The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-24


Asia Speaks to America-Ths vtcersy Of
India 70 the President Of the United
States.
Dispatches reached Washington yesterday
rom Asia announcing the complete circuit
OF Geographic communication between our
country and the continent of the most ancient
clvilization-the birthplace OF Christianity
the continent upon which the Apostles com
menced their labors--the seat from which
originated those languages that have made the
basis of the purest classic tongues, the San
scrit and the Hebrew-the country portion
OF which since the Apostolic times has fallen
into the seductive embraces of Mohammedan-
Ism, and the greater part of which counts
to-day as 1t did thousands Of years ago, its
million of pagans; worshippers of vishnu,
slaves and victims Of juggernaut, and the
more refined and sentimental representatives
OF paganism, who acknowledge the sun as
their god and keep his fres burning everlast-
ingly upon their affairs
The dispatches referred to state that the
telegraphic service between India and England
is greatly benefited by the completion of the
Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta submarine
cable, connecting at the latter island with the
cables already established in the Mediterra-
mean, and thence with lines from Suez to
Bombay, thus making a direct telegraphic
route from India to England, and there
fore establishing complete communication
between this country and India by
the Atlantic cables. What grand
concession to the power Of science aud enter
prise, and the wonderful progress of the age in
which we live! And more is contained in the
following despatch. dated in India yesterday
and received in Washington the same day =
BOMBAY, india June %, 1870
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WASH
The viceroy Of India for the first time speaks
direct by telegraph with the President of the United
States. May this long line OF uninterrupted commu-
ncaflOn be the emblem oil lasting union between the
THE vIoERoY OF INDIA.
We accept this despatch as an additional
evidence of the mighty things which our mod
ern appliances of civilization are accomplish
ing in the progress of the world-the electric
telegraph, which whispers congratu lations
and words of kindly hope from ancient India
to this young giant Of a new hemisphere; the
railroad, which uuites oceap to ocean, which
unites different climates and different popula-
tions with an iron band and the master power
of steam; the newspaper, which carries the
thoughts, the actions, the failings and
the virtues, and pictures Of the habits
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pies to and from the furthermost parts of
the earth. Truly we are advancing rapidly
towards the time when disagreeable distinc-
tons between nations will be obliterated and
people will so far understand each other that
international quarrels will diminish. chickering's
which formerly took months to settle
can be explained in few moments, aud
thousand evils be thus averted. Intelligence
quickly transmitted will take the place of
lazy and confusing diplomacy. A fash of the
electric wire is worth mile Of red tape, and
reduces reams of foolscap to the value of a
delicate sheet of note paper.
But we are not to b. contented with this
new line Of communication with India, upon
the completion of which banquet was given
in London on Wednesday night. At that ban
quet despatch was read from Cyrus W.
Field, stating that within one year cable
would be laid from India to China and Austria
liza, and before the end of 1872 cable would
be in operation between California, the Sand
witch Islands, Japan and China. We have no
reason to doubt it. When that is accomplished
we can bid friendly ''good morning" to all
the globe, and receive brotherly greeting in
return before breakfast
Surely this is an age worth living in. If
the morals of the world were only as good as
its enterprise is grand we might dream of
millennium.