The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-17

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Al electric cable between the continents The
second, which was altogether dependent upon
rse achievement Of the first, was the possibility
Of senoipg current of electricity through two
thousand miles OF q submerged wire. When
attempt after attempt TO lay the cable result d
in failure, those WHO held to the negative of
the frat proposition plumed themselves upon
their d;scernment, and almost all men were on
the point Of acknowledging the feat an impos-
sibility, when, 10! the joyful news few through
All lands that the cable was successfully laid.
Then the question was The cable being laid,
can the Atlantic telegraph be efficiently ope-
sted? Three-fourths of the electricians and
ssvants Of the country believed that it could
not, judging from the difficulties experienced in
sending o continuous current for O long dis
lance over land lines. 1t was on the answer to
that question that the public mind of the civil
liked world has been hanging-so to spesk-in
Intense solicitude for the last ten days. The
answer has at length been rendered in the
affirmative The telegraph is in operation.
The Queens message has been flashed from
London to Washington, and the Presidents
response has been flashed back. That is the
confirmation which men looked forward to, to
remove their doubts and to assure their minds
that the idea of an Atlantic telegraph has be-
come reality.
Of course we are not to be understood as in
tending to assert that all the difficulties and
impediMents in the way of an efficient working
of the line are removed. We do not know that
such is the fact We do not believe that it is.
But what has been demonstrated is enough
for us; and that is that with what we believe to
be an inferior style of instrument, the Old
and the New Worlds are in telegraphic commu-
nication. Whether superior instruments will
not be adopted or invented is altogether an
other consideration, to be hereafter decided by
the directors on wise business principles.
The double problem being thus happily
solved, and there being no longer any doubt left
as to the practicability of laying and working
two thousand miles of submarine telegraph, the
linking together of all the continents and
islands Of the earth is now mere question of
time and Of necessity. To achieve this crown
ing wonder of the age will not call for any
greater display of energy, any higher develope-
ment of skill and science, than have been
brought into play in the connection of Europe
and America. To do go, the submarine portion
of the line will not require to be, in any place,
over one-half the extent Of that submerged be-
tween Valentia and Trinity bays. 1t is not
hazarding too much therefore, to predict that
within the next decade Europe, Asia, Africa,
America, Australia and the isles of the sea will
be linked together by that most wonderful of
all modern powers-the electric telegraph.
IMPORTANT FROM MExIoo.-The news from
Mexico would seem to indicate that the adj
ministration of President Zuloaga has run mad.
Not only does it continue the most obnoxious
and insulting course towards our Minister,
whose relations with il are closed, but It is re-
sorting to schemes of the most outrageous rob.
berry for the purpose of getting money out of
the wealthy Mexican citizens Don Manuel
Escandon and other rich men in the capital
have been arrested solely because they are IN
willing to advance money to the government
on the promissory notes Of the stewards of the
church property. Such course can only be
counselled by desperation itself, and the con-
duct ofthe French Minister there, Mons. Gabriac,
is worthy Of the highest censure, in permitting
such proceedings by a government of which 1t
is well known he is the main spriag. This
attempt to introduce the fercest Bonapartism
into an American republic will no doubt bring
upon the heads Of its authors fearful retri-
button, and we shall not be surprised to see
blood shed in torrents before the conflict is
ended.
The anarchy Of the country is fearful Our
private advices from one Of the interior cities
tell us that the place has been taken and re-
taken by the opposing forces three times within
month, and on each occasion pillagc, rape
and murder was freely committed by both par
ties The views we have 80 frequently ex-
pressed are being verified with fearful truth.
Mexico Is fast receding into state of anarchy
from which nothing can redeem her but foreign
Intervention She has long since ceased to
have government acknowledged throughout
the republic. She has paid no interest on her
national debt since 1853, and will never pay II
again under the present state Of affairs; and her
international duties are being constantly vio-
lated. Her only hope Of peace must now come
from abroad.
MUNICIPAL MORALITY IN CHrcAGo.-We OBJ
served . statement In q country Newspaper
some time ago that the system of employing de-
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