Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-06-04

HE ATLANTIC IELEGRAPH. - Inc
London Times details at length the plans
for laying the cable, and says that the
greatest efforts to insure success are be-
ing made; that nc precautioH has been
neglected, and that no suggestion wor-
thy of attention has been ignored. The
experimental trip started on tho Oath or
25th of May, and is expected to occupy
from six to ten days. During this about
one hundred miles of condemned cable
will DO used in ascertaining tho efficien-
cy of various buoys, laying down and
undermining the wire, &c., and when
all doubts and theories have been practi-
cally solved the squadron will return to
Queenstown, make its brief final propa-
rations, and start for the great attempt
about the 10th of June, thereby taking
advantage of the most favorable time in
the whole year. After efecting splice
in the middle Of the Atlantic, and safely
sinking the wire to the bottom of the
sea, "a depth Of one thousand five hum
dred fathoms), the Niagara will at once
steer for Newfoundland and tho Aga
memnon for Ireland, each vessel steam
ing as fast TO her homeward destination
as is consistent with safety to the great
undertaking. In case of dangerous wca-
ther arising, the first consideration will
Of course be the safety Of the cable /;
and, no matter how advantageous such
and such course Of action may appear,
nothing will DO done by Which the un-
dertaking is jeoparded or even left to
chance. Each vessel is provided with
reels of strong new rope, which can be
attached to buoys made in the manner
of ordinary fishing boats, though Of
course capable Of sustaining weight of
several tons Provided with this appa-
ratus, the cable may be cut without re-
luctance, if ever the weather threatens,
and the end Of it (frmly secured to the
rope and buoy allowed to rest almost on
the bed of the ocean, to be hauled up
directly tho storm has passed. Proper
precautions have also been taken to make
u: The floating ends OF tho buoys couspicu-
Gus, and easily found, in case Of the
ships being driven from them.
TREATIES Nor YET RATIFIED. The
Cass- Yrisarri treaty, reported as ratified
by the Nicaragua Legislature, was, by last
accounts, still under consideration by that
body, President Martinez having return
ed it for amendment, Directing to the oc-
cupation Of the transit route by the Uni
ted States troops under the conditions pro-
posed in one Of the clauses. The feeling
in Nicaragua against the treaty was very
strong, and the French agent was exert
ing his influence against its ratification.
In New Granada the Cass- Ierran treaty
is not yet ratified. Whilst some Ameri-
can politicians consider the treaty as vir-
tually defeated by the alterations made
in that instrument, tho New Granadian
representatives look on it as virtually
adopted in it's original integrity. namely:
by nm acknowledgment of the right Of
full satisfaction 10 individuals for losses
sustained during the Panama riots. It
is insisted on by tho New Granadians that
the clauses which related 10 the ncquisi-
ton Of territory by the United Statos
government in its executive capacity,
the right Of guarding the Isthmus tran
sit, and others Of similar character,
were extraneous, and would involve New
Granada in entangling political coinplica-
tons with other foreign countries.