Litchfield enquirer., 1858-08-12
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
 From the Albany Atlas and Argus, August 9th l Just at the moment heneverybody appear ed to give up all hope of the success of the at tempt to lay the Atlantic cable, the electric spark flashes from the wire with the announce ment that it is done
 The experiment. is successful There may be some ncompleteness, and some casualty nay yet occur to disappoint the views of the pro prietors. But the deed is done. The work has passed from the category of experiments to the record of the great achievements Of the ! nineteenth century Looking back at the few years which have passed since the first essay to bend this ethereal messenger to human uses, one is astonisl,ed alike at the magnitude of the conception and the vastness of the application that has been given to it.
 It is not merely force that is made to reach from continent to continent-not merely an i'm pulse of unknown power-',ot merely flame of fire passing unextinguished through thousands of miles of oceau-not merely the lightning of heaven lowing beneath the waters of the earth not merely a mute sign or an idea-it is a syllabled word. It is that articulatcd language which distinguishes man from all the rest of created things, and is the stamp of his resenb- lance to God.
 Looking at this embodiment of that al[per- vading and creating spirit, one is reminded of the magnificent and mysterious language of the Evangelist In the beginning was the Word. " and the Word was with God, and the Word "was God. In Him (the Word) was light " and the light was the life of men. And the ( ,Lt ,l; +L ;,, ! 1,rI,n tha " comprehendeth it not" It was in this form that in the beginning " the spirit of God moved " on the face of the waters" It was this that from chaos to night brought forth the light and the divine order of Nature
 We know the infinite distance which sepa- rates tEe immaterial from the material world the mortal from immortality. But it is when some such hnman miracle as this is performed, that we are taught to realize the greatness of the agencies of God, and to judge how narrow is our finite horizon, even expanded from this new height of knowledge compared with the infinite of which He is the center aud the cir conference
 From the Baltimore Exchange, August 9th.
 Whether Dr. Dionysius Lardner did or did or did not demonstrate, to the entire satisfac- tion of himself and others, the utter impract- cabiIity of crossing the ocean by steam IS a matter now of no consequence whatever. That quite number of very learned and very scien- tifc gentlemen did express such an opinion that they shook their wise heads, and shrugged their wise shoulders, and wondered that men of sense could be found to embark in enterprises so cllilnerical--the columns of the public jour nals, at period by no means remote, sufficient ly attest But the feat was accomplished nev- ertheless, and paddle-wheelS and propcllers now ride the waves-whose movements Maury has traced, and whose bulk and height Fara- dy has measured-in scorn of the clements, and in contempt of the philosophers. An undertak- ing scarcely less molnentons, we take pleasure in recording to-day. The magnificent idea of establishing electrical communication between this Continent and Europe has been realized. The submarine cable, perfect in it's continuity, and capable of transmitting messages from shore to shore, is q fact accomplished. It has buried its huge length in the salt ooze of the ocean plateau it crowns the peak of mountain ranges, and creeping down their rugged sides, lies placidly in dceps whose awful solitudes no living thing has ever yet disturbed And LOW. very soon--perhaps to-day--the first " All hail' will pulsate through two thousand miles of wire to be caught up, and repeated, almost at the same moment of time, thousands of miles inland, by two nations, widely separated from each other, but exchanging greetings in the old familiar tongue. At period when repeated failures had chilled the ardor of the most sall- gune, and while electricians and men of science were predicting the utter impracticability of carrying out the project with the means and appliances adopted, come to us tidings of it's perfect success.
 From the Washington Union.]
 It would seem from the tclegraphic announce ment in another column, that the laying of the Atlantic cable has been successfully accom- plshed, and that the greatest and holdest pro- ject of the age has been finally achieved. A girdle has been put upon the ocean, and eon- stant stream of intelligence, rapid as lightning, swift as thought itself, will soon connect the two continents with each other. Since the dis covery by Columbus, there has been no attempt of man so audacions, no project of science so bold, and no event in history so important, as that which we chronicle this morning. The mind can hardly realize the fact of means Of instantaneous communication having been es- tablished between two worlds, so long unknown to earh other senarated by waters so vast and