The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1866, Page 8

2A ioe : | - TELEGRAPH.” nee r m which Bing xen a prominent tion th Central America, arte ia an nav Sind in the etd 2 Sa of sail and steam Vniting Old World with Ssevean area the New. sane A revival of the gold fover in this vicinity is im d Sef ts ‘Dent just now. Leen Ree, ee Indians from the North, and many of'the mines are now ip be commended, ‘ te hands and reworkivg. arriving preparatory to reopening A Girdls Round the Earth Sl a sone ore m8 PROSTEORS, fet Forty Seconds. om. sledges, but was prepared 1 have spoken with miners who have bad lare compa be Perlerice in California and elsewhere, and they pranon ry on jons. for th “4 po (a the post the ore,of the North Carolina mines far superior Ye ton Bad ' wealth to Lcmhaghgg ons ‘Tee'poaple of or i nd y with telegraph material anxioisto have eloped Ocneeption a Inception of | panne In British America Captain Conway awd Major Pope i portance of this great enterprise, the Datetively chaae there ave pleuty of manea, " r k. succeeded in reaching the upper extremity of Lake Os ‘Western Union Company has sent one of its directors, | jt would seem, ri ital was the only > the Wor rig] requti ion the directors of | Tatala before the end of autumn. Brem Now West- Mr. George H. Mumford, to, reside permanently at Galt | quisite now. to procure an f , any ordinary company, as they involved an expenditure te the month of Qnesnel river, where ee saceies affairs of the co t ‘The old of mining ere ot a very ui character. Everything desired at the is a small village, the route followed | Sain, = on tye = > — +4 obtain time was purchased and the ships had prompt despatch | the valley of Frazer river, amd was rapidly will visit Victoria, and ,New Westminister, and w' th S ‘i the settlement of the whites in their vicinity. The post | probably extend his journey as far as Sitka, in Russian, PERSONNEL OF TUE EXPEDITION. for the scene of operations, It was decided that New | Iaid out an@ completed under the supervision of y. tena “tt was established here with a view to securing the trade ; » projected telegraph is completed, bir tener Sr onyp erry t-te [poannng foe apa npn nt uowne! river {he | of all the extreme Western portion of North America, | San Francisco will be mulch pearer tho astern than the int y" ous, ~ should be the titi ded to abandon the valley and take tea chain of Inkes | 4-has been highly successful in accomplishing its ob- More than one- the ine. ject. Agents of the com , bot) - | third the distance round lobe will be embraced in graph. The California State Telegraph extends from San | and smaller streams that run in a general northwesterly Coal Fencv cele Fe Keres haa eee eros ee SRN Soke ofice te New York Francisco to New Westminster and connects atthe § direction. An additional reason for leaving Frazer river @arrce OF ROVWBB. | former point with the linoto the Atiantictates. An Eng- | was the yery heavy timber that fillod tho ealley, render- | wanda in the viomity for the purchaze of fur, and zit We Serer ce teen are aan oF 1tb8 previo ‘ing large quantities to the fort. Quite a number of | day has set gt of the Amoor It may nl- lish company propose to build aline fromt St. Paul, Minne- | ing it a work of great labor to cnt.a trail for the tele- bi . mn to eta ee <ota, by way of Pembina and Fort Garry, on the Rodriver | graph, there. belne no road of any hind in existence, | ti naves dock to the fort every year, bringing farm to | ‘imately. ben tho directors to station bao | raogo, and among otbers, Cabarrus, Mock -of the North, to New Westminster and 'Vietoria, in the | This chain of Inkes lies to the west of Frazer river, and | Sxchanwe for, goods of various Kinds The furs thns | of thelr unmbor atthe. Rusilan. veruninus, while the berg, Union, Stanley, Montgomery énd Anson coun 4 hope of getting a portion of the business when the great | the frequent occurrence of water eoursos rend: o damie be - i. er iow York, St, Petersburg ot nore Aro ope e ine. A directors’ meet- @ modern improve! of the stamp mill, witt IGE, ESQUIMAUX AMD SIBERIANS. through Jine is completed. Some of the material is on | comparatively easy to transport material for building | Or bemourms Abd Of course are sold at am enormons | ing can called By gummoning cach of the num- f terrific power in crushing the rook, atid the disco ’ | the gromnd, but very little work has been done, and for | the lina, When the lakes are not connected by streams | Protit over the original cost. | Of late years the fur busi- | ber to be present in his offlos, when the ¢ousultations. | of sodiam amalgam, whereby the capacity of ier Pe am aaa tho present at least, the only connection betwcen New | there is eonorally arideo of land sparsely covered with | ftmmnuin onanaity of thee fan cog ne msemuence of the | propositions, objection® and conclusions can be read} to'take up the gold is wondorfally increased, are as pone Westminster and the Attuntic Is by way of San Fran- | treos and affording a far better ronte than the heavily | jnrradng Scarcity o° the fur bearing animals, particu- | imultaneourly from the wires, ants. winich the “‘prospectors”” will bring to bear ir cinco, timbered valley of the Frazer, Along this route it was | Horneny tho: fur woripames cna dighly prized. | thos ‘been herotalere anhonnced that the Russian | suming the working of the mimes. With these app ELECTRICITY IN TRE WILDERNESS. |: <Havine tondoa the Ciara Boll and Milton Batger, and | necessary to cross two rivers, tha Mackwater | formerly the fur company mamtained a post at | covernment intended to be represented by an officer in | cos, and with tho comparative eee of Nabe arranged for the agonts of the company In New York to | and the Neehako—the former ‘about fifty yards | Sunaohag ‘Tho principal me ctant eo ae tls, Js mow | its service, wie won! Ppp mah vgpet United States | paseticat ri deh, wrens 25 to $2 per « ue &e. bue. send him whatever materiaal was Tequired, Colonel | in width, and the latter about five _timan | shendoned. | Bho nriacipal pews of che company at pres- | anit procned thence ta the scene of operations. Colonel | and common laborers at seventy-five cents and un o Bulkley sailed for the Pacific in the steamnor of the 20th | as broad. Soon afger crossing the last mentioned stream | the gran! Silke and Bore & cd net's, he Termior Doing’) Fe or erp was (nalgnated for ‘ Ms date and on the | ost tattering results are hoped for. Bsn aly December, 1864, Arriving in San Francisoo in January, | th» live reaches Fort Frazor, a post of the Hudson Bay | te capltal and the official res vp the Governor rh oe Mera thin nuemen loft St, Petersburg for | “The following ‘account of some of these mines | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. 1865, he commenced the orzanization of a party to con: | Company, at the foot of Frazar lake, From this point | ys teanntcott prepared te ne Tee eee ee end (States, io had becn sninmoned 4 short | ituatraie their present condition:— ee struct the first section of the line through British Co- | it turns abruptly to the northeast, crossing a rides of | Malir Rennicon’ beapared fo push his explorations. & | me before from Siberia. whore he sorved on the staff | ‘TUK PUORNIX MINE. STRAMER Gro, 8. Wacnr, 1) | Inmbia, This work was put in charge of Captain Fd. | mountains to Fort St. James, at the foot of Stourt lake. | Fyn mw York om tite Clark Bert Po eee ae Seat eee ee eee ae ee tic eheta | This It one of the oldest mines of the State, a1 Pacino Oceax, lat. 41:35, lon, 157:24, Juiy 6, 1866.} } Conway, who served with Colonel Bulkley in the De- | Captain Conway Tound the existing mans of the country | Tova ine Keiclipuels ricee ck tee ehnae ul ex | pidily of his journey that he accomplished the whole | iocated in Caburrns county, nhout seven miles Western Union Telegraph Company’s steamer | Partment of the Gulf, and who was known in that locality | very imperfect and very inaccurate in the little informa- | Prone the Ny rived at § eeno9, ae free ae et eer Celtel Ameen | Concord und stxteom trom Charlotte, Previous to The Wertern Union Telegrap! aps a8 an officer of skiil'snd energy. Captain Conway pro- | tion they protende'l to give. It has mover beon to the | 1 "Noda ae Golden cute cage ge , Te eae ones oT a Abel, Colonel Anossofl | war Richard Ton Broeck, the famous American h Geo. §. Wright lett San Francisco on the 23d of Jume, | ooeded to New Westminster with a portion of his work- | interest of the Hndaon Bay Company to have the terri- | 00) joan (he Goideu Gat aud there set up and tee . ar the rpg ad el the thy | faucer, now in Europe, came into possession of it destined for Petropaulovski, Kamtschatka, She has tho | ing force, and, after engaging afiditional men tor the | tory where its trade is carried on submitted toa thoroagh | Toto taad this slemmec men Son 7 of Major Keunt- = ag OT ee Ona ecidee'e visit to | retained tt throughout ‘the rebellion, though during service, proceeded to lay out and canstruct the line from | exploration. The less known about tho country the bet- : Fo Den ee tal procesd. tp. ieee no Koropean would considera visit 10 | time work in it. was suspended, His agent recently Yonor of being the first stoamer to make-a voyage be- | ine starting point, The route Jay along the banks of | ter for the company, whose sole object was to keep an | te river as faraa possiblo before wintor get in, As soon | America complote without seeing Niagara, Cofdnel Anos- | it to a private firm frum ihe North, who have undorta tween those two ports, having accomplished this in’ the | Fraser's river, through «heavily wooded comtry, over | {immense fur nteservo where tho wild animate could roan Sree ree aires OL Seay roman aitbalt. Chi “explore. Suns eam Se re Ceeerre, {he (to continge it.” This trim embraces. three oxperio entumn of last year. Thus far on our route we have | and among the Cascade mountains. Captain Conway | undisturbed except when theirskins wore wanted by the | tons were to he vontinued with dogs and sledgex and | greatost waterfall of the world before proceeding on his’ | Catirornia miners, who have entered into the work ep ther, but we were liable to | W2# obliged Yo cnt a trail from New Westminster to Fort | employs of the fur traders; eonsequently there have | Prevee hoses wobnebie ¢ on Dkr a Doeaiiio, Major Kem - d Toe hae Toh oR inwalt | Over expectation of success, Ouo of the gentiom een favored with fine weather, bu! Yale, a dietance of one hundred and twenty miles, where | been no accurate maps of the conntry, and any person at- i > to go fur enough to the south to ee eee enters te. Aspin Mr. G, F, Griffith, wellknown a3 a superntendent eet the surveyiny parties trom Captain Conway's dis- | ond travelled thence to San Francisco, where he joined 9 4 experience a storm and rowgh sea at any moment. The | tho forest was very dense, the hills rough, and the trees | tempting to make one would have received no. assistance | ™ . ip y ' agent in numerous mining operations, and the discov North Pacific, cbove the tatitude of forty dogroes, rivals | very large, Much of the timber was olcbt or ten fect | or encouragement. | Captain Conway and Maior Popo {pict In order to ineuro Major Kennioott against suffer. | Colonel Bulkley and accompanied that official on board | orthe ¢™mons Grifith gold district in Colorado—o : in diamoter, and the labor of cutting it was very great. | have already learned more about the country where the | {06 in case be proceeded far to the south, Colonel | tho steamer Wright. Bussian government has the best gold and silver sections of the territory. ‘the Atlantic im the character of its weather. It is only "% Buikley ordered Captain Conway to establish a depot of | #igned a steamer to the service of the Telegraph Ex ~ The Colonial government has undertaken to make a road | telegraph is to be bnilt than is known by the agents of visi Babine lak 7 po’ ai . 4 Peterrantoeik The tract owned by this firm embraces aix hundred tm the lower latitudes acd in the region of the trade | along this line. ut it will require several years for its | the company at Victoria or Now Wertwminstor. This | Provisions near Babine iake, which was promptly Ne eee Cee ee pautovekl 10 | twanty-eight acres, and the velns are located ¥ ‘winds that the Pacitic is really worthy its name, In the | completion. Up to the present time, the river has been | iznorance does not speak well fora monopoly that was | Wied ve Malar Konnicott’s rst point from Mivhacl- | avait Colonel Bulkley’s qrdam. | This steamer is doubt- | jogg;— used as the route of travel in summer, and there was no | chartered in 1680 and has bad ample opporiunities to be- | Wray jyuicis he expected to reach, was Fort Yocon. | less at Petronaulovskt at the present date, as it is known | Fiz, ‘The Sulphur vein, which has been opened sutumn and winter the region where we are now sall- | winter route of any kind whatever, eomethoronghils ioitnemed, When the Golden Gate sailed from Fort St. Michael's, on | that she left Shanghae, China, more than a month ago | ¢o a depth of one hundred and cighty-three fet, an: tng is frequently disturbed by siorms ofa very severe | sions! Indian runner carrying a light mail. i From Fort St. James tho explorations wore pnsbed | {ne 2612 of September, Major Kennicott was expect | for her destination, | Colonel Anassoff ts expected to pro- | paid about $50 to th Siacabe: F, L, Pope proceeded to explore the e | along the shores of Stuart Lake. Lake Tremble and Lake | {0 start in a day or two on his journoy up the river. | cred in this Russian staame: to the mouth of the) ‘nis vain varier in fai colonel Chastes &. Bulk- | 20%th Of Fort Yale towards the upper portion of Fraser's | Tatata, and throuch the streams that oounect, these | NO "port bas vot ned peeiee from him, as no vessel | Amoor when he will pale wit! Governar General Kor- | foot, and is nearly half a mile ia length. ‘The Wright bears the flag of Colonel Charles 8. Bulk- | river anda line of lakes known to be in that direction. | bodies of water, For the most of the wav the ronte wag | 288 been to Michaelofieky since last autumn. ‘The first | sackoff. who will be at Nikalaeffski during the month (of }. pho moxt:veim is the Berrler veiu, ronning ni Yey, Engineer-in-Chief of the Russo-American Telegraph Vg little was known at Victoria and New Wostminster | found practicable for the construction of tho telegraph nows will probably be obtained when Colonel Bulkley | Angust. Colonel Anoseof! will either romain in Siberia parallel to the provious one, aud extending # distan al it 2. > r . touches there on hie return to Sap Francirco. to advance the interests of the telegraph enterprise, or , f ¥ this portion of British America, the only explora- t 8 t nated. AlOl ‘ A . , If a awile, with a surfacd of oro showing throu Mrpedlticn, ands’ mow ton (Tide stoomd. vorege) to 8 eat dia auuertor lienled Gaee He ory feenaaeney egarsy cae a there are high biutts where a | , BY consulting any good map of North America it will | return to San Francisco, with Colonel Bulkley by way |’rnat tenth, this vein has an averago width of jm Asiatic coast. On the 12th of July of last year che lof | yathor than ina northerly direction. Colonel Bulklev | telezraph could not be easily constructet; so that. it was | De readily seen that the Kvichpack is a river of consider. | of Potropanlovek:. Hebring’s Straits and Sitke. He has | inches, and has ylelded a high as $200 to the ton. an Francisco and proceeded northward, tonching at | wasabont to lay before the world the secrats of this ary to go back to a more lavel country aeve- | able size. Colonel Bulkley ascertained last year, to bis | fall authority to take amy steps that may be. necded | average yield, however, has bocn but $50 per to Vietoria, New Westminster und other pointe in British | tra incognita, which oxtendod, save a narrow bolt on | rs mm the lake, Lake Tremble was fonnd favor- | Potln gnate strona, draining else ear en eee Se a T eaeneat tho tolerate? he | quarts sey 5 =). | the coast, nearly as far north as Bebring’s Stra able, having a wide, wz beach, where poles could be | Puta single stream, draining almost the whole of Rus- | constrection aud maintonance of the telegraph. ‘Another principal vein i the Orchard vein, wit Columbia, and yoing thence to Sitka, Fort St, After despatohing -Captain Conway and Major Pope set. Alne Lake Tonle, aunty aliegin leneth, 18 a ridge man America _and C tending ite wators far into In the original pla of the Ruasiaw Awerican telegmph | average width of about three ect, and very rich in Michael’s ana the principal places on the coastof Russian | the scene of their opecatigns, Colouel Bulkley prepared | of mountains on either’ side, that have a siopo or nar. | British America, The Colonel descrihos ib as beg as | it was proposed to make the crossing from Amorica to.| yeras well as gold. The yield of’ the former metal a ; : large a3 the Mississippi, with an enormous delin at its [ Asia in the narrowest part of Bohring’s straits, On ex- | Pe ‘ , > ceoded leu- | fora voyage to Sitka, the capital of Ru in America. | row fiat at their base. Th is asnfficient quantity of a » ote at ite been about twenty-eight por cent of the mass of America. " From thence she proceeded kamong ADS Al80- 1A¢ the mmoepiion GF theenterptine, she diettocs of che] pales slong this portion; bus theber are dccesinnal places mouth, and entering the sea by several channels, He | amniuation this wae found to ba dmapracticablo, as there | whiio that of gold has been about $20:'t0 the ton. ‘an islands to Behring Sea, and thence w Plover Bay, | company had applied for a naval vessel to bo placed at | whére the rock is entirely bare, and holes must be | thinks it will be found navigable for fifteen hundred | were no zood harbors for landing the cable on either side | vou hows’ an the surface about a fourth of n x0 Anadyr Bay and the mouth of the Anadyr river, on the | their disposal nntil the tine was completed; but the ap- | drilled for setting the poles. Along the nvore that con- | Miles, and has reliable information of ils having been | at the straits, and. it is imperatively necessary that the | ‘The prosput.owner® have cu:tracted for the mos! a . a ‘ the‘ +7 oy ul fe anal oie ascended more than a thousand miles. The river } cable should be broucht to shore in places where it could oa “hi o Asiatic coast, From Awadyr Bay she preoceded to Po- | picition wax, rehused._ The Socrotary of, the Treva | nest these lnkog tho valleys aro generally. woll wooded, | own larzo quanliies of drt wood from. ths forcars on | Hot be Injured by the tee After at-exnforation of bot) Bioved amacninery, wleh Thor are, getting read tropaulovski, and, after a stay of two woeks at that point, | tho revenue cutter Shubrick be made subject to Colonel | a very tortiona course, ao that a consideravle distance | 1% pees ners. ore baile ‘ngs at Fort St, Wichael’s are | consts Colonel Bulkley fixed upon Grontiey fiarbor, on | sive scale with asmall community of miners, fory wailed for Sau Francisco, Mer voyage this year will be ley’s orders, the Sbubrick being at that | can bo saved by leaving them for a portion of the route, | Constructed mainly of this wood, and it is the ouly | the American coast, a fow miles south of Prince. of | « Jiél6 town of cabins is to be constructed. Stoamn p z a a eas : eS ? . <atyth supply of iuel for the natives, All along the shores of | Wules, which forms the most western part of the Améri- | Wir he olst' img. suai Ye the on of 1608, except, that slid will fevers? | Tere eee ae Sa Oatrnbie reece | anita re a eereally axles Tare taking Take | Norton Sound and fohring Sea this ‘aie ‘wood is found, | can continent, Graatley Harbor is completely sheltered |S. erik Pee blows ance b ssep the original course of salling, and make a far more thor- | completed, Colonel Bulkley salled in the Shubrick | to Babine Fishery, a distance of one hundred and {itty = 4 #8 slong, “od northern coast of the Alontian | from drifting Joo, or from winds that might disturb aoy | charis—nat the amount expected to be extracte ough survey of the coast than was accomplisned last | for Sitka. The passage was made in March, ® | miles, ‘This country is now undergoing a more thorough baer 7 oo the logs are from fifteen to eighteen | ice forming upon its surface in winter. The cab!o will | crushing when the Muills are {n readiness is twenty’ month proverbial for winds everywhere, and which | exploration, and reports are expected from it during the | ches in diameter, und show that. they must come from | be bronsht to land from the part of the harbor, | dany, Previous to the war about five tona were su year. She may be expected at San Francizeo in No- some finely wooded region. ‘Thi vit a vith special vefe it from th C proved on this ocgasion no exception to the general rule. | present summer. parr i i. great river will afford 4° with spocial reference ta presecving tb fem ‘harm. er diera, ond tie entire yield of the mine m the pre ‘vember, of the present yeer, In point of size Cane Ghutevi bisce. sb areatianon ye fr: Anta baad Of thet. navleriioetoh Lake Tetale Sider ay oe elent route for the transportation of supplies and | From Grantley Harbor to Penkegu gulf, a» similarly | qetal haz been, up to the preseut time, about $700 The Wright isa vessel of about three hundred ton vat Eastern, and the rough soas of the North Pa- | Pope established headquarters and erected » building | Merial for consurreting the telegraph, ax it is proposed | sheltored point-on the Asiatic, coast, 1s a distance of one THB RODISELL MINK, warden. fised. with a two-btaded: norew: Whi! etigipes roased hy heavy galés, tossed her abont in aman. | of logs, twenty by thirty-one fest, which he named | {0 lave the line follow the hanks of the Kvichpack down | hundred aud eighty tiles. | Thora is. ponilar fallacy J Que of the mitiés most recentiy worked in the 2 , . itozether comfortable to those on board. She | Bulkley House, in honor of the Enginecr-in-Chief. ‘This | t© near the hoad of Norton Sound. We shall doubtless | that Behring’ Straits are rty-ning miles in width: | sai mine, which is not far (rom tho eity of Char] oapable of propelling her im smooth wator about nine | gyri ka after a tempestnons voyage and found | was.designed a4 a base for future explorations, anda | De fably informed concornmg it when the reports of | It was determined by careful observation Inst year that.| y+ 4s qnite close to thecamy of the Freedmen’s miles per hour, She is rigged like a bermaphrodite t was altogether unexpected. Prince Max- | quantity of supplics was gathered thore daring the | Malor Kennicoti’s survey are foceived. the straits are ie sixty miles wido im the nar- | with whose superintendent, Surgeon Gildersicer Brig, with a Liberal amount of canvas, £0 that in a fair overnor of Russian America, expressod a | autnrnn before the close of navigation. From Quesnel ASTATN EXPLORATIONS, rowed Penkegu Gulf ihe line goes over | {ied it a few days kinco, Work, however, had bh ndiness 10 afford all esaiatanos 10° lle power 10” @aw'aty Balkh a ist: t f th In order to put the Siberian explorations ov an equal | land te Caps Sponderg, whence another cahte'Z08 enites: ded, much to our disappointment, althonzh wind her fires can be extinguished, and she proceed* by | Senco of any instructions from his government, and | kecemmmor nearie thaws hawdeed valle: the ardeon Bee | fouling with those in America, Colonel Bulkley propared | im length will extond to the mouth of the nudyr river. | Pr wegtaea were “panning” and. “‘addling’™ th her sails alone. Since leaving San Francisco we have | rave Colonel Bulkley ap assurance that he would dnd | Company bias boen acenstomed to gmi Its “hatteaux,”? | Stan early day (or an expedition to that continent. "The | Exeellent landing places wero tound at oth ond of this ingp'' on thoir own, private responsibility, and a etl > ela ” | the natives entirely friendly. {f approsobed i a ‘prone | Or'beate! whide care dhowt foenveaior enc explorations and the construction of the line in Asin | Proposed cable for these lines is abont the | eaencting frome #3 to $7 tog from experienced very light winds and aims, but bave man- | Tr Tallent ie native chiele wore in Sitka ‘at the 5 7 p, | Were assigned to Major 8. Abaca, a Russian goutloman | sie of tho Atlanticicable of 1865, and was mnde by Hon- | Source, “Their rate machinery waa only an aged to make about one-third our distance under all. | time, imt it wax thought best to defer an interview with 5 1 , are | Who has spent considorable time in the United States, | ley & Co., of Kngland, and shipped for Victoria in Feb- | proof of what might be expected ‘We have now reuched a point where the winds are neu- | them until some au propalied by oars in smooth water and by lines drawn | 824 Was considered thoroughly qualified for the difficult | Mary inst. Om its arrival at Victoria it will he sont at | Grizinal ore when worked with ally more favorable, and hope to make the rest of the Sitka, the Shubrick set bo bank when the current is rapid. At several | Work hefore him. The Russian brig Olga was chartered | once to Behring’s Straits, aud should it reach that point | mons. Tho capital, not a very large gum, Invest y on ont ow her return to sisen, touching, while en lone the Vraver river and its tribntartes it is | 4% take Major Abasa and his party to Petropaulovski, | in eeason wile stretched from continent to continent | ine working of fh’ mine sinee the eldge of the fourney without further consumption of coat, rowte, at Victoria and New Westmins Colonel Baik. sary to unload the boats und carry their content= | 80d sailed on the Gd of July from San Frane'seo, The | during the present year. The United statos war steamer | not boonieuilicion|, On her voyage fron Petropauloyski to San Francisco | Jey’s stay at these points was quite brief, as he was anx- | aronnd the rapids, while the lightenod boat is crown by | Ola arrived at Petropaulovski on the sth of August, and | Saginaw, Cap‘ain Franklin, has gned to Colonel’! ed, A new ebatt has boon Yast year the Wright encountorod a galo that Jastea, | 1098 to be in Sau Francisco to push preparations for the | a stout line through the water. AN throngh British | left there Major Abasa and George Kennan, and then | Bulkley, and will ussist im laying the eables, lower down, but the Want of money. has com von | Chterprive inthe far north. At San Franciseo he pur- | Ameriea the water conrses aro so wbandant as to afford | Sled for the mouth of the Amoor with IJouienant Ma- | | The route by water wae tound wonderfully adapted for | sation of ths undertakiny. The yield of th with varying soverity, for mere than two weeks For | chased ihe steamer George 8. Wright and the hurks | yroat farility for the Hadaon Bay Company to transport | 200d and 2, J. Busb. Major Abasa left with Mr, Kennan | laying and preserving these cables, Bebring’s Sea and | thie time Ia. reported. at from $300,000 to # the first five days of this gaie the wind blew with great | Golden Gate and Palmetto. He proceeded next to en- | supplies to the Indiana and to take back their return | °° a er OF August for the interior, | Messra."Maboot.| Anadgr Bay have adepth of twenty ‘o forty fathoms, | ani effected with the antiquated. Chitean anc violence, changing its direction every fow hours, but | 22g Men and to purchase supplies and material that | cargoes of fnrs, ‘Tho sama routes will be employed ag | “D4 Bush reachod Nikoluefisky on the 17th, and at once | With a soft bottom through the entire distance, us shown | mitts, the imperfection of which waa sufficient war immediately needed. The Clara Bell, on sailing | far as practicable by the telegraph cou ". commenced preparations for their journey, Thes> gen- | bY soundings across bovh-bodies of water. These sound- 1 th colored men w not abating its fury, Part of the ship's canvas was | from New. York had been ordered to ‘procood to | the lndiaus along the rose, borween Gueenet an | tlemen Were to explore the country from the month of | Mes wore made by the Wright und Golden Gate daring pers rae ma blown away, and it was found impossible to spread any : t, while the Milton Badger was consigned to | Bulkley House, were found to be friendly, though it was | the Amoor around the Ochotsk Sea to Ayan, whero they | thesummer of 1865, and are more complete than any THE MONROK UNF. i e sk ‘wan cant’ in order that her material might be used not expected that they would be of much service in | Would meet Major Abasa, who was to survey in person | heretofore made in that reciou. The slight depth of was provid: % the 1 Portion of the remainder. The amoke stack was carried | (oT conway for the line throngh’ British A ce ee ailding ‘he tolegraph line, as they were not partien. | from Ayan to Ghijinsk, at the head of the Ochotak Sea, | Water, Compared to that where other ocean cables are | yarae mite and ie sltenton 1 Onde cousty- overboard by a heavy wave, rendering the engine wA>- | The Golden Gate was sent to Sitka to take a portion of | larly fond of work, and are not solicitors to lay up stores | The third disirict, from Ghiinsk to the mouth | lald, will enable tho lines in question to be readily under- | been renamed by the parties who have now tak Jess, and for sixteon hours the sbip lay pertectly help- | the Clara Bell's owrgo to Fort St. Michasl’s, on Norton | of great wealth. our different tribes wore fou this | of the Anadyr river was to be explored by Lieutenant | Tan and taken up wheuever repairs may be needed For who are uogotiating for suMicient fom in the “tongh of the ana,’ coustantly | 30an4, Rnssinn America, while the Iatter vessel was to | rogion, the Carriora, Siccainies, Atuals and Naham. | Collius 1. | MacItae, who . satled from San | this purpose a steamer will be kept constantly nt the pen pe DE apie sg Wlikbraces 714 sores, wit : Proceed to Now Westminster. From Norton Sound the | mies, "The Carries number in all but about two hundred | FTsvcisco on the 12th July on the bari. Golden Gate. At | straits and ready for any emergency, It was at first | yoine, which were extensively worked by t Uhreatened to overwhelm Ler. After a & tompo- | Golden Gate war to procved to Anauyr Bay, on the Asia- persons, and the Siccaunies about twenty-tive persone; Sitka Lieut, MacRae with his party was transferred to the | feared that the cables might be injured by icebergs float miner, but, for want of reqnisite machinery and vary smoke stack Tas mute from a water tank, and the | tic coast, and theuce to San Francisco by way of Petro- | but the other tribes are quite numerons and cover acon- | Sooner Milton Badger. and reached the mouth of the | ing from the Arctic Ocean. It has bee positively aseor- | ghandoncd. These velns aro poraliel and close t engine once more brought iuto use. Having survived | Paulowski, siderable extent of country. Though the Indians are | AMalyr river in the lattor part of September. A consid. | taine that there is» current setting iy from ‘the | oher, with a width varying rospectively from on: “ i The Palmetto, with » cargo of stores and material, was | not expected to work it is hoped that they can be made erable number of reindeer had been gathered, and the | Pacific into the Arctic Ocean; consequentiy there are feet,’ With the. ola fasbis mills they yicided this gale and undergone complete refitting, the Wright |’ sent to Plover Bay, on the const of Aria, and the Milton | useful in watching the line after it !s completed. Tt will | ¢xPlorations were to begin with the iret fall of snow, | No icebergs south of Behring’s Straits, and none can in- | $7 tp $20 a bu-hel--or from #140 to $400 per ton 4s now cousidered ready for any emergency. Badger, after leavibg part of her cargo at Victoria, wailed | be the policy of the company to treat the Indians with | Full reports trom these parties are expected on the ar- | Jurethe cable, | Bron were there nocurrent, the shallow- | prior to the rebellion some parties commenced to ‘The plan of a telocraph between the Old World and | fr Avadyr Bay witb the remainder and with supplies | uniform kindness, and by making thew dependent for the Wright at Petropaniovski A telogram from | Res# of water at the Straits would provent the passage of the old works, but at the commencement of the w wrebased in Victoria The steamer Wright, with the | supplica, to keep ‘up aconstant intercourse. ‘The Hud- {| Malor Abasa, dated at Irkoutsk, February 19, was re- | icebergs of suilicient depth to scrape the bottom of Beh- | forced to abandon them, Me by way of Asia and Western North America, gineer in Chief, ed up the coast to supervise | son Bay Compaay has uniformly kept the Indians in | °?!¥ed in San Francisco on the 13th of March, only three | Ting’s sea, The only ice in region ts that known az TEE CRAERFR MINE Je being rapidly carried out, aud it is probable that the | Proceedings at all the accessfble points, subjection by maiing it impossible fore latter to sue | Weeks later. It was sont by telograph to St.’ Petersburg | ‘hore ice,” which forms eis fields or floats atong | js another on which work has just been resumed Year 1868 will eee the continents united, and Instanta. |, Jmmediately on taking charge of the enterprise of | sist independent of the company. The Indians coald | 424 there mailed to New York, whence it was forwanted | the coast. To eoard against this it was only necessary | Bissell, in the interest of himself and capltalistw , a foining the two continents, Colonel Bulkley saw the diffl- powder, load, guns, blankets apd trane only at the | bY telograph to San Francisco. The report of the sur- | 10 “ind sheltered harbors, which has already been done. | York.’ was shown a Felected piece of ore of th megus communication secured between London and New | culties that would exist in managing all the details of the and always in such emall quanties as | VeYs Was quite favorable -o far as the entire country be- ‘The accompanying maps fully {Iustrate the route of | which bore gold in the proportion of severa! th¢ York by way of St, Petersburg snd San Francisco, Since | work. It was unlike anvthing ever before undertaken; have more than a few Weeks’ supply at a single | tWeon the Ochotsk and Anadyr districts wax concerned, | tho telegraph through Asia and America, and also the | Goffars to the ton. ‘the enterprise was set in motion I have met aconsid. | 8" onterprise covering portions of Asia and America, | time. By making the Indians dependent for supplies Major basa announced that he had already commonced | *ab-maring cables turough Bebring’s Sha and Anadyr OTHER MIvEs, oe through # wild aud mainly paespiorsa region, and re- | the telegraph company will be able to establizh amicable | Pr°paratory works in several places, and had determined | Bay. They are frotw drawings by Mr. J. F. Lewis, chief | another prominent mine, embracing a very pur erable number of individuals each of whom | quiring the service of a consid fleet for the trans- | relations throughout the wild regions of the north. the route of the Hines throngh his own district. ‘The } Aranchtaman to the telegray collection of is that of Gold Hill, about forty aeuures me that he was first to give birth ion of ite men and material. After due refloction | Game is quite plenty along the telegraph route, but it | Prospects for the success of the lino in Asia are thas tar | Piled directly from Colonel fo the iden of constructing an ovoriand tele. determined to organize a combined land and marine | ts hardly probable that it will continvo ao when the com. | Very satiafactory. The Ruasian government has ton- eA service, similar t© the tand and naval service of the y's employés have Jeisure to turn their attention to | red every facility to the explorers and prorises to PrrrovaLovent, Kamtechatkn, Augast 5, 1866. graph by way of Bebring Straite, 1 presume that | United Sates, He arranged to have the officers of the com- | hunt The principal antwals are benrs, beavers, | Continue its courtesies, The explorations for the Tusso-Amorican telegraph many of them speak the truth as the project of nniting | Pany commisioned similarly to the officers of the army bavin ‘and martens, with some caribou or reindeer, a seth OTHER MATTERS. ad the continents in this manner would naturally eng- | S™ subjectto ine in the gime manner. The marine | Foxes abound but they have been hunted eo much by ¢ operations for tho present year are om a more ex- | have been (rapidly during the past winter, under service was tuade to copform 6 the naval service of the | the I they have bocome very shy and difficnit | tented scale than those of 1865. “The fleet has been in- gest itself to any careful student of xeography without | United Staten, with official grades of nimflar character, | to approach. aed the sume Iethe eave wiih nearly afl tne | creased bY the purchase of the Bae | eo epereme of Major Abe, OhGe of x0 Aeeee a division: The whole distance between the Amoor river 9 commenced about May entiting bim to any particular credit. The hovor of | The officers and men to be unifc and the | animais of thie region. ‘The rivers aro pretty well stock. | ond the bark HA. LA mine is located 4 thing such an idéa to practical use belongs to Mr. Perry | former to bear fi desknating ett rank. plan | ed with fish, the principal among thera being salmon and ps and the point where the cable will be landed on Anadyr | Syica7ne ‘6 located in Cabarras county, — .3 a . ims) ‘Was put in foree when the ‘was organized and | white fish. The salmon ascend Frazer river early in the p .. | bay, has been examined and the line located through Mow), Collins, « native of New York, but for some time a | fonnd to be very advastegeour, both im the matterof | spring and into all ite tributary streams, They are . Four steamers 1 vesident of California, Mr. Collins wason the Pacific pepe “4 = OE eee ‘ion among } caught by the Se ard “oe numbers uting their up- fa ee ete, * sal ves LJ rs @ Jand service and dried for winter use, ager, coast in 1856, when news was roceived that Ruse | i. "hider the di of Colonel Frank N. Wicker, who he outy subsistence Of both Tndiants and wtneteee Oe famous , that was o intended forthe @ia had taken possession of the country on the | served meritoriously in the late war, while the marino ing a large portion of the year. They aleo ascend the London, and was built with the utmost Borth bank of the Amoor river, This gave the pee win oe toe eee ve ape} — be pe ime ge ce meopee » = ree, ae te conmartemace of soane dleagreamens Rwperor full control from St. Petersburg to the Pacific | with f he te, ee fre matives of 6 jon. nt going hes alien an anid cabanas as been detailed to te Expedition, and | White fish are exceliont and abundant. They are taken te logittease h " allowed by the Treasui bear the revenue | in the lakes trom November 1 until the ice covers the portion of Northwestern America Up to this flag on the chief vessel of the telegraph company. The | water. ‘Trout may be taken in the Inkos yd aa Leon's bean country by the | whole organization is controlled by the Fingineor-in- | and large rivers in the spring months. There are ‘ application for | Chief, to whom al! disputes are referred and all reporte | few birds in thie portion of Britith America but ir right of way, a# the Colectials are earnestly opposed to | and other doonments addressed. scarcity ie partially compensated by the abundance of anything like modern innovations, Mr, Collins had for Under thia arrangement the organization of the expedi- | insects auch as mosquitor and black ‘ier and mall ante, some time fixed his attention upon this project, and as [ tion is ax follows:— 1 the intry literally swarms durin; Captain Mac- Boon as the news of the acquisition of the Amoor coun- Colonel Charles S. Bal Engineor-in-Chief, pals Eg ‘Ta comping at nights ‘sina fier ed Mae. Feel oa! he chee” Wag he tr | cee pau x cba Sat Machen meno ae aan ; terrane eee is by way of European Russia, he left San Fran. Henry P. Fisher, soln fe AR coed eng egal ea meg the eleco for Mt. Petersburg by way of Washington, rece: ry -in-Chief. these troublesome perta, Rcott P.O i, cher Quartermaster. Fifty miles’ north of Lake Tatla is Fort Conne! Ang an appointment from the State Department George M. Wright, Adj sitvated on the eastern shore of Connelly’s Lake, This | Wat she was again sold at auction,and purchased py a S aia ~ ge YO gens I taboeeCatero iat dearer ot og | Beipan chee et eye aaa | ray Seaton yo Bn ra eee % 4 "t 7 . now to mae ihe \Joarney ‘ibrough Slberia ta winter, | J. F. Lewis, Chef Draugitaman, tain Conway, with a kmall’ party, poshedhis plore: { sommanced by Scammon, Calef of Marina, and | i ar Hy Kearve fF Ry jo best portion of the yoar for travelling. RRICAN DIVISION, tions through the forest as far as Fort Connelly, and | carries the United States revenue flag. She ts armed } Concealed from the ¥ poke te et dbont 8 a Moscow in December, 1886, he travelled | Fdmund Conway, Chiet of Exploretions in British | found the cea wrth eight guns, and her discipline ie eimlar to tbat of | fy 4 ( will nat be —" to the head waters of the Amoor and then de- | Columbia, =~ 1 “hg > route was a naval vessel. ie has taken the place of the Golden and ooo ream to its mouth, returning to the | J.T. Rathrock, ‘Arhietant, haa taine, the Sey being ‘and Gate as flagship of the expedition, the latter yemse! hav- mney. ‘United States by way of the Sandwich Islaude. Since | J. W. Pitheld, Agent at New Weatminaler. r ing the en thir duty last year, She was expected te pra Bat time he has paid several visite to St. Petersburg in | FA. A. Balange, Quartormaster. San Francisco a few days after the . = ‘a pioverr, fertherance pot is entorpring, amd at inet secured Robert Kennicott, Chief of Explorations in Russian ina closed in by Fort St Miobacl’s, | ssedtenant Ke iy Dp grant for a telegraph line from the mouth of the Amoor | america, way apm c— Jn brane rn of Bier to the boundary line fetneen Brith Americ aod | Win. He Ronis, Assistant, t aL with especial an’ which Terese ta Conncciion a the ‘Russian posssest ne British eu * Fj stance head ted the right of way through sts territory, and thas | 20% & Dennlzom, Quartermaster. p i ~ cast Oe | communication for mor 1 of the distance 2 whole route eonTed : Major &. Abasa, Chief. u late in : ‘barter gran' ry vat goverument gave Coorge Kennon, Quartermaster and Secretary, formed Mr. Collins the ee onstrLClng, maintaining am Mahood, Chief of "Explorations in Lower Si- of travelling with Wecw thom He telowed r foes. Indices and working & telograph Line between ine points oamed, | erie, tho valley between the chains of mountains up to about America and Asia, where tHere ie a scarcity success. Shas sight be mocossary, as Well 0” costing maryaecuce® | Richard J, Bash, Assistant Quartermaster, sixty degrees north latitude, a distance of tires hun- | of an entire absence of timber. The Rutgers will be A party in and, perfurtiing other weeicel cag? Nem: | Collins I. MacKee, Chief of Kxplorations in Uppor | dred miles, where he strack the head waters of the these from the of thei happened on W: obarter was to be exclusive for thirty-three yours, at uy “ Stickeen river, He found the country much fend of which time the goreroment could dor itcnoe | dive, ‘saat Aeaetan’ Sencinemeniee, able than had hen anticipated, whore trails for | i Fi HP it allowing Sgr pare of Haine tines, bot WANINE SPR VION, fa apy event the right of way to Mr. Colline was to be Ste Gea & Wi anal ; The Western Union Telegraph Company un- | w Corert, Keginoen = NT etersom Captain; A. | tile litle expe the construction of the Hine for whieh My. Co}. ‘Ship Dane Jharle: procured the charter, The euterprise, tiongh Sere ote on > Seammon, Stickeen he ——— thie company, wae rade & separate affair, | Park OnwardCaptain Tibbetts, end not to be allowed to interfere its already Yark HL. Rutgers—Captain Anderton. @adlished busivess, The feasibility of the onterprice Bark Palmetto. in . ‘wae fully believed in by all, and the stock of the “Rus- Mark Clara Bell—Captain Sutton. man Extension” did not go » begg! Tt was alt ‘The Nightingale is the flagship of the marine Se by friends of the enterprise, and, with | of the expedition, Captain Scammon beingt Chief lo energy, the com began its work of rt ting Amorica othe Old Worlds a earner Wright #4 if it within a Hed on the EE Hy ei H ge E Hl 5 i zi! i : ii | oe if 3 mountains and The fret heoewary was to find the suitable person _ oe a ie cut nee 8 superintend the construction of thie new Nasse or #tmpson's ees ae beat ia, walle & The route over which the Hine was to be built was about merica re ooh selected tor de- | daylight, while €x thousand miles in length, nearly all of it through re- Ay Major Abase | stockade. yt EE pe eee eae | ee sof the country ascertained, jew Wedletaaser ce of manufacture a road the Tih instant s returning from Fort Bento General Hazen, when were attacked & i H 3 i guide, was kill ight hours, The ! in cuttin are cor Seite eee tial Pa a } li fe iH if i ; i if é ; dl | iF Hi ‘ i 5 i i been eat. ‘The Crov Vodges of Bost! towards this post for the purpose of capturin }~ oa soldiers “old women,” aed. pay the" i i I i # 3, 3 4 TF a5