The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-29
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

~ Aw- Communicated.
] as THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
The accomplishment Of this great enterprise is now al
most fixed fact That 1t will be prosecuted to compile
ton admits of possible doubt The only portion Of the
matter now at issue is whether the government of the
United States will lend helping hand, and receive in re-
therefor all the advantages to be possessed by the
British government in consequence Of the aid afforded by
the British ministry. M @ 53 [
au soft and almost uniformly level bed Of thirteen
hundred miles extent in the direct line between Ireland
and Newfoundland and the adoption of wire rope COW
ng for the cable at once light and flexible and of such
rengh that it will bear in water over six miles Of Its
Town length suspended vertically have reduced the labor
anxiety and danger of this part Of the work greatly
opinion that this cable will be found to DO attended with
risk in the process of submersion than any one that
IhaS yet been laid down pfe eas.
From a letter recently published we learn that
"On approaching the land each end much thicker
will be used such will be sufficiently strong to re-
sst accident from the oulng of anchors the effect
Nof currents At the newfoundland end where cebergs
grounding might do Us more mischief than anchors
could do on our own coast fortunately able by
keeping some distance to the north of the Great Bank
carry our cable into harbor perfectly landlocked into
which no iceberg enter, without a. any part having
less than zoo to $50 fahoms Of water depth sufficient to
guard us against accident
The following letter from the British Treasury already
well to reprint shows the amount of aid to be fur
ushed BY the government of Great Britain:
sfa TREASURY CHAMnEns, Nov 20.
SIN Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of her
Maestys Treasury your letter of the 18th ulimo address,
to the Earl OF Clarendon requesting behalf of the
New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph C0mpa-
ny certain privileges and protection ia regard to the line
telegraph which proposed to establish between New
bund!and and Ireland am directed by their ordships
acquant you that they prepared to enter into con-
haze thaf o1
lowing conditions, viz:
1t is understood that the capital required to Law down
Her Majesys government engages to furnish the aid
ships to take what sonndings may still be considered
needul or to verify those already taken and ayoraby to
consider request that may be made to furnish aid by
their vessels in laying down the cable.
B. The British government from the time of the
completion of the line and long it shall continue in
working order undertakes 70 pay at the rate of fl4OOo
year. being at the rate Of per cent the assumed
capital as fixed remuneration f.. .io WIN uono =.
half of the government ia the conveyance outward and
homeward of their messages this payment to continue
III nett profits Of the company equal dividend
Of per cent, when the payment shall be reduced
10000 year for aperod Of twenty-five years tits,
however, understood that messages in any
year shall at the usual tariff charged to the public
amount to larger sum- such additional payment shall be
made as is equivalent thereto.
4. That the British government shall have priority in
the conveyance of their messages all others subject
the exception only Of the government of the United
States the event Of their entering into arrangement
Of the British government in which the messages of
the two shall have priority in the order in
which they arrive at the stations
g. That the tariff of charges shall be fixed with the
of the treasury and shall not be increased with
such consent being obtained long this contract
lasts
am sir, your obedient servant
II .D,..,, ,as- ", JAMES WILSON.
CYRUS w. FIELD, esq, 81 Jermyn street.
The New York. Newfoundland, and London Telegraph
Company have asked from government similar aid to
agreed to be furnished by the of Great
Britain, and bill to grant them such assistance has al
ready passed the Senate snd is pending in the House
Of Representatives The principal objection made to the
bill by its opponents in the Senate that both ermni
would be in British domnions and that in the OF
the British would have the entire control
of tho line greatly TO tho detriment of this country
This consideration will stand the test Of practical
qury for, well said by Senator Benjamin during
the recent debate in the Senate f this be matter Of
much Importance to Great Britain and the control
this line would be powerful engine in time of
well peace is it extraordinary that she proposes
us full and equal participation in the control and bene
fits the line and consents to allow government and
citizens equal rights with herself and citizens for the
sum named 1t must be obvious, 1t not regarded by
the British in the light in which the senator
viewed it,
The opinion expressed by the honorable gentleman from
louisiana cannot fail to carry conviction 10 any unpreu
diced mind The recent letter OF Lieut. Maury published
In the columns of this Journal in which he says that the
only practicable route for submarine telegraph between
the United States and England appears to be along the
plateau of the Atlantic wherein it is proposed to lay the
wire that is in process OF construction contains the
following paragraphs:
But suppose line to be constructed by American
enterprise from the British shores submarine all the way
70 one OF our seaport townscu bonoP In time of peace
Tue line along the plateau would by of its great
nke all Tho fIo
need but cut the American cord take charge
VI us ounce at the other end render the whole 1.-The in
operative or perfectly useless TO us.
cannot but be regarded by every wise and good man
ounate circumstance that this great enterprise Of the
snoAan'ic telegraph is the joint work of England and
"erca This circumstances ought Of itself to serve
guarantee to the world that in OF warshould
auappy ever be waged between these two nationsthat
a never to be broken, TO be used otherwise than
anu larry alike by the two nations, their citizens
and subjects ., trts1. "a a 'rt
have Just seen the great nations of Europe emery
rom the horrors of fierce and bloody war; and yet
honor and the glory Of the age be said that that
b vengeui though it was, was not savage enough to
aA single line of tclcgraphic wire The lightning
aau ro with messages between ST. Petersburgh and the
SP'als OF France and England, it does And in
OF war with this country after that electric cord is
~ ny the joint means and nterprisc of the two peo
m upon tho quiet bottom Of the deep sea- neither of the
governments would dare take that cord and in the face
e onrstan States and peoples of the age convert it
ers and partnerss ''77
Inc views entertained by Lieut. Maury strike us as
enuy just and entitled the careful consdera ton
members of the House Of Representatives in whose
us now lie the questions not only to whether
eoerhment will become equal participator in the adj
aoags 10 be derived from this great enterprise but
will entte itself to the honor of aiding in the