The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-30
Friday Evening. Dee "a. 1850


theCensuS, on Telegraphs, saws the Gin.
einnati Gasste, il one Of the most interesting
Documents which have been laid before Con
gftss at -Preseht session. The rapidify
with which ielegrophic lines have been put
10 operation, and the extent 20 which the
practice u communicating with distan,
points, W their means, has entered into-the
ordinary business, and the private concerns
OF life, are among the most extraordinary
facts Of our extraordinary age. Il is built
Tie more than eight years since the first sue
ee'SIul experiments in the application OF
magnetism to telegraphing were made; vet
in this brief period sixteen thousand sevep
hundred and twenty-nine miles Of telegraph
have been built in the United States alone.
and more than $4,000 miles of wire
are now in use by them. These wires are
stretched between the remotest portions of
our country, making the communication be.
tween the mostdistan points instantaneous
What will be the social and political in
huehce ofthe Telegraph, We can bat fecbIy
anticipate. Taken in connection with the
influence Of railways, which are only lust
behind the Telegraph in the annihilation of
line and space, their influence upon the
luture destiny Of our country, and upon the
business and intercourse of the world INNS,
belncalculable. Trade and commerce must
adopt new rules, and be conducted on ne,
principles, when as now the news. brouobt
oy an English steamship, can be telegraphee
70 New Orleans, and its effect upon thd
marketthere be returned to New York the
same day in time to be read on 'cbanoe.-
The usages and customs Of the slow times.
oil stage-coach and steamboat. must rapidIv
disappear before the new condition oflbinas
introduced by the facilities for commupico-
tloa and travel, which are improving with
such astonishing rapidity. The old rules
LOT measuring events are no longer applica-
Bile; they belong to condition of thing.
which has passed away, and cannot return.
Our judgments of the future will therefore
only be correct, according to our accuracy
in estimating the force of the new elements
nov at work in society, and our success in
discovering the direction they are taking
In our country, he can hardly fai. 10 see in
this rapid multiplication Of ,elegraphs and
railways, the rapid multiplication of ties
which are to bind our States together with
every increasing strength. The intercourse
between the different sections of our coun-
try which these improved facilities for com
munlcation must create and increase more
hans anything else, perhaps, will tend to
make our people homogeneous, by bringing
them into contactwith each other, enabling
them to interchange sentiments, and thus
to discover that the sterling common sense
OF the mass Of our countrymen is not dis
posed to disregard, neither will it brook any
unjust interference with the rights of any
particular section of our country.
What effect the rapid communication fur
nished by the telegraph, is to have upon the
general history of the world, is problem
fruitful of speculation. London is now in
instantaneous communication with Paris,
Sweden, Trieste. Cracow, Odessa, and Leg
horn, and the wires are being carried 10 g.
Petersburgh, to India and 10 Africa. A pro-
Ject is also on fool for connecting England
and the United States by submarine tele-
graph. Ere long the wires will be stretched
from New York to San Francisco, and when
all these schemes have been accomplished
London will be in instantaneous eommuni-
cation with nearly the whole civiIiznd world
How must the conduct of statesman change,
how must the policy OF nations be modified,
to suit the enlightenment of the day which
must so IN dawn upon the world, when the
measures achievements of nations shall be
known through Christendom before night
fall. Nothing can then be done in secret,
and nothing need be done in ignorance. Di-
plomacy will loose much of its prvacv and
mystery; and State secrets will be proclaim
cd from every house-top. In whatever way
the world may be effected, by the new order
of things, just beginning to dawn upon it, we
can not see how the effect will fail to be
beneficial one. Whether it will tend to re-
press war, or render them more bloody and
dreadful, thereby inviting those who always
suffer most from such calamities, to revUlu-
ton andth assertion of rights hong with
held, the result must at least be wholesome
Ii they enable the governments to combine,
they enuble the people to do the same; and if
combinations should be unnecessary or i'm
possible, the intelligence disseminated must
eventually fit the people for successfully vim
dicating their rights and avenging their
wrongs. To such results we believe the
great achieveme nts of our age are leading
US: harmony and union ut home; abroad, in
telligence and liberty, the latter i; may be
peacefully and gradually, or in the cOnvul
sions OF revolution.
DECREASE. OF SLAVERY III FREDARcK
CoUNTY.--The Frederick (MdJ Citizen
says the factis not generally known thatin
Hauver's District, in that county, there is
not a sit gle slave owner, and perhaps not
one slave. m Catoctin, the adjoining dis
.trict there are but two slaves, and only one
slave owner. In Jackson district, which was
formerly embraced within the limits Of Ca
toctin and Middletown districts, aud which
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