Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-06-18


also numbered and consecutive. We own
our surpriso.-B Boston alias.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. - Mr. A.
Hall of Washington. d. c., predicts the fall
ure Of the Atlantic Ocean Telegraph He
writes
"straugc as it may seem, all the expert
mcnts yet made by Mr.. Whitehouse and his
assistant electricians, on the result of which
they have congratulated the company and the
scientific world that the electric part Of the
work is accomplished, have left out Of the ac-
count ono-half of the entire circuit. 1t seems
from recent experiments that two and three
words a minute can be forced through the
entire cable, and upon this result we are as
surcd that the electric problem is solved
Each scientific stupidity is really an outrage
upon the company, to say nothing of the press
and the world. These cxpcrimentors Will
learn, when too late, that it is one thing 70
send despatch through the entire cable
with its two ends brought together, and quite
another thing when its two ends are 2O00
miles apart, and the electric wave has TO tray
c the whole length Of the cable and return
through the water, which all electricians
should know forms the home-stretch of sub
marine cables with single conducting wires ;
and as water is not so good a conductor as
copper by 33 per cent, it will be equivalent
to adding about 5000 miles to their present
cable before their experiments are worth the
zinc they consume.
From the extreme difficulty in sending re-
liable signals through what viii be, when
laid down. less than half the actual circuit !
am compelled reluctantly to record its incvi-
table failure in advance"
-Thurlow Weed says, in the
Albany journal
"Wiihn our recollection, MormOnism was
"a spock, not bigger than a mans hand. -
The original lmposter Joe Smith, came TO the
writer of this article, only thirty-two years
ago, with the manuscript of his Mormon BIZ
bic, to be printed. He then had but one fol-
lower, "a respectable and wealthy farmer of
tn town Of Macedon,) who offered himself as
security for the printing. But after reading
a few chapters it seemed such a tumble Of
unntolligblo absurdities, that we refused the
work, advising Harris not to mortgage his
farm and beggor his family But Joe crossed
over the way to our neighbor Elihu f. Mar
shall, and got his Mormon Bible printed
We all know what tall trees the acorn
has produced The twenty-five hundred
Mormons who were driven from Nauvoo have
multiplied into twice as many thousands in
Utah The Saints have been multiplied by
accossons from all classes and from all ma
tons. Their faith in attractive and seduc-
tive forms, has been presented to, and ac-
copied by, men and women throughout the
civilized world. Yes, notifying as it is to
our boosted intelligence, Mormonism seeks
and finds believers among those who have en-
ioyed the advantages Of civilization, and by
whom the truths Of revelation have been re-
jected.
FORGOTTEN 1NDIGNATIoN-It is surpris-
ing to see the effect which time has in calm
ing down the most violent feelings of tho
heart. Thus, seventeen years ago, whcr
President Tyler was engaged in distributing
the spois Of victory, Senator Buchanan, beinl
then of mature years and of cool tcmpera
ment could not refrain from bursting forth il
the following indignant strain
did not the blush Of shame suffuse tn,
check of every dsinterested American whei
the spectacle of the rush for office was OK
hibltei in all its odious colors at the time o
the Inauguration Did it not furnish for
eigners an occasion OF deriding our institu
tons II this new Administration had an
nounced that all those in office igo,ld be alloir
ct TO complete The term of their appointment
for four gears, unless they had been guilty q
official misconduct, there would have been n,
unseemly rush for office the new appoint
ments would have been made, gradually a
the old expired, and this country would hav
been spared the h'tmiliatiny spectacle ,ohich III
Naturalization exhibited"
70 Minnesota enters upon the exercise q
the rights Of Sovereign State by coming in
to Wall Street TO borrow money Gov Si6
ley has advertised for Loan of $250,000 t
be awarded on the LIST of July at the 81
Nicholas Hotel, New York