| Show THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN TELEGRAPH PROGRESS OF OP THE expedition the Cinc cincinnati lAnati commercial has the following letter descriptive of the telegraph expedition the expedition is divided into three barties parties the upper river eiver exploring party the lower river river party and the siberian E ex x floring loring party the first is u under nde r t the h e erection of major pope andaas already left for vers island and frazer river it will number twenty five men and will explore all the country between the head of frazer river and the mouth of river wherever the mouth is the second party numbering berin ten men is under command of mr air kennicott yenni lenni kennicott cott and will be landed in nortons Nor tons sound east of bearings Beh rings straits to aseena ascend the lower and meet popes bopes party the third party to number about thirty including the engineer corps corp S is is i comm commanded by lieutenant colonel hyde and will probably land somewhere in the gulf of abadir southwest of bearings Beh rings straits it is to explore the bouttry from that point around sea to the mouth of the amoor river it is with this party that I 1 am going the colonel bulkley will go up with us but will not accompany us into the interior numerous side parties are to be detached from ours to thoroughly develop the whole country so that when we settle down donn for the winter next winter our party will antt exceed six or eight men including colonel hyde laborne bur interpreter robinson lewis belinge and myself the whole expedition has a military organization P dind an d all its officers are re regularly commissioned by the company we all wear a uniform of dark blue according to army regulations lations with appropriate buttons and shoulder straps of our own the director in chiefs strap is a silver globe in the centre on a dark blue velvet ground with silver flashes of lightning dartin darting toward either end lieu lieutenant tenant colonel colon the same except that that half the globe is on each end of the strap and the lightning converges toward the centre major the tile same of gold captain a silver cable on a dark blue ground with i a triple knot at each end of the strap and two strands across first lieutenant ditto with one strand across the strap second lieutenant ditto without the tn strand the uniforms are very handsome the colonel thinks best that the party parts be handsomely uniformed to sustain among the russians the dignity of the united states and of the collins overland telegraph our party will probably leave next week on the steamer george S wright for victoria sitka bitka and the gulf of abadir some of t the panty party will perhaps eark go up on the bark palmetto which w ilie life ai belongs to us and which the wright will tow we now have a fleet of five vessels of our own the steamer wright the small propeller lizzie lizzle horner bark clara beil sell schooner milton badger and barque bacque palmetto the fleet is to be under the command of captain 0 31 scammon formerly of the steam stearn cutter shubrick who will be chief naval officer of the expedition our party will probably spend next winter winten somewhere in the vicinity of sk bay on sea where we shall make ourselves as comfortable as possible we have a selected library of nearly a hundred choice books which will make the long cold winter endurable we have in the party two fine german and french scholars and our interpreter who speaks ten languages including ger Gor german mari mail french spanish panis h italian and russian our party is in high favor with the russian government and we expect to meet with distinguished consideration when we reach at the mouth of the amoor the russian government sends a mail every two weeks from st petersburg to at the mouth of the amoor and letter lett iett endean erdean scan be sent us that way they will have to be addressed to the american minister at git fit petersburg who will forward them to us this is theonis the only possible chance for our getting letter letters within swithin a year |
