Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-08-19
The Atlantic Telegraph-Press Rejoic.
ings
"Pll put girdle round the earth
In forty minutes"

Dream has become a sober midsummer
day e reality. The Atlantic cable mpieie.
a change Of instant Communication from
New Orleans 10 Cons,antinnp!e. A few
months more will see the line extended tC
Calcutta, and then the ends Of the habita-
BILE world will hold hourly conversation
with each other.
Last year, when everybody believed The
cable would succeed, il tailed; this year
when everybody expected its failure, ii
succeeds. The surprise adds 10 the salts
faction, and as the news flashes oyer the
wires, it Is hailed everywhere with the
liveliest Joy. In Canada it is greeted with
saluies, IN New York, Boston, Washing
ton, Buffalo, and ether cities, with rrjoic-
irgs; and tonight every telegraph office Oh
this continent is TO be illuminated, in honor
OF the grand triumph. Doubtless similar
demonstrations are in progress in England
and throughout Europe. Mr.. Field, at
Trinity Bay, grasps power by the aid OF
science, that no pnlenlate with The most IN
vincibla armies and navies ever dared as
pre- 10. A tap OF his finger puts him in
Communication with every Cabinet in Eu.
rope, and with the calm dignity OF an aut"-
tions between Queen Victoria and President
| Buchanan.
1t is hardly possible yet TO realize the
fruits OF this great achievement. We shall
have, first, ten days later news from Eu-
rope, and alter that the daily events hap
pening in London and Paris will be known
and commented on here, before half TIE
Londoners and Parisians have heard Of
them. The telegraph outslrips the sun, So
that we can hear, about noon, how prices
closed at the London Corn Exchange the
same day al nighliaIl!
How great siimulant TO commerce, how
strong check upon fraud, how convenient
link between friends how firm pretec-
tion against national misunderstanding; in
short, what bond of peace and good will
this cable is destined 10 be, can only be re-
allied b. The actual progress of events.
The world is, year by year, drawn
closer together by a network Of copper
wires. There are hundred thousand
miles Of them now-more than four times
the circumference of the earth-three thou
sand Of them running under oceans and seas
between different nations. The rapid
spread Of intelligence which they ensure,
increases trade, industry, prosperity,
knowledge, peace and speeus me day when
common friendship between all mankind
shall attest their reverence for Him, who
alone "can send the lightnings that they
may 20 and say unto thee, Here we are
Albany Journal.
RELIGIOUS REFLECTION.
1t is not merely force that is made TO
reach from Continent 10 Continent-nol
merely an impusion of unknown power
not merely flame Of fire passing unexiin-
guished through thousand oil miles OF ocean
NOT merely the lightning OF heaven bow
ing beneath The waters OF earth--not merely
a niue sign or an idea-it is syIabIed
word. 1t is that aricnla'ed languag.
which distinguishes man irom all the rest
OF created things, and is The stamp oil his
resemblance 10 God.
Looking al this embodiment of that all
pervading and creating spirit, one is remind
ed of the magnificent and mysterious Ian
guage Of the Evangelist: I'm the beginning
was The word, and The word was with God,
and the Word was God. In Him (lhe
word) was light, and the light was the HE
Of man. And the light shinelh in the dark
ness, and The darkness comprehendeth il
not" 1t was in this form that, in The be-
ginning, 'the spirit Of God moved Oh the
face of the waters" II was this that from
chaos 10 night brought forth the light and
the divine order OF Nature.
We know the infinite distance which sep
arates the immaieTia. from the material
world-the mortal from Immortality. But
il is when some such human miracle as this
is performed, that we are taught TO realize
the greatness o. The agencies hi God. and 10
Judge how narrow is cur finite horison,
even expanded from this new height Of
knowledge, compared with the infinite OF
which He is the centre and the circnmier-
encs.- Albany Atlas and Argus.
HEARr-THRoBBIEGs UNITED.
The very heart -ihrobbing of the two ma
lions are united, and undi.iurbed peace is
made certainty. The thoughts. impulses
ana acllOns oil e3cn are 10 HHu instant re-
cogni!ion and sympathy with the oiher.-
Fraternity is written in letters OF light. on
The oceans quiet bed, from Trinity Bay TO
Valeuiia-nay, from Washington TO LON
don. The people Of The civilized world
shake hands across the Atlantic ProYi-
dence Post.
TINE ASsIHlLATED--TuE sun AsD MOON
The Hore are nc longer gods Of the
hours, and time is 10 longer time. Terror
Of Greece! how would the sages OF the first
Academy have struggled under a problem
SO vas, as that when day and night flee
away, and became obsolete in the measure
Of time! The day is not nlrat it was, and
it is no longer 20 fix The standard conditions
controlling our movements. The periods |
samed day and night have became change
able and uncertsin--o three parties in cor.
versation, one may have high noon, another
morning, and The third deep night. The
business they transact must have place in |
positive lime; but which one can claim the
light 10 call il done al six clock ante. me- I
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