The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-09

the better for its dignity.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEIROPOrIrA JOURNALS
THE GREAT ENTERPRISES OF THE DAY.-The ar
rangement entered into by the Hudson River
Railroad Company with an enterprising news
agent to run newspaper express train at three
O'Clock in the morning, for the distribution of
the metropolitan morning journals commences
to- day. From this day forth the papers printed
in New York at three o'clock each morning
will be on the breakfast table of the readers at
all the stations as far nerth as Albany and Troy,
and they will reach the more distant points,
as far as Buffalo and Montreal by tea time.
By this admirable arrangement-whic will
in brief time be extended southwark
and eastward as well as northward-the
metropolitan journals, containing news from
all quarters of the world, will be distri.
buted before breakfast time over q circle
around New York whose diameter mea-
suIes four hundred miles, and within the
day of publication they will be distributed over
circle with diameter of nearly nine hundred
miles. This important measure for the rapid
diffusion of intelligence is but in keeping with
all the other great enterprises whict surround
us throughout the whole civilized globe, and
which mark this age as essentially an era of
change and progress
AT home, We find Congress now engaged on
two grand schemes for reducing time and space
in our communication with the Pacific coast-
the telegraph to California and the daily
overland mail to San Francisco--if the
appropriations for which are made this
session, we may see both projects COM
pleted by next January. In addition to the
contemplated Pacific telegraph line, there is
already another line rapidly progressing from
st. Louis to California, over the Butterfeld
route via Fort Smith to Fort Yuma and Los
Angeles, which it is probable will be finished
during the summer. The first courier of the
roDy express from the Missouri river with a
mail for California, Oregon, Washington Ter.
ritory, British Columbia, the Pacific Mexican
ports, and the still more distant points in the
Russian possessions and the Sandwich Islands,
started on Tuesday last. The pony express
will carry news to San Francisco in eight days,
and bring return news in the same time So
much for the progress of rapid transportation
at home.
Abroad, the active mind of the age is &C.
complishipg still more extraordinary results
The Red Sea telegraph spans the space between
Alexandria and India over sea and land, thus
linking the shores of the Mediterranean with
the coasts of the Indian ocean. England will
soon have completed her telegraph line from
Gibraltar to Alexandria, and then London will
be in instant communication with Calcutta.
These are projects which few weeks will
see accomplished, while little farther ahead
we can behold continuous line of tele-
graph, already in contemplation, stretching
from Calcutta to Canton, and thence south
ward through the islands of the Borneo
group to Australia and New Zealand. Again,
we learn that line is to be laid from Naples
to Constantinople, which in short time will
be ramifed throughout the whole Moslem do.
minions. Apart from these telegraphic enter.
| pIises, there are two other important projects
occupying the attention of the scientific world
in Europe-namely, the Suez canal and con-
| templated chip canal from the Bay of Biscay
| to the Mediterranean, THROUGH the northern
borders of Spain, thus cutting off some thou.
sand miles of navigation through the Straits Of
| Gibraltar.
Thus we see throughout the entire globe
alike in the Old World and the New-the
march of science advancing onward with
giant footsteps, and human genius overmaster-
ing the obstacles Of nature, moulding the ele-
ments to its will, and, day by day, annihilating
time and space. In few years-nay, perhaps
within the present annual cycle-the whole
civilized and commercial world will be in
hourly communication.