The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-12-18
Wonders of the Telegraph.

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When the submarine telegraph is complet.
ed, for which one Of our fellow-citisans is la
boring sealously in London, Cyrus w. Field, }
we shall see the following results, gro wing
out Of the diff reic o. about four hours and
three quarters between London and New
York time. The stock exchange in London
will have closed, and at the last quotations
be known at New York. by the time business
in Wall-sti eet has commenced. An import
ant speech delivered in the English Parlia
ment will be reported in the New York pa
pers Of the same evening. A division on some
great question may occur while the inhabi-
tants Of London are in their first sleep but
the instantaneous news will be circulating in
q New York journal while life is hDwing at
its full tide in the Atlantic city. The "good-
night" Of the New York telegraph clerk, as
he goes off duty at midnight will find his
European colleagues at work with the sum
mer sun already an hour on his journey to
the west Says an English paper before US ::
"Abou one thousand nine hundred and forty
miles of the Atlantic O,eau intervene be-
tween st. Johu's and Valencia, the most
western harbor in ireland and to stretch an
electric cable between the two points is the
great pTOOltn. IL is TcQuIcu W De VI bhO
enormous length of nearly three thousand
miles in order to allow for inequalities in the
bed ofthe Atlantic. The survey of the ground
has Just been completed, and the American
government took 50 much interest in the en-
terprise tn 1t it placed a ship of war at the
disposal of the telegraph company. The en-
gineers and surveyors have now an accurate
ground plan Of the bJttom of the sea be-
tween Newfoundland and Ireland. which is
reported to be highly favorable. Mr.. Ed
ward B. Bright, of the Magnetic TelegraphiC
Company has Just visited the harbJr of Val
encia and its neighborhood, with view o.
ascer.aning the best point for the termieu:
OF this monster submarine cable. His broth.
er, Mr.. Charles Bright, the engineer of the
same company, has also been engaged in @
series of experiments, which test, in the mos
satisfactory manner, the practicability Of OBJ
tanning perfect signals through magnstit
ci rcuit of three thousand miles in extent. Mr.
Cyrus W, Field, a gentleman of great ener
gy, one OF the directors of the American
company, is at present in London, with the
object of pushing forward the arrangements
connected with the project. The laying dowr
of the cable is the next step and when tina
oOIIplcltu, NtH lOIh anu LUuuOu, dul
even New Orlenns and London, will be with
in conversational distance. Two submarin,
cables have been lost in the Mediterranean
while they were being laid down, and specia
precautions will be employed by the vessels
which will start in the middle Of the Atlantic
each carrying half the line, and uncoing i
as thev start in opposite directions-.he ont
towards America and the o.her towards Ire
land. We heartily wish complete success t.
an undertaking which will be one of tn,
grandest triumphs of human genius. 1t i
impossible to over-estimate the social, politi
cal, and commercial result of thus bringing
soclosely together the two greatest AMI frees
people of the world. 1t will, at times, b,
possible for prime minister of Eaglaud tC
allay political excitement in the United States
by an immediate declaration of the concia
tory policy of this country. Let us hope tha
this duty may be recipi ocally performed.
generous sentiment uttered in the Capitol a
Washington,or in the palace Of St. Stephens
Westminster, will reyei berate alike on tn
banks of the Potomac and the Thames almos
as soon as the speaker has concluded his ad
dress. AS to the comm ,rcial gain, we be
lieye that the electric cable across the Allan
tic will preserve to England her present pre-
ponderence in the great monetary and com
mercial affairs of the world.-Herald.