New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-22
CUUDIuNG THE EARTH.

templating the connection oil the New ""'lu
with the Old by lines of telegraph, necessarily
in part if not mainly submarine, now challenge
attention and promise speedy realization. First
among them stands the Atlantic Telegraph
from the west coast Of Ireland to bay on the
easterly coast of Newfoundland-a distance OF
little less than 1000 miles, and requiring con-
tinuous submersion of cable to fully that extent
This is the route on which q cable was laid
with temporary success in 1858, and on wmch
one far stronger and better protected IS 70 be
laid, it is confidently expected, in 1861
Next to this ranks the enterprise which con-
Templates an extension Of the French line now
connecting Bordeaux and Marscilles, through
Corsica and Sicily. with Tripoli. on the north
coast of Africa; which line it is now proposed to
extend along the African coast westward and
then southwark to some point near
the mouth of the Senegal or that of the Gambia
and thence across the ocean 10 Pernsmbuco, or
some adjacent point on the coast OF Branl-per'
haps taking one or more Of the Cape Verdes and
the little isle of st. Paul In their way. The en-.
tire distance from continent TO continent on this
route is about 200 miles; the ocean.bed is un-
derstood to be favorable and the water not very
deep. while an iceberg, or ice in any form, is
here of course unknown. France, Italy, Spain'
Portugal, and Brazil ore understood to be united
in favoring and aiding this enterprise, the sue
cess of which ought not TO be doubtful.
The third project IL that now claiming NOR
immediately the attention Of Congress, which
proposes to connect the two continents BY a
cable crossing Behring's Straits where they are
less than forty miles apart. The bases OF this
enterprise are our American network OF tele-
graphs on one side, and on the other that OF
Russia, which already reaches eastward from
St. Petersburg, through Moscow. Novgorod'
Kazan, Perm, and Omsk, TO Irkoutsk (ioui
thousand mes), and is thence to be pushed
southwark through Mongolia to Pekin, Nankin'
and Canton, while the main line is carried on
eastward 2, 500 miles further, TO the mouth Of
the Amour on the Sea Of Okhotsk. SO far, the
Russian Governments pledged to carry the work,
and there can be no doubt Of its speedy com
pletion.
Here private company propose u
take hold, and carry a line around the Sea o.
Okhotsk and the Cults Of PeDjinsk and Anadil
to East Cape; thence across Behring's Straits
to Cape Prince of Wales. and thence south
! eastwardly across Russian America to Mount
St. Elias, and 20 down the coast through British
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, and connects with our constantly extending
. wircs. The entire length of this magnificent
T line, from the mouth Of the Amour TO that d
the Columbia, is about $500 miles, but les;
than 80 of them stretch through water; while
the climate is said to be milder than the CORE
spending ATTITUDES on our Atlantic coast.
Mr.. Perry N. Collins, the protector and sctuary
Of this enterprise, asks our Government TO aid
it az follows:
/. By furnishing National vessel to lay the
submerged cable;
2. By granting the right Of way over our
public lands, with permission TO cut timber
thereon, and to occupy square mile of those
lands (f such there shall beg at each station,
separated by distances Of fifteen miles.
g. BY agreeing to use the line Cor at least to
pay for its use) to the extent Of $50, 900 per an
mum, after it shall have been completed, and so
long as it shall be in serviceable condition.
We believe no serious objection is made to
any Of these requirements but the last, which
the critical state of our country and her finances
very naturally exposes to demur. But, consd-
Ang that nothing is to be paid till the entire
line shall be In working order as 1t cannot be
for several years, nor until after an outlay of
many millons-that this is the only line likely
TO be constructed which will not probably, in
case Of war between us and European
Power, be wholly controlled by our enemies
and that our Government must inevitably wish
to make a liberal use Of this telegraph when.
completed-we trust that this pttance will not
be grudged it, but that it will be cheerfully
granted, and will coon bring US into ready and
constant communication not only with Europe,
but with the countless millions of China, Of
Japan, and Of the other populous and wealthy
regions of the East. 1t is not often that so vast
good is proffered us at 80 small cost.
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HENRY &. CAREY.