The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-25

a telegraphic system have not altogether dis
couraged the hope of the eventual realization of
the original project. In addition to the Sharner
and other schemes of deepsea telegraph cables
Mr. Perry Collins, formerly United States com
mercial agent at the AmOor river, is boldly push
ing his great scheme for uniting st. Petersburg
Moscow &C., direct with San Francisco, telegraph
ically. The Russian government is eagerly push
ing 1t; the Canadian parliament has granted per-
mission so far as the line will pass through their
territory. The Russian American Telegraph Com
pany is the title adopted. The Russian govern
ment propose to keep the line so far as their terri
tory is concerned, like all their other teegraphs,
IN their own hands. Their part of the work is al
ready pretty well done-there being 900 miles of
telegraph line constructed directly eastward from
Moscow to Perrin, while another part is being con
structed further east across the Ural mountains
to Ekatarineburg, with the design of extending it
to the Amoor river. 1t las granted to Mr.. Collins
initiatory surveys from the Amoor river eastwardy
so tar as the Russian possessions are concerned so
that II 1t do not see proper to continue the line to
the mouth OF the Amoor river, he may be prepared
10 MI up tnat gap. 1t is proposed to extend the
line from the Am0or either by the western coast of
the sea OF 0chotsk to kamschatka, and thence by
Behring's Straits into Russian America stretching
down along the coast of San Francisco, or else by
and down the island Of Saghalne across the strait
OF La Perouse into the Japanese islands, with
branch line to Hong Kong, and up north nv the
Kurile and Alentan islands to Russian America
The distance from San Francisco to the Amoor
river will be about G,000 miles-haf way to Mos
COW: and the total cost of the line needing 10 be
done, Independent of Russia will be about two mil
lions of dollars-LirerpooI Times.
WHO SHALL BE KING OF NApLEs?-A short time
ago lettOr was published from Prince Mura. in
which he held OUT the hope that, with Louis Napo-
Icons permission, he might be called to that dest-
ny by the will of the people. In reply to this the
Monite"r, the official organ of the French Govern
ment, has published the following which disposes of
the question:
"Prince Murat has published letter dsavowinp
those who would in his name excite troubles at
Naples. The Government of the Emperor can ONLY
applaud this declaration; but the hope which the
Prince expresses in that letter of being one day able
to go to Naples, with the consent and support of
france, is too much opposed to the wishes of the
Emperor to allow such superstition to pass with
out an official dsavowal."
Prince Murat has responded, declaring that the
Noniteur misinterpreted his meaning. lie adds:
81 have never had the pretension to engage in
anticipation the policy of the Emperor nor the al
lance of France. But wished to say that should
universal suffrage, free from all foreign influence
pronounce itself in my favor, the wishes of the
population wsuld, doubtless, be no less respected at
Naples than they have been in the other parts of
Italy,"
Our last advices from Europe inform us that Vic
tor Emmanuel has been proclaimed King of Ma
pies.
The Mission OF Mr.. LINDsAY.-It is alleged that
while the mission of Mr.. Lindsay TO this country
may be productive of future benefits to both coun
tries, 1t Is not very probable that any immediate
results will be accomplished. The President has
no authority to act in regard to the questions
which it is alleged he comes to negotiate CONGRESS
must nrst authorize him to move in the matter:
that body, and that body only, has the power to
remove any unjust restrictions which exist in the
commercial intercourse between the two nations,
and until Congress indicates its wishes unon the
SuDlpnt Prpsi1nDt will hordl =.
ter. However, our government will hear what Mr..
Lindsay has tn say. The President NAV be induced
to submit the matter to the attention OF Congress in
his forthcoming message.
HARVEST MooN.-The full moon which hsnnens
on the 18TH instant, is the harvest moon the theme
oi SO mucn admiration and song in our climate. 1t
derives its name from the agricultural economv of
England. For several successive evenings about
the time of the autumnal equinox, it rises at near
ly the same hour, and pOurs its full radiance over
the landscape atfording the husbandman an oppor
tunlty to extend his harvest abors into the evening
hours. The arrival of the sun at the autumnai
equinox when the moon is in the ascending node of
Its orbit and entering the first point of Aries, will
produce harvest moon under the most favorable
circumstances. With the aid of celestial plobe the
cause OF the phenomenon may be seen BY simple
inspection.
When the full moon occurs on the ODD of Sen.
TENDER, and is rising in the east, the sun will be
setting in the west, in the autumnal equinox. All
that portion of the ecliptic then above the horizon
will be south of the celestial equator and making the
least possible angle with the southern horizon. As
the orbit of the moon is but little inclined to the
ecliptic and the moon advances in it regularly at
the rate of thirteen degrees per diem, they are
passed over; from day to day, ascends above the
horizon in about a quarter of an hour, while at
other seasons of the year, the same act requires
about an hour in its ascension.
The full moons which precede and follow the
harvest moon-wben that happens on the 22d of
September-do not differ much from each other in
respect to rising; nor do they differ greatly from
the harvest moon in the same respect. The full
moon following the harvest moon is known as the
hunters moon, it happening at the season of hunt
ing in England.