The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-18

OF England and France!
Tho Observation-Disclosures TeIexraph.
We present to-day map which fully illus
trates the route of this telegraph through Asia
and America, and also the submarine cables
through Behring sea and Anadyr bay. We
publish, moreover, additional accounts of this
great undertaking from our Kamtschatka cor
two of whose interesting letters
appeared in Saturdays HERALD. Az we init,
mated on Sunday, the progress already made
in the explorations and other preliminary
work encourages the hope that before 1868
the Old World and the New will have been
united, instantaneous communication will have
been secured between New York and London
by way Of San Francisco and st. Petersburg,
and the Shaksperesn dream Of putting &c
girdle round about the earth in forty minutes"
will have been realized.
A suggestive fact of prime interest and
Importance Ia patent in the narrative, at once
minute and full, which the HERALD gives of
these Russian-American telegraph operations.
II is that the idea Of the enterprise or at least
the first practical application of the idea, and,
in large measure, the execution Of it, will be
historically recorded rs due to American
heads and hands, The name of Collins. the
originator Of the Russian-American tele-
graph, will be as indissolubly and as
honorably connected with it as that
of Field with the Atlantic cable. Collins,
like Field, is an American and New Yorker.
Colonel Buckley, the ergneer-in-chief Of the
expedition, and nearly all the officers and men
in the land and marine service which he has
organized for it, are likewise Americans. The
enterprise begins new chapter in the history
of American influences, which are to become
more potent than ever. II dates q new
era and opens illimitable vistas in the
future history Of the entire world. Who
can now predict its ultimate results in
modifying the relations between the two
continents and the character and destiny of the
civilized, semi-civl]ized and barbarous popula-
tons whose distant or conflicting interests it
may link together? The Russian-American
line, tapped somewhere near the mouth Of the
Amoor by another line which 10 to penetrate
China, will ere long extend the influences Of
American thought and aotion--in q word, Of
modern civilixa tion in its best and latest typo
to the hundreds Of millions who swarm In the
Flowery Kingdom or are scattered elsewhere
throughout Eastern Asia.
TO do this very thing seems 10 be the ~mani-
fest destiny" Of Americans. The East origi-
mated religions and PHILOSOPHERS, which Egypt,
Greece, Rome and modern European nations
have successfully modified, each doing also Its
special appropriate work. Egypt embalmed
mnmmies and built pyramids. Greece, in her
temples and theatres, in her sculpture, science,
literature and physical culture, perfected art
and improved upon nature. Rome became
mistress Of the world by force Of arms,
and dying, bsqueathed laws and roads
and architectural monuments which have
survived all her conquests. Italy re-
viyed the traditions Of ancient art, and there
are few prouder names than those which have
illustrated her poetry, architecture, sculpture,
painting and music. Germany gave ms gun
powder and the printing press. France sets
the fashion in manners, dress, cooking, dancing
and all the rehnements of social life, while her
clear and polished language Ia = marvellous
medium for the propagation Of ideas Christian
England, or at least the dominant class in that
country, seems Mt present 10 be chiefly am
billions to stamp out Fenianism, resist the re-
form movement headed by John Bright manu-
facture everything, from q steam engine TO .
pin. from pair Of scissors and prayer book
to grotesqus idols for expectation to heather
customers 10 Africa or India, to make London
the commercial emporium Of the world and to
do the carrying trade Of all nations II remains
for the United States 10 alliance with that other
frat class Power, the Russian empire--both Of
these Powers robust snd vigorous with youth,
rich with the incalculable resources Of vast ter
ritories and increasing and multiplying popula-
tions--to make such practical applications
Of science to the work Of progress a. are ex-
empli6ed by the Observation-Disclosures telegraph.
America must take the lead In the advance Of
tho nations towards that millcnnisl brother
hood and prosperity which will be FASTENED
by the successful prosecution Of such an enter
prise. Even its geographical position entities
IL to aspire to precedence. "Go ahead" ID the
national motto Of Americans. And they can
not but be ahead OF "all the world and the
rest Of mankind" lnasmucb - the sun will
rise on the terminus Of this great telcgraphic
line at New York before the sun OF the pre-
vious day has set at the mouth Of the Amoor.
We shall be-in fact We ars--almost day
and half ahead Of time ct that remote point.
when the two worlds the old and the new,
shall have been brought face to face, o. II
we're, by the completion Of this projected line,
IL 10 probable that the quicksning example Of
American vitality and rush win stir the
sluggish blood Of Asiatic and Euro
pean races. Tbs effect may eventually
extend all the way westward from New York