Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-23

Different IastTuments used to Record the
MessGges-1Re Num5er Of Wordsper Minute
that can be Sent Through.
The following adyices conccrningtHe Cable
were received by telegraph, Saturday night AS
they eof general character and in the nature
of comment and moralizing more than of news
character, We transfer them from under the.
usual Telegraph head to this column. They,
will be found interesting inasmuch as there is q
great eagerness to know something more than
has yet leaked our about the plan and opera.
tons of the Atlantic Telegraph Company:
Froa The Liv4poo Associated pess
| NV YoEx, Aug 2O.-The decided success
achieved in the laying Of the Atlantic Cable,
recalls to our memory the dependency which,
but few mouths ago, pervaded the minds of
some of the earliest friends of the enterprise,
Who were also among the heaviest stockholders
in the Company. We remember that after the
second parting Of the cable, Mr. Brooking, the
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
who had frequently opposed the perseverance
any further in the enterprise, and when he
found he could not bring his American colleagues
and the acting Manager, Mr. Field, over TO his
way OF thinking, he Indignantly resigned his
position and Withdrew from all active participa-
ton in the proceedings VIM, Brown, of Liver
pool, another director, was also decidedly OPP
posed to any further prosecution of the enter
prise. He would not attend the meetings of
the Board of Directors, but wrote them "a letter
urging the board to giVe-up- the enterprise as
failure, sell out their property and diSband the
Company. Others of the Directors were dis
posed to follow this advice, but Mr.. Field stood
out firmly against every proposition looking to
an abandonment of the work. He was sangune
of success. He knew no such word as fail. He
cnntended perseveringly and successfully against
/ md os,ek
Eventually, through the force of his own char
acter, seconded by the efforts Of others, he sue
ceeded in bringing majority Of the directors
to consent to third trial. The result fully
justifies his sagacity.
| There has been some curiosity evinced
to know who are the heaviest stockholders
| in the Atlantic Telegraph Company, as well
as the aggregate amount of stock owned by
them. The last question we cannot answer full
/ ly.a The whole amount of capital-is $500, 900,
of which amount, we are told, Mr.. Field owns
one tenth-that is. 95N,00O. How much ofthe
remainder is o~nedin America we have no means
at hand just now to enable us to state accurate
| ly. The following is complete list of. Ameri.
can stockholders: Cyrus W. Field, Peter Coop
er, David Dudley Field. August Belmont, John
g. Green, Wilson G. Hunt, jacob Little A. NJ
Lawrence, Mathew Morgan, Henry G. Mar
guand, G. L. Trimble, R. Ii. Van Auken, most
Rev. John Hughes, estate of Mortimer Living
1
rnaa & Co., Mrs. f. w. Perkins, all of N. Y
City; E. r. Stevens, Of Saratoga, N. Y; Wm
Dare, Montreal, Canada.
There is very general desire on the psrt of
the public to learn the degree of success which
the electricians have met with in transmitting
electrical currents through the cable since it
was submerged; but as yet. we have nothing
beyond an unofficial statement from VaIentia
that it is possible to receive from Trinity Bay
about sixty signals per minute. If this is true
it would seem to indicate the possibility
of transmitting by the system of Professor
Whitehouse, about three words of average
length per minute, and by the system of Prof
Hughes indicates that an electric impulse may
be made TO print complete letter, about ten or
twelve words per minute. We understand that
the Company propose to give Prof. Whitehouse
ample time TO test his system thoroughly; after
which Prof Thompson win test his invention,
which is quite different from that of Prof White
house, and after him, Prof. Hughes, of N, ",
will have an opportunity to test the capabilities
of his most extraordinary invention, which is,
we understand, about to be introduced upon one
of the lines between London and Liverpool.
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