The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-29
CARLISLE SPRINGS.

A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun is at
Carlisle Springs, and, to judge from the follow
ing extract which we take from his letter, he is
in clover. He writes
This old and favorite resort, about five
miles from the venerable town of Carlisle, was
never more attractive than at this time. 1t is
gathering to its grateful shades a poodlv.
cheerful, and intelligent company, among whom
are q number of Baltimoreans and Washing.
tonians. Included in the former are the fami-
ly of the Hon. Henry May, and in the latter Mr..
Bailey, of the National Era, and his family.
"The situation of Carlisle Springs, within half
q mile Of the range of mountains, which form
a crescent, it were around it, is most deli ght-
full, and the atmosphere in which one lives
here is as pure and fresh as the limpid streams
which flow from out the staten hills around.
"While you were suffering 10 severely with
drought in your section, we were up here en-
joying Q genial shower almost every afternoon;
and what is peculiar advantage in this beau
tiful little plateau, on the side of the mountains,
the water Immediately disappears from the sur
face of the soil-the whole substrstum being
slate.
"There is fine sulphur spring here, and
baths. The excellent farming country around
gives evidence of abundance. The great quan.
titles of rich milk and butter supplied by the
farms would lead one to suppose 1t is a land
flowing with milk and-butter. .,.v
The CABLE.-Professor Morse, it. seems, has
never, from the beginning, had mu Oh faith in
the telegraphic expedition across the Atlantic,
especially the last. He thinks the cable is toe
large to be laid successfully.
The following objections were made, some
time since, to the present expedition:
"A cable coiled cannot be uncoiled without
kinks:
therefore the cable must be reeled to be
laid. lr
1.-THE necessity for two vessels to lay the ca
BILE, quadruples land mOre) the risk of acct
dents:
Therefore the cable must be laid from one
"The voyage to England is easier, shorter,
and safer, than the voyage from England:
Therefore the vessel with the cable should
start from this side.
"There is one vessel, and one only, of tonnage
and room sufficient to carry tn. whole of the
cable, to wit, the Leviathan
Therefore the cable, if ever laid at all, must
be slowed on q succession of reels in the Lsvia
than, ard the Leviathan must sail from our own
shores" "
1t was suggested in the Era, year ago, that
the Leviathan should be used on hsr first trip
to lay the cable. She is so large, that she will
scarcely feel gale, and, consequently, there
would be little strain upon the cable e any time
while the process of paying out was going on.
During the coming month, August, elections
are to be held in Missouri for Congressman; in
Kentucky for State officers; in North Carolina
for Governor and Legislature. The other
States which hold elections in AuguEt-Alaba.
ma, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee--do not
choose either State officers or members of the
next Congress. .t.a
It is said that the choice of the Prince of
Wales, the future monarch of England, if
he cutlives his mother, is limited to seven
royal princesses. Princess Alexandra Of Der
mark is considered the most suitable match of
the seven. When the Prince of Wsies comes
of age, in 1862, she will be l8. '