The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-11-21

bered and suppressed in Tennessee also. The
Union men in both these States comprise the
majority, but in Tennessee they have been silenced
only 10y mob-law and rifles. The tide has now
turned, and che Border States will soon be rid of
their bands of rebel marauders.
From the West, (Missouri) the news is equal
ly encouraging, and though it would be better to
have an engagement with and destroy the rebel
leaders than to permit them to disperse and
again collect their forces, still the State will
probably be effectually rid of them soon, and
peace be restored to its inhabitants.
On the whole. the cause of the UNION never
looked 50 hopeful, since the day that the rebel
lion was hatched in Charleston, than it did at
the latest adviccs. y rebellion, 10 gain favor or
even sympathy ut home or abroad, must always
be nOring forrard. \ halt in a rebellion is a
check to its success a retreat IS death to it. \
government that can keep a rebellion at a stand
still, and prevent its gaining ground, while itself
is increasing and preparing its forces to crush it
out, can never forfeit the respect Of other nation
%alities. This is the present position of the
American Union; it holds the rebellion at bay
checked, but not crushed-whilst it is prepar-
ing, cautiously but vigorously, TO extingnish
every yestige of it, by calling out its forces on q
scale of grandeur and strength, that would have
done honor to Napoleon the Great in his palmiest
days. The issue of this great war movement
cannot be long delayed.
We do not believe that it is the intention of
the North or Of the Government to intermeddle
with slavery, so far as it concerns the slaves of
Union men, or of those who have stood neutral
during the rebellion, and perhaps not even of
those who have been actively engaged in the
rebellion, provided the Southern States return to
their allegiance to the federal government, rs we
doubt nor they will Just rs soon as the power of
the rebel leaders is broken, and the people If the
Southern States take The pOicer again into their
Olrn hands. But should 'sworse come to worst"
and all hope of peace and reunion be destroyed,
the united sentiment of the North, and of the
whole world too, will undoubtedly demand that
every root and vestige of slavery be swept forever
from the American Continent, rather than to
permit the continuance and existence of such a
element or power within the natural
boundaries of the Republic. The power of an
exasperated people is terrible and irresistible,
and if the South provokes it and still deies the
vengeance of the North, she may yet curse the day
that saw the attack and surrender Of Fort Sump-
ter. --
The most interesting intelligence brought by
the mail is that announcing the completion of
the overland Electric Telegraph. We have
watched the progress of this great enterprise
with much interest, and its completion, even
before the time set for it, will carry Il thrill of
pleasure to every we'll of civilization and
the universal brotherhood of man. The work
has been FASTENED forward by the stirring events
in the Eastern States. As soon as the proper
connections are made, Geographic coInmunica-
can be had between ST. Johns, New Found
land (the Eastern extremity of telegraphs on the
American Continent) and San Francisco,
this the longest continuous line now in
operation, unless the Russian telegraph exceeds
it. The distance from San Francisco to New
Tnnndlnnd by the rnnte of rho telegraph is pro-
baby not less than 5000 miles, extending over
y degrees of longitude.
The Electric Telegraph is Il modern invention,
has been in successful operation hardly
twenty years, the first line in the United States
having been built in the year 1915 or G. There
Ire now upwards of So, 900 miles of telegraph
wires in operation in the United States alone.
Great Britain and Ireland have over 40, 900
miles France nearly 10000 miles, Germany
35 600 miles, and the whole length of telegraph
NlItc III lIt u ~" III = pEOiiDlN eActeuS
200, 900 miles-or sufficient to girdle the earth
more than eight times. This fact is enough to
assure us that the earth ciH be girdled by tele-
wires at no distant day. bringing the most
,emote portions in instantaneous communication
With the commercial centers.
Most persons, who are familiar with the fact
hat by means of the Electric Telegraph, mes
ages can be instantaneously sent between cities
lot very distant from each other, may not lie
ware that messages are sent as instantaneouslv
etween the most remote stations. For instance,
message can be sent from San Francisco to St.
.ouis, Tor to New York, if the wires connect to
he latter city, in an instant, or less than ten
econds, and 4 reply be received as instantane-
usly. Consequently a message and its answer
an be sent and received between those cities in
he space of one minute, or the time required to
perate the machine. Messages are often sent
rom London over the longest wires, or about 1880
lilies, and replies received simultaneously. a
lcssage leaving New York at IL noon, arrives at
an Francisco at Is minutes before 9 O'Clock
b.. NJ, thus verifying the old law of dispatching
usiness " in less than no time" This difference
owing TO the circumstance of San Francisco
cling located farther west, the difference being
iual I'd three anu IL quarter hours Oh CLOCK time.
I~ereafter, the daily papers in San Francisco will
,ntain q summary of news of the previous day
'ceived by telegraph from all parts of the
MON, which will render them more valuable for
te news.
But it is as a medium for business dispatches,
at the overland telegraph will prove of most
rvice in connecting the Pacific States with the
asst. Regarding the cost of transmitting such
essagcs, we find the following in the Bulletin
the 29th of October --.-- =
The reason why no list of rates of charges for messages sent
ross the eontinent by telegraph has yet been published, is
nply. that no arrangement has yet been made with the
thoriues at the other end ~ the wire. The rates charged at
will probably be changed at an early day-whether To be
reased or decreased, We cannot AFFIRM They are as follows:
San Francisco TO St Louis, for the first ten words, SIS
IN additional word, - cents .
Form san Francisco to Chicago, for the first ten words, So GO; :