Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1858-07-21

WEDNESDAY,, JULY "a, 1858.
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NsW AoRGs July Ia 1895.
N0w, thai . day or twO, at most, viii
decide she pFacsieability Of laying tel
sgraph cable sorOss tbs Atlantic, and We
may expect aa any momsna TO hsaE that
the Masara has snssEsd TEinity Bay On
this continent vita flying solOrs and
booming guns, bringing London news
many hours before the trial has aakan
place, there can hs % great harm in sta
ting one fact with reference 10 this the
great proisos Of she age which has ap-
parsnaly escaped pablo attenEion. No
scientific man has expressed confidence
In the projses. know very well that
this assertion of mins will taka good
many persona by surprise, buts for ali
that, challenge the woEid to point ms 70
singls line written BY scientific man
himself, expressing the opinion that the
experiment. nov being made by the COM
pany Of which Cyrus W. Field is presi-
dent, will bs successful. Let il be un-
deratood, however, thai mean soms-
thing by the word tsseienGiRe," and thak
Iapply that mueh abused word on thia
side Of the Atlantic 10 msa only who de-
serve ii,
know that Professor Morse has pub
licly expressed his opinion that the great
project undeE consideration will be e
success bat, although would be one
Of the last men to detraGt from the real
merits or TO undervalue she great achieve
msnss of Professor Morse, / would not
make myself and Jour paper ridiculous
in the estimation Of real men Of science
BY CHASING thai anteFprising and indus
trous gentleman with them. There is
&s much difference between Professor
Morse and the gentlemen whose lives are
passed in investigating and communica-
ting to the world the laws Of nature,
whose operations produce the phenome-
ns which the Industrious professor has
turned to such practical and profitable
account for the world and for himself,
as there is between the mere lingnist and
the philologist, the mere builder and the
scientific architect, Ole Bull and the
great composer who understands the sci
ance of music, the industri Gus, 'eats and
entsrprising farmer, who 10 quick, ap-
preciative, and suooesaful in the praci-
cal application of newly discovered laws
and the men who discover and classify
those laws.
No man Of science, repeat, has said
in public, or has written over his sigma
ture, that he thinks the enterprise viii
be success, If the cable Is laid. The
general public in both heAisphsEe8, in
eluding the president and stockholders
Of the company, would seem 10 be im-
pressed With the idea that scientific msn
have no question Of the complete success
of the enterprise il the cable can be laid
while the truth is thai on this latter poinl
little or no trouble exists. Ii il looked
upon % q feat which must be accom-
piahed, sooner or later, and che sueeeas
Of which depends upon mare mechanical
akill. Bat, suppose the cable laid, ant
then ask such men as Farrady Of London
Henry Of the Smithsonian Institute ant
other men of that stamp who stand a
electricians where Ag@ssia stands a. {
naturalist, and Pierce Of Cambridge AMI
Oliver Byrue, Of New York, stand 8
mathazaatieians, and they will frankl.
state that there Is nos yet enough know
Of sIeotricity and Of the laws whieh reg
ulata It's transmission, and that thars ha
mos been - sufficient variety Of expert
ments in the application Of those Law
which ere known, to enable them TO 90
whether or not electricity can be eontin
uousFy transmitted under water, aeros
the Atlantic, along such cable as
now employed. They viii give you tw
or three reason why it may not success
frankly ssll you thai there may be othel
that they know nothing Of, and shat the
have no doubt Of the ultimats success I
the enterprise, and conclude By sayinl
like the rest Of us. that they hope it vi
succeed this tins-whioh, by the by
may DO known before this letter rsachl
you.
Ws have here in esw YORK; by q
odds, the most contsmpsibie moboeTai
/ have ever seen In any part ef shswegl
and have been pretty wsll over IL, TO
There have been here lately, three
four young EngIish nobieman, most
thsza rasss beys wha hare jusa been gre
uased, and who, in their own eouAtl
vxanid exeite n0 more attention than
sons Of rich man do hsre~~sA&s il, sr@a'
msn would like to sell them goods. 7
our internal snohs Of both sexes b
worried these quiet unobtEusive yout
hAlf 10 death, calling upon them Enintl
duced, and svsn endsAvoEing 10 ahoV
upon them public honoEs TO which
sensible yeung man knsW thsy we're
entitled. Whist Esssoa under Hea1
was there for laggiag these young u
down to ths City Hall, and introdue
them to the Mayor, Judges, Aldern
and otheEaP IL really distinguish
foreigner ssmas haBs. EAess isnosea
Why We should not pay hin proper at
tion, be he aoblsmaa Or staple 1
Slenan; but II Ii benaash our dignis,
foTss ourselves upon aaAa whe -