The Washington union., 1857-08-22
THE ARABIA's MAILS FURTHER FOREIGN IN
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lust now read with avidty ON both sides of the Atlantic
The Dublin Freemans Journal of August contains the
following interesting Of the landing OF the tele
graph cable at Valencia the speech OF the Lou heu'e
ant OF Ireland on this important occasion, &c.
at an early hour "Wednesday morning several parties
nroceeded To visit the American steam rgate Niagara
which Law at anchor the harbor during the night and
were most courteously received and shown around the
several parts of this magnificent vessel by its officers
Abou twelve clock his excellency the Lord Lieutenant
bo Earl Of Carisle arrived board and had oppor
tunity Of witnessing the operation of the machinery ar
ranged on the deck for paying out the cable
Shortly after one o clock boat, well manned from the
American vessel let down, and one OF the paddle
box boats of the Leopard with crew, was placed imme
datey under the stern Of the Niagara when the opera
ton paying out the shore end Of the cable commenced
His exceency had Just before disembarked in order to
be at the place Of landing in time receive the cable on
its being brought to shore The proper complement nav
ing being coied in the boat second paddleoox boat
belonging 10 the vessel took her place. whch III
turn was succeeded by boat from the Susquehanna. AT
ter the usuuehanna there up large steam tug the
Willing Mind the deck of which about as much OF the
cable was coed placed in the other three boats
may add that the register index OF the machinery lnd
Gated to the yard the quantity coed into each boat and
as the boats successfully laden they connected
with strong tow ropes and the Admiralty steam vessel
the Advice, steamed up to tow them in
The Advice let steam and slowly towed on the boats
which were arranged in the following order The Amer
can boats manned with rowers the two boats OF the
Leopard the Susquehannas boat, and the Willing Mind
laden with the cable. Immediately on the AuVlce get-
ting into motion the Willing Mind began to pay out the
cable and the convoy thus proceeded until the portion OF
the cable coiled her deck, about mile IN length
was laid in the bay At this moment the scene was most
animated and interesting large number OF boats and
private yachts covered the bay the waters of which were
as smooth mirror, the weather having perfectly
cleared up about four O'Clock Several Of the boats be-
longing the ships engaged in the proceeding with OH
GERS on board ranged at regulated intervals, rowed on
each sde directing the operations and watching the pay
ing out
The Willing Mind having paid of her portion Of the
cable round to the front the water becoming
shallower and took the place Of the Advice, which had
all through headed the expedition Lieut Thompson,
who had been the party TO plant the tent the shore ut
the point where the connexion with the land wires was
to be made, now took the several gentlemen have
named from board the Advice, and conveyed them in
one of the boats of the Leopard to the landing where
were assembled at the moment his Excelency the Lord
Iaeutcnant Lord Russborough, Mr.. +. Howard the
Knight of Kerry, Lord Dunraven Mr.. Cyrus Field and
a large company. The beach was crowded with num-
bers Of people from Caircveen and the adjoining neigh
borhood. In succession, several of the ships boats
arrived and about seven o'clock the Willing Mind
dropped off the water having become too shallow, and
one OF the Amcrican-oared boats took her place mme-
diately in front Of which gig belonging to the Nj
agara containing the following officers OF that vessel
Commander Pennock Lieutenant W. ID. Whiting, Lieu
tenant Guest Lieutenant Wells, Mr. Edrige, purser, and
Mr. Charles Bright engineer n-chief to the Atlantic Tec
graph Company. In a few minutes the foremost boat
touched ground and the American sailors headed by
their officers and aided by the men OF the Susquehanna
and Leopard sang, some on shore and others IN the
water and sezng the end of the cable rushed up with
it upon the beach Here they were met by the Lord
Lieutenant 20 whom the cable was handed by Commander
Pennock and Lieut. Whiting His excelency seized the
rope and pulled Justify at it for minutes not stop
ping until it had been carried considerable distance up
the shore. Several Of the gentlemen present
nearly all Of tealso assisted in pulling it up, being
eager TO take part in great work The rope was
then deposited in channel which had been dug for that
purpose and its extremity brought into the tent where
the batteries fixed His excellency congratulated
Commander Pennock the success which had attended
the of the great work. to which the gal
liant officer replied " trust that in the of twenty
days will be able TO the consummaton of
the marriage Protestant clergyman, of his
cellency's chaplans offered prayer
His exceency then said: NY American, English, and
Irish friends feel ut such moment this that Ian
gage be becoming except that of prayer and praise
However, it is allowable to any human lips though they
have been specially qualified for the Office to raise
the inscription of ssGiory to God in the highest
earth peace and good win to men r Cheers.l That,
believe is the spirit in which this great work has been
undertaken and it is this reflection that encouraged
to feel confident hopes OF its final success Hear hear
and loud cheers believe that the great undertaking
now SO happily begun will accomplish many great and
noble purposes of trade, Of national policy and of
pire Hear, But there is only view in which
will present it to those whom have the pleasure to adj
dress.
You are awarc--you must know, of you, from
your own expsrience-that many of your dear friends
and relatives have left their native land to receive
v
pect that all of you understand the wondrous mechanism
by which this great undertaking is to be carried But
this think you viii, all Of you, understand. If you
wished to communicate piece of intelligence straight
way your relatives the wide world of waters
if you wished to tell those whom you know it would in
in their heart of hearts of BIRTH marriage or,
alas death, among you the little cord which have
hauled up to shore will mpar that tidngs quicker
than the Fash of the lightning Loud cheers Let
indeed hope let pray that the hopes of those who have
undertaken this great design may be rewarded by its
tire success cheer and let hope further that this
Atlantic cable will only, in all future time, serve
as an emblem Of that strong cord of love which, trust
viii always unite the British islands to the great continent
of America Hear And join with me in my fervent
wish that the great Gvcr of all Good, who has enabled
some of His servants to discern much of the working
of the mighty laws by which He rules thissunverse and
pervades each atom in 1t to accomplish the wonderful
work viii further bless its operations to make it
evermore to the high purpose of the good of
and His own great glory Cheers And now, all my
friends there can be project undertaking which
ought not to receive the appreciation and applause of the
people, will you join with in giving three hearty
cheers for ---Y Loud cheers. Three cheers not
enough for me-they are what we give
casons and, il is for the Of the Atlantic tee
graph cable, must have at least dozen cheers
loud and protracted cheering.l
Mr. Cyrus Field the protector of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, said
have no words to express She feelings which fill my
heart tonight beats with love and affection for every
man. woman, and child who hears me. [Cheers /
may say however that if ever at the other side Of the
waters before us any Of You shall present your
self at my door and say that you took hand on part
by smile work here dav xn,