The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-17
Progress OF tho Telegraph-A Girdl(
Round About the Earth.

Progress OF tho Telegraph-A Girdl,
Round About the Earth.
The progressive strides which the TELEGRAPH
system is taking over the entire globe promises
before long to realize Puck's conceit of puttinl
girdle round about the earth. In this coun
try we have already fifty thousand miles of al
electric chain spanning the continent, and ID
other portions Of the world telegraphic enter
prise is vigorously developing itself. The
latest and not least important project on foot q
the connection Of India and Australia by mean
of submarine telegraph cables; design WHO'D
may at first seem somewhat difficult of accom-
plishment but which, after all, is rendered
comparatively easy when we consider tho M
merous intermediate points between the twd
continents furnished by the islands of the In
dian archipelago. The communication is in
tended to be effected by the united action o,
the governments of England and Holland
The English home government and the Eas,
India government bind themselves to connect
the Indian peninsula with the island of Singa
pore; the Dutch government agrees to carry on,
the connection to the southeast point of the
island of Java, which belongs to Holland, and
the Australian government will unite their CON
tinent to Java. The cable linking Singapore
to Java has already left for its destination, to-
be laid in November next, and that from India
to Singapore will be laid down in the ensuing
spring When this is accomplished we shall
no doubt have cables laid between the Austria
liam continent and the islands of Van Diemen's
Land and New Zealand; and thus the continent
of Asia will be in telegraphic communication
with the whole Of that young vigorous world
which lies far off in the Southern Ocean.
And not only will Asia but America also be
in direct connection with this part of the globe
in the event of the success of the Atlantic tele-
graph, for the line running by the India over
land route, across the Red Sea, will connect
India and China with England. Thus we shall
be enabled to receive dispatches from our cor
respondents in Canton, Calcutta and Melbourne;
and this is only moiety of what the telegraph
is destined to accomplish.
Even in Persia telegraphic enterpriseis mani
Testing itself, the first line having been recently
laid, which extends from the city of Teheran to
the Camp Of Shultanish distance Of hundred
and twenty miles.
In the United States we are connecting the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts by the newly pro- |
ected extension of the lines from st. Louis to
San Francisco, by Fort Smith and Los Angeles,
and by Atchison to Salt Lake, considerable
portion of which is already constructed.
The Russian government, meantime, is making
a line to the AMOR country, which in course Of
time will doubtless connect with San Fran
cisco, and extend it's branches through the whole
Russia-American and Asiatic Russian territory,
and thence to St. Petersburg, as well as through
the British dominions on the Pacific. Here we
shall have the entire globe girthed around with
telegraph lines.
The effect of all this upon the newspaper
press can be foreseen. Many of these projected
lines will be completed within five wears. and
by that time the entire foreign and domestic mems
columns Of the HERALD, except those devoted to
city intelligence and editorials, ,oiN be filled ecah
intelligence by telegraph The Post Office
will be superseded by the telegraph
Office, and our correspondents will drop their
communications into the latter instead of the
former establishment Moreover, we shall
then have in our Office telegraphic apparatus
of our own for the transaction of our private
business, by which We can communicate in
stanter from our editorial rooms with our cor
respondents in all parts of the United States
by means of the general wires of the different
lines. Should the Atlantic cable be success
fully laid down next year. we may expect to
see two or three moro in operation from other
parts of Europe. Spain is even now preparing
such a connection with Cuba, and France will
certainly not leave transatlantic communica-
ton by telegraph wholly in the hands of Eng
land and Spain.
Ten yea1s will not have passed, then, before
we shall have several Atlantic telegraphs in
operation and by their agency we will be able,
with the aid of our editorial apparatus, to hold
direct intercourse with our correspondents in
all the leading cities of Europe, Asia and Aus
traiia as well as in the United States and
Canada
This is something grand and startling to con-
Template. but II is nevertheless morally certain
TO be the result of the marvellous progress Of
the electric telegraph.
who Organized the Royydy ism i'm the
Democratic Convention?
1t is curious to see how the truth is coming
out about the real authors of the rowdyism in
the Democratic Convention. just as it came out