The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-20
NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1858.

expedition II was observed that tho brakes employed
speed Of ossle aud regulate spec
PaJ 4 entirely united TO that aad
toe Of hem vas smos. says attended with risk aad
danger During the experiments hich were ma 10 from
Cork 10 Valeniis this fast made palcfay apparent
incee3 much that represented TO Mr. 3right
he peraisied Ia employing tnem above certain desree
of pressure they voud oertsly cause tue loss OF
cable There indicator In connection with these
brakes wacn was intended To SHOW the stran but saoa
believe could never be relied upou In consequences or
its psccurac7. The grooves in tue four Wheels over
which the cable passed It's way out OF the ship wers
by the cable slipping GU. Of them twice Il s p~rcasy
worthy OF note here that frequently wheu the strain was
increased by putting on the brakes tue whess stopped
and il required the strength OF oil the men m,
could be put ct them to keep them in motion.
Nov ali this evident detective character OF the
Imperfect coustruc ion OF the whole machney yos the
engineer persisted In putting on the strain q. times when
he should have known that By dong so he sked the auc
OF the enterprise The result is we'll known to the
readers oil the HERALD-ha brakes put on ~ time
when most unsafe TO them-when the strain on
in the trough or the sea- and when the hauling force on
the wheels insufficient to keep them In motion. The
consequence OF oil this foreseen aud foretod II was
rightly predicted that the wheels would stop under such
the brakes could not be released in
time to toe strain on the cable, and thai
Or Momentum Of thu fhs strain a. tSe me
this accident Occurred-K accident II properly be
might have been avoidedwas about thirty
i've hundred pounds according 10 tue indicator but
that part OF the arrangement did not indicate correctly,
II Is impossible to shy what was the pressure uuder
VII Oh the cable parted The fact simply this: it had
to resist the momentum Of the ship-it had
to bold tho ship, go,g ~ the rate OF about Ave nesan
hour or give way Tho result under such circumstances
too obvious TO be madee subject OF speculation
lecture Tho immense force exercised by body weigh
ing three thousand tons least and having speed or
I'VE miles per hauI could nat be resisted oy wire rope
mile and II gave way Of course under the strain, Is
would have parted under strain weight Of ten TONS
Indeed IA doubtful IT, under the conditions stated,
any caos could have withstood such tremendous force
srd 1t certain that cable having the strength to
a % % sas ss
q conclusion are 30 visible a. 10 render statement OF
them entirely unnecessary.
rtefered with and prevented the OF the first
petition is not only doubted but absolutely certain
POW .ns' me GsD,s ma pSen ,aa ia Ausust coaa
bic this may appear, Is fact sustained by the state
meDt Of the electricians themselves Let us look into this
matter we may be better enabled to appreciate what
bas been accomplished. DR.. Wldman Whitehouse, the
chief electrician OF the company, and gentleman who
Til within very short time has eojoysa hgo reputa-
too for eeisntidc Attachments announced after joniog
the two halves Of the cable IN the hafbor OF Cork by
which he obtained continuous line OF twenty five hun
bred miles that he had succeeded in getting signal
beat wave current OF electricity through toe whole
length, in from half TO three quarters Of conf-gving
from ninety to one aud twenty beats in minute
According to strict calculation this would allow from three
10 Ave words minute, or from one hundred and eighty
70 three hundred 10 an hour Tnts it must be remem
beied was In toe year 1857, few days before the DIAL
departure Of the Telegraph Squadron aud az nstura
consequence, the announcement was received with the
gea.edt satisfaction on board each ship OF which II was
composed. still later, however-a6 lste tde 4td OF
January ias-he said 10 his report to the Board OF Drec
tors OF the Atlantic Telegraph Company, thar he had
rescued speed Of four words per minute and that be
hoped with the aid Of further 10 his nstru.
est he sould succeed In getting still higher rate aud
yet IN face OF his own announcement Of last yearn face
OF his repor-since then he and his assistant eectr
clans tell us thas tho cable had been said In August
Of 1857 they could not have got message through. But
IL is recessasy to consider this matter little further TO
II thOrOuRbiy.
Captain Hudson and Captain Hadsou relying It's truth
fitness reported the statement 70 tue Secretary OF
the Navy in his communication dated Cove Ct Cork lee
land. August 1857 that "wthout any difficulty the
electric current passed through the two thousand ye
hundred miles in heI . second"
From this ard tue Oh osequent statement in the report
referred to might reasonably be supposed that the eec
uicuns department. under DR. Warehouses; manag smen
rhould be most ho1rs hing cond tion and that allow
Tor toe improvements which we're 70 be mkte 10 the
gress az the rate OF teegrspnpg had increased
per minute. Now this might reason
ably DO uxocoed bg tho least san xune In via OF toe
prospects which held out but w be somewbi.
amazed 70 that before Mr. Hughes arrived here they
cocl1 Lot get than three letters and hh OF let
ter through the whole cable IN minute, aud not uurs
quenily OF these letters could not be decipherei
correctly What must be the conclusion Of the cain and
cspsssonse reader on consideration OF these facsy
the electrician succeeded in teegraphing at the
rate a from three to i've words minute inst year aud
aSt January had attained according 10 bis repcr
certain speed II four words the ume how
IL thai he's fallen low three letters and tao afths
Of letter, aud that by system Of teegrsphpg 80 unre
liable uncertain tina; tho letters sometimes not
ibsllgible How does he sccourt for this
able falling on: When be told THAI ar. Hughes
Board OF Directors he told Mr. Hyde, OF the purcha
sers Of Mr Hughes patent; he told your correspondent
&c, through atty mee OF submarine ci,e with
his TO sending q current through the
prepos,crous Now however that he has learned .hs,
Mr.. Rughes can no. Only get \ current through the
whole hrc, bet that ne can telegraph more than
too words a minute, aud that when ho accom-
modSes his instrument 70 the new conditions which rs
hxs met for the trst time, he expects 10 telegraph still
Little With H. but il viii never be Thoroughly adapted 70
submsrpe teiegTaphirg Until shall been altered
aso improved ~ himseE-thai u, by DR. wnilenouso.
Tho retrcgrace movements which have been mxie the
s<t named genteuAn certainly most unavorable
the OF department Of the enterprise and
during the short time he hAa beon nare, would al
mot justly the company 10 abandoning az undertaking
the success u which had appeared 30 hopeless. All
doubts h0s cleared up, and the enterprise.
far a least the Telegraph department Is ncerned
las pten plscsd solid and certain basis oy the
GERS of fToi. Hughes instrument.
me remark which has just made Ia references to
the Of Mr. Hughes Invention equally sppii5a-
ble 10 the machinery, which was made on the
plans ard constructed Under tho direction AM
superlD,endence CT Mr.. W. 4. Everett fall do
scripton o. this machinery, with lustr sons, will De pre-
scented another part OF ths article. AR Esereu has
given ali his time and attention 70 the work sncs his arfl
vn IN this country last January and the result has bec7
the consn ucon OF psyins.oui ms,hiae vni,h hiss met
with the moe favorable opinion OF the host OF engnesrs
ana other soenh, msn BY whom u has been inspected
lie has. may be seen avoided eli those defects which
were 40 apparent in tha made BY Mr. Bright lie has
adopted and applied, with essential add esary
monte atoms the self releasing brakes OF M. Apoo,i
scientific sma'eur Of much mechanical skl and inventive
ability and reduced the ponderous dimensions Of toe
Of Last yysr from twenty toas 70 about
fourth that weight Bat the trial trip will shor stl more
satisfactorily what the machine Is capable Of accom-
psh.ng and whether II is or u not suited ID too
There some other points TO which brief aluson
he made before this part OF the Subject dismissed rns
time h intehded 10 have sailing direcuons and reguis
oEs for government Of the telegraph squson during
toe expediton-a matter which entirely neglected
before Then the division Of labor and time VIII DO
satisfactorily arranged and there will DO Opportunity
for the complaint that toe paying out machine len
Nv thout SUFFICIENT intelligence 10 control IT," al
legged by M Bright In that part Of mis- report OF the expe
dHiCn which spoke OF the breaking OF tho cable rnat
gentleman may be assured now that the regulation has
entrusted 70 other hands, tina, this time there WILL
be ia higher degree OF mechanical skill employed
macaines and that IL the cable should be broken
this time 10 will not be from any such neglect he
guilty Of In not making proper provision In his own do
partment The incisa,or when will be employed this
tme will show the exact strain upon the cable aud that
strain can be reduced o. increased at any time with the