Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-08-12
THE TELEGRAPH CABLE.

THE. TELEGRAPH CABLE.
The telegraph, yesterday, announced the
completion ofthe Atlantic cable. For months
the public mind has been engaged in sqrmi-
ses as to the eventustion of this enterprise,
whose magnitude rises ndexpands-with the
reflection bestowed upon it. We may ana
lyze the principles upon which it rests-we
may be familiar with the electrical. conduct.
ipg,eapacity of the yire-Be may know that,
for years that conductor has been, made,use:
of, throughout the civilized world that
through its signals. have been sent from NeB-
York to New 0rleans,- and throughoutth the
length and breadth of the country thata
vast network Of electric wires have supplied
Europe and America with a nervons system
as pervading and intricate as that Of the
human constitution. But still, all thesepre.
existing facts do not adequately prepare us,
for the srand achievement which our tele.
graphic columns announce. An ocean of
three thousand miles expanse has been span.
ned, and now, whatever shocks the nervous
system Of either continent ihstantaneously
will be felt in the other. Should Louis Ma
poleon be assassinated to-day. in Paris, to-
morrow it. would be announced in our COL
.umns; and the prospects of French revolu-
ton would have its effect simultaneously on
the stock market Of Paris, London and New
York. The.cotton buyer Of Manchester and,
Lyons will know as soon as the cotton seller
himself does the quantity in the marketJ
while the cotton sellerwill also know. as SOON
as the buyerhow much is in the store-houae
of the manufacturer. The margin:ferspec.
uiation viii be very much restricted, and
the venture and gambling that playppon.tae
cast of steamers arrival will hedissipatsd,
in great measure, by the removal Of the
few days Of ignorance upon which they are,
predicated. twill SO increase the bondso
interest between the two continents, that We
may we'll doubt whether, in the, course of
short tine, the interests of the two will nat
be SO identified and interviewer, that the-al-'
lance by steam and telegrsph-by the acute.
sympathy of their aerasus systsms--wiH aot
befollowedby the enforcement of universal,
peace. It is not too much 10 autioipate that
this alliance will be followed by departure
from our policy of'avoidiug- eutangfmgti.
liances with Europe, and the carving cot of
new foreign policy that will hold the-Gov
enments of both the Old and New World
under bonds to keep q perpetual peace. 1t
is difficult to anticipate the changesthat this
triumph Of American and British skin and
ingenuity will effect That it will exercise
most conservative influence, none can deny.
The bonds of our railroads and telegraphs,
and the powerful ligaments Of trade which
they supply and are every day strengthening,
have served to resist the strongest eentrifu.
gal tendencies to disunion and disorganisa-
'tion in our own country. His not toemuch.
to say that it will have a similar effect, and
an increased proportion, in the relations Of
Europe and America.
We have been smong the;numberof those
who have never despsired Of the faal'oon:.
summation Of the object of the Tnns-At-
lsDtio Telegraph Company. The science
and mechanical skill Of England and the
United, States had pronounced. It possible.
They baddemonstrnted its feasibiiityso clear
ly as to o'enlist in its behalf the aid. Of eau
tious and circumspect capitalists. We ID
;ferred that the demonstration must have been
very clear, when men could be found to ad-
venture millions of dollars in it, and when
the British and American Governments could
be induced to dedicate feet of steamers to
its service. :.
We confess, however, that the two last
failures had discouraged orr proximate hopes.
This ws.believe was the case generally
Many were entirely distrustful. So that,
after Notwithstanding the great and pro-
longed preparations--the world has been
taken by surprise. Even in the arrival of
the Niagara, expectation has been anticipa-
tea-the voyage having been made ia less
time, by three or four days, than was expect
ed. What next will our age attempt p
Whatever it may be, when science and me-
chanical skill and capital combine to accom-.
plish it, who will be doubling or skeptical
after this last crowning wonder ?-Souh
Carolinian, 9Th instant. 60.