Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-10

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fixed fact. few details to its working ar
rangements mny not come amiss There ARE
still many peoples unthinking as to inquire what
is the practical use of n telegraph across the At
lantc ferry; and others ola practical turn of
mind, AJAX how much will it cost US for messages
In the first place the revolution in the Newspa-
per world will be something astounding. When
Parliament is in session sha II be able To print
in the Herald of tho next day as much of tho
proceedings of tho British Senator us may be in
terestng 10 the American public. Parliament
usually gets mp at about two O'Clock in tho NOR
ming, but rs the difference in time is about five
hours in our favor. shall receive the doings
Of the sages of Westminster at about ten
eleven o'clock in the evening New York time
thnt being several hours before adjournment and
quite Us earl y as we generally receive tho pro-
ceedngs of Congress. The transactions in stocks
the closing price of consos the state of the cotton
market which will he sent from London and Liver
pool every day at three O'Clock in the afternoon,
will be received here before noon, forming the basis
of Wall street operations for that day--in other
words, the doings of tho London Exchange will
be known in Wall street before Change hours
here and will be published in the papers of tho
same evening before they are laid before tho
tho British public. Transactions on the Paris
Bourse will be sent in the same manner The
advantages of this to our mercantile community
can hardly BIO oyerraed, while the reading public
will be kept au c0urant to all European affairs.
What will n message cost is very important
question. Tho British government, guarantee
ing the company patronage to the amount of sew
enty thousand dollars per annum, has fixed the
maximum rate at four shillings sterling per word,
one dollar of federal money. This will be di
vided between tho stations as foows:-- From
London to Cork, sixpenco sterling; across the
ocean. two shillings and sixpence from New
foundland to New York, one shilling. The diff
foronee in these rates and those of our inland
lines may be readily perceived by the following
calculation: We published daypor two ago an
abstract Of the new treaty between the United
Stntos and Great Britain in relation 20 Central
American affairs. This abstract occupied col.
umn of small type of the Herald, and was telc-
graphed from Washington to us at an expense
of seventy five dollars. Now, if after the ocean
telegraph is in working order, one of our London
correspondents should happen to see an equally
important document, and should sond an alb
straot Of equal length, wo should astonsh Down
ing street at an expense of two thousand dollars
and it would be worth the money. And while
our government hestates about paying seventy
thousand per year to tho line bere is chance
for single despatch to- the Herald, Tor which
we should pay two thousand.
The thousand little messages, practical
mantie, bullying or begging, pathetic amusing.
savage or atlectlonate, announcing arrival or de-
paiture. illness or health, wealth or poverty
which continually flying from one end of the
country to the other, making the batteries leap
IN unison with the pulsations of thousands nf
hearts, will be sont at the same rate. a despatch
which costs forty cents from Boston to New
York will cost ten dollars from London to New
York
Our readers are already aware that the route
has been surveyed ut tho expense of the United
States. and that all the reports agree as to the
practcability of laying the cable upon the great
ocean plateau The cable is two thirds
smaller than that which was lost last summer,
and it will undoubtedly work much better. Liou-
tenant Bergman, who sounded the whole route,
states that the lghtest instruments were found to
reach the bottom with the greatest certainty, and
rs to the safety of tho wire. the bottom of the
Is believed to be as qiiet and peaceful as an IN
fant's slumbors. The route is Maurys great
circle line, and is far north of the locality where
all the ice accidents have taken place, and the
greatest depth is n little over two thousand faith
oms. The British government will survey and
sound the whole route in April next. Iu July
two vessels will leave the English coast with the
cable-a mile of which weighs ton. After
reaching point equi distant from both termn
the cables will be joined together and sunk. Tho
vessels will then part company the one proceed
ing to the Irish coast and the other to the Amer
lean. paying out the cable as they g. along. The
whole work of laying the wire can be done in
week. or two weeks at the outside.
We have thus briefly jotted down few facts
in relation 20 this, the greatest undertaking of
the century. We have but little doubt as to tho
result. In less than year from the present wr.
ting we expect to sit in the Herald office and tel
graph instructions to our London correspondents
receiving answers from them on the same day.
And weaiso expect TO chronicle before many
years the fact that all the nations of the earth
speak to each other through the electric wires.
AS n further Improvement upon the system of sub
marine telegrnphs all the lines on the land will
shortly be subterranean, thus making the bot
tom of the and the bowels of the earth me-
dums for the transmission of intelligence from
sun to sun and from pole to pole.
Burning Wines.