Show PROGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN TELEGRAPH the barque bacque palmetto captain mathew anderson of the russian ameri amerl can telegraph expedition arrived from plover bay on the coast of asia oct by this arrival we have late news of f s telegraph aph expedition colonel bulkely and party arrived arri vedat at plover bay day in september having ba va n sounded across behning behring Be biring firing straits with W 1 aff the steamer george S wright the bottom of the straits was found quite as favorable as anticipated for the laying of the cable colonel colone 1 bulkely reports that the river laid da down wll wit on the map as Kuich Kulch pak is identical with the yukon and is navigable for small steamers as far er as english fort kennicott with the party sent to explore vukon lore the route from the mouth of the yukon to new westminster british columbia olum bia bla was left at fort st michaels will go un up the yukon or kulch kuich on a small steamer 35 feet in aken from irom here by the party to the head of navigation lind and then cross with reindeer or on foot fo at over the chelce iee ice and snow they strike the settlements in british columbia the party found the earth on the american side thawed to an average depth of ten inched inches ant frozen below to an unknown depth P th on their arrival in september the country on the american shore was rolling and broken but not high and destitute of timber grantly harbor 11 arbor arbon was found to be the best for landing cable on the american side it is a safe harbor with good mud bottom from this point soundings were made across to the entrance of st lawrence bay the bottom was found to be very favorable e being mud and gravel all the way the party arty found ice off st lawrence for the first time this bay is not favorable for the laying of the cable as it is shallow and arid exposed to southeast south east gales mleh Mich igme 1 gme bay was found full of ice Pin pinka kaker ker bay was found to be a good harbor well suited for landing cable the asiatic coast was found entirely destitute of timber and more mountainous than the american the ground was found thawed to a depth of thirty inches and frozen solid below that when the palmetto left the ice was forming constantly the northwest north west wind was bitterly cold and winter was fast approaching tle the the golden gate will return next and may be expected here lere soon the steamer geo S wright with colonel bulkely will return I 1 in 3 november next the sc nooner milton 0 n badger will also return here hero hereto to winter the party potty found the indians on both side the straits well disposed and capable of being made useful to the enterprise ter er the russian officials and private citizens rendered every possible assistance to the party anu and and express expressed od the liveliest interest in the enterprise the th e scenery e e n e r y in 1 n many m a n places I 1 a c e s visited was n m magnificent a r i f 1 ee n t a and n d m much uy I 1 I 1 t that h a t was strange and new was witnessed by the party the icebergs coming through behring straits were alive with walrus who appeared a to be taking a de deadhead dead ad head summer trip to the southward bout sout E ward on the arrival of the party in the vicinity of plover bay the indians were extremely shy and hesitated about coming on board they reported that they had seen a steamer burning ships in the vicinity but a few days before and that some of the crews had been set ashore by the steamer they did not understand the burning of those vessels and therefore hesitated about coming on board some two erthree or three of the sailors of the shenandoah are reported taken off by the telegraph party by a who returned by the palmetto although col bulkely does not mention the fact in his letters and nothing is known of the present whereabouts of the pirate alta adia alta alia california |