The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-01
PROGRESS of the Telegraph

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into communication, but all the railway s'a-
,;o,s If the metropolis, the post Office ADM
.,,., of,ce, and other government offices, the
80 ,,,;ce station. the Houses of Parliament
end many of the principal clubs are connect
"a Inv wires. The foreign telegraphs are ge-
nerallv underground, but not always.
Submerged wires now connect England
with the Continent, at several points. One
wire connects Dover with Calais in France,
smother with Mddlekirk near Ostend, and
another extends 1l9 miles from Orfordness to
Scheveningen, on the Dutch coast. There
are also two wires across the Irish Channel
Bvmeans of these, and the various continen-
tai lines instantaneous communication can be
made with Copenhagen, Cracow, Warsaw
st. Petersburg and Vienna. The Emperor
of Russia is now stretching wire from re
tersburg to Moscow, and thence TO his por's
on the Baltic and Black Sea. Germany ana
Austria have about 5000 miles of telegraph
Lines are penetrating the Alps IN swltzer-
land, and Spain and Italy have estaohsheo
them to limited extent. The Itallan wires
are shortly to be connected with Corsica ana
Sardinia, and extended thence across to Afri-
ca at a point near Tunis In India, steps are
being taken to construct 5000 miles of tele-
graph.
In France the telegraph is under the exclu-
sive control of the government. The lines
radiate from Paris to all the important cities
in France. No private messages are sent,
except some diplomatic matters and the news
brought by the Indian overland mail to Mar
settles
But the United States have outstripped all
other nations There are now over 10000
miles of telegraph in this country connecting
the most distant points. A line will short
ly be established from Natchez, Miss, to San
Francisco, some 5000 miles. In New York
and Boston all the fire stations are connected
by telegraphs, which have proved very use
full. Private telegraphs are largely used in
the chief commercial cities. And yet the
demand for telegraph lines is not half sup
piled. New lines are constantly going into
operation, and will be for years to come, to
keep pace with the growing business and
population of the country. At no distant day
we shall see the Eastern and Western Cont
nen:s connected by line across Bherings
Straits or the Atlantic, SO that the whole civil
Ilzed world will be able to enjoy the same
thoughts and read the same news almost at
the same moment.
Moreover the telegraph will ultimately be-
come the great preventer of accidents on
railroads, by giving timely warning of the
departure and arrival of trains, communica-
ting news of any obstruction and keeping
whole line of road under the constant super
vision of single mind. The plan has been
adopted by the n Y and Erie railroad COM
pany, who have telegraph along the whole
line of their road, for such purposes exclu-
sively. The plan has worked so successfully
that the Baltimore and Ohio company have
granted the right of way and subscribed
$4,000 TO the telegraph company towards
the expense of an additional line, to be used
for similar purposes, and other railroad COM
panies will not be slow in following these ex-
amples.
There never was any human invention
which came into such Sudden and universal
mn, alton. Steam-p over for land and ma
Opt1t
r;ne MIR oses, the art of printing, and many
otbor invent. ons and discoveries of high i'm
nortance. were half century or more in
coming into USE
Mr.. Wheatst"-.e took out patent in Eng
land in 1887 for very imperfect approxima-
ton to the present telegraph. On the first
day of May, 1874, we saw the first stretch of
telegraph ever erected in America. 1t was a
mere experimental line on Morses plan ex-
tending from the Capitol in Washington to
the Relay, on the road to Baltimore and the
inventor was explaining it in person to the
thousands from all parts of the land who on
that day visited the two cities On occasion of
the great Wing Convention. Men went home
and studied it, saw its importance, and the
telegraph went into operation in all direc-
tions. Professor Morse and others have since
made many improvements, and now, the tele-
graph 10: many purposes and in many places,
has superseded the mails. 1t WAS glorious
invention, and viii do as much to enlighten
and civilize the world. as printing or steam
navigation. We rejoice to hear of every new
position brought within its scope, for it tends
to establish community of thought and opin-
ion, and to bring mankind more into the att;-
tude of brothers. More lines are wantad ond
just at this time, one from Washington TO
Richmond is thing of the first naeass;tv 70
many of our people. ~
IHE RIOT AT NIAGARA-The following is
more detailed account of the riot at Niaga.
ra. than that published by us yesterday:
nASARA FALLS, August 20 Great excitement ,..s
esas.oheo at the Cataract House Yesterday bv .h
TIE IT, oy Deputy Marshal Tyler Of Patrir} S55sa n9
aAs !eseph W stson, colored waiter Al tbs, b1
T no accused OF being the murderer of lanes u
ones =, Ssvannah, on 9Th july ig49 The 80 a..
oensrins MN 10 be arrested as ngi,;ve y.
eeo nam from the officers and "a ,L res
sns aining room One Of the of6cers 49, 'ne door OF
@ ssnsappse y at man, but 1t missed s. mrssvoiyer
shaL iofced--the man again 49,. Inc door
ferIS wbs, sg negroes who hurried him aon again
hslf wsy $500 Jumped into boat ana w, y 70 the
the boat in the middle Of the sresn man who lef
another boat to the shore TO returned
of the case from the officers Findine - particular
be murder, the feryman agreed to row &C.,, sa.ne 2
landing at the bridge and there deliver the 70 IN
to the officers. The latter then started for the I'm
landing. but were preceded by the ne groes who
the number Of about 900, reached the landing bef,
the officers. The officers then claimed assistan,
from party OF some 500 Irish laborers empioyed
The reiiroad-and gusI pitched battle eIsnea NJ
Fight nd nrysDed he ~ 4. La-n-r :