The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-18


question may appear singular one to ask, now
that we have received across the wire the LAUs
DEo of the directors at Valentia Bay and the cor
dial message of Queen VICTORIA. But the doubling
THoMAs's still shake their wise heads and declare
'that two swallows do not make a summer that
the good time coming has not yet arrived, and that
all rejoicing over an unsolved problem is prema-
ture. Now it is certainly too much to expect that
the aldermen of New York, who have voted them
selves public dinner on the strength of the an
nouncement that congratulatory message from
Queen VICTORIA has been received across the wires,
shall be content to fast until it is known that the
response of President BUCHANAN has reached Va
lentia Bay. It's equally cruel to deny the Mayors
of different cities the patriotic pleasure of burning
public powder over so fecitous an event. We have
witnessed FANNY ELLsLER receptions, and Kos
sUTH ovations, and we are accustomed to dine and
wine, and hand-shake every celebrity and notoriety
that appears among us, why, then, should we now
hesitate? Is not the cable laid from shore to
shore? Are not signals constantly being ex-
changed between the operators at Trinity and Va
lentia Bays respectively? Has not the British SOW
ereign flashed greeting in Ineligible signs to the
venerable Chief Magistrate of this Republic? What
more then do we want? The occasion is good
to shout jubilate over, and we were absolutely
pining for something in the shape of a sensation
Let us then permit the aldermen to discuss their
public dinner without seeking 10 disturb the very
excellent digestive apparatus to that class
of flnctonares, by insinuating fear that after all
the submarine telegraph may not turn out a per-
facfcu Wra oil 10 ba 10
weak invention of the enemy" and therefore not
worthy of consideration, when aldermen have
soemnly concluded that it is their bounden duty
to sacrifice themselves for the good of the body
polite, and to the dedication of the body physical
over sirlons of beef and hampers of champagne
But it is remarkable how skeptical some of the New
York journalists continue to be, notwithstanding
all the preparations for a grand civic feast The
Tribune of Monday last contains an article, double
loaded in every sense in which "a painful suspi-
cion' is expressed 'that the cable has not been
stretched across the Atlantic at all and that there
twill be communication with Valentia until
"another wire shall have been laid and more sue
'cessfully than the present one. In short" says
the Tribune, eve have a shuddering suspicion
'that our electricians have been deceived by the
''turn to them the cable of their own messages,
''atter the manner of echo" To show the proba-
bility of this hypothesis, the Tribune furnishes the
following extracts from Mr.. FIELDS log of the voy-
age of the Niagara
'Juy 30-At 221 p. received signals from on board
the Agamemnon that they had payed out $50 miles of the
cable
AT pa had paved ont from the Niagara $50 miles
"July 31.-11:4 p. Had payed out from the Niagara
300 miles of the cable. -.
"At 245 p. received signals from the Agamemnon
that they had payed out from her 300 miles the cable
Aug 3.-At 9:1O p m, ships time, received signal
from the Agamemnon that she in water of 200 ia
cat 1920 p M ships time, the Niagara was in wa
ter of 200 thoms and informed the Agamemnon of the
Thursday. August Sat las a, m. the Niagara
ota amount of cable payed out since the splice was
made, 1016 miles 600 iathoms .
'At 2:45 a. m received signal from the Agamemnon
that she had payed out ,O10 miles of the cable
s'Whoever, u continues the Tribune, twill careful
'ly re-peruse that log can hardly fail to mark sus-
''picous uniformity between the signals telegraph
'ted from the Niagara to the Agamemnon and the
signals received by the former las was supposedly
from the latter" -r
1t would be too absurd to treat such reasoning
seriously, or to point out how much more ridicu-
lous the hypothesis becomes when il is attempted
to be sustained by the evidence adduced. One
specimen of ''the echo" we cannot, however, re-
frain from comparing
Thursday, August 5th.-At As A. N. the Nj
'tagara anchored. Total amount of cable paved
tout 1,0l6 miles 600 fdthoms. At 2.45 A. N. re-
''ceived a signal from the Agamemnon that she had
'payed out ,Ol0 miles of the cablen Now, if the
supposed response of the Agamemnon was but the
echo of the previous message from the Niagara, it
must have strkingly resembled that Irish echo re-
,uea ny JOHN BRoUGHAM, which, to the question of
~" Nv 10 You do, PATTI" promptly responded, 'Pret-
e,a ~, tnank you" Strangely enough the Phil
uslpnla 1ress, while stoutly maintaining that
.le eiple mas been successfully laid imputes all the
ailcui'y experienced in EXCHANGING commun;ca-
tons 10 deficient Scientific skin on the mort Of tho
operators at Valentia; whereas if ;s ,roI l,,o,rn
that while communications can be freely raoorad
from the Office at Valenta Bay, it bas hoo,
impossible as yet for the electricians at Trn,,, d.,
to transmit any intelligence whatever to tbe;r -.
SOCRATES at Valentia. The difficulty, therefore from,
whatever cause it may arise, is experienced on this
shore of the Atlantic and not upon the other so that
the troubled all upon our side ofthe water and can
not therefore be fairly ascrbed by the Press to the
imperfection of the English instruments. If the
present difficulty in transmitting intelligence from