The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16

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thing &c want. No.hirg caa be more admi-
raoie han our posi-; ion and facilities here"
A ssutifal gold medal has been made in
New t,ork, to be presented TO Gyms w. Field, by
q few IT his particular friends The face bears
q hn@ medallion likeness of Mr.. Field, and on
the verse is the inscription, /" Presented to
Cyrns w. Field, by few of bis friends in New
I ork for his perseverance, in superiute nding
the ying Of the Atlantic telegraph cable"
Ga e margin is the motto, Nil desperan-
dam |. Perseverantia vincit" II
Ater from Paris says that the successful
layintN of the cable excited scarcely any atten-
ton here the papers had merely published
the b JEFF dispatches from Valentia Bay, with
out S1single word of additional Sice. The
msgn tude and value Of the event does not APP
pear = be at all appreciated.
Th. London Punch, after speaking of the
adva, ages OF the Atlantic telegraph, hopes
. tnat me American sea serpent win not rudely
interlene, and be scaly enough to snap those
ties &eunder" Punch also Informs the world
that is first dispatch from America over the
cable Jas, From America to Dear Old Punch-
Puncl my boy, let's liquor"
'Tht submersion of the cable has two effects
upon 4 the weight of the water congresses
the g eta percha coating, and makes the in.
snlatt more perfect, thus preventing the es.
cape Il the electric current into the water, and
at the same time, by diminishing the distance
between the conducting wire and the water, it
lncres ses that induction by which the current
is ret, kded. The experience of the Mediterra-
mean lines confirms this. While their insula-
latioh improves, the rate of transmission be.
come, gradually slower, and will do so, until
the 81 na percha reaches its maximum density
1t is ated that the needle at Valen:ia is de-
Hectei 81 degrees by the current received from
Trinit Bay. This shows very perfect trans-
missi, of the current, as the most powerful
currei can only defect the needle 80 degrees.
Tit London Express has az interesting est
mate Of the number and length of submarine
csbles necessary to connect Great Britain with
all be principal dependencies, in the eastern
and stern hemispheres, without touching any
powe, lul foreign State. To accomplish this,
about "a. 600 miles of cable would be REQ uired.
Some 0f the advantages suggested by the En-.
press, from this general system of telegraphs,
bring; sg all her colonies within speaking dis.
lance, are
an lions of money will he saved to the popu.
lation of England every year in articles of con-
SUMPTION, by English and colonial merchants
know ,g the state of the home and colonial
In dif jrent parts of the world need not be one
tenth % large as they are if England and her
forei9n domiLions we're enclosed in telegraph
netwotk. If intelligence we're received in Eng.
land telegraph of man oEwar being want.
ed in -Sny part of the West Indies, such a ship
would ,feach the locality before ship can at
the ps5sent time be fetched from the SQUADRON
station at Bermuda, and sent thence to the re.
quireS spot"
Fi~. thousand dollars has been raised at
Leave ,worth, Kansas, to connect that city
with | oonville, Missouri, thus giving Kansas a
telegrs phic connection with the rest of the
world and adding another stretch to the wire
which is yet 10 cross Kansas and Utah to the
Paclfis, coast, and run thence by cable to Rus
sian sia.
ThSpeace news from China over the cable
has a ,eady given an impetus to trade. One
house alone in Boston has already sold 300
packages of domestic fabrics for the Chinese
narkeS, in consequence of the new prospects
Tor ira 1e.
The plague has been committing fearful raw
ages q pong the Arabs and in some of the cities
Of the iBarbary States. The disease fret broke
put an .ong an Arab tribe, about six hours dis
ant fl I'm Bengazi, and report of the dread
ul ray lges it was making reached that city on
he 2sth OF April. The Bey, influenced by
Mahoeimedan fatalism and natural laziness,
would take no precautions to keep the pesti-
ence ON the city. The disease soon found
It's wa into the unguarded city, and its Fl st
victim were the women and children of the
poor. : But it soon spread with fearful rapiditv.
sttacktpg with fatal virulence rich and poor
Alike. j Entire families persisted miserably.
Then ,nsued a general panic, and of popu-
alton of 5000 souls, more than half aban-
Toned heir homes, and fed to tie desert. Of
hose hat remained, forty or fifty died daily,
'ometSpes more. Night and day the bodies of
he d. ad were cast hastily into their shallow
graves and the cries OF the Moorish women,
he ho~sliug of the Jews, and the dismal tolling
Of the bells of the Catholic chapel, were terri.
bic to scar. At length the Ottoman Govern.
ment,SJ consequence of British Consul Groves
represe atations, sent steamer from Constan.
.inoplS. with two physicians, who, Immediately
after t,eir arrival, declared the disease to be
plague of the most viruent type, and, in con.
'eqne1 ,e of their circulars to that effect, Ben.
,azi a ID all the ports of northern Africa have
been P eced in strict quarantine. Consul Grove
renal, ed at his post during all these horrors
or ten mortal weeks, until he had lost all his
,ervanvs but one, and was 90 much affected by
he drs sdful fa avia from the neighboring Gem
stery, lhat his stomach rejected all he ate or
frank. Then, feeling that he could no longer
be of sny service, he sailed for Tripoli, and,
after p ,ssing seventeen days in the lazaretto,
vas " doomed by his friends as one escaped
ros, sath.
The Dolphin is the first United States man.
f.wars hat has captured cargo of slaves, and
in the United States. The crew
IF the sIaver we're partly American and partly
5pania.. There were 470 slaves taken on
board % the coast of Africa, of whom l43 died
iuring&he voyage of 40 days, and IL have died
since LAe capture of the vessel. The excite
ment I'd amazement ofthe poor wretches, when
they W their late masters in irons, was in.
tense, Ind they destroyed large quantity of
provis 3ns and water in attempting to get
small mount for their own use Capt Brad =.
ford therefore thought it best to restore their
formel masters to Temporary authority over
them, i'll he should get to Charleston, and be
says "they had to resort to the fercest cruelty,
before they could break up these practices of
The sla ,es." The United States law of 1920.
which snakes the slave trade piracy, dooms
Ameri an citizens serving in slave vessels to the
penaltr of death. Will the slave power allow
these ,jdnappers to be hung? We shall see
The philanthropy of the South is already
moved in behalf of the poor negroes. 1t can
not be = to see them sent back to heathenism
in Afr! "a, while there are so many Christian
plante anxious to undertake their education
and ga sation. Oae of these pious negro-dri-
vers ss 10 in the Charleston Mercury.
"WH shudder az the thought of their reship-
ment the coast of Africa, with all the attend.
ant ho tors of the middle passage, to say moth
ing of She enormous expense necessary to carry
out so horrible scheme. Can we, as Christian
people infict upon those whose sufferiugs on
the passage here have no doubt been great,
the We = wong which we have 50 long striven
TO abolish? We hope not. Let us take care
of theHp, clothe them, feed them, civilize and