The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-18
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ASIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ASIA.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Completion Of The Submarine 1elegraph-No
Change in Colon Inaug uratiOn Of The Great
Russian Railroad-1lore Prosecutions in
Frdnce-I'he Cuba Question m Spain-Aus-
trian Loan Failed, Dr..
The Cunard steamship Asia, Captain Judkins,
arrived at New York on Sunday morning. She
left Liv rpoO at noon on the 9th September,
and encountered strong northwest gales tile
whole passage making the light ship at nine
o'clock on the 9th inst.
Of~the 9Th, at $50 p. M, the Asia unchanged
signals with the British ship Lady Peel, bound
west o. Il g 9th, at 6 a. m., passed the Royal
Mail steamship Africa.
We have full files Of our English and CONT
mental papers, but find nothing in them OF great
moment. Cotton is steady and the markets
generally prosperous.
The most interesting facts ere the completion
of the submarine telegraph, and the great Rus
despotiam and the greatest republic, should thus
have the greatest railroads in the world.
EXCITEMENT In SPAIN.
The Madrid correspondent of the Morning
ChfOnicle writing on the 18th instant, says:
The journals here are filled with details of the
news from Cuba, summary of with was re-!
ceiyed by telegraph some days since; and this
subject is the main topic of conversation. From
the feeling which prevails here on the subject,
should not be surprised, if the reported out
rage on the Spanish consul at New Orleans be
confirmed, were the Spanish government to re-
sent it by some decided measure. There are
occasions when governments and nations act
upon impulse and feeling, and not on sober views
Of advantage.
SINKING OF THE GREAT CABLE TELEGRAPH.
A correspondent of the London Morning
Chronicle of Friday, the 18th of September
writing from Dover, gives this account of the
laying down of the new submarine telegraph
aThe actua submersion of the great cable
telegraph, now attracting SO much International
attention, and which arrived here by her Maj
estys ship Blazer, was commenced this morning
at six o'clock, at which hour Cap. Bullock, R.
~, was ready, with tie steamship Fearless, ard
picked crew, TO pilot the convoy across the
channel. The morning was calm and sea bright,
and the crews Of both vessels appeared animated
with that feeling of adventure which is naturally
enough evoked by an experiment OF such enter
prise and novelty as that Of underlying some
| twenty miles of deep sea with the electric link
| of intelligence between the European continent
and the capital of the world.
| .The first thing done, there not being suffi
Gent depth of water for the Blazer to be
brought near enough shore, was, TO convey
the extremity of the cable 70 the South Fore
land coast whore il will he buried deep 10
the beach and carried up the cliff The Fear,
less then steamed ahead, having made fast her
towing tackle to the hull of the Blazer, at the
rate Of two miles an hour, out to sea, the men
4 ha,r II latfa nj
ously the cable over her stern, from whence, by
the action Of is oSn wei.h il sank deep into
the sub. marine and sand, ana valley.
The track between the South foreland and
SYNDICATE, the corresponding point on the
| French coast, and which has been selected ns
pre- senting, from soundings and surveys, the
fewest obstacles and probable disturbances, was
marked out by pilot bouys, ard Is chosen as the
best site for the submerging Of the wire that
could be adopted by those having the best
knowledge of naval and marine dynamics The
depth Of the sea line at starting point is from
twenty to thirty feet, and its maximum depth
hundred and eighty feet, or thirty fathoms
There being a ssrplps OF four miles OF wire
over the twenty-one required the stacking pro-
cess was we'll sustained, and ths experience
gathered from the experiment OF last year rem
dered the operation the more face. The route
down last year, which was in the neighborhood
Of shifting sands, Messrs. Champion and VOL.
laston, the engineers, were In charge of the engi
neering arrangements, aud some thirty m, anc
the necessary batteries being on board, compli
mentary messages and notifications Of progress
were sent over the progressively paid out cnble
through The waveless depths 10 Dover. Fusees
were slso, at intervals Of miles, fired through IL
on the f0reshors.
AT halfpast one, the gratifying intelligen q
was conveyed through the cable, that il was then
halfway across the channel, ten nilee; but at
this stage Of the voyage II began TO blow fresh.
and the ripple at the bows Of the vessel at start
Jog now assumed more OF the rolling sea, which
occasioned pitching Of the vessel that, FIR per-
feet facility Of operation. had been better dis
pensed with. At about half-past FIVE o'clock,
the time at which the last train left Dover for
London, about sixteen miles Of cable had been
! successfully steamed Cf and submerged, and As,
consequently, nothing further in the shape Of
written despatch could be conveyed 10 town, the
only medium for communicating The subsequent
progress Of submersion would be.
BY SWb.Sea and Land Telegraph
"CoAsr OF FRAscE, TwILreHr.
aThe cable :, securely anchored two.snda a.
half miles of the French coast"
IL will thus be seen that the great cable, NJ ~
an arduous expedition. was oil but successfully
landed on tie French frontier, and this Is to be
completely &C ompshed on the renewal Of ope.
ratons tomorrow morninr, (Friday)
On the completion Of this work, the London
Sun remarks:
~Wonderfui as have been tho achievements
already accomplished during this memorable
year Of 1851, perhaps the most extraordinary Of
all has yet 10 be recorded. II may be calculated
with some degree Of certainty that by the time
our broad sheet Of this evening goes 70 press
England and France will be effectuaIly linked
together by means Of the electric Telegraph
From the report Of yesterdiy'- proceedings in
the Channel in reference to this remarkable en-
terprise Il will be perceived that every prepara-
| ton had been made for the immediate compile.
ton Of project hitherto conducted under the
most brilliant and encouraging auspices. The
marvellous and almost miraculous annals OF
science contain no chapter more enthralling than
/ Al. n L n Al. - IL.