The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-08


TeaeoruDAs..TA Wsrld absut 70 be Cir |
died.
In the spring Of isaa, ths FIRST telegraph was
conessucted between Warrington and Balti-
more. since that time 4o,oo0 miles Of wire
AAya han laid down In this country alone,
and 6a0o0 in other parts OF the world, making
lonuoO IN ali. 1t win be but comparatively
short spAce Of time before every part OF the
vorid viii be In direct communication with
sxarv other part The Atlantic cable proved
essentially faiiure---shat Is 10 say, II did no,
answer the intended purpose; but the expert
ment proved that IL 10 completely practicable
% Law line OF snbmarine cable between this
country and Europe, or, indeed, for any i'm
axinabas distance. In less than two years, no
dSaht, the thing will be done. Let us see with
what countries the success Of tho enterprise
will put Us In communication.
Three telegraphs connect Ireland with Great
Britain, and no less than six connect Great
Britain with the Continent. seventh, from
Cromer, In England, TO Toningen, In Hoisle'h'
viii soon be completed. Each OF these lines
has four conductors. so that, strictly speaking.
the number Of lines connecting Great Britain
with the Con tinens is, in point OF fact, twenty
stsht These submarine lines, connecting WIN
the Grand system of European teieRfaphs,
Mace England In immediate communication
with every part OF Europe, as far as Constah-
tlnople Constan tinople communicates win
Gambia by means of two submarine cables,
which. together, are nearly four thousand
miles long This disproportionate length arises
from their being extended from island to island
among the isles Of the Archipelago In the
course Of six months, communication Will De
established between Gambia and Alexandra,
In Egypt, so that there will be direct eommn-
nication by telegraph from Washington, via
London, Paris, Vienna and Constantinopie,
TO Alexandria, in Egypt. man in h'chniona
NAV then converse with his friend in Ale-san-
dria every day, and at every moment OF the
day. II makes mans head swim to think OF IT,
This communication, however, II we may
credit a tale told by the New YORK Herafd,
may be liable to in corruption, when the news
re.s a. far A. Turkey. The Herald says the
operator ut Rutschuk, a turbaned TURK,
no doubt, who, like his prototype in the old
song, "scorns the world, and walks about
with his whiskers curled," warned them at
Vienna not to send any more messages until
duly notified, saying that he was about to be
absent for fortnight. The Agent at Vienna
autographed the company at Constantinopie
TO know what was meant by such strange
communication, and received for answer
that he ought to feel himself under obliga-
tions to the operator at Rntschuk for notify
ing him at all Of his tended absence, since he
might have walked off without doing it, if po-
likeness had not forbidden it, -
From Alexandria to Suez, there is already a
line and within q short space of time sub
marine cable has been extended from Suez To
T1nk. h t,iI
connect the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean
This cable is thirteen hundred and sixty-four |
miles long. running the entire length of the |
Red Sea, passing near its commencement, over |
the spot where PHARAOH and his host were
drowned, or, as MILTON calls them, "BUsiRis,
aud his Memphian chiva1ry."
The telegraph not only connects continents,
but it bridges over the vast gulf of time that
lies between that dusky period and the pres
emit era Of light. 1t lays out as in map, be-
fore the Imagination, at single glance, the
whole history Of the human From
the Pyramid to the Telegraph, what stride!
BY December, II is said the line will extend to
Muscat, 1870 miles, and from Muscat to Kur-
rachee Ass miles, where it will connect with
the India lines In the route which we have
traced ont, all the lines complete except
three viz: That from this country to Eng
land, that from the island of Gambia to Alex
andrtn and that from Museat to Kurrachee.-
The two last will be completed in nine months
from the present time. We give the Atlantic
cable longer time-say, two years The en-
tire length of the line connecting London with
Kurrachee, is ten thousand miles, more than
third Of it being submarine. But it is not
proposed to stop in India. Companies have
been organized to tx tend the line from Ran
soon where it terminates, TO point in the
Malayan peninsula, and thence by land thirty
miles, to Champion, in the Kingdom Of Siam.
From Champion submarine cable will be
laid across the Gulf of Siam, and along the
coast of Cochin China to Hong Kong, with
stations at the island of Pulo Condore, and
Touran, in Cochin China; the distance be-
tween any two points it is intended to connect |
In no case reaching six hundred miles, and the
depth Of the water nowhere exceeding seven
ty fathoms. The company by which this line
10 to be established, will carry it to Australia
A telegraph has been established across the |
island Of JavA by the Dutch, and it is proposed,
by means of a series of Islands lying between |
Java and Australia--the distance between no |
two OF which exceeds three hundred miies-to |
connect Java with Victoria. Australia is al |
ready covered, In the interior, with n web of |
telegraph lines, and it is proposed to carry q |
line ovar the numerous intervening islands |
from Victoria to the Sandwich Islands From |
these islands to San Francisco, the distance is |
two thousand miles. Some of our readers |
will regard this work as littles chimerical-
After whathas been done, we are not only dis
posed to regard 1t as possible, but as certain to
Be done in very few years. The distance
from the Sandwich Islands TO San Francisco,
10 very little greater than the length of the
Atlantic telegraph.
But there is another enterprise for the con-
nection Of the two continents far more prom
ising than this already on foot. We allude to
that Of the Emperor Of Russia, who proposes
to establish a line eight thousand miles long
from Moscow to the mouth of the Amoor, in
the territory lately coded by China. From |
this terminus cables will doubtless be laid |
across the sea of Ochotsk and Kamschatka, |
to sorne point in the Russian American pos |
sessions. From this point, when they once
reach ii, they will be extended 10 meet the
American lines, which will have been pushed
In that direction. From this side OF the con-
tinent the telegraph has already been extend
cd to Atchison In Missouri. From the Pacific
side 4 line Il In process of construction TO
Salt Lake City. The two will meet, we ven-
surs 70 say. In . very short time, since the dis
tauee between Salt Lake City and A,chison is
hat little more than one thousand miles.
Our readers are well aware of the progress
In te.egraphing, which our own country has
made since 1874. 1t has been prodigious, but
al things considered, not greater than that |
made by Europe in the same space of time
We speak not now of the grand lines which |
are TO girdle the globe. We confine ourselves |
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