New-York daily tribune., 1864-04-20

the Spring of 1865 will be complete Success
By the time that tho Atlantic Telegraph Coh'-
pany is ready for its grand enterprise, second
and entirely different line of telegraphic com
rnunication between Europe and America VIII
approach if not reach, its completion. Thls Is
The line running across Siberia, thence con-
Meeting with Russian America, thence passing
through Bftish Columbia and ultimately reach-
ing our Pacific States. The most dlihcuit por-
ton Of this telegraph, that through Siberia, Is
now. according TO recent dispatch, completed
as far as Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia.
Mr.. Collins, citizen of the United States, TO
whom the Russian Government has given for
period of thirty years the exclusive right OF
working this telegraph through the Russian
dominions, has now obtained from the British
Government the right Of way through British
Columbia. The Western Union Telegraph
Company of the United States are prepared to
assume the construction Of the line, and cap
i;alists are ready to supply tho money for carry
ing out the undertaking. 1t is intended to con-
tinue the telegraph northward along the West
ern Coast of British America to Behring's
Straits, which will be crossed by submarine
cable, 40 miles long; thence along the coast Oi
Arctic Russia to the mouth of the Amoor River,
at which point the Russian Government have
agreed to meet the line and connect il with
their own. The new line will be not far from
4, 900 miles in extent, and when completed il
will unite Europe, Asia and America, principally
by land.
Between the Governments Of Russia and
China treaty has been recently concluded
respecting telegraphic line connecting these
two countries. II is expected that within three
years the telegraph will be completed as far as
as Pekin. The Russians obtain permission To
establish blockhouses for the protection OF the
telegraph stations upon Chinese territory.
In Persia, the telegraphic operations for con
Meeting Persia and Turkey are likewise going
on very satisfactorily. The Porsians are laying
the line at Bushire, Shira2, Ispahan and Ker'
manshah, and it was expected that it would be
complete in the course of the present month.
In February last several hundred miles OF the
Tndo-European Telegraph were successfully
submerged starting from Gwadur, wretched
town on the Mekran Coast, chiefly inhabited
by Beloochees, but subject to the Imaum OF
Muscat. When all sections of the line are laid,
India will be in telegraphic communication
with Asia Minor, tho Continent of Europe, and
England.
1t is easy to ioresee what an immense influ.
encethis increasing intercourse between Europe,
Asia and America must have on the progress of
civilization and the movements of commerce.
India, China and Japan are already feeling its
efect., and must soon be reckoned among civil
lied nations. AS we exchange more frequent
communication, We exchange 10 some extent
customs aud opinions, aud il, as Kinglakc says,
the telegraph is an instrument by which a clerk
dictates 10 a nation, it is still more true that by
this grand system Of dispensing intelligence
each nation will exercise q closer aud broader
influence on the rest.