The New York herald., 1863-10-13
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sYHMARfNE TELEGRApuA.


SyHMARfNE TELECRAPn4.
About month gentiem.n who mas besu mos.
prominently boore the public connection with the
enterprise OF establishing tsssrspho communication be
tween Europe ani Amorica-Mr Cy rus ". Fiodrcceged
at Queenstown ia ireland Geographic desrstches from
various points on The three continents OF Europe. Africa
ana Asia These dispatches reached him The 9Th OF
September he abou to step oil from tho western
shore Of Europe 10 The Eas:srn coast OF America his
return from business mission undertaken oc the pur
pose OF pressing forward the great work which Il to
carry the Idea OF the magician Of English poetry and
Put a grde round sbort the esrtk
In forty minutes
0ae OF those dispatches came from London, aud may
been transmitted either through submarine cabS
laid down in 1858 between Portpatrck in Scotland aud
Donashadee, In Ireland through one isa down ia
1861, between Holy head, in Wales and Ho.th, IN Ire
land, by still aaother submerged In 1882 between
Pembroke, in Wales, and Wexford, in ireland fhS8rs,
mentioned cabs is only twenty i've miles oag, but Is
OF enormous volume, its diameter being No less than
four inches and its weight being equal to sixteen
thousand pounds per mile II is ten years in service
has cost anything for repairs Tho one be-
tween Holyhcad and Howth ie sixyfour miles In length
and that between rem',reSe and Wexford risty three
miles The despatch simply stated that the rebel cotton
loan quite neg elected at thirty per cent discount. We
expect TO learn that II il in still neglected 20
sition ninety per cent discount for lac is reckless
speoulstor who would invest iu IL at ten por cent.
The despatch next in order from Rrme and bore
date the second day prevous-ths 18th of September
that it two days old when reached its address.
II merely noticed the iberalty and wealth Of the holy
father erecting seyers benevolent Establishments and
endowing then, out Of MS own private cttes. We are
glad to learn that the rapa finances in such good
don for afraid, recollecting the collections Of
Peters pence recently made all the Catholic world
that his holiness rather short OF fndr This despatch
must have passed through Of the between
England the sister island-tbrcc probably compile
mentary aluson TO the shamrock -.hrough the cable
between Dover and Calais laid down IN 1851, aud
which is twsuty.seven miles IN length, or that be-
tween Dover and Ostend, llaid down in 1853. aud
which Is eighty miles in length, By the lsud line
across France in q southeriy direction TO Toulon,
and through another submarine cable from Toulon
to Corsica laid down In 1861 and hundred and eighty
Eve miles In length; then through ten mile cable
the Strait OF Bonfacio to Sardinia; and might
the route preferred make another trip OF hun
drei and forty three miles from Cagar the southern
point OF Sardinia to Sicily aud then by eight mile
plunge the Straits II Messina to the OF alys
boot making It's way lesurely in duty bound, up TO
the heart Of Italy ths Eternal City. We presume that
the land route preferred the distance from Rome to
Queenstown would not great by the route have
route being selected the Journey cculd have been
plished.
The next despatch received by Mr. Field from
Paris, aud dated the same day, September 49, 1t an.
nounced the fact Of dc Persgnys elevation TO duke
dom reward for his services and for his
personal devotion 20 the Emperor. We have already
ske,ohed the route which must have taken,
Away from the fortified town of RGsk, Asialc sihsrs
comes the electric message and /, has only been
A..
pers climate very different from that OF British
Islands and tells the whole story nine words, divided
up into three They p.hy aud suggestive.
"westher quite autumna Rain, with snow. Five de-
grees warmth These five degrees calculated, OF
course, Oh tn Reanmar scslc, and elliva
lent 10 forty degroes Of Fahrenheit How
that u Russian SHOWS conveyed
to the western shore OF the Crecn Isands
Did sing its course the bresdth Of Russia
and through Germany aud France to the straits OF Dover'
Or came u BY the shores OF The Baltic Sea Into Denmark
and thence across tho North Sea England Let us
suppose by tho latter route 1t may have done
for 10 1859 Submarine cable submerged beiweea
England aud Denmark length OF three hundred
sixty eight miles.
The last az those dispatches from tho snd Of the
Phmssls, from the cariia of the Ptclenies:rom tie
city built by the great conq in whose hoaor Il
named-from tho grea, Egyptian metropolis whore Marc
Antony spent h.s tlmo and lost the empire Of The world
in fond dslsoce with the splendid Cleopatra. !, Ia dated
at Aexandrs AZ nooutlrac Of the day II received
II reads 40 f0iloss-
ALxX.NRfA, Egypt, Sept. l2--I2IO A. "
TIE YoerOy LAS returned from visiting his estates u
Upper Egypt
The object Of Monsieur Dc rssseps recent mssloa 20
Upper Egypt Is unknown.
mos, spundsn, cotton crcp expected Egypt this
year. The excitement In the cotton mirke, "a
suhsidns
The rise u the river Mic stu continues
Tenders FOR the construction of Telegraph luce from
Renlo 10 the foudsn are already out.
line Of telegraph from Beyrout ~ Cairo, by anc
cnpias attention.
sacces, tbs direct Atlantic telegraph from Ireland
Newfoundland
There africa sendn greeting 10 Europe and iTnera,
her message coming cose upon ths hees " one from
Norihcru Asia Can the world Ia sll its bygone sgcs
pon, 10 such miracle as tbaS And ye, il IA only a.
usifsssn the modern dcyeopmeut Of human intellect
and powe, The route which have sketchc5 for the
mcssagc frot oio may have been iolowei by the one
from Aexauda, FAR the space bot seen Sicily .nd
Ireland s concerned From Sicily 10 Alexandria there
are pks Va te ch,n-nrs, one OF sixty miles
Malls laid down Ia 1859 and second, one Of 8tsep
dred thirty Ave miles from MALTA Alexandra, iad
down Ia 1881.
And th brings us to TIE greatest OF s enterprises
Of the character.