American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-08-19
CITY OF LANCASTER:
rhuTsday Morning. Aug. 10. 1855
.Eawnrd Everett ON the Atlantic cabIe'

Edward Everett ON the Atlantic CaDIe'
The following passage from the Grafton
delivered by Mr.. Everett, on the occasion
OF the Inauguration of the Dudley Obsery-
atory. at Albany. N. Y, mOre than year
ago. is quite appropriate at the present
time. In enumeratug the achievements
of science. he said: 2'
Such is language, the representative OF
thought. Dwell upon it, / pray you.
moment longer; it is great mystery Of
our being, By the use Of a few written
or printed lines on paper, so like each 9th
er that, in languages with which we are
familiar-witnes Malay or a Japanese
manuscript there seems scarce any differ
ence between them: this unseen, intangi-
BILE. mysterious mental essence, compared
with which a perfume, O. sound, q 1urar
rainbow, is gross and material. expresses
itself to the eye; by the gentle impulse, the
soft vibrations, which the lips impart to
the elastic air. it expresses itself to the ear.
To give the spoken word duration. trans
late il into written characters; to give the
written ,ign a vital emphasis. | translate i
into vocal speech, By one divine art, the
deed letter. charged with living mean
ing, sounds through echoing Halls, and
wins or storms its way to sympathetic
hearts; by another, the feling wavelets Of
ths air are crystalized into most marvel
GUS permanpnce, and became imperishable
gems Thought. whose lustre no lapse OF
time can obscure; while, while by the un
ion Of both. this incomprehensible being.
the mind. gently wooed from the vesal
chambers Of our inmost nature. comesforth
like bride adorned for her lordly spouse.
the word; clad in the rich vesture of con-
versation, ofargument, of eloquence, Of
poetry, Of tong; to walk with him the busy
or-tbe secluded path of life; to instruct and
delight the living generations; ethereal es.
sences as they are. 10 ouliVe columns OF
brass and pyramids Of granite; and to de-
soesd in eternal youth the unending high
ways Of the ages.
DOES it seem much that the skill of men
has in these latter days contrived the means
of communicating intelligence almost with
the rapidny of thought, across the expanse
OF continents, and beneath tho depth OF o.
ceans by the elective wire2 That mes
sage dispatched from Boston at mid day,
will so far out travel the sun IS to reach
st. Louis m hour before she reaches that
meridian? ,Itis much. and we contem-
plate with Just amszement the wonderful
apparatus which, when laid down. as soon
er or later il will perhaps be, SO as to con-
meet the three continents, may, ny posi-.
bility. send the beginning Of such SEN
tenco as am now ipronouncipg around the
terraqueous globe and return it to the lips
of the speaker, before he has completed itt
utteanee. But this amazing apparatus il
bueano,her form eflapguage; il Transmits
intelligence only as it transmits Words
Il y like speech, like !. the pen, like, ths
press. another, piece Of machinery 10y
whjch;languags is conveyed from place tc
place The really wonderful thing is Ian
guage itself, hyswhich thought is made
sensible and 3coumunica,ed from mind Il
mind, not only in the greatliviug cougre
tion Of the civilized world for the time be
ing. hut throughthe vast general Assem- ol,
of The ages: BY which we, are able a
this present moment, not only to listen /,
all the great uttsranoes which express tn,
Thoughts and emotions Of the present da,
Throughout the world. but to soar will
Milton to the green fields ofParadise in tb
morning Of creation; to descend with Dant
to the depths of penal woe; to listen to III
tkundePs Of Tully and DemosIhenese, and
by The golden chain Of etymology. trac
the affinity and descent Of nations bac
through the labyrinth Of the past, almos
to The cradle Of the race. .le.
I'hoid in my hand a portion Of the ideu
tical cable. given me by my friapd MI
Peabody. which is now [ April S2. 1857,
in progress Il manufacture. to connect A
merica with Europe. read upon it III
following lines:g',A Fart Of the submarin
eclecific telegraph cable. manufactured 3
Messrs Glass q Co., of London. for th
Atlantic Telegraph Company. to oonnst
81. Johns, Newfoundland, with Valsntii