the
veteran of the science of nature has now reached.
open this letter, addressed 10 Dr. Robert which has
just been brought 10 me. AS Am In want Of consoia
ton, and well claim the honor OF being considered
like relative Zen the envelope ssd that any res-
tive right orer the letter. you, dear Robert, will net
quarrel viii me for having opened H. To Munich, ak
he me-. address Of yeSr worthy mother A. HGHBOIDr
BERLIN July 20, 1858
Should Mr.. Adolphus Schlagintweit be still alive,
and his return take place the gain to our know
ledge of the interior of Asia will be very great as
the track of his latest journey crossed regions which
never as yet the foot of European-his two broth
ers excepted--has trod. As to the rumor Of the
death of Mr.. Adolphus Schlagintweit, in an engage
ment between the Turkomabs and Chinese We may
remark that there is other information concerning
this warfare which is said to be going all along
the frontier where the Mahomedans and the Chinese
meet.
There is certainly, a strange sirnultaneousness
in the attacks to which the Chinese empire is just
now exposed from all sides. With the English
and French in Canton and In the Gulf OF Pet
cheli, now even preparing to attack the capital;
with the Russians enoroaching from the north,
he MQhOmadan
west: with the more than ever doubtful allegiance
of the Mongol princes and the Thibet priesthood;
and with powerful insurrection in the very centre
of the empire itself, China. like a sick buffalo COW
cred with ARROWS and harrassed by dogs excites adj
iraton by the very fact that she still stands up
right, and does not even waver.
As hitherto little has been known Of the extensive
scientific ente rprise IN India and Thbet commenced
by the brothers Schlagntweit, under Baron Hum.
boldt's patronage, In 1854, and az some time will
necessarily elape before the whole OF the collections
they brought home can be put in order and their OBJ
servations be published will give IN anticipation
short sketch Of their travels, aud touch upon some
of the more striking points to which they have d
rectsd their attention.
During the FIRST cool season 1854 to 1855 they
explored different roads the country situated be-
tween Bombay and Madras, and then went by sea TO
Calcutta.
In the summer of 1866, Hermann Schlagintweit
visited the oriental part of the Hmalayas Skkhn,
Bhoutan, and afterwards the kossia mountains.
lie availed himself especially OF every opportunity
TO measure the height of the most elevated peaks
of the range, which, as Is well known, constitute
the highest elevations on the globe Thus he
had occasion TO measure, under an angle OF more
than four degrees and half the exact height OF the
peak which Col. Waugh had before pointed out
u obably the highest and TO which the Colonel un-
acquainted with the native name, which was not
known by the people in the plains from which he
saw II, gave the name Of Mount Everest. The
Ncpaulcse name is CONFERENCE.-The Thibetan
name, Tchingopsmari: The peak reaches the as
than $4,000 feet Engiish-that is to say, five miles
and half!
Messrs. Adolphus aud Robert Schlagintwiet, on
their part, undertook the examination OF the central
part Of the Himalayas, kumson and Gurwahl.
They then penetrated, in dsgusc, into Thibet
Proper visited the great commercial station OF Gar
tok where English merchandise IN already, 80 near
the frontier of India, rvallcd by Russian and Ger
smined. geoloyically, The environs Of Lake Mansa-
raour and that remarkable mountain saddle which,
nearly in the centre Of the enormous longitudinal
valley the longest and broadcast In the world. of
which Tibet consists separates the sources OF the
Indus from those of the Dkong. wrongly called the
Bfahamputor.
little 70 the east Of this place they succeeded on
reaching. in the ascent Of the IbilGanine, height
Of 22.260 feet, the highest point that ever was
reached by man at least in the ascent Of mountain
ranges.
During the cool season Of 1856, Hermann
Schlagintwet examined Assam, the delta Of the
Ganea and of the Brahamputor, and the provinces
situated 60 the northwest OF Bengal from Calcutta
10 siu1la. Adolphus Schlarintweit had returned TO
the Presidency Of Madras. descending the Godavery
from it's source 10 its mouth. He then went on by
way of Pondichery and Trichinopoly to the extreme
southern point OF the peninsula, made an excursion
into tho Neilgherries, and by way OF Calcutta
back 10 Simla Robert Schlagintweit had spent
the cool season In Central India, where he deter
mined amongst others, the height Of the plateau Of
Amarcantak, which he found very different from
what II hitherto regarded 10 be. Instead OF
600 feet, English. as believed u hardly anywhere
reaches height Of 200 feet. The three brothers
then. after acting separately during space Of four
teen months, net nj Simla, before commencing the
more hazardous campaign they had sketched out for
1856.
Adophns set out in northwesterly direction
He trayered the Himalayas. part Of Thibet the Bal
tstsu, and made n close examination Of that inte
resting spot where the Hndoo koo Joins the great