New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-05

" me, lsavirg Novgorod and rorshok on one "a. l.
d" hich the hne viii be reduced from 6.5 yerst. ~
the high rad. 10 500 vers,s crossing the vAIa *
" az par, that appears 10 present les difrn -
" near The high rood Ins.ead, however. II 81,
" yvr-ts IN making the estimates 60 have been -
" onsd, bsing an allowance o. % versts from the -
vis'ions from The dec, hne and its brauche. a, A.
" -tafsus.
Il vl be seen by the above extract .ha, The ,s,,,
,riginslly estimated az so vers,s tween h -
citi.s. and that an allowance for deviatons fr,rn 49,,
direci line o' 81 versts was made, which woah h,v,
brought the road - 60 versts. Consideration. R,r
road Engineers, as Is vel knowa are rather t.n'S,
70 shorten the original length OF projected ~ -
revising the surveys, than to leng;hen H. and hi.
Just what the Russian engineers who projects. lie &,
Pet'rsbnrg and Moscow road dii-,he road when "a
shed errg out 6Oi versis, and not 67 vcrs,. ssths
"rNcIatons make II. Thus the engineers oaly a.
propnaied II yersis Of the allowance f,r dey,.,;o.
instead II 80, which they could have taken AMI th
been within the length laid down in the rsport % b.
Imperial MSje.y. This certainly does not tok ~
iIand on 'EeI pSIt nor does look as L they ever
dreamed oi such thing as irving 10 make lie rs0t
appear TO be longer than Il really is. The mai -
worked as COL versis long, and never has h,n rs,A
longer or shorter since lie completion. '''''
The above extract from The original reror. ;,h a.
explanations have made, ought To De
alton Of the charges Of the English press a,,ini ,b
original projectors aud eng gneers Of toe road rho -
Rus ian fhcers Of high standing at hom, AMI xko.
emembcrc here as high-t0nec and refined gen,lens
ty many oi our citizens, VINO frequently them A.,
ing their stay in this country. In regard 10 ,bs srs
in the heading Of the article n the Fnyh.h n,rs,
Brother Jonathan a. Some Of has Trek ana 49,
{ itacizes, il il sufficient answer a. say thsf U, ~
W. Whistler the first American who ever Ia 49, u-
thing to do with railroads in Russia lei mi. eo,n..
for the first time, 10 90 there, in jane 1872 wb; ~
sef and Mr.. Thomas Winans Of Bstiuore r,s',tas,
of the American company, did rot arrive /, %.
until the latter part of May, ls3 80 that thu -,
as pretended L. have been brought TO hvh, hv ~
Astronomical surveys of Professor S,rave can hs,i,
be charged 20 the Americans who have been on ara
now in Russia, inasmuch as they wers no, present
until very long time after the approximate epcth
of the road had been liked By the report 10 his Imp.
rial M-jesiy, which approximate length was only ,br
teen versts greater than the so-calei fraudulent
length, the actual finished length being three verss
shorter than the figure in the ." revelations" EbA
carious fac. that the revelations" appeared in TIE
L0adon DAILY Ne,rs October To- and the letter IN
The London Times of October u is also dated Vienna
Oct. To- and purports tO be extracted from the
Gazette de Cologne. This news, from its wording
seems to have al from the source and ap-
parently by rather oiTcuitoas route from St Peters-
burg. NJ l.tters from firm at 81. Petersburg ara
uD 10 Oct. T. and would have given about the latest
news from which the English press could copy on
Oct. To-. Ii these revelations were rife at ST.
Petersburg at the date ot my correspondent letter.
he would hardly have omitted to speak of them. He
not only says nothing concerning them, but informs ~
that all matters going on Satisfactorily
Very respectfully, yonr oeedle ut s-rysn.,
JOSEPH HARRISON ir,
Philadelpiia Nsv. p 1883. Rittennouse square