Smyrna times., 1858-09-02
The Atlantic Telegraph and its Mes
sageS of Peace.

The first message of general interest, trans.
milted by the Atlantic Telegraph, was that Of
PEACE HoStilities between the Allied forces
and the pOpu0us Empire of China has ceased,
and treaty of peace concluded, which stipu-
Ites that China shall be opened to the trade OF
all foreign powers, foreign and iplomatic agents
admitted the allied nations 10 be indemni6ed
for the expenses of the war, and the Christian
religion is allOwed in all parts of the countru.
Heretofore, the foreign trade has been confined
to five PORTS If the Atlantic Telegraph trans
mitted always such happy tidings of peace and
good will 10 man, it would indeed mark an
era in the worlds history more important than
shat which had its rise when Columbus first
turned his prows westward in search of the In
dies" The North American, in speaking of
the moral influence of this first message. saws g.
May we hail this occurrence as a happy
omen. and as an earnest that peace on earth
and good will be greatly promoted by this new
agent Of Communication, between those who
have heretofore been separated by a world of
waters. The wonderful cord, over two thou
slnd miles in length, has been sunk into the
DEPTHS of the ocean by the united efforts of two
mighty nations.
Through the depths of the ocean, where hu.
man eye can never pierce or the feet of man
tread, speeds the Aews that war against three
hundred millions of people is concluded. 1t is
news which must be as gratifying to the au-
manitarian as to the merchant. 1t brings with
it expectations of large increase in trade, and
assures us that the Chinese. at least for the
present, are exempted from the sutferings that
must have followed an attempt to stop the pro-
gress of the invading Europeans"
This treaty with the Chinese, if fully COM
piled with OH their part, Qor their treachery and
duplicity is well knOwn,) will be of vast impor-
lance, morally and commercially to the United
States. On this subject the New York Er-
press says:
American interests, moral and material,
will be among the first to be affected by this
read dustment of the relations OF the Chinese
Empire with the outside world. Without over
estimating, IN anticipation, the specifications of
OF the tr:aty IN question, it Is not assuming too
much to say, that our merchants and mission.
aries are about TO have opened up to their enter
prize ard zeal wider and more promising field
~ the East than they have ever had before
The " Great Wall" which has shut in the Gen.
L
course with the outside world hundreds of years
past, is now, in fact, levelled with the ground
and with such an inviting prospect before them,
we are prepared TO witness, ere long, such an
infusion, through British and American nslru-
mentalities, Of AngiO-Saxon intelligence into !
the ancient and decrepid institutions of China,
as will gradually prepare the way for such a
wholesale revolution in the habits, manners,
customs and traditions of that singular and mys-
terlous people, as can hardly fail, in due time,
to bring them into closer and more friendly
relationship than they have yet cared to main
tain with the rest Of the human family. The
Chinese, it is unnecessary to say, are by no
means Il barbarOus people. They have an in
teIligence and learning of their own far
above the average Of other Asiatic races. The
scholarship, intellectual attuinmGnts, and diplo-
matte skill of some Of their high mandArins are
proverbial; their religion is of miIder and
more benignant type, than that of the Brahmns
Of British India"