Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-08-14
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scale' created considerable annoyance by assembling
oeIofe Inc respective committee rooms, bowling for
their favorite candidates = e.sE-1
AT about haif.past six Mr. j. Towie, the mayor,
delivered the declaration Of the poll at the tow.hal
amid great confusion. Thanks were retnrneda for
MIR. Cardwell, and Mr.. Thackeray addressed the peo
pie at considerable length amid great cheering when
the proceedings terminated. ~--4y
The SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.-The London Oh.
server. speaking of the submarine telegraph, says
All doubts with respect to the retardation of the
electric current are set at rest and extensive Sc
rles of experiments have shown that ten words NAV
be whispered under the Atlantic, from Ireland to
Newfoundland, every minute, or 14,400 words per
day. The cable will be delivered in the first instance
out OF the hold of the ship through trumpe.mouth
tube, elevated about thirty feet above the cone
around which the rope is coiled. It will then pass
over ano under series of "sheavedn or grooved
Wheels where the amount of adhesion or friction of
the rope will be regulated as TO counterbalance
the weight of the cable in suspension in the water
and will thus afford perfect control over its delivery
AS in some parts the depth at which the rope is to
De lald Will be rather more than two miles and half,
there would be In the process OF payng.out probably
twice that extent of cable held in suspension and as
this weight in water is IA cwt. to the mile the
necessity of adopting due precaution against the
cable running away too quickly will be evident and
the machinery for providing against this contingency
is OF the most powerful description. Arrangements
are also made in the event of any accident for cutting
away the cable and securing one end of it to large
buoys hited with mirrors, and provided with several
miles OF Ordinary rope, and and an auxiliary steam
engine is fitted up on board to be employed in haul
ing in the buoy ropes when it is desired 10 take
possession of the line again. = -,r
The batteries to be taken on board for signalling
through the cable while in progress of being snbmer-
ged, are of most extraordinary power The zinc
plat.s employed weigh three tons and with the boxes
and the acid together, it is upwards of five TONS
hat battery OF very considerable power will be re.
qulred for the purpose of signalizng is clear from
the nature OF the duties required to be performed by
the electric current. Starting from the deck OF the
Agamemnon. it would rush through the whole of the
rope remaining uncoiled in that ships hold and then
leapng overheard, it would drive down TO the lowest
depths OF the Atlantic skip along the mountains and
valleys of old oceans bed mount to the surface,
board the Niagara, fash through the uncoled rome
board that ship, and, ringing the signal bell, tell
that throughout its whole distance of Two thousand
five hundred miles, it has met with no flaw and no
obstruction. When the little bell on board gives
forth no accustomed sound the engines of the steam
ship will be reversed, the cable hauled in and ex-
amned until the damaged part through which the
electric messenger has escaped shall he discovered
When once laid in its ocean bed, there will be no
disturbing current TO endanger its safety, and The
nature OF the plateau on which it will be deposited
leads to the opinion that in a very short time the
soft sand of the bed will form perfect cover.
ing Of the cable.
FRANcE.-A report had been current of another
attempt the Emperor's life at Plomberries but it
appears to have been unfounded.
The London Globe discredts the report that Queen
Victoria will visit France this year. .l III
The Paris correspondence of the Independence
Beige says that the sending out of some French and
English vessels of war to Tunis is spoken off.
SPAIN.-An extraordinary decline from the recent
high prices of wheat is reported
The Captain. General and the Civil Governor Of
the province of Seville were 10 be brought before a
council OF war on account of the late troubles
The excitement of insurgents had been stopped bv
the government