Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-02

When the curtain Of night nature spread,
And Bob had returned from his work 70 break bread,
Like the dove his nest he reposed from all care,
If his wife and his children surrounded him there
have passed by his door, when the evening gray,
And the hill and the Landscape fading away,
And have heard the cottage without surprise,
The voice of thanksgiving like incense arise.
And thought Of the proud, Who would look with
On the little cottage the grove, and the thorn,
And felt that the riches and ,ins-i Of life,
Were dross, to cont-ntmsnt with Bob and his wife.
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The Telegraph over the World.
Benjamin Franklin was man of ac-
quirements in advance of his age. Studi-
Gus Of the nature OF lightning, and versed
in the science Of electricity as it was then
known, it was he whose sagacity first de-
tectcd their afiuity, and who, in 1852, first
applied conductors to the protection Of
buildings, aud his invention will be con-
staut safeguard to property to the end Of
time. He, too, took prominent part in
the war of Independence. Franklin died
in 1890, long before the heats incidental
to that struggle which freed his country
had subsided, aud very bitter feelings pre-
vailed between the two countries during
the latter years of his life. But what
what would the father of electrical science
have said, if he had known that there we're
children in the world which be was lsav-
ing, who would live to see the day that all
England rejoiced, that such was the tri-
umph of science, that the salute which
inauyurared the 4th Of July in New York
nigh, oe fired by English engineer officers
in London
Yet it is even SO! In no great number
of months, the galvanic wire will connect
England with the New World, and early
III 1888 the electric current will carry a
message, or fire gun, across the Atlantic,
with velocity that allows no appreclasle
measure of time Wonderful as the pro-
jec. Is, 1t Is no mere speculation the thing
has already been accomplished. &C Already
submarine teIegraphs, concentrated IN
Loudon, traverse st. Georges Channel to
Dublin, the North Cnsnuei to Carrlckfer-
gus, the Straits of Dover to Calais aud Os-
tend, aud the North Sea from Orfordness
to the Hague. Nor are other countries
behind hand-the Little Belt, the Great
Belt and the Sound are traversed by line
to ksrslcrona, which connects Sweden
with the rest Of Europe France commu-
nicatss with her AIg.ripe Governor BY
liue which passes from Spezzia to Cape
Corso over Curslca and Sardiuis to the
ue,ghborhood OF Tunls, and thence to AL.
gers by land. Even the iuhospllable Eu-
xiuu has received the beue6crnt messsD-
ger, and many an anxious mind has been
relieved by the telegraph from Baisklsva
/ to Vsrus whilst preparations are being
made to communicate in the same manner
with Malta, CoDstantiple, Alexandra,
Adeu, aud thence to Kurrschee, where it
is to be connected with the Indian system.
/ The line which is to connect the New
! World with the Old, is to commence at
Cork, aud along its proposed route to St.
Jouu's-a distance of Que thousand six
hundred aud eighty miles-ths bottom Of
the SEA Is plateau or long continued bank,
as discovered BY Llsutenant Msury in
1858, and 50 eminsntly suited as the rest
ing place of the submarine cattle, that it
has been called the telegraph platform.
1t is Of . tolersbly uniform depth, not
more than has been already successfully
encountered during the greater part Of its
extent, though deeper nearer the Irish
coast than the shores Of Newfoundland,
aud about two or three miles in breadth.
This bank 10 composed Of bed Of the
most minute possible SHELLS, 80 small as to
be scarcely distiuguishabls BY the naked
eye, aud Of such delicate and beautiful
s,ructure-apparently Kindred to thoss
microscopic shells which form some of our
chalks aud narbles-ss to prove the COM
plete s,illuess of the water 1t that depth.
Indeed, it is we'll known that the disturb
ance caused BY the waves, even Of the
most violent storm, ceases at depth COM
parstively ,rlalug. st. Johns is two or
three days nearer England than Halifax /;
aud now that dangerous ef, called the
Merlin Rock, 1t the Esrrow entrance to
the haroor-eighteeu feet below the sur
face st low wstsr-has been skllfully and
successfully removed BY the order aud At
the expense Of the Company, the largest
steamers in the world can With safety pass
in aud out of that land locked harbor,
which possesses abundant facilities for
cosliug first class steamers. Crossing New
| foundIand to Cape Ray, the cable is laid