Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-09
rbe Atlantic telegraph.


The Atlantic Telegraph Company have decided
to take the cable OCT of the Niagara and Agamem-
non, and the British Government have given them
permission to store it in Plymouth naval dock yaFd
until il is again needed for practical operations
Measures have been adopted By the Company tor
raising as much as possible of the submerged cable
and the work is 10 be Immediately commenced.
The Directors of the Company recently commls-
stoned three English engineers, namely: Mr.. PENN
Mr.. Field and Mr.. Lloyd (Chief Engineer OF Ihe
Steam Department of the British Admiralty 20
make a thorough examination of the cable, and all
the appliances for submerging it and TO report the
result with such recommendations for future guild
ance as they may deem advisable. These gentle
men, in company with Mr. Everett, the Chief En-
gineer OF the Niagara, performed the duty ent ust
ed to them and report that with the substitution OF
a patent self-adiusting break for that previously
used, and some modification in the paying out ma
ehinery, there is reason to doubt that the next
attempt will be successful
An engineering firm have expressed their readi-
ness to undertake lay the cable for stated price,
with the aid of Government vessels taxing all the
risk They engage that the cattle shall be laid from
Ireland to New FOundIand by June or July next,
they vii claim no Fecompense, and they will psy
for the entire of the cable In the event OF the
cable being laid before June the stipulated price to
be increased at so much per month for eavh month
gained.
In regard to the report that telegraphic commu-
nication between the Niagara and the shore was
suspended for several hours prior to the breaking
of the cable we have an anthoTatiVe contradiction,
1t seems that for short time the evening before
the accident the operators at the shore end OF the
line thought it unnecessary (having nothing to say
to send any message to the ship, although they
constantly receiving dispatches from It, hence
the impression prevailed board that the line mad
ceased to work; whereas a subsequent comparison
OF the records kept shore and on the snip snow
ed conclusively that the insulation was quite per-
feet until the cable broke.
Nothing further had been done in regard to the
sale of the cable for the projected Geographic line
to India, the Indian Company not being prepared
as yet with the necessa funds TO 60 on with the
negotiation. The Atlantic Company would certain
IL not part with the cable unless they could con-
tract for the delivery of another in the spring.
The panic in New York had most conclusiVely
demonstrated to many the necessity for the COM
pleton of Transatlantic telegraph, and the following
we'll authenticated aptly illustrates the necessity :
At dinner party in London, one OF the Oldest
merchants in the city, whose business connections
with the United States are on an extensive scale,
expressed his conviction to one of the Directors OF
the Company that the Atlantic Telegraph would not
be advantageous to the commercial community,
giving utteFance at the same time TO other "old
fogy" sentiments in reference to the enterprise OF
the age. The Director endeavored, but failed to
convince the merchant that he was IN error. a
few days afterwards, however, 1.-THE Canada having
arrived in the interim with account of the hnan-
cisl disaster in New York; the same parties met,
and the merchant had so completely changed his
mind that he declared his readiness to give any
amount OF money if Geographic communication could
be at once opened with the States, having, as be
confessed accepted bills to the extent of 927 900 on
account of large institution which had previously
TO the date Of acceptance, suspended payment, and
which, of course he would not have done had the
telegraph been in operation, as he would have had
instant adVces OF the failure.-Bdtt. Amer.