New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-19
Z" The RECOMMENDING Element Of the AGE,

Chambers in his Edinburgh Journal or Novsm
Der, while describing Messrs Breit K Lit,le's
Electric Inventions Correctly terms tue Lightning
Telegraph the revoutoniziog element Of the pre-
sent age for Il annihila.es both time and distance
In The T1Jria1 Of Thurrsday news from Albany
Washington, and ST. Loais. dated On the previous
evening is chronicied as an ordinary occurrence -
Whist would Dr. Franklin have said had he lived
T. see bis great idea TINS carried out ? Who can
doubt but that in snort time intelligence OF Mon
day afternoons Transactions In Ssa Francisco AMI
Oregon. on the Pacific. and in Mexico and Vera
Cruz will be given to the readers Of our City Jour
mails. by Telegraph. on the Tuesday mening. ul,ess
longcontinued war should marthe onward progress
OF scientific Improvement Already the S. Louis
folks talk Of carrying the wires across the Rocsy
Mountains and the idea IS easier followed up than
that Of Wh.neys railway. HIS scheme would
cost fifty millions; OR eilys for , 400 miles Of
Telegraph wires only a third Of one million
There are those who think tia. Telegraph line
from Upper Missouri 10 the mouth Of the Oregon
would be in danger from the ssvagcs. Not more
than from civilized folks We guess. The Mexican
savages abolished human slavery over 400 000
square miles in Texas, which our enlightened poll
tciabs have since restored. We woGli trus, the
savages. They might even be tsugh. TO repair the
line when out OF order. aud paid Tor doing, under
fair arrangement
IT, ia few years, Nsw-Yors oniers for India and
China, and news from these pieces, shall be made
TO pass overland between the Pacific and Atlantic
IN few hours. the connection will prove new
bond Of Union and Peace TO our country aud to tie
world.
Chamber Journal gives very f1 description
Of Brett 4 Titles Telegraphic Machine which
it believes to be in advance OF Wheatstone x
Cookies or any other The number Of wires re-
CURED for the telegraph and bell are but two-one
for automatically a vast improvement on sys.
tens that require wire for each station The
Journal admits that our language as spelled, is
cumbrous and would like to see what Phonog.
raphy would do for it" Mr. Dyer will probably
| consider the matter.
eve were shown Says the EDITOR Into large apart
men around the sides Of which ranged all m com
mgncaton with each other, seventeen telegraph. In
our imagination we beheld whole line Of electric tos-
graph, with its seventeen stations compressed into
room Ten coils, equal 70 h0usgnd miles, Of unnisr-
ruptsd wire, communicated between these teesphs yet
the instant the handle at extremity touched 20
dew the indicator virtually distant hundred miles -
1 In this apartment noticeable remarkably uschl
little invention attached 10 the ieegf sph called the De-
fecor II consists simply Of sttlc haEde, which cltI
insulates connects the telegraph with tfe common he
OF Communication Thus, II al instrument Is derauge 10
station, thsw not nterferei In the least with the
ers the denectof' Is pulled down. and London can sun
| talk with Birmingham, although WolvertOn, Trns, ali
all the disordered. Two or three instruments
thus purposely pat out OF order the defsctr
turned, and all went Just as before. Two bate
res each containing thrtysx pairs OF plates genoracd
the power which moved the whole seventeen teegrslhs
through the distance equivalent t. thousand miles,!
An attack upon Mr. o Reilly, by Messrs. +. O
J. Smith and Amos Kendall, appears IL the lens
rl'e Jouraoi 1t is Of great length, sad few vii
take the trouble 10 read it. OReilly's csndor, en-
terprise, ability and consistent fairness, have do
seryedly gained for him the confidence Of the great
West. The St Louis journals, o. all political
shades Of opinion. agree in doing hin justice.
| The Telegraph had only been established At Il
Louis for about fortnight, when the Daily Umoi
of that city of date the 2sth ut. thus marked it,
career of usefulness:
To the commercial world the Iroscn. season
comparative dullness yet the Telegraph between this ey
and the East. kept almost constantly employed The
duties OF the operators most ariuOus. From early
morning untl ate At night hOss gentlemen ei
either In forwarding receiving conmur catons Thou
sands Of messages thus daily sent forward received
What the Abors Of the operators will be. when the bust
ness season proper opens, may readily be inferred"