The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-14
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS.
From the Detroit Free Press, July 7.

the successful laying OF the Atlantic Telegraph eefHe the
public scme three four hours To any other
paper in the CITY, and having thereby excited exceeding
wrath their art the Free Press establishment deter
display Of o. e9orks aud bocres As the could
oply be properly celebrated by firing hundred guus
II was determine that hundred guns should hsed
in addition TO the fireworks and bopares the Free
Press, with the aid Of numerous literally os losed est
zeos, raised gum OF money sufficient 20 enable ar cs
10 scaut itself with credit uomen,oos
At seven O'clock all things having been previously
ragged brass nine FOUNDER IVES placed upon tie campus
haItus and The salute OF hundred guos ne1ced
Fifty guns were fred the rate Of kbout three In q
minute, which room collected n crowd A. no, less
Amcpg these two hundred Ore balls we're launched,
vbich btitg caught a1d thrown here aud there
fd the sir with blaze OF IRE Rockets were sent up
and with large bcufres gave the whole tho
sp,ma.ed ap-earsrce. In the meantime the
tahep down TO The dock when the remsinng iiy guns
FREQ for the beuefs OF Canada Fue balls, oonres
ad rockets also displayed st this point The Cana
diars replied with rockets and cannon The display
a fine one, eSced the utmost enthusiasm among all
cssses Of Citizens We never have seen more anrassed
cfss mhlase than that wbih lcd Campus Martins about
Ine O'Clock. The event Ia era In our history and
such wortbiiy celebrated.
TIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH PROBLEM.
Prem tue Boston Daily Advertiser.
The greater or les success OF The hrst Atlantic cable
cpy serves 10 opeo the problem OF the submarine tele
graph Which II be soved during series of ears Tbe
final result is established beyond douo-ths relation OF
the life of s toe continents and islands OF The
earth by electric The stuey OF the means by
which this end to be achieved becomes OF great
practical importance Az attention may probably De
turned H. TO or this kind 1t u desr
able 10 On record suggestons tou3hpg the theory
| construcs'oa OF OCEAN teleerGghs
The elsrcatop Of the current In srbmsrne Insulated
wires hitch so serOus an obstruction doe 10 the 10
ouciye fuence exerted b. lie conducting wire upon
outeds Indeed the column OF ater ouece cable
bas 10 be charged or distnrbso through
opt its Whole length Tor each signal that passes Ihs OF
abs0sbs part OF the energy the current
for effect Of force be prcducsd whou, expen
dure Of iorce The woi X which is thus put upon the
electric current by induction at every step OF s progress
be compared in It's effect 10 frciioo Nov induction
increases It's the inducing sdrisces bronght
nearer 10 each otcer; and 1t din nishes ss they
placed further apart. In submarine cable the ibduc-
ton ssqueDt TeiHfdaton of the
in some mathematical proportion TO the thickness OF the
iLsuaing ceverrg The resisr the disaLce bet setn
The rire nsc and the wafer or actors OUTSIDE the
ess will be the indu jiop spd retuauon 10 the VI
free eIectr,y induction increases inversely az the
square the distance betseen the inducing surfaces
Dynamic elsciricy (savanic This eDorD ratio OF in
crease need DOT be assumed Bat eren supposng u 10
be simply In direct proportion TO distance or even ess
the mp rtapce OF dimnshDg ndoctca by Increasing
| thickness OF insulation, becomes apparent.
How far this taken irtO account In the present
Atlantic cable? The conducting wire c,sted with
gua Iercia, which, is It's Insulating c)veripg. This
then wound strands Of iroa sire, and rue whole
covered with cordsge THIS believed any rate
IA be approximate description Here me strao OF r
wire introduce INTO The substance OF the cable CONDUCTOR
MT issuaied entirely from, but really ccnlrnous with
the wafer outside; and the distance scro~s whica the
tArdpg induction exsEted rs only thai between the
spires OF iron Sre and Tie conducting copper wire gha
aiso probable that the exerra metallic coating OF
greater Dductvo uhaence upon The
wire in this than could be sxer<d simply by the
surroun ing column Of water Al sny rate part the
substance Of the cable In made CONDUCTOR IN connection
with the water ouside ap,sIeo,y Coz ,he purpose OF
DIN iDfhisg the dsAace and increasing ne power OF in
| dGcuSn
But this not all The cnvelcpUg spires Of wire are of
uon sropged approximately ~ ris 1t Angles 70 the
duourg wilhu. tbese srsnos Of irop have 10 ne
charged and ohcbNeed - electro msgns,s, ,he whclc
l,pph NJ the cable, every time tna svns passes Here
Ia nno,ber OF Fstardson conphcatn and ADDING
| 10 that Of simple electrical induction.
Now, how should cable be constructed 10 obyaie
hfss objectiUDtY Frat, reject all external neisic
nss aDo make the whole bulk OF tha cable m Docccodoc
ing subatsnces Inc uclion Ia thus reduscd 10 Dinum
The specific gravity Of the cable becomes asy snd the
rate Of fs sbsing in water compared with tho f)r ward
motion Of the ves,e paying out, 10 diminished, that
there less slack and consequent expendrurc of cable
Its s,reueih also ~ sstcay great compared with
the stIan 70 which Il subjected and h, AZ least, as
durable
wire cord Of copper may be simply coated with gutia
pcrcha Ct greater efs thickness end at
Sufficient 'ensciy for the purpose To nctesse the bulk
OF such n cable hemp STRANDS be vouod sscuud IL,
and then the whole recovered with cos1ns Of guita
| persba
OF small size could be mace and laid at less than hall the
cott OF the present cable sud sih the capacity OF trans
hitting tBalrtsce fast, that "a, with only hall the
Ietsrdsiioo, Whatever ina, may prove 70 be u not
improbable thsta single vessel, Ike the Nagss even
the Persia or vanderbilt might carry The whole q ,ucn
/ cable, and lag u from Cape Goa 70 Land's End.
Win regard 10 the routes and ternip OF OCEAN csbHs
these are necessarily determined by geographical position,
and the character Of The shores aLd bed Of the
glance at the map, and know edge OF the bottom, will
suegcst At once that Cape God TIE beat terminus 10 The
Urrsd States for q European cable According 70 the
port IL for icebergs 70 ground on the
banks o. Newfoundand. IL the plougbahare Of ice
berg Constitutes possible danger Of courso cable would
syod toe banks or or Nv eros. mem 81 The ws,ey
There 70 a form OF submarine telegraph which may he
barely mentioned bere, which entirely avcias induction
and rcardanon his consists In lag ing too naked
through the water a such distances In relation
their esih that an available per cenage Of the current
diverted 10 the water II question 70 distances
this could 30 applied AMI tr corcrious all require
tgAticn Tbs project suggested BY ne IA c0nversa
Ton with Professor in 1916 1870 AID have
tested ezpernenaly, With success, on small scsle.
By ibis Tehod large rart q The current IN quantity,
would 10 sacfihCed but zoe rate Of Auguss0u could
main uniupercd and ire obtsoe az Induction would be
reuovse. naasd wlre laid IN the water could probably
require n be made OF alloy into winch iron would on
ter that s o,dsop On the surface would resist further
| corrosnn. VIC
| n Bos1oS, august :, lsss.
| TEE TELEGRAPH ROUTE PROM TRINITY RAY TO BOSTON.
| IFrom the Pos'on Transcript
The length OF the telegraph tine this city 10 Trinity
Bay speu, 500 nts-tsrly the length o. ine Atsn-
| nsrpo vires, beth OF which, however, have always
Tbe line raver,es Maine and New prunsvok, going
round the head OF the Bsy Of Fmdy then taxes The
northern thoie q Nova Scotia, and crosses the Gut OF
Csnso Here Ia the FIRST section Of submarine telegraph
his only lao and half mile. length, and The
cct necoD between Novs Scotia and Cape Breton touch
ng toe western coast Of that klsnd From the western
70 the tuierp shore at Aspy Ray sride space Of err
tofy, where the teeersph stations few and far be
tveen and sreat oifcuy Ia necessarily experienced In
| AZ Aspy Bay commences the second submarine line
lth 7e mes leng and connects cape Breton with New
/ h'eupt 70 10y tnese wires uhde
in 1885, but then proved unsucoespful In 1856 the
efort wss renewed vith success for the last two
years there has been little, any interruption OF the mag
neto union between the two Islands me cable Il quite
large composed o. three strands and three o0nduct
g wires From Port au Basque, the cable station on the
rart Of newfoundland, the telegraph ex,ends
directly across the Rlsnd 10 Trinity Bay me distance s
not fer nom four hundred mes, through Wild country
for The moxt pant unbroken 0res where the tree
he cot down 10 make room for the telegraph hosts
There five stations org this whole dssoce ter.
ritory scarcely Inhabited, snc Il " easily strcsived no
1 hard ID m q
which should ,erd 10 destroy the commcucsion this
| section Of Of the line
1 Ihsuleeiapb 10 owned by three dnerert companies,
me Amer ssn Telegraph tie Provincial and Tho New
fcundlaLa " London Telegraph Ocmpaciee. Being
a. rcch tNtrsrt Us mont, IRE hn8, - wnne, Is