The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-09-24

| "FoREIGN lsFLUEScE" AND THE CABLE
us ~ amusing to witness tho rejoicing of the
nhow Nothing press at the annexation OF
,reiaha 10 America, by means of the sub-At-
lantic telegraph 80 ...,--
:. 10 They apprehend no danger in il? Does
~ not smell rank of foreign influenced
mere are words, thoughts, ideas, sent for.
wara' undlluted, from the old world to the
ne"' wi.iont even the process of naturaliza-
uon. "hy do not the philosophers of that
sehooi propose that teegraphic communica-
uohs snail be naturalized, or at least put in
quarantine, before suffered to circulate at
large here!-AIbany Argus.
Oh! no, man. The "philosophers of that
school, propose nothing of the kind. aIr-
teiligence" fany sort is not what the Amsri-
cans fear, but rather that lack of il in the
foreign element, which rolls up big Demo-
cratic maJorites at Tammany Hall and the
PEWTER Mug. If the cable is going 10 add
anything to the "intelligence" in Irel and, we
shall be likely to get better class of voters
from that quarter than has hitherto been The
case; and just in proportion to the diminu-
ton of ignorance there, will be the "repular
Democratic" losses here. 1t is mainly owing
to the deplorably short supply of "thought"
aud "ideas," that the Irish voters are the
mere machinery that they are 10 the hands
OF demagogues, who only use them as hob
bles to ride into Office. If the Telegraph,
then, is going to help Patrick and Mike to do
their own thinking, and to give them some
ideas OF their own, nobody ought TO rejoice
more heartily at its success than those terri
BILE fellows, the Know Nothings If anybody
has really anything to fear from the "dffusion
Of general intelligence" il is the party of
which our Albany contemporary is one of the
organs. Modern Democracy can stand any
thing but "general intelligence" Express.
FALLING OFF IN EMIcRATioN.-- For the
first time in the history of emigration to the
United States from the British Islands there
Is now prepOnderance in the movement
towards Australia and Canada over that TO-
wards these shores. The official returns
made up in England show that for the first
three months of 1868 the aggregate number
OF emigrants from Great Britain was 10000,
OF whom 5000 were bound for the United
States, against l6 726 for the corresponding
period of 1857. OF the rsst 1857 were for
the Australian colonies. Emigration for all
parts Of the world has not been at so low
figure for fifteen years past as it now is. II
attained its maxium figure in 1868, when it
reached 372,725. This was reduced TO less
than one half in 1857, when the emigration
only reached some 10000.
REPoRT OF LiEUTENANT MAuRY ON THE
ATLANTIC TELRGRAPH.--Lieuten Maury
hns made TO the Secretary Of IA. NA.y----
report on the subject Of the At
antic telegraph. embracing the history Of
the Ocean Currents and Soundings connect
ID with it, The facts ure already well
known but the following remarks which
,lose the communication possess interest and
novelty: ..4I
The investigations of this office go further
md warrant other conclusions of much i'm.
oortance touching the future progress of
submarine telegraphy. They satisfy me that
10 sea is so deep or SO stormy, but that an
electric cord can be safely planted in the
It'll waters of the bottom, that the currents
md Storms which nglate the surface do not
each far down into the depths below; that
inder the pressure Of the deep sea there is
10 decay: even those mites of little animals
hat inhabited when. alive those microscopic
he!ls which Brooke's reel brought up from
he bottom for us are, there is ground TO
onjecture, preserved for ages down there,
ence submarine cables will last liletimes ut
he bottom of the deep sea; That hencefor-
ward wrappings Of iron wire about subma.
inc cables for deep sea may be dispensed
With; that except for shoal water, no future
able need be larger than the gutapercha
hord which encases and isolaies the cOnduc-
ing wire of the Atlantic Telegraph; and that
lines of telegraph, though the
rme cos! may be little but not much more
,an over other lines, will hencefortn prove
,e cheaper in the end; for, being once
own, they will require no repairs in the
eep sea. Only as they come from the
epths of the ocean to the land will :hey be
able TO injury. II
UEDERGRoUND TELEGRAPH TO CALIFoR-
A. I'VE learn from the Cleveland Plandeal- {
), that Messrs. O'Reilly, Speed, and Others &
% perfecting a sort Of narrow prairie plow' 6
i,h which to lay an underground cable I
rough the western prairies, TO California 9
his plow is to cut channel, say three I