The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-19 00:00:00

THE EtPitEiEtS; SATORDAIt 'EVENING, AUGUST 19C I 88&

that saleht have been obviitYl it 107 human
beteg. lord have foremen it. Ardor ass of them
the cable caught oat the leltileusd side, while the ship kept
roving to the left, and thus chafed sad strained the cable
greatly against the how, for now it was held by this projes-
tkia and did not dreg from the V wheel as I have just said.
The Greet Barer =ld not go aster lest the able should
be mopped, aad without motion some way there is no power
of seserege. At this aired moment, too, the wind shifted,
so as to reader it more diMoult to keep lb. heed of the ship
up to the sable. As the cable thee chafed se math *as
in two pieces damage wee done to it, a shackle chain gad •
wire rope bringing to or of the boor were owed dal
the
"
the bow over the cable
were
hauled no se to brig the cable, nd secured in a bighi below
here pipes. These wer
whisk had been taught cm the Idl-band side by the hawse
=red to the rit.head side of the bow, the ship still
to the left, winnet cable, sow draws dine*
op from ebe am to the V wboW, wee sharing ob-
ligor, from the right, with the shackle end rope attached
to it. It was ooreasery to do this indeed of veering am
mwe were near the ender the ent is cable. The gable
the wire rope together were wring is over the bow@ is the
in the larger wheel, the sets being wound epos •
=MAIM by the issohlecore, which was oar mom in
motioa,_ sad the wire rope beang taken In round the cap-
stan. But the rope and cable, u I bre tried to explain,
were sot coming up la a right line, bat were berg
heeled in with a great stasis ea them at an angle from the
right-hand side, so that they did not work directly in the
Vin the wheel. Still up they came. The strain as
shown on the dynamometer to be very high, but Dot near
breaking point. At last up came the cable and wire rope
shackling together on the V wheel In the bow ;
they were wooed round on it slowly, sad were
paean over the wheel together, the first damaged
inn being Inboard, when • jar was given to the
disarmer", which flew up from 60 ewe, the higher
pert marked, with a sodden jerk, 3i inebes—in for, the
oh= 'Mohr and wire rope clambered, as it were, up out
of the groove ea the right-hand side of the V of the wheel,
ice on the top of the run cl the V wheel, mad =rad down
with a or= on the realm wheel, laving, no doubt, a
severe shock to the cable, to which it was attached.
The machinery was still in motion, the gable and
the rope travelled aft togetheeone tows= the capers, the
other towards the drum, when, just as the cable reached
the dysamoreeter, it parted, and with re bred, leaped se
it =soma few feet of interreleg s sod flashed Into the
sea ! It is not peseible far my to portray the We-
ary with which the sight wss witnessed end the sows heard.
thewas rough to rove be eters; and whoa a era came aft with
t Meer sad lathed rill to the =de and one law the
tottered streads, torn wire, the boirittod core, it is no et-
gyration to say that a strange feeling of pity, se though
kw sore sender musters. =Allred and dragged annetler
by brutal fore% pared through the hearts of the operate=
Bat of what avail was matiametalabstraotioe when instant
strenuous action wee deeneaded Alas! mitt= Thera
=and spread the placid Atlantis, smiling on the sea, and
not a dimple to "bow were lay so Troy hopes buried. Bat
there was no blank despair, ead if any felt derondowel
they suppressed the egression of it, whilee by
far the greatest number of these on board were
actually admire], not by the lase itself, Ind by the mei-
dealer eaten of the oeurereece, to indulge in
sasgsise
anticipate= of ultimate emcees, sod felt greeter rumour
than ever is the laying of the cable at no very distant day,
when the path are made aware of the cares to whisk she
temporary fail= or delay of the present attempt must be
attributed. Captain Moriarty was just coming to the foot
of the companion, to put up his daily statement of the ship's
position,. having had excellent observations. when the news
came ' I fear," he said, "we will not feel math lots-
rested now in knowing bow far we are from Heart's Coe.
tent." However, it was eirsething to know, though it we.
little comfort, that we had at roe nut precisely 116.4 mike
since yesterday, that we were 1,062.4 mike from Valerie,
668.6 miles tram Heart's Ociateet, that we wen in let.
51.25, lon. 39.6, our course being 76 8., sad 26 W. The
Great Eastern bad thus socomplishod more then twe-
ak& of her course, and if the cable had =a free from
faults, the laying of it had been of the utmost eartraty.
All the Otheilliao men began to find the form of the amble
111111 defective - the ship and paying-set gear were perfect.
The Terrible wee signalled, "The =le has parted!"
sad was requested to bre down to us, which she
did, and came to off our port beam. After a
brief consideration, Mr. Ginnie& whole presser of mind
and self-porerion &ever loft him, came to a resolution to
make an effort to metier hie task (all but egregious
folly as it seemed), and to seek for the hole let he bottom
of the Atlantic ; to get out his parole and drop down ea
it rad peek it up gain. Never, one weld have thought,
had alchemist lee chance of finding golden liquid or
but= in thelre dross frm which be wee seekingt would
aunts
potabile., a ppher'so done. But then , wha
they say in Enema if sot even au attempt, however
desperate, had been made? There were men on hour who
had picked up broken cables from the Mediterrecan fell
600 fathoms down. The weather was beaulifel, and
ahlwagh the., were no aredings„ and the depth beneath
us we. matter of rejector, it was settled thatthe Great
Eastern should steam tee or twelve miles to wiadward and
retwattl of the position in which she was whoa the cable
went down, out with the paps= and wire rope, and drif
doers tierces the track is whir' the cable was supposed to be
lyiag. Although all utterance of hope was repressed sod no
word of confidence escaped the lips, the mocking shadows of
both were treasured In no= quiet nook of the Way. The
doctrine of chancre could not touch such a =ringer, as
we had to speculate upon. And now came forth the p-
eels, two live armed =hors, with finks; sharply sad
ta to an oblique toothiliko end, the hooka with
gloat Despair was going to &sh from the Great
whicher= for ►take worth, with all iU belonginga, mere then
• million. The ship stood away some 13 or 14 miles fro. the
spot where the =ideal occurred, and then lay-to in smooth
maw with the Terrible in company. The grayer, weigh-
ing three cwt., stiaskled and secured to a length of =a
buoy rope, of which there were fire miles ea board (break-
tug strain calculated at 10 tooth, was brought up
to the bows, and at 3.20 ship's time was throtown
over and whistled trough" the sea • prey for-
ts= At first the koa sank but slowly, bet soon
the emirate's of desert =reseed so ma to lay great errs
oe Creek:tiring-up machinery now rendered available to low.
ring the novel messenger we were =dig down armed
with warrant of search for the fugitive hidden in myste-
rious inverse =with. Length flew after length ever cog-
wheel sad drum till the iron wires, warming with work,
heated at last so as to convert the water thrown upon the
machinery into clouds of stern. The time pared heavily
indeed. All life had died out in the =eel, and no ries
wee heard except the dull gratin of the wire cable over
the wheels at the bows. The most seethed° and in-
different would have vacated much to have heard the
rumble of the cable apin. and esteemed it the =stre:it
fel music In the world. The electricians' room was a
all their subtle apparatus stood fuccticeless, and cell-sine
and copper threw off superfluous inure= in the silent
chamber of solear. The jockeys had rue their nee
and reposed in their iron saddles. The drums beat no
more—their leg reveille' was ended at rat in the
mulled roll of death—that which bad been broken could
give no trouble to break, and man shunned the region
when all these mute Menet= were testifying to the
variety of human wishes. Away flew the wire strands
after length—cicala was Indeed iesatiable—" more;
length
". more," cried the daughter of horse leech from the
black night of waters, mid still the rope descended. One
thoured fathoms—fitter hundred fathoms—two thousand
fathoms—hundreds again mounting up, till at last, at 6.8
p.m., the strata wee diminished, and at 2.5(0 and
mow feet, the capitol reached the bed of the Atlant,
set to eta task of finding and holding the cable. Where
that lay wee of course beyond human knowledge, bet as the
ship drifted down oars its course there was just a sort of
headohaking surmise that the enrol might catch it—that
the ship might feel it—that the iroa rope might barmiest up
,gala, and that the cable, it across it, might—here was the
malt =mare bitch of all—might come up without
breaking. But 2,500 fathoms! Ales! And ou in the dark-
reface the night, not more gloomy than her errand, the
Great Boaters having cleared away one of the cable-buoys,
and got it over her bows. it was lait as a sport to the wind,
and drifted at the rate of seventy
_feet • minute down upon
the imaginary
line beneath w=li tbe cable had soak to
unless rest.
August 3r4.—Throughout the night drove the Great
Fatter over the Arent* dragging ia her comes the
gapers aad two miles and • half length of line with which
she was Gettig for the 1= °ebb). When morning came,
sod when she was "apposed to have gone beyond the track
of her prey several miles, the watchers ef the
lice, who had cur ere dawn been joyously agi-
tated by the sews that the grapeels were holding,
sod as it proved derived, prepared to haul in the
wire rope and seek their fortune. At 6.40 a.m., Greased&
time, the picking-up machine reieforoed by the capstan
eveateally was set to work to haul up the Ire, which tears
a strain of ten toes. At first it some up easily, and the
dynamometer showed only a strain of 18lcw but
shet sea—
sierece of the rope rapidly iecrased til it reached o
indicated by 70 cwt. At 7.15 a.m. one hundred fathoms
bundled fathoms, the

LAYING OF of T ATLANTIC OASIS.
DIARY OF
Dr. W. H. Russell has furnished a long and in-
tezerting history, in the form of a diary, of the tinfor-
innate Atlantio ac
tiveediti At the oomMonos-
most of bit narra be describes at length, and
With
his usual vividness, the events eminected with
the starting of the Great Kaitern with the spliced
table on the 23rd1 of July. He then notices the
accident to the cable on the 24th and its reparation,
t Evolving altogether a detention of 38 hours. From
the 26th to the 28th the expedition appears to have
proomeded suonssfully and with oontidence on the
pert of those on board as to the result. As shown
as the 28th 531 nautical miles of cable had been
paid out, the distance from Valentin being 478
ail= On the following day occurred a total loss
el insulation. About midnight, "after nearly ten
hours of much anxiety and trouble," the cable was
reooiled, and measures taken to begin paving out
with the early dawn. The defeats in the cable now
'e began to excite grave suspicious, and to disquiet
ansn's minds considerably." On Sunday, July 30,
there was no material incident, and " the hum-
ties tests showed a high degree of exorllence." The
rrative, or diary, then proceeds as follows :
Mondry, July 31.—At 3 a.m. the screw engines were
and at 3.30 ship's time the paddles wen slowed in
allow the last cod of the after task to rim out, sad
the operation of psying out to be huskers& to the fore
that. Not the slightest difficulty wee esperiecoed in the
I•muter, sad at 10 minutes to S a.m., or • little before 5
themwine time, the Great Radars steamed • head, lower-
the cable at a decreased rate of sped At noon the
enhance run was 793 miles, the cable paid oat 903, the
texts slowing • peg improvesaent, BO SO to AMOS the
of the caws very mash above the quality nodded
lathe souracit. The latitude, 62.9, long. 31.13, As exited-
was now made of the acted.= of cable le which the
trail earth • was known to exist by a series of exhausted
electrical teen Newly but =rely the detente, Lar=iou of
the able was mob= and eat oat. A very
=was this made. An inchion wee bhp is one
of the hemp covering an =kraal wire, •and
es =ravelling the strands so as to expose the in-
Ewins • piece of broken hoc wire was fouled driven
the gutta-percha covers st so as to project beyond at
side lohe extent of the diameter of the mike ; one
end was sharp as if en with • sippers, theother was broken
el
abruptly, sad the diameter on the page being applied
enevespouded with that of who covering the cable. It OW
bepoesible to radial the irritating sod sorrowful conviction
*attach an injury was the work of some hired cable mune
or some purposeless, malefactor. Mr. Calming showed the
sake sad the stab to the csblemen, who admitted that the
phobia' could not have occurred accidentally , aid those
who were in the tank when the cable was injured being of
mme Aug u that which was aduty when theother
*roe of win was forced isto the cable were transferred te
Merest duties on desk. The mailroom we bond the ship
breed a urn cl supervisors, who widertook to watch is the
task tarn about, and the nose employed gave their
A dead calm prevailed yearly the *bole of the
rthe waters were unbroken nes by the gentlest ripple.
Tuesday, August L—We have greed the fatal spot where
SO buried all that maim al three Atlaatie cables. The
skip's position at noon. lat. 51 deg. 52 min. 30 we., loom
dldeg. 8 an.. 30 sea ; distant, from Viands 912 auks,
717 from Renee Content. Cable paid est, 1,081 miles.
Dariog the day nothing whatever oentrod to interrupt the
uniform progress of the operation. It is supposed that the
Great Dinars is ia sostathop of between 1.975 f•thoms aad
14250. The weather, although overcast and grey, wag
inimitable. The triad from the N.W., altering to S.W.
Tie ship's owns N.W.by W., three-quarters W. The
Terrible in her usual position. Expectations entertained of
eselog lead es Saturday morn*.
Wednesday, August 2.—A sod sad raessionble day in
the angels of Athatio telegraphy. Alter midnight. the
wind rose, seecoopeaied by heavy showers of rain and dense
drifts of fog, sad increased to • strong gale to the S.W.,
hut the ship scarcely felt it, aad weat onpaying out cable
without let or hindrance at • high rate- lot speed, seven
knots an boar. About &Thresh the wind unlikely
shifted to N.N.W., and fell to a light breeze, and at
4 eat.. the nurse was shored so N. W. by W. j W., the
gse falling. Morning broke beautifully, sad the cable ran
est sully. at the rate of seven miles aa boar. At 5.35
an. ship's time, the paddles reversed, by orders from the
electrician' room. In fact at 8 am, Orsecerich time, or
a minute alter, whilst the elestricians were posing the
kat of the half-hoarly series of entreats to
the shon, the galvanometer detected • flow of
electricity which indicated a serious fault. The
tests gave me result as to locality, for the fault was very
retying, but it was generally believed to be sot far from the
Men of the ship. While Mr. Cyrus Field was on watch in the
teak, • little before the time of the sccideat, a gratiag noise
less audible as the cable hew over the mil. Dee of the expo
dewed hands immediately said "there is a piece of wire,"
eadealled to the lookout man above tepees the informaties
sit ; but to notice appears to have been taken of the cir-
snmetanee. After the ship had been stopped for a short
ties and the remainder of the duke is wbieh she fault was
supposed to have occurred bad bees paid out, • piece of wire
was sees projecting out of the cable in the flake, sad
en
oes of the men taking it in his fingen, and trying
wbend it down, the wire broke short off. It
as nearly three inks keg. end evidently of hard 01.
tempered metal, which had Sown out through the 'treads '
of the cable is the task. The fault is the cable whisk bed
go= overboard might obviously have been caused by snob •
=me of eke, and these could be so doubt that the ekeof
the outer cover:ng of the cable was capable of ieflicting
Injury as the gotta perks it was intended to protect.
The discovery was is some meartne • relief te insa's adads,
Meuse it showed that ow certainly, and the mewl peml-
bly, of the previous fulls might ban bun the rewalt el
thallar exiderst. It was remarked, however, that this
haft occurred is the ma watch as 41 the pinion snider-
two that bad occurred. As the faun was too serious to be
overlooked. aides there was a difficulty is detecting its sitar
Ike, preparations were made to get the picking-up appara-
tus ready. Previous to doing so, two cute were ma& is
the cable ; the first bear the old splice between the main
and the fon tank--cable all right—the seemed cut three
miles in board, which showed the faalt to be in the portion
of the cable which wee overboard. The wire rope sad the
slain were sow secured to the milk forward, which showed
•maximum strain of 23j cwt., sad at 9.55 Greenwich
time the cable severed and west over the stern,
1,186 miles hung bees paid out whim the end
aplasbed into the water. With leas difficulty than usual,
in fact with comparative facility, the cable was hauled in
over the bows at 10.8 am. Oresserice time. The steals as
it, according to the dynamometer, being from 50 to 55 owt,
although the latter figure represented the maximum, only
one ocosaicie. We were, however, newly in
2,000 fathom water, but it wee coueldered • favourable air-
cunist•oce that we lead not got • few mibes farther, as we
should have they be. la the very deepest part of the
Atlantic plateau. As fez as could be ascertained the skip
was now over • gentle elevation, on the top of which there
was only 1,950 fathoms of water. The pickle' op was ea
usual exceedingly tedious, sad one hour and 46 minutes
elapsed before *air mile was got on board ; then one of the
esgise's *co:stria gear got out of order, so that • was had
testand by with • handspike, aided by • wedge of wood
sod an elastic band, to aid the wretched ensign Nut. the
eapply of steam failed, tad when the sham was got up it
was found that there woe sot water enough in the boilers.
sad so the picking up nand altogether for some time, during
which the ship forged a-head, and chafed whist the cable.
Thu occurred the great misfortune. Lunch was just over,
same had left the table, others were about leaving. The
ashatific gentlemen had rather cheered as by stating that
they believed the defective part was only six miles away,
and so ere dead nightfall we might hope to ban the fault
es board. make a new splice, sad proceed on oar way to
Heart's Content. geogrsphioally about 600 miles away.
Suddenly Mr. Casing appeared in the saloon, and in a
mum whims singed every or to alert in tie seat, said,
"It is all over —lt is goim"—end then bummed onwards
to his =Lie. Mr. Field, ere the thrill of surprise and pain
occasioned by those words had proud away, came from the
essnanion to the salons and said, with composure admirable
wider the oircumstauees, though his lips qoirered and his
cheek mu blanched, "The cable has parted and has goes
overboard." AU were on deck in a moment, and there
teased • elm= Teaseled the truth. I will endeavour ton
to explain bow the fatal accident occurred.` say fatal, for
although as I writs we are drifting nen in the hops of
',Wag bold of the cable with papule I scarce venture
to hope this attempt will be crowned with success. Let the
reader torn his face towards a window, and imagine that
be is standing on the bows of the Great Eastern, and then,
of course, on his right will be the starboard, en his left the
side of the ship. Is frost, fixed in the bows, la a
• .

Cr as
-V
wheel, as it is teeisickili kriiMed, with a 'Male; iiacihe recovered. At 7.2, two ,_ _ _
wheel of the same kind oe the same axis at each side for strain increasing to 75 owe.At 8 a.m. three hundred
Iles purpose of picking up edge, lowsrieg buoy ropes and , fathoms were in, and it became d
evident to all on board
Os like. It is simply • solid metal wheel with • deep 1 that the grayed was holdieg on ml " something*
poor* in the shape of aV on the no, in which the table • from the bottom. And whet meld that something be bat
"'draw& el it is pulled up tram the sea by the picking-up the cable! The saientifio men calculated the strain and
apparatus, and teams is wooed ender the dynamometer and . determised it could not be from the wire rope and grapnel
drum wheels till it has posed the breaks, and is coiled down solely, i sad it could only be inferred then this as the
eft in safety. For some time there was no strain of any bottom of the Atlantic is free from rooks here, and as the
ceresquenes on the wire rope to which the end of the cable depth at which the rope began to resist agreed with the
was attached in the sea, and it came up easily, drawing the ! supposed mouldings, it had really grappled the prise
able after it gradually to the bows of the ship. So lAt &9 the spur wheel of the pi king-UP apparatus
long as the stem could be kept in the same Ter. , broke, and the operatioa et telling in the rope became Un-
tied plane as the wire on the eats, ft fie evident that they ' serous as well as difficult, for it flew up at times with such
weeM pass is a straight line over the groove I. the V wheel. force as to knock down these near it. tad one of the most
There are at the bows of the Great Easters two large hews* valuable of Mr. Osaaieg's staff received a severe est on the
the iron rims of which project for men than a font cheek. and another had as ugly injury infiioted es his fate
the line of the stein. As los' as a stein was kept from that muse. The weather, which had been very thick
ea the cable and the ship's bow did net some directly upon bed hazy, now mottled dews into • dame fog, sod we lost
II those hawse pipes caused no immovesience, but whoa sight ofthe Terrible, but the coevictios that the
nobcale wee
the pickiskup machinery mead to see it wee neesmary to really ones more attached to the Great Eastern, matter
in the ship. It was not possible to hove her "Owe, for how precariously, sod no matter how far off, afforded too
in that case eke would have sawed the sable, nor could such same for ecogratelahrek conjecture, and suspense
she lo ea a-head without rousing over the sable. Thasjpit, to allow much room for other thoughts. Teter wee •
• ends who motion was needed, the Great Easters MU- eheare—just • chaoce—that the cable might Vidz
laud to forego the to el her melees, whilitSqvset . fro the deep, and every hundred fathom of haulier
breadside was exposed to the wiled, whisk war her is over the bows was joyously retarded, sod marked ea as
M Ibe reader's left-head side, till by delver as es oddities.' step in tie marsh of the Went Men.
At to was brought to beer es Mtp amble, whisk SUDO op The Mawr toiled earl palled as if it were
beet the ma to she bowls* L. right-kaad side et the a living Wig, sod shook out at a oessiderable eagle
Weer. ()apish& itedriestia emitted all his skill to keep the tress the bows as if it were towed by mine giant
dep's lied up to the cable, aod imemeda till form oedema* sad away from the Mearare. When 500
AIM ORIGROdi a kit* eased by the hawse pipes. Whom were fa board, the most eespdosl admitted the

amble mast bees the hog% sed emery sod stream
seen higher jest se the y el the aide
sad wild. But at lkotashipYglisvese.leillll war fears
a hopes were abruptly Tho drum flew road
rapidly, the tall of the rope flourished is the air a. It fief
Is board, and with • IdOt splash die other mad dived hate
the Athirst* Or of the Ira swivels had yielded to the
eras. The rope red was divided into haggle of 100
fathoms, each having a shackle at the end with • beery
Iron 'Trek The heed of the bolt al one of them bad boss
drawn right through To Ws collar as 900 father hod
boss eserd. Not a moment was lost is deeding whs.
measures to pursue. It wr rather encouragieg tbs. the
reveres to have made the trial so abruptly oosoluded, for
U was demosstisted that the groped could pick up the
cable in more than 2,000 fathoms, and the col, questions
sow wee whether the wire rope ma the cable Seel woad
bear the purchase sod weight of hauling up hem
snob vast depths. There was wire rope en
lett to make another tempt to save the
It was resolved that the best sour to pane would be 611
errs to • point two miles reward of the extreme sod of
the cable, se se to have ash • mile or 60 at cable to lift up
in the bight when the ship drifted over it, as the bakes
wodd. It was hoped, is wring upon ro grapnel twist
round the other porre of the cads. Orris Aurora
prepared to run 14 or 15 miles book, and drift does as
Dearly as possible across the line of the cable as described,
bat the wind was not very favourable. Oa startiog, L3O
p.m., ship's time, the Great Eastern fired a gun ram the
Tenni:de she was moving. sad after moms time a direst
thud through the fog made as aware that the Terrible had
heard the signal . Still, as gotten mars was beard from
be, the Great Eastern blew fog isonsm aed Awnwwhistles,
sad fired more mum as she steamed away, and after
it was thought we bad lost oar solo but rather heard
campados. No observation could be had, sod our peaks
was matter of seri* but when the Great Feelers hod
made her 15 miles or so, 0610060 wen stopped, sad she WI
to for the night in • wroth see
Friday, Auguste.— Drifting, by noires excitisg, While
reemmery as we had no other means of getting at the very
unremognisahle locality where we were to aids °prier
The seawas calm. end as we had so observation
JasMr-
day, • line was pared sp to take soundings, and
botfaes
was loured at 2,300 fathoms. Bet of what the bottom I
yes countred there was so mesas of judgiag, for the ling
broke Is hauling_ up, after 300 fathoms had been got an
' fink. The Torrid' fousd us ontearly in the
acme up
I eg her boats, al tor a pull of some two miles, mare up, with
Lieutenant Pres* to know what we were doing. and what
we ioteoded to de. The one was more easily told than
the other; but ms spare result be was tutored we meant
to" keep iggies away' is loag as we bad teals left. At aeon
so
observatom was retched at, which gave our position
lat. 51 deg. 34 min. 30 eme., Ire. 37 deg. 54 min. s=
that we bad drifted 34 mil* which with 12 stilsi a
made 46 miles from our perm when the cable pared.
It WY resolved to make • raft on which to pire • try MI
slip over with miles of the cable Omit armhole le a
roseszooss anchor, as soot r word reached the rot whore
we grappled the cable yesterday. After • long uneventful
day the Great Easters arrived at the due estimate 4
dropped the buoy, whisk has • red log shove • black ball
lured to the staff and anchors, aid steamed off again at
10 p.m. Greenwich time, so as to drop across the cable sort
monism.
Saturday, August s.—Another night of drilling, looking
out foe our buoy. The weather so thick we could see
renter sun nor herrn, sad the assigation was Wee the
resources of intersal crodousser to colonist* our poetic*
As we were soon is • dense fog in the body corporate sad in
the mind maritime pother berme not so asset a vier as
as °admirable nerinty, if we would alleviate the hazy
monotony, the *Dorm of. the world is which we were
having our being if not moving very rapidly. The Terrible
was lost to sight, sad whoa hime ors was as distout as
Bre/ himself of "Cautioos Okra" weld hays desired,
but whim least expected she did us • service la the far
soca the *oily break in the monotony of derision this grey
Athol* In • dull sky which looked like • estgoolourd
cloud, was afforded by • shoal of porpoises and grampuses,
I whisk bead as too slow for their tastes, sad soon abse-1
dosed us for some lively timber ship. After midday thal
hams lifted, and there lay, the Terrible, sear the herr", col
sir port beam. At 2.30 she signalled to as that the buoy',
was three tunas distant, and gave us bearings. The Greed
Brown erased up • passed the buoy at 3.45. She lir
sailed to the Torrid* to remain by the buoy during the
night, and thee steamed N.W. by N. for six miles, istend-1
iniglLcas
Barley,
and pet draws the morel if the wildchanged.
y, Aussie 6.—A sight of fog sod deleting niers
followed by a morning and day of very brie rear weather.
The Terrible was seen early in the wring through a break
in the pall of thick grey clouds which floated over the
water, bat was lost sight of in • short time, sad of comma
the harry was invisible. There have been so good °Tens-
lloos sow far three days, and we ma °sly guns whore we
are. The sr remained euestUagly calm, and we drifted
along so steadily that it WY &Moult for one in the saloon
to believe he was afire is the Atlantic. The fog whistle
wended its dismal warty continually throughout the
day. At 10.46 a.m., church. At seri Staff Commander
Moriarty deduced • latitude sod laughed* from his ex-
perience and from Dry calculations and devices to make
up for the rear of • sun sad the barium At 4 o'clock
p.m. the buoy was supposed to be some 15 mites from us,
N.W. 6 W., the wind biaagg E.S.E. It thus rippers we
have bees deities against the dad. Therefore people my
"The Golf Stream," and expire everythisg. Night
coos* ou, we lay-to in fog as hems, sod contested our-
sera with hoping better Shipp for the !eters.
Moeday, Angst 7.—The weather was thick in the night,
but 'leered away towards 4 a.m., and the Terrible soon after
daybreak was visible sear the buoy, from whisk we bed
drifted 12 mho. Signal was made to twist* if we were
going to grapple for the cable, to which the Great Beres
answered in the affirmative ad the ships thee mohreged
latitude and longitude At &30s. re. theOrestlasterspossed
the buoy sad steered N.W., so as to get verde room for
the grapnel and for dollies down os the sours. of the sable
At 10.40 a.m., the Terrible helm dieted about 12 silks,
the Great Easters was stopped, sad at 11.10 ehip's use,
1.47 p.m. Greerich time, the grapnel. with 2,500 fathoms
of able, was hove over. So muck was the machinery im-
proved, that the grapnel was only half the lime is reseldeg
the bottom. end at 12.5 ths diminutios of the rein
on the dynamometer showed that lt was resting
on the our. The day tuned out moat favourable,
a steady hers from the north defile" the skip towsrds
the ablest the rata of • mils an hour, broadside os. At
soon excellent obeervetioes were taken. which put oar pod-
tar at lat. 5127, los. 32.42. For several hours the gape
net dragged the bottom without rerun** the dynamo-
meter indicated a varying Torero to its progress. At
6.15 the stria isomer from 46 cwt. to 48 out, and mos
hope to rise steadily,towards 56 ask, and thence to 60 cwt. I
Presently the aerials eyes which were lied on the oem-
ass and es the bead of the Great Easters observed a very
alight testlosey is her bead to come round to the wind. It
was slow—very slow indeed. The ship seemed loth to whom
the tarn°, to which she wee bewaring plahly subjected,
disdaining the feeble clue which Policed her attention to
the labyrinth of cable breath ; But in an hoar aud • halt
she cur ironed from E. by S. d S. to E. I N. The
of
was greater every_ moment. There could be
no louver say doubt. The cable was caught again.
Here was a triumph of esainambip and perseve-
rance. The ship's head was brought roar to the
wind by the screw, sad the capstan emir was met to
work to aid the sew machinery of the Pichisse-sis gear to
haul up the cable. At 7.49 p.m. ship's time (10.30 G. T.) the
strain ran up to 66 cwt, and at 8 p.m. the ill-feted
machinery broke dowa at the bow, sad a alight delay
occurred, but the main part of the waste being transferred
to the capstan, the rope was steadily hauled in at the re
of 150 fathoms per hour. At 11.30 chip's tier 300 fathoms
ware in. and the dynamometer showed • steady strain of
62 to 66
fir a lovely moonlight, *ad • calm sea sod
farness breeze Trued the pleasure with which all net
guessed in duty retired to rest, sad to be thankful for the
bright antripatums for to-morrow. In the words of our
signal to the Terrible, we were "going on hopefully."
Tuesday, Angsat B.—Skill, seamanehip. perseverance,
have failed. Our hopes appeared so nese their fruition
that the disappointment is doubly severe. By the utmost
care and coostent watchfulness, Captain Audenon
and Saff•Commander Moriarty picked up the beet
as described, sad drifted acre and caught the,
cable yesterday. There could he se doubt about
it. The strain proved it. for it increased steadily
and constantly. Between 5 and 6 a.m. the dyosmometor
rose from 82 ow/. to 85 owt, sod thence to 87 cwt., and it
was calculated that the grapnel with the cads was then
rising from the bottom. The rope had tome ca steadily at
an average of 150 fathoms an heart during the night. At
7.30 a.m. there was • smog erasers of reduce is our
ace* sod great gladsome on board. The one mile mark
was hauled in. sod we had demonstrated the het that •
ship could pick up a cable is 2,600 fathoms of water and
pull it one mile from the bottom. The cable was sow sr
peeled 1,500 fathoms, or one mile and • half below se hi
mess. We bed signalled the good sews to the Terrible.
Is as instant more, whilst oar flap were still lying, all
warn over. Ono of the shackle" and swirls which foie ark
leogth of wire-rope to the other had Game over the bow,
bad prod over the drum. and was in the third
mendof rope takes inby the *spore, when
the bead of the swirl pin gave way, and quick
as lighter& the god lourisbing the iron shackle like •
mailed bet la the sir right and UV, as if toessolug with death
the hardy enemy who dared stand in its desperate way,
alarmed aloft sad leaped exultingly into the ma, to (ea the
cable and the 1,500 fathoms of wire roes whisk still hang
from the impose. Now all the shackles and swivels had
been 'remised minutely before they were pat over, sad
every care takes to prevent the recurrence of ardent
which had already frustrated our exartioss. The work was
of Brown, Isnuox, and Co., so better arm; the skein
was sot near that put down as the breaking pont, and et
there was the psief al reset. The sews was igsalled to
the Terrible, and her rower had sot hag been Bows when
her boat put off with Lieut hors to liana what rum
we were about to moose At 9.50 • serd buoy emceed
on a raft or mooredwas lowered with 2,500 fathoms of tele-
gaph cads to • Token err wheal. *Mao
• bark bill at the red of • staff, sad below the ball
dome a Sag, red, white, sod red. is three borisootel
bare. The buoy is rusted is white hirers es zed
Wood " Telegraph, No. 3," it Seals low, and her been let
go melees as peesitde to the spot where the groped rope
sank. If the., buoys do she trek shift, they will be of
great ewer whoa • renewed attempt is mods to lift Hs
code Limiters* Prows* told us that on Sunday miring
the Terrible saw a serer hum( to by the first hew,
end os ramie( aktepide wee taw by the retro, dune
rine I do sot koow, to inquire if re was looldng for the
busy. The horst err bad ors up will fik.and though

east Proem, Isar law
the lee of the Great Erten hhaeeteesoy ma. TM lash
the gas which lighted up the darkens for the
frees the deem of the essered•Wili, te meal the betab,liala
the glare of a Mae light over the malers which the *ems
horsed as she seared the beewhe MI% reader the dos
gala follows all mere heavy. Mem le peals slime ee
board the vest ship as site tunes aseedily Miereedelie seat,
as if yesruireg to puns her seam, sod Mee Mr head to
the asge7 sea hi admission of aelt. The simnel deem
from the Terrible, •" Farewell r ouremweehg Wets
the sight. " Gaga: think yea ;.
sad thee, is
=Mesa, seek as bar rearm TMlaskirs,
freed from the WAD., mid favoured * • Ames
brew% makes aserly raise silks ea hour, sad smirks wile
brooded wake that ever traced Its emery path se the ao•aa,
bar way to the eastward.

the wiled was fair for hiim, la resolved to de what lea weld
to aid the work, aid so by to till the Terrible was at hand.
He expressed • lively regret wheel he was told that the
saki* had parted and lam glad that the name of the little
vessel is IMO at as ll wean. Bacons to the Firth
of d usa she meek " Harbour
is in safety. After some delibmetka with Mr.
Gooch, Oaptale Aoderses, and others, 31r.
derided ma mak* another attempt to rung* the ceis=
take it on board, sad cedars were given to have all wire rope
sod hawser fit for the to reediems. lieutthaat
Prows* returned to the to eommunkate the result,
and Mr. Clifford and his thaff mewed far she last effort.
Ti obviate the which had arises from the pisiciegmp
macadam failing, oaring is to be mama the meths' he
Menage Its diameter by four feet, mod sash Jul& sod
swivel of the wire rope will be removed and replaced by •
sew system of bolts. This will take two days to seem-
Oa. The Great Eastern sad Terrible kept by the berry tiff
o'clock, when the isoreselag wind sad sea theihred it ex-
pedient for them to keep their beide to the W.N.W., and
up te midnight both vessels, in tolerably ekes thaw=
steamed W.N.W. in half • gale of 'led, White the 13
Festers met without the smallest inoonmehmee.
Wednesda, August 9. Dories! the night a strong
breeze, which area sailors celled • warmest isle.
blow from the W.N.W., sad raised a heavy see,
which set the Great Beaters telling • little sad
caused the prcdustios of " fiddles" on the saloon tables at
leash-time as a precantiosery measure to cheek the play
of plates and dishes. The tells wets very stately and
regular- ons to eleven aseeeds or thereabout" Of course it
wee impossible to keep near the homy under meek dream-
and at 0 a.m. it was ealmeleted we had run 35
miles. At that hour the ship's coarse was altered so as to
let her bear down as the buoy sad she steered Dearly
N.N.B. towards the Terrible
the hope to give rise whisk was le sight lying to
so as se to that she was hanging as
sear our missing seathark as weep redent. At moon oar
position wa
le,a 51 cleg. 29min. 3thes , 100. Mk*, Pole Opeo.
The Tesrib in ply
to our dereele said she did sot see the
buoy, but believed it to be fhli.& of her. At 12.30 the
Great Fathers was abreast of the Terrible, and altered het
course to &by E. M., end both Mips with lookmet meal
in the Sops renewal their senitioy of the bee= wakes at
some diatom°, apart. It was a difilouLt mad Mug awe.
At a mile distant the buoy was but a speak ca the thew
Currents rad gales bad been driving the vessels about all
night. The buoy might have bees carried mem ha the
heavy sea which was renaleg. Make at about 3,311, MO
time, the Terrible sad Greet &therm ethos near though 1,
to exchange sigmas. "gave you sereLthem buoy" asked
the letter. The answer was "No r and this followed
more *this as to =teal positive. Captain Ander-
son sad Staff Commander Morterty were worklag
oat ealeelations and exhavastleg the resources of their
art is firing the bearing' and dietetic" el the miss-
ing ob)ect. They scarcely differed a mile to their
rospeatrve results. althoa& the ship bed been steering
several waren and short distances on each. It was posi-
tive at hat that if the buoy floated at its meoriep we vete
not farther thee three or four miles from it, la reply to
another signal the Groat Easters informed the Tersible that
she was going to grapple far the cable spin. Soddeely
the much aught for gag-daft of the buoy was discovered
from the Great Extern, and as her flip were
aloft to salmon°, the feet to the Tergible a
from the letter was going up to commusicete
her discovery of It aid its pasties to the Great
Ileatens. At 4.40 p.m. the Gnat Eastern was
abrmat of the buoy, slowed her elegises, and pat her helm
to starboard, ia order to stay as close to it as poseiblo. Our
misting friend had evidently pained a bard night of it. sod
had pnued his flag so tight rotted his staff that not a ves-
tige of it was viable, except the red bets. The Terrible
came up and kept um our port beam, so as to watch the
buoy at the other side. Towards ammo, the wind mode-
rated very much, and the sea gradually ran Beall down.
The work of preparation went on busily, and at eight the
decks were lighted up with forge km, sad quivered seder
the blows of sledges, as anvils rang and boa glowed for the
work of to-morrow. The capita. is to be awed in ire,
rad by degrees meet of the picking up meekinery his been
removed for simpler gear. A Dumber et rwivele have been
taken away, sad simple shackles rubstituted so as to make
the grapnel tackle as safe as possible. Our hops" are rising.
Thonday, August 10.-11 was almost a dead calm part
of the night, but a slight breeze which opssag up did act I
suffice to counteract the effect of • strong cur sat which
set the Groat Eastern six or urea miles to eastward, be.
tenon 9 p.m. of 9th August and 4 cm. this looming. Soon
after dawn we came down on buoy No. 1, which guided us
to buoy No. 2, and fart some time both of them were in
sight hem the desk, bet the ship bore away gradually to
the N.W., so as to get a good oiling to drift down on
the line of cable At 10.30 a.m., Greenwich time, the grapnel
touched the bottom, and the Great Easters, with fots and
eft canvass and topside set, slowly drifted and forged
ahead for • point about a mile west of the last grapple.
The stain on the grapael lies varied from 40 cwt. to 45
Deny, but at 11 a.m..- ship's time, it isarssead to 50 owe,
and the ship's head showed • dispositioe to come to
the N. Sail was owed, but the nos ease away
again, and proceeded to drift southward and weetwar&
Her head varied from W. sad by N. to N.W. and by N.,
the buoy bearing S.F. At 1 p.m. the drab' rose to 60 cwt.,
and the Great tasters came three points to the N., but the
shook wan only momentary, and at 3 p.m. it was plain she
bad drifted over the spot, sod bad failed to catch the cable.
The ocity thing to be dose was to take up the !grapnel aid
to mew the attempt to recover the cable *art day.. The
machinery was set to work for the purposeof baulusg up
the grapnel, and as the wire rope come in over the
that in
bows it
was remarked that it was strained considerably,
various plans the threads had ialaid themselves. This
cumstance gave rise to serious apprebeesions veepecting the
capacity of the only tackle left to work with, and it become
question of dispute whether the swivels bad so boss t ,1
:educed too much in number, *MO solhe
that they were so use at ell. AU the ',tattoos
and all the evesing the anxious but monotonous labour
of dragging in the (repeal taxed the energies of the
eaginetrs aid cablecoen, bat at midnight 1,400 Who= were
odsly coiled on board of the ship.
Friday, August 11.—The to Anal° is over at last, orFriday,
rather, let me nay, it is =speeded by an unwilling consent.
No one accepts the result as a deal and conclusive defeat.
But there are no means left of ociothening the mates., and
the passive moisten.. of the enemy has for the moment
triumphed. At 5.20 a.m. the grapnel WU hauled upon
deck, and it was dimoveled that the &ale to which the
shank was attached had taken a half hitch round one of the
flukes, so as to prevent the Waren:eat Within on the
bottom. It appeared from the length of wire repo covered
with ooze that there was not MOM than 1,950 fathoms of
water whets it was down. A host of amateurs, more or
lam sciestifia, serape' out from the ooze the sand mid
shackles and bottled it with assiduity. It appeared like
liquid putting-in colon', and such imperfect microscopes as
were on board failed to show any organic substances:ll
but Mr. Ward, ship's surgeon, took a very
shell like a barnacle from cable, which gam
signs of containing a living inhabitant. A grapnel
with a damaged teplc wae selected for the next trial.
All the damaged rope wee rejected sad Tepaired, as far as
the means at the disposal of Mr. Calming permitted. A
lies, coosisting of 1,600 fathoms of wins tope 220 fathoms
of hemp rope, sod 510 fathoms of Manilla, was prepared,
and *irefully examined, d which 1,760 fathom was pros
moaned good, the rest being rather suspicious. At 7.23
a.m. the Great Ertel% wee "Meggido No. 2 buoy, the
Terrible in company. At IL3O the Great &dere signalled
Terrible, " We are going to make a final effort," and this.
" We are sorry you have had such unoomfartable waitug."
The ship's heed being W. by S., and the buoy No. 2 basing
& by N. *bout two miles, the grapnel was lot go at L 56
p.m. Grew wick time. The wird would drift the Great
Eastern to N.E., right earths the cable, and fore and al t
canna' was sot to overcome the current. The grapnel
soon touched the bottom, as the new machinery enabled
the some to pay oat the rope at the rate of fifty
fathoms a misuse. For some time the ship drifted
onwards, but at 3.50 p.m. ship's time, rho strain on the
rope rose to 60 cwt. as it came in over the bows, though it
was taken easily by the new capstan bleProverathis
effected by Mr. Clifford. The ship'. bead varied from
W.N.W, to W. by &, end as Um rope cam* in the screw
was wit quietly to work at times to loom it to the vied.
which had increased mthewhat, accompanied by showers of
rain. The dynamometer Math rose higher and higher, till
it reached 80 cwt.. and ones, as a shackle came through,
the machinery flew up to 105 owl. It was • cortaioty that
the Atlantic cable bad been caught for the third time, and
was fast held in the 'grapnel comic,' up from its way bed.
Is there bead to say that the alienations of hops sad fear
which agitated all on board reached their climax? Them
was an entamity of quiet excitement among us, such as
man feel when they await some supreme decree, Some re-
lebelow others refused to go forward where the
lewd jar of Uri machinery pet their hearts is their mouths,
others milked in the saloon or upon the after deck ab-
throctedly. lo the bows Captain Vedette's, Mr. Omni's',
Mr. Clifford, and their men toiled on, and from thence
came conateot signals through as &coughs tube and whistle
to the bridge to go ithead Indicated. the screw, or to stop, as the
Weis on the dynamometer Una come up from
the saloon, lamer many at tad*, ad woe walking forward
bons the sedge, when I heard thew
histle blow and a my
of "Stop it from the bow. Captain Moriarty was gable
from his odds forward with the informatioo that we must
thrtainly have goes over the cable, but the ooevenatioe in
the bow sod exclamatithe of grid ad regret told we war
last bolt had boa sped. At 9.40 p.m Gemmel.* time, as
785 fathoms bad bese got is, • shark
I le oe the beam haw's,
owed through the machinery, and in a mousest stammer&
the rope parted near the widen ad flew over the bow
with a whistling rush which carried death with it like the
march of • mend shot. Is all the armed of labourite nth
ono was toothed, because the soon held es to teirp=ers,
adkept the end streigh.t. bat the Mager so
great that with the shout ' It is gone" miagbd the eager
demand from Mr. Caesieg and others, who rushed to
the tow—"le ay the hart ?"—",Nome." Bat time lay the
cable beneath us ones more buried metier sells of me and
win, to which, is as imeset, had jug bees added 1,750
fathoms mere. Sigma was at etas made to the Terrible,
orders were given to get cep steam is all hathe to leave the
setrees 'pot width will bear no numnseased el ench soli-
citous it
emergy-mech noble toil—ouch 111-requftedi labours I
The buoys which mark the place where so much west down
will soot be waifs sod strays es the stormy seas of antein g
ad made' will be left of the expeditious but entries ia
Isae. 51 deg. 24 see., leg. 39 deg. 59 see.,
red d cable N. 50 W.l>! milas"--uand esti memories as
etreogtheo owe who have witnemed home lights with
*drone fathots awl w essoureged to in the
sure convithiee that the good work will with
ie thi end.* The heaved the Therille, with Louts-