, 1864-06-12

nese Sea- E:a3i Eostok is selected By the Empe,
ror for hIs nasal STATION on tha Pacfdc coast.
~ 1h,,fasGA telegraph wire nom Iskoutsk, be-
through kiakhta, nov the entrepot Of European
and Chinese overland commerce, through tie yast
territory Or The Ae1gols to Aesate. il the CHI
tai Of the Chinese Empire. American citizens
temporarily residing N :1at country, are now 80.
Letting, With good prospect Of success, permission
nsnsne tne I1inese a 70 extend the last
nate, With the needful branches, at the ports Of
/ Nankin, Shanghai, Annoy and Canton, on tho Pa.
/ calG coast, Opposite 10 California.
! There are already in ope alton t39p miles Of
teeefsRa wire IN the continent Of Australia. This
Ansttaiian telegraph system, which now is so
tee be aaa iiE9ated iG}n
~ nomaflne aad Island wires with the Chirese and
R4zstan wires Last described.
t7a7saty-A telegraph wire from zststton oo the
malI1 I1sontlnensal-R Russian Line at Onsk, nesx the
southern boundary Of Asiat,c Russia THENCE pess-
ing through Aongolia and entering Cntua at Ii:ck,
eonshaes called 1ily; thence, ssiugTatkestsn,
thence to capital points in the runiaub wherc il
VIII meetthe teleTsphac system f1ndIa, and thus
become nediRm Of denomination between Lon
don and thg colonial deDendencieaot Great Rfit.in,
the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal on the shores
and Islands of, he great Iadlan Ocean.
1T, x,lfa!y.A tsles1aph wire from kazan, on the
C1rcassia a1o1g the western shore OF the Caspian
Sea, 10 Teheran, the capital Of Peteia thence 1e
the EuPhrates. At basdad; thence, descending
mouth, ut the hesd Of the Persian Gulf there to be-
connected with the oriental telegraph sy4tem Of
In9ia iast betoro mentioned.
When VIC take irto consideration the fac. that
Russia has already brought all her chief inland
markets and mines. as well as her principal ports
On the coasts Of the Arctic Ocean. INTO tefegrapnic
Communication With her capital, 1t is readily per
celyed that BY Offering to cooperate with Us in
giving effect to Mr. collins design. Russia actu-
ally invites ~ to put foEth our national energy
1f.{r 1@rx-
Try Of any kind dwells. and especially tom our
NorlhWeetern aud Western States, and apply that
enefgy e t1 the g.ea. york q ;snewtDs and lesso-
E1ons where our race fret impressed its dominion
9pon % .he globe appointed for its residence:
Certainly, It can not be necessary to say that
which are pronounced to be doubY blessed,
because they bless equally those who are subjects
and those who are the performers Of them. 1t
of this new application of the national energy In
PRODUCING 5apld and yet permanent development
OF the agricultural forest. mineral and marine re-
practicable to assign limits 10 the increase Of na-
tional 1nnuence, which must necessarily result
from the new facilities VIC ahou1d acquire II that
manner for extending throughout the world
American ideas and principles Of pnblc aud pr1-
sate economy, politics, morals, philosophy and re-
In attempting to make such estimates, II is I'M
portant to RENE eruber that the telegraph wire IL as
yet .Dew'J Invented Instrument, ttmid!y en-
ployed and clumsily handled, with a rery imper-
ieet knowledge Of the fulncss Of the power that
resides In it. 1t costs M now one-ha.f mill per
mile to speak single word through the cheaPess
telteTaph wire Of any considerable length. This
~ vastly more costly than tie average transmits
sion OF MESSAGES In writing by employing tue
am-enstle, either on land or on water. This
sreat expense Of telsgEaphic, commuatcasionts Is
Of The te1eRraphic n1aehine, for that machine Is
easily constructed Of very aimple and cheap mate
rias: The expen8lvenesa Is due 10 TITO transient |
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charges now justly imposed upon 1t for rewardins
the inventor; secondly, the fact that Re yet fixed
habits OF communication in ancient forms prevent |
frequent resort to the new mode Of correspond-
eAce, and customary Investments Of capital which
arc sufficiently remuneEatiye to cause it to be |
aparing1y applied to the perfection OF the new sys-
nente OF the magnetic telegraph shall be removed.
ksG Knagnetized wire will become for the chief
purposes Of social commercial, and polltica com
nnn1cation as practical a., BY resson Of its ed,p
Wbst III. Collins asks Of Congress-, ts the rraut
Df right way across the public lands, with the
the ne;' the use of national vesse!
suitably ofacered and equipped, 10 make surveys
and eonnaines along the North Paeihc Coast, be-
the work.. and, finally, a stipulated
:o.nren sstton for the Government ase OF the line
when il shall he constructed. 1fthe views have
neither unnecessary nor unreasonable. We Gould
cot withhold II without showing want ofap2re-
:tatton OF the 1befallty and friendship which hare
been manifested toward the United States by Rns-
ia and Great Britain in the proceedings they have
adopted toward the anne enterprise do not !
;now any one object lying within ths scope Of our
Of peace and friendship with tho7e |
NO great and eniQhtened Powers. MORGAN con-
:eive Of any one measure Of national policy that
Fon;d more effectively tendto secure that great
inject than tho construction sf th: proposed inter
telegram.
1fosbear to urge the project*in competition with
he proposed line across the Atlantic ftem Cane
lear 70 Cape Race, which, Notwithstanding pist
liMcul:tes, yet hope to fee speedily comnieted. |
The twn lines would naturally aid and strengthen
ach other. II they shonld eTan come Into compe.
ittop, It would be more advantageous to the world
have the use Of hoth thsn the use Of only one Of
hem. One might be expected to operate when
be other ahsuld be accidentally suspended. Nor
a. T. p doahfed nh, ha the sest lnts-
eguze more than one, md more than even two
world -encircling telecraphs.
I hare the honor to be, Sir, your ONT servant, |
WM H. SEWARD |