The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-15


Compilation Of The Submarine 1eiegraph--Nc
Change IN Cotton fnaug uration Of the Grea
Russian Railroad More Prosecutions IN
Eraace-- The Cuba Question ia Spaia-Aus.
l-iaa Liam Failed, d.
The Cunard steamship Asia, Captain Judkins
arrived at New York on Sunday morning She
left Liverpool at noon on the 9th September
and encountered strong northwest gales the
whole passage, making the light ship at nine
o'clock on the 9th inst
a1 On the 9Th, at 80 p. m, the Asia unchanged
signals with the British ship Lady Peel bound
west. On the OH, at 6 a. IN, 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
sian railway. 1t is curious that the greatest
despoti-m, and the greatest republic, should thus
have the greatest railroads in the world.
sssiaalaf EXCITEMENT In SPAIN.
The Madrid correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle writing on the 18th instant. says:
The Journals here are filled with details OF the
news from Cuba, summary OF which was re-
ceived 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
up. n impulse and feeling and not on sober views
of advantage.
SINKING OF THE GREAT CABLE TELEGRAPH.
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Chronicle of Friday, the 25th of September
writing from Dover, gives this account of the
laying down of the new submarine telegraph:
The actua' submersion of the great cable
telegraph, now attracting so much international
at elton, and which arrived here by her Maj
e,ty's sh p Blazer, was commenced this morning
at six O'Clock, at which hour Cap. Bullock, II,
N, was ready, with the steamship Fearless, and
a 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 undertaking some
twenty miles Of deep sea with the electric link
of intelligence between the European continent
and the capital Of the world. jfaa $3.50
"The first thing done, there not being sutf-
Gent depth of water for the Blazer to be
brought near enough shore, was, to convey
the extremity of the cable to the South Fore
land coast, where it will be buried deep in
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
on board the latter vessel paying out continu
ously the cable over her stern, from whence, by
the action of its own wei sht, it sank deep into
and
The track between the South foreland and
Sandgate, the corresponding point on the
French coast, and which has been selected rs
presenting, from soundings and surveys, the
fewest obstacles and probable disturbances, was
marked out by pilot bouys and 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
a hundred and eighty feet, or thirty fathoms.
There being a surplus of four miles of wire
over the twenty one required, the Stacking pro-
cess was well sustained, and the experience
gathered from the experiment OF ! lst year rem
dered the operation the more facile. The route
adopted differs advantageously from the one laid
down last year, WHICH was in the neighborhood
of shifting sands Messrs. Champion and VOL
neering arrangements, and some thirty men anc
the necessary batteries being on board, compli-
mentary messages and notifications of progress
were sent over the progressively paid out cable
through the waveless depths to Dover. Fusees
were Also at intervals of miles, fired through it
on the foreshore.
cat half. past one, the gratifying intelligence
was conveyed through the cable, that it was then
half way across the channel, ten miles; but at
this stage of the voyage it began to blow fresh,
and the ripple at the bows of the vessel at start
inc now assumed more of the rolling sea, which |
oceasioned a pitching of the vessel that, for 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 off and submerged, and as,
consequently, nothing further in the shape of
written despatch could be conveyed to town, the
only medium for communicating the subsequent
prc gress of submersion would be.
By Sub Sea and Land Telegraph
aCoAsT OF FRANCE, TWILIGHT.
aThc cable is securely anchored two and-a.
half miles off the French coast"
II will thus be seen that the great cable, af er
an arduous expedition, was all but successfully
landed on the French frontier, and this is to be
completely accomplished on the renewal oil ope-
rations tomorrow morning, (Frday)
q On the completion of this work, the London
Sun remarks
aWonderfu as have been the achievements
already accomplished during this memorable
year of 1851, perhaps the most extraordinary Of
all has yet to be recorded. Ii may be calculated
with some degree Of certainty that by the time
our broad sheet of this evening goes to press
Enelnnd and France will be efeciually linked
together 10y means of the electric Telegraph
From the report of yesterdays proceedings in
the Channel in reference TO this remarkable en-
terprise, it 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 enthralng than
that already dedicated to the narrative f.this
unpnraleled updertaking-on which cannot fail