The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-19
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Wonders of the Telegraph.

There is an old Arabian tale in which thre
young princes are represented as having oh
tCned possession of three implements. th
works OF the genial, which were esteemed tn
most wonderful oc which man had yet heard
There was small telescope which could as
slst the sight of the observer to penetrate
thousands OF miles from the spot on which ht
stood. There was carpet which transported
any one who took his station upon it swift as
a wish to any place to which he desired to go
There was apple which healed all diseases
If the patient but inhealed the fragrance of its
sunny rind Such were the subjects of the
tales with which the Arabs soothed the mon
otony of their midnight encampments and
which the Indian story teller related to his
sWarthy audience under the arch of the city
gate IN the short twilightS of the East The
Imagination OF the most imaginative races had
been taxed to their utmost stretch to conceive
what miracles could be performed is the su-
pernatural powers might be made favorable to
man, and such were the results. Science in
these modern times, and human reason acting.
as we believe, under the immediate guidance
of Providence, have outstrpped the fanciful
legends of the Eastern world
There is no Oriental poet who ventured to
Imagine that dweler IN DemascuS or Bardad
could communicate his thoughts to the utmost
limits OF the habitable world instantaneously
as they were conceived in his own brain
Their notions of physical geography were SO
limited that the Easlerns have no conception
OF the true form of the planet we inhabt.
Had they, however, been told that the world
was sphere, and that the thought of man
could be made to encompass it like a girdle.
rapidly as the flash that rent the clouds asund-
er, and passed away ere one could say light
ened, how poor in comparison with such a
result would all the wonders have appeared
which, as they supposed, lay hidden from hu-
man eye, and sealed for ages to come under
the sacred signet of Solomon The electric
telegraph is the miracle Of modern times. AS
yes the invention is but in its infancy; but
already all Europe is traversed by its wires
aud, the continent, toO of North America
In the course of the next two or three wears
we trust to see results far more extensive.
The wire is already coiled up which is to be
cast into the depths of the Atlantic Irhe
mountains and valleys Of the great sea have
been tathomed to ascertain the most conye-
nient course for its deposit.
In brief space the electric spark which is
generated In London will pass as swiftly as
the eXlgencies of its own nature REQUIRES to
the great cotton city on the delta of the Mis-
'slssIppi, and to that rude town, whichever it
may be, which may then be furthest westward
IN the domains of the buffalo and the red man.
Contemporaneously with this gigantic result.
we have other laborers in the same field Of
work, who are buisily engaged in fixing a
tramroad for the electric spark between the
Eeropean continent and the northern shores
OF Africa. This limit once obtained, the light /
nlng thought can flash freely on its course
across the old land Of the Egyptian whether
by the Red sea or across the plains of Meso-
potamia, to the cities Of our Indian empire
and in due time, no doubt, the grand centres
OF Chinese commerce. Nor is this all. The
wire which had been laid down from London
In one direction will soon be carried to the citv
ofthe California gold digger. The correspond
ing wire on which we have just marked a few
stations will then be borne across the Chinese
sea and the Northern Pacific, touching, as it'll
may, on its way at the mysterious empire ofI
Japan, and will be linked on at San Francis
ee to the western chain. Then it NAV ham
pen that man may generate spark al Lon
don, which, with one fiery leap, will return
back under his hand and disappear, but at the
same moment of time it will have encompass
ed the planet in which we are whirling through
into eternity. That spark will be a human |
thought