The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-02-09
rho Russo=Amsfican Te1exraphsa

Whether it is or ls not practicable to connect
the eastern shore of the American Continent with
ton that our North Pacific coast may be joined to
Siberia by telegraph; that cable of the best
quality may be taken to the points that shall be
most appropriate for the connection and laid as
quickly, and work with as great certainty as that
crossing the Mediterranean, uniting Franco and
Algeria.
Fortunately, the great and enlightened EEgire
OF Russia Owls oil the land between the telegl#k,
lc system of Europe and the North Pacifds
has foothold in the extreme northwester}Eot:
ness OF procuring the right Of way. It is doubt
less precisely as practicable to connect st. Peters
burg and Petropaulski by telegraph, as New York
and San Francsco and there is no more question
Of the ultimate construction of D coast line OF
telegraph along the Pacific from San francisco to
| Alaska, than that ono has been built from New
| Orleans to Halifax.
| Telegraphing can be done across Asia as wei
as across America; and We had striking exam
pie, a few days since, of the facility with whlcn
our ocean-bound Republic The Legislature OF
California, regarding a bill introduced into the
Senate of the United States with disfavor, adopt
ed protest against it, and transmitted the docu-
ment, with all the formalities complete, by tele-
| graph from Sacramento to Washington.
1t will not, VIC may depend upon it, be many
years before the cities of America will be IN COM
munication By telegraph with those of Europe BY
| %ay of the Russo-American line; and the most e3,
perienced and scientifically informed tclegraphe&
" sent from New York westward around
world to London, than eastward through tho
lantic, even if o cable were successfully laid. y
Our readers arc aware that survey Is being
made to demonstrate tho practicablllty or tue
Russian telegraph, and show where and how the
work should be done. y very interesting report
from Colonel Palmer, Secretary of the Weston
Union Telegraph Company, engaged in this enter g
prise, has recently been received and puplshea;
Il is dated at San Francisco, on tho 18th OF
December, and is full Of encouragement The OBJ
jcct of the expedition is the exploration OF the
country through which the lines will pass on both
continents, examining harbors and coast lines 10,
eating cable crossings, and, so far as possible, 90
| termininS the route OF these lines. -
It is ascertaned to tho proper point ior cross
ing the upper limit Of the great ocean, that Senia
vim Strait, Siberia, offers all the protection ne.
cessary, with good bottom, deep water and safe
landing in Pcnkcgu Gulf or Abolcsher Bay, and
from this Strait to Grantley Harbor, tho bottom o
Behring Strait is mud, sand and gravel, averaging
about thirty fathoms in depth, and distance be-
tween proposed landings ono hundred and seven
ty-cight miles.
The most northern regions through which our Lines
will pass present serious obstacles, neither In tho
construction successful operation OF telesaphs
| Tho submarine crossings will havo the advantage
even and soft bottom with safe landings and cables no
so long as to mako their performance doubtful Tht
land lines firmly planted i'll the frozon earth VIII ssanc
as if morticed in rock timber to fall across nor see
to weigh the wires they will stretch over the frozeI
desolution unharned and unmolestcd; beside. Will
reindeer aud dogs, tho winter watching VIII bc com
parativcly easy.
Tho Behring Straits crossed in hundred and sey
entyeght and Anadyr Bay two hundred and nine nauti
ca miles between landings, with water OF slich ucptl
that icebcrs alone could njurc the cbc these arc un
known in Behring's Strait south Of it; the northwart
even when the surface-current is changed 10y strong
north Winds the lower water still moves northward.
The Indians of the scacoas. arc misrcpresented; w
found them friendly. honest and exceedingly hospia
bic. never manfestng OIL any OCCASION about an!
of our ves ses tho least disposition to steal; but the,
beg thinking probably that tho white man, who hns 9
| much can freely give These people car be made usb
| full with proper management; more so IN the futur
thnn in the beginning Of our work.