Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-08-28
Getting Crazy,

general tiiunainatfon7 a military parade 3
public reception and a municipal banquet
The extensive city of Gotham having become
slightly demented with exaberant ioY#at the
laying of the cable, urges upon all the princi-
pal c~itieseof the Union to initiate her exam
pie and proclaim a general satusnalia. New
England shares in the madness of the hour.
and throughoakthe North we may expect to
witness similar frantic q demonstrations. The
South, as IS it's wont. responds charity and
coldty to the invitation. We in New Orleans
have coltented ourselves with a very moder-
ate expenditure OF gunpowdsr on the oceas-
ion, and have suffered our enthusiasm to
evapoFate with the last puff of smoke from
the throat Of the ordnance on Lafayeste
square.
We cannot but regard the extra vagal4t pag-
eaEtsy with which New York intends celc-
ofating the opening of telegFaphic eonanuni-
~eation between England and America, Us
rather a top1oitieal and silly piece of business
We are very far from disparaging the impor-,
lance of the achievement, or of seeking 10
derreclate its value in any aspect in which
it may be regarded. None are reader and
%prompfer. than we to award the tribute Of
admiration to the brilliant victories which
%science, genius an! patient effort have won
in sursnounting difficulties and ilnpediments
Of the most diseouraging character. We yield
to none in rendering homage to the iDdon1i-
+,If~ e&en~, -
/ FIELD. the wonderful scientific deductions OF
a MAURY, and the gallant andlong continued
! exefttons Of the numerous experinaenters
who co~o& Grated in bringing this gigantic
project to a successful termination. Let
them all have and enjoy their tuilmeed Of
praise, But Is it necessary that the whole |
country should ba thrown inc a foueut
of delight and a fever of excitement7-I
Is the exploit one Of such astounding magni- |
tude does it scattersuch ~unnunbered. count |
less and signal blessings throughout the land
as specially to elicit q universal %ovations Is
the millennium at hand Are we to regard
the stretching Of a wire across the Atlantic
as another Fourth Of July, and to celebrate
it With patriotic ~efusion from one extremity
of the Union to the other1 Is there any |
sense OF reason in the proposed demonstra-
ton We think not.
By dint Of repeated endeavors the %psinci-
pie Of telegraphic communication hes been
carried beyond the limits Of all previous eff
forts. Submarine lines were no novelties
long before the Atlantic was saanned. In
Europe there are ffteen or Twenty Of them,
and enc especially across the. Back Sea.
IT easslT5ag over three hundred miles in Iength.
The Atlantic cable simply exceeds all others
and legitimate exultation, but Why should If
be marked by professions and parales, illu-
limitations, bonfres and festivals. passes our
understanding. Fourteen years ago the i'll ]
.sentive brain Of MoRsE conceived and ~execu-
ed the idea of establishing the magnetic tel
in America, aaisof thus bringing dis
ant points into instantaneousscomt,uInication.
He it WAS who chained the min bic lightning, (
'egnlated and swayed. its flight. and rendered
t sahservient to tns purposes Of humanity {
let when the first flash proceeded from Bal
inore to Washington, when the arnlature o. !,
he first. register telt its influence, and The !
leedle i'm pressed for the first tine those mys- 6
erious points and dots which operators now :
1eTuse as easily as a printed sheet, the mar :
s~ellous discovery, thougl,euly chronicled BY :
he press, and no doubt profoundly apprecia- t
ed by every thoughtful mind, was received
the slightest national or municipal !
demonstration Cities=Were rot Illuminated; d
here were no pompons displays Of military =
orce ; the achievement was not announced !
rom the pu|pis; finished orators did not Iav-t
their eloquence upon II, while It's gifted ]
sathnr was not, to our khowfedg &c, welcomed :
n a single town with any special and cordi-
lily exhibition OF hospitality. Yet, who is
Untitled to the greatest praise, MoRsE, who l
iiscoveresi, set IN motion, and applied the S
rand theory Of the electric telasr apE or his
uccessors, who, after fourteen years contasn- I
of 1.-THE magnificent fruits Of his. gem -
S, finally succeeded in laying a cable eight b
en- hundred miles 10. g f.. s
To be sure there is no great harm in the Il
sorth waxing wild in its utilization At the /
Ouly it is inconsistent, and to our I
hind nniustitiable. Let lis honor, If we t,
lease, the persevering and intelligent gen. g 9
|enleil by whose endeavors the project Of =
sying atcable On the bed Of the ocean has Il
q reality, butletzus NOT forget thatIa
II greater honor is due to him who taught
that an electric wire was how to employ 8
by what simple secrets Of science it f.
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