Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-20
Progress of the Telegraph-A Girdls Round
About the Earth.

The progressive strides which the tele-
graph system is taking over tie entire globe
promises before long 10 realize Puck> CON
ceit Of putting a .irdle round about the earth.
In this country we have already fifty thou
sand miles Of an electric chain spanning the
continent, and III other portions oil the w"riu
telegraphlc enterprise Is vigorously develop
ing itself The latest and not least impof-
tant project on foot is the connection Of IN
dia and Australia ty means OF submarine
telegraph cables: a design which may 1T hrst
seem somewhat difficult OF accomplishment
which. after all. Is rendered comparatively
easy when we consider the numerous inter
mediate points between the two continents
Furnished hy the islands Of the Indian archi-
pclagp. The communication Is intended u
be effected BY the united action the govern
ments of England and Holland. The Eng
lish home government and the Last lhdi;i
government bind themselves 70 coancct the
Indian peninsula with the island OF Singa'
pore; the Dutch government agrees 10 carry
out the connection t. the southeast point oi
the island Of Java. which belongs 10 Holland;
and the Australian government VIII unite
their continent 10 Java. The cable linking
Singapore 70 Java has already left for It's
destination. 10 be laid in November next,
and that from India T. Singapore VIII be laiu
down in the ensuing spring. hen tins Is
accomplished we shall no doubt have cables
laid between the Australian continent aud the
islands Of Van Diemcu'S Land and New
Zealand; and thus the continent ot ASA VIII
be in Geographic communication with the
whole of that youngand vigorous world which
lies far of 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 oi the At
lantic telegraph. for the line running by the
India overland route. across the lied Sea-
will connect India and China with England.
Thus we shall lie enabled 10 receive despatch
IS from our correspondents III Canton. Caicut'
Ia and Melbourne: and this Is only mciety
Of what the telegraph is destined 10 accom-
plish
Even in Persia Geographic enterprise Is
manifestinc itself. the first line having been
recently laid, which extends from The city OF
Teheran 10 the Camp of Shu!tanl>h, a dis,
tancs of hundred and twenty miles.
In the United States we are connecting
the Pacific and Atlantic coast by the newly
projected extension Of the lines from 81.
Louis to San Francisco, by Fort Smith and
Angeles, and by Atchson TO Salt lake a
considerable portion Of which is already CON
structed.
The Russian government, meantime, i
making a line 10 the AMOR country, which
in course of time will doubtless connect with
San Francisco. and extend It's branches
through the whole Ru,>.a-Amcrlcan and
Asiatic-Russi territory, and thence II 81
Petersburg. n we'll a. through the Err
fish dominions on the Pacific. Here We
shall have the entire globe girthed around
with telegraph lines.
Spain is evca now preparing such con
nection with Cuba and France will certainly
not leave transatlantic communication by
telegraph wholly in the hands OF England
and Spain.
Ten years will not have passed. then, be-
! fore we shall have several Atlantic teiesraphs
! in operation.
This is something grand and startling t.
contemplate, but ii is nevertheless morally
certain Ia be the result Of the marvellous pro-
gress Of the electric t"Iegrarh.-N. J. Hr