The New York herald., 1862-03-08
Ocean Telegraphy.


from tho London News, Feb IL
The failure of the Atlantic telegraph was dsheartenng
feeling then prevailed that to connect Europe and Anne
RIGA Geographically was an object which science ana
wealth, skill and enterprise, must fail to accomplish
The successful laying down Of telegraph cables is
result of immense importance TO the whole civilized
world; but to the greatest OF all commercial and colo
NAL Powers such conquest of time and space is vital
question How often vast interests alarmed and i'm
pered for want of the of instant and secret COM
This is experience which events re.
peatedly confirm. In short time there will be about
the world, estimated to yield an income Of about five
millions sterling annually. The United Kingdom,
Europe and America at present
with network OF telegraph wires In other parts OF the
world also vastly extended lines of telegraph wires exist
such as those between San Francisco and New York,
Kurracheo and Rangoon, in India, and Brisbane and
Adelaide, in Australia The electric telegraph in the
United Kingdom alone yields an annual revenue Of about
9lo for every mile Of wire Ihs Malta and Egypt SUD
nearly 81 900 per week AS this cable has been success
fully laid tho project of connecting GEOGRAPHICALLY the
west coast Of Ireland and Newfoundland distance OF
100 miles, is revived If this can be done, 1t
would be all that is desired for the interests OF
Great Britain in communicating with America, be-
cause the termini will be in British territory
If, however, such cable cannot be- successfully
submerged with our present mechanical .appli.
ances, other schemes for connecting the Old and
New World are in forward state and for the accom-
pshment of which there will be no difficulty as far AZ
length of sea cable is concerned Such for instance
the schemes for connecting Europe and America by way
Of Iceland Greenland and Labrador by way OF Cadiz.
the Cape de Verbs st. Paul and Brazil and by way OF
be reached by cables the tecgraphic communca
tion win certainly be made by way of Eastern Europe
ncatng with India can completely satisfy this country
unless government havo uncontrolled
the telegraph and which cannot be the case il the inter
venng wires pass through foreign country. we are
seeing to the reconstruction repairing Of sea
cables towards the East. 1t has been already
mentioned that fresh cable has been end
therefore nothing can prevent US now from
connecting Geographically by sea lines Malta and Gibra
because each cable will not be Of greater length than the
Malta and Alcxandran one. In months time csbls
will be submerged between suez and Jubai in the Red
ly effected and immediate attempts are to be made to
repair the cable between Alden and Kurracheo. Before
Easter probably, shall be aDle to communicate with
all parts Of India in FIVE days. with Hong Kong in twenty
days and with Australia in twenty days, and when
the Australian land line is extended from Adelaide to
Perth IN Western Australia, in twsnty-two days.
Russia is now strcnuousy exertng herself to reach
China Japan oven tho United Staos by telegraph be-
Fstafetes regularly between Pen and the telegraph
stations in Asiatc Russia. Disputes have arisen be-
tween the United States and Russian telegrafhc en-
gneers to the best route for passing the telegraph
wires from Asia TO America. The former, knowing tho
cheapness, safety and permancnce OF land wires from
experience for the Behring Straits routhe lattor
for the route by Kamschatka and the Aeuian Isles.
Some English writer's appear TO think that tho sparse
OF population In Eastern siberia and Russian America
will prove nsurmountabe objection TO tho Behrng
Straits route But this very sparsenes will secnre tue
wires from injury Besides the complete control which
cX0rCSc
hor domnons will enable her protect the wires Rus
sil will find greater difficulty in doing this than the
United States government has found in protecting the
wires from San Francisco TO tho Western Atlantic,
through a country OF wild Indians. As to the
weather, so far north Behring Straits, IL will
not be more formidable than in Labrador Green
land whoro It has been pronounced by competent
navgators and electrical engineers TO be no nsuperabe
bar to tcegrAphc wires and cables Tho struggle be-
England and Russia 70 reach the far ,st by tcle
graph will be fierce England will manage by and
by, TO creep up the Red Sea from Juba and by repair
ing the cable in the Arabian Sea we shall have an
broken telegraph line from Malta to Rangoon which
shall have complete control for the short telegraphc
communication between Alexandria and suez complete
y in our hands. To extend the line from Rangoon to
Sing lporc will not be difficult The French and Spanish
possessions in Cochin China will assist up to Hong
Kong and from thence the route 10 Pokin by way Il
Annoy shanghae the Gulf OF Pecheli, will be easy
From Shanghai telegraph cable, only 500 miles long,
would reach Nagasaki, in japan.
In the spring of Tho present year is not impossible
that the steam racket communication between Galway
St Johns Newfoundland, may be reesablished and
intelligence from all parts Of the United States and British
North America would then reach us in six days. The
New York Boston, Halifax and Portland packets must
then make point Of regularly getting news by telegraph
from Cape Race in order 10 keep pace with the Irish
packets AT ths present time the former steamers
Cape Race upwards Of four hundred times In tho course
Of year and five times out Of six they fail 10 get
vey intelligence from that point. Some effective plan
ought to be organized to communicate with every trans
atlantic packet passing the southeastern point OF New
foundland tho Galway boats will beat the Queenstown
and Londonderry steamers in priority OF intelligence by
three or four days When the Canadian telegraph is
tended ".
to be done, the summer Canadian mail packets,
which travel tho Belle Isle route will beat the Cunard
in priority OF news from the United Saos, II
the latter ships do not get late intelligence from Cape
Race.
one great defect Of the electric telegraph at present Is
the diffcutv oil transmitting Simultaneous messages
either in the same or In opposite directions the
wire Hence, where there ia much tranic, numerous
wires have 10 bo erected which appear on our railway
lines like musical staves and which add immensely to
tho cost Of telegraphc messages IL s not improbable
that this difficulty will one day be overcome, and tho
transmission Of separate teegams in the same or in op
be Effected Nature exhibits phenomena something sim
lar this when the vibrations Of the air tho undua
tiops Of light, though crossed overakon by other vi
bratons or fluctuations convey sounds images to the
car or eye without distortion or confusion. The trans
mission OF simultaneous kilograms along one wire would
be a consummatc triumph Of electric telegraphy.
Politically commercially and socially the electric cle
graph is destined 10 confer vast benefits. II Ear Rus
sells despatch TO Lord Lyons on the Trent affair had been
transmitted to Washington In nineteen minutes, instead
Of in nineteen days, should have had OF tho
liberation Of Messrs Mason and de on the 7th Of De-
cembcr, instead OF on the 10th Of January and what
fears and anxeties what sagnaton OF trade and dcpro
citation Of public securities, and what national anmosi
ties arising from tho ntempcrance OF English and Aner
can writer's, would then hayo been prevented Much Oh
the recent difficulty IN getting more cotton rom inua
has arisen from the time occupied In comnunicatngw Win
Calcutta from England Before mercantile .ansacsons
tanned that American might render such ransc-
tons Improbable. II s amaxim tnat the quicker tno
communication between the different marts OF
throughout tho world the safor can all knis
of business be carried on This is proved by the large AID
continually increasing revenues derived by telegraph
even when they only partially connect distant
markets A merchant living ten OF twelve ,housaad
worth of goods and before the order arrives the markets
may have changed and serious loss ensue but no nsr.
chant would ever complain Of being onablsd to Dolby
swing an order for goods until within few hours whsn
Il would be necessary for the seller to execute the order
And then the luxury Of instantaneous communication
with absent friends tweyemonth ago an Indian liner
left London After fearful passage, In which she
nearly wrecked, tho captain and almost all the officers
and crew wore laid up In Calcutta hospital with cboiora
and other diseases. This nows reached their friends
In England But letters announcing their rocovo.
~ and departure were given TO some one 10 post
who, II is believed destroyed the letters for the sake
OF keeping tho postage money. For three months the
friends in England Of those poor fellows wers kept
In an agony Of suspense until tLoir arrival homo
few weeks since telegraph from England and one
from Calcutta would havo prevented this suspense. NO
ono has failed notice the tone OF anxiety Of Foreign
correspondence between friends and relatives so unlike
the confidence of personal intercourse The chiidren
whom you inquired payfuly after may be dead ana bu.
riad and their parents may be mourning the loss when