The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-12-27
The Telegraphlc Age.

The world has seen its sage ofIron,"
its sage of Steam," and weare now in
the midst of the "Telegraphic Age"
The procession of great events that
once moved with slow and stately tread,
is marvellously quickened in our day.
Old things are rapidly passing away,
and the new are being ushered in with
velocity unparalleled m all previous
history. The nineteenth century is
pregnant with great undertakings, and
the next three years will bring forth
grand recults. Ere the dawn ofls67
the earth, in all probability, will be-
girdled withthe telegraphic wire, thread
ing toward cities and villages, like beads
upon its endles chain. But two links
are now wanting to chain this globe of
ours-the Atlantic cable and the Col.
lins Overland Telegraph complete the
Circuit.
AT present the two oceans are with
in speaking distance, by means of a con-
tinuous line from st. Johns, ,Newfound-
| land, to San Francisco; but this is not
the limit. The Pacific end is continu-
ed to Olympia, on Puget Sound, in
Washington Territory. Next Spring,
Capt. Bulkley expects to commence op-
erations from that point northward, on
the Collins Overland Line, and if he
meets with no greater obstacles than
he now anticipates, we may confidently
expect to be holding mysterious con-
versation with the Gar Of all the Rus
sias by the summer of 1865. America
and England have joined hands once
more to outwit Old Neptune. That
the new Atlantic cable will be greater
success than the first, is past all doubts.
1t yet needs trial, to prove how long a
cable will last in the deep sea. If the
Ieforts of the managers of the Atlantic
Company are crowned with success,
we may hear for the second time, a
complimentary conversation carried on
by our President and the Queen.
From England to st. Petersburg and
Moscow there are two routes of tele-
graphic communication /; and from the
latter place the Emperor is building a
line down through the wilds of south
eastern Russia, along the Amoor River,
upon the banks of which he is creating
cities and viliages) to its mouth, at
which point the Overland Company
connect with the Russian lines. The
Russian portion of the earth's gi.dle is
nearly complete, having been in course
of construction for several years, Ca-
bles have been projected between Pan
anna or San Francisco and the Sand
wich Islands, and in course of time
from thence to Japan and China. Gu
ba can boast of two lines, both using
the printing instrument; one the House
and the other the Combination instru-
ment.
BY means of the Malta and Alexan-
dria cable, England is able to meet her
steamers on the Red Sea at Suez. The
Red Sea cable which was to connect
England with her Indian possessions,
failed in laying. BY the way of Con-
stantinople telegraphic communication
is maintained with Bussorah, at the
head of the Persian Gulf, through which
a cable is about being laid to Kurrach-
ee, in India, to which point the Indian
lines from Calcutta soon will be, If not
already, extended. We see by the Ea-
glish papers, that Sir Charles Bright,
the great telegraphic Engineer Of Lon
don, hopes to have telegraphic commu-
nication established with China and
Australia, by means of cable from
Rangoon along the coast of the Mainly
peninsula to Singapore, thence by ca
bic along the coast OF Cochin China and
China Proper to HongsKong and Can
ton in China and apother from "Sin-
gapore through Java, and thence by
the Island Of Tir,or to the Gulf Of Gar
pentaria," Australia, where it wi con
meet with the land lines Of that Lillipu.
tan continent. In few weeks Russia
will finish the continuation of her sys-
tenn of teleeraphs through Persia to the
Gulf. An American Company, recent
| ly formed in New York, are to take up
communication at Canton, and extend
it north through the principal cities of
China, and if permitted will connect
with the Russian lines on the northern
limits of the Celestial Empire, to which
point Russia is extending branch line
from the one along the Amoor river.
Our readers will thus see that there
are yet, but few important connecting
links to inc!o'e the earth within a com
plete network of tlegraphic wires
The prophecy in the ''song of electric
ity,' IS about to be fulfilled.
Away away thraugi the viewless air.
Stretch forth your iron thread.
For will not IN my sandals fair,
Wit h the dust ye tamey tread.
Aye! rear it up ON its million piers;
let IL reach the world around
Aud the journey ye make in a hundred years
! | II clear ut single bound"