The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-07
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| pie everywhere are delighted, and the firing or
, guns, illuminations and other eviaences OF re-
joicing are exhibited on all sides. Some Of the
old fogies. il IL true, are Like the dull man who
could never comprehend joke Cntil everybody
else had done laughing, ard wish to put of
their rejoic;pgs until every one else has got
over the first flush Of being happy. They stL,
want confirmation. This doubt they hang upoc
I, the wording of Mr.. Fields despatch He no
doubt wrote it under great excitement, and not
so clearly as our own more cool aud collected
correspondent did his special despatch TO the
HERALD, which places the matter beyond all
cavil. We understand Mr.. Field 70 say that 81
the ships Of the telegraph fest arrived O, the
4th-the Niagara and Gcrgor at Trinity
Bay, and the Agamemnon aud Vaiotous az
Nalentia. Besides that he tails us TIE distance
run-l,950 miles-the identity Of the rate CT
paying out the cable from both saips
and that ''the signals sent and received through
the whole cable are perfect" Besides this. NJ
Field te!egraphs to the President .ha. the cahie
''has been successfully laid, and as sooa "a the
two ends are connected with the lard lines
Queen Victoria will send q message" He s,so
tells the Mayor Of our city that the csc,e hss
been successfully laid = and Captain Hudson
reiterates the fact in despatch TO his family.
There is no room for doubt. The enterprise has
been accomplished; and though the continuity
should last only week, that is nothing. What
has been done once can be done again; AID L
this cable will not last, we will make one that
will endure for anrs-avp rprturies
But the most singular effect Of the in.sli
gence has been its operation upon our city
press. 1t came upon them so suddenly that
they all seem to have lost their power Of ana
lysis, if they ever had any. The saint Of the
Tribune displays q strange acquaintance with
Byron, and runs off into the highfslutin; the
sinner Of the Courier and Enquirer breaks out il
psalm singing, and trots out Milton and Byrou;
the Aminadab Sleek Of the Wall street Journal
consoles himself with the gratifying hope that
the line will hang all fugitives from Justice !;
while the "little villains" of the Tines do not
know whether the cable is laid or not-frst they
think it is and call it a success, and then tina.
it is not, and wait with anxiety for the next
announcement. The only journal that seems
mon sense is our lively little neighbor of the
Hartford Times. He sees in them that the other
end is safe in valentia Bay, and he says so.
In order to estimate in some degree the work
ings of the Atlantic telegraph upon men and
nations, we have no need to appeal to Byron,
Milton, psalm singing or highfalutin. Common
sense, and some knowledge of men, will tell US
fhop opI <c.c i'll
give clearer illustration than all the rhapso-
dies that saint" or sinner" can write Men
have first to learn to use it freely, and then its
effects will be freely felt. In politics this may
be illustrated by what our knowledge Of men
teaches us would occur if any ten or twelve
men resided constantly in a room together,
and two Of them should begin to quarrel
the two would have to 60 of to some
out of the way place to fight it out or
else stop their pickering. This was what occur
rcd not long since in Europe. The establish
ment of telegrsphs and railroads has brought
nations closer together; and when the three
great Powers quarrelled they went Off into the
Crimea to settle it. The Western Powers would
not attack Russia on the European side, for
they knew that the first gun fired in Poland
would set all the nations in blaze and the
Powers at loggerheads. Thus, the telegraph
will be great peace maker between Europe
and America, and throughout the world. By
bringing nations and communities closer to-
maintaining harmony.
The greater political effect, however, will be
felt in Europe. The European nations are first
in arts, science and manners, because their
crowded communities give them advantages for
their Development. But we are first in the
world in mental activity and practical de-
velopement, and the Atlantic cable will make
Us fret in political influence in the world The
telegraph will increase the impress Of our poll
teal theories and our civilization upon Europe.
Already constitutional forms Of government
are growing up there, obeyiDg the impulse
given by our political success. In material
matters, Morse's telegraph, Stevens yacht
America. McCormck's reaper, Hobbs lock,
Rsrey's horse tanning system, Hughes tele-
graph instrument, and a hundred other indi-
vidual things, are making havoc among the old
vaye OF Europe. The class interests Of society.
az well ~ Of GOV ernmcn;, are giving way be-
fore the freedom of individual deyelopement
The standard Of merit in practical matters and
political theories in the Old World viii soon be
the fact Of their coming from America The
facts wrought out by free thought here will be
instantly transmitted by the telegraph to the
whole world, and America must lead, aud will
lead the vanguard of the worlds march of
progress.
What we now have 10 do is to lay subma-
rine cable at once along the Pacific shore from
san Diego TO Bellingham Bay. with branches
TO the mouth of Columbia river and vancou-