The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-05-09
From the New York Herald, April 20.


The United States war steamer, Niagara.
| is appointed to leave the port of New York
this morning, for England, preparatory to
performing her part in LAYING the great sub
marine telegraph cable which is to connect
the opposite shores of Europe and America.
In this important work, she will be assist
ed by two English naval steamships and the
United States steam frigate Susquehanna,
which has been detached from her service
on the Mediterranean for the purpose. 1t
is calculated that the expedition on which
| these vessels are to be employed, will ac-
complish in two months from the present
| time, and that direct and instant commune
cation will be established between the New
and the Old World. ai ,ala Esz asE
The first fact that presents itself, in con-
siderirg the effects which must result from
the success of enterprise, is the humiliation
Of both space and time between the Old and
the New Worlds. One of the principle OBJ
jections urged against its practicability was
the difficulty in procuring battery sufficient.
iy strong to transmit pulsation across the
Atlantic through a simple conductor. Il
was, however, satisfactorily proved by Pro-
fessor Morse that it not only could be done.
but that strong eclectic current could trans.
NIT dot or character distance of two
thousand miles in two seconds. Other cleo
tricians said it could nottbe done in less
than from four to six seconds, but the fact
that it could be accomplished was fully es.
tablished. The statement of 4 few facts
show. the wonderful effect which will be pro-
duced BY the successful LAYING Of this cable.
The London Exchange closes at three o.
clock, and as the difference in time between
that city and New York is four hours and
forty-five minutes, we will receive the re.
port OF the price Of consols at eleven O'Clock
in the morning in time for our operators in
Wall street. The movements Of the Lon
don and New York money markets viii
therefore appear in the evening edition Of
the New York Herald, and on the same day
on which they may take place. The British
Parliament sometimes sits as late as one o.
clock, and their sessions are occasionally
prolonged till two in the morning, but tho
result of their deliberations will reach us
about ten O'Clock of the preceding evening.
time enough to be published in the HernII
of the next day, simultaneously with the re-
port in the London Times. Then, apnin
our great mercantile firms can send their
orders through it to different parts az En-
rope and countermand them with the same
rapidity should they find it their interest to
do so. 1t is hardly possible to calculate of
this stupendous undertaking, and when ac-
con1plished there cannot be doubt Of H.
success in q pec:tiiary point Of view. When
considered that it will be connected with the
various land lines on both sides Of the At
iantic, now extending thirty three thousand
miles in Europe and forty-two tho,sand
in the United Sites and that it will be the
only means OF communication between them:
It would seem to be inadequate to the de-
mands that will be made upon it. Such ia
the opinion of some who have had long OK.
perlence in telegraphing, and who predict
that before i've years elapse two submarine
cables will be required instead of one.