New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-07
THE VOICE OF TIE PREss.


THE VOICE OF THE PRESS.
is in possible for US TO copy 1.-THE Of tie comments
CT tie numerous jounsls which receive re Schsng"
Upon the great uews thst Is nedy Jet compTehended
az nevs, although thirty ak holIs CID. Bu nsert
several articles "a spscin Of the tooe 10 which tue
press spe AXIS Of the event, destined TO co.p.s.s tie
revolution in icurus.ism which the invention os tos
magnetic telegraph irsugura'ed.
Tyom The Phiod,Jho No'r t'rer1n ard Gs.ssth Aug IT,
The srest single event il tie history Oi dvlizsd
msn cas- ap spi ed Hithia the day cnvton We Trte
Tine sId fpsce ard sll mater ara material forces,
have be en lowest ard have p.d their deepest homage
70 into igence-.o intelligence WHICH, BY th'3 measure
of fs tsiuupbs seeus scarcely loss tasa sup enc
TIE Gle n. georrapt drew lie akeca of the Urn
TstrrGr,p IN lms. oval, concentI1c sroitd Gteece,
with Ciumeilsn asIkress a the wett snd T.. 1iop'a,
light tie east ard to ng ftiest ooncsD,i3o tners
DO tIarsui sion Of intelligence o,ner thaa oy tie S
ing messenger sect. Twenty aght ceosures later,
his desoe LdaDt msy converse WITH me ce1tz; us oi
new world at his aptp0des-8nd to ttess concqlfts
IpidLpbt ard neon are the ssGno. The H2yds ara no
or. er gods of the hours snd tine Is no longer tine
Terror Of Greece How would the seges OF the hrst
Academy have struggled under problem 80 vast A.
that when dsy ard night fee away. AID bscose ob,o.
lee in me asure e time The day is Lot what it Was,
al it is TO longer to fix the standard coalition con.
troIg our Toyomel Ins Ferrous snd tay
three pses in ccnyer'atioD one nayheve high noon,
ore r1irg AID the thrd the deep night The basi-
ress they trsnsact mus: have place IL positive time
but which one claims the rgh. to have i. done a. 8
o'clock q. h. Obviously the SUI sed moon are eh'te;
ard leaving the small system called solar, We must
mark our time, and tsks our guides among eterra
euns -,
How thi grf ate s fact Of the hour sweeps away ths
lardms;ks Of exsteuce heretofore' The world, as
we fret knew it, bends and rnolds tef and dsclses
allegiance anew. Greatest of all is tse fsct tha: In
teligepce gains these tiumphs through meabe Will N
we must pronounce inadequate by all ordinary rules
of Judgment, and which, wuen they triumph, imprsss
us only the more overxt lninely With the conviction
that TIE ultimate tcore Of the serene intelligence woich
s itsef at intervals even in humanity Us 20 embrace
atsirmepts nov poeslbls only with the Suprems.
In reaching over this belt Of oceaa between Amer.
lea and England, the telegraph d;es Infinitely pore
than is done by traversng 80 much Of lant surface
C1n1 ecting two conr ehs, as it does, 1t leaves bat
the Pacific Ocean inaccessible IN the cfcui. oi the
world. Nobody doubts that u few yssrs will gee
telegraph line completed and 10 actual operation @ rom
the Mississippi 10 the Pacific oc6s.- The improve
ments already effected IN the machinery OF trarsms-
sion assure that the obst uctions 50 for tie
past few years msy be wholly removed and the Ices
on land may at any line be kept in complete ORDER
We have been out Of patiebcs with many things the
telegraph has dcne failed to do but ne forget ths
oil its proces sses still mskUg progress toward
higher efficiency. In th, of progress there is
10 be steady advancement until the transmission OF
intelligence becomes as free BY the telegraph Line as
by the pen Of ready writer, who couveysis mercy
fIOm brain TO paper under bis h8no.
through the profound depths o tie Atlantic, words
Of nearing are Dow passing r two taousan1 nlue5
TIE tempsets, which came near destroying tie Aga
momnon ard ts fresht, may rego over the bed oi the
c.b!e for decades of years in vair Ifunsols to
strain these material forces, human intel Pence has
surrourded item, has penstrated them, and proves
itself superior. This conquest OF the sea is grand
and proud event, acd he whose energy won H. IL
.reater than the ercient monarch would have baea
had he sucCeeded in cbanipg il. The storms OF tue
Atlantic are terrible that the most pow erfu sap
only to show how weak the structures but by
hards are in the fury Of winds and waves, but noS ono
may call 10 his friend through two thousand niles OF
binding Atlantic storms and be answered Instantly.
The achievement is almost inconcelvably gres..
The aspect of the case is lghtfuly he first one. 1t
is an era and landmark io tie msrch Of the human
race to higher civiIz ation and to greatst dominion
oyer the dead matter Of the earth We inhabt In the
intervals of steps like this come the long delays t1e
dull level of small difficulties aud small t1umphs.
which exc out most Of mortal time. Doubtless tue
telegraph will be inefficient and perverted a. tines,
and perhaps we shall vote il to cot more Than comes
too be the agent Of unscrupulsus men-to bs the
instrument Of national disadv antage, aud to com nit
mary other sins. All these have certsiu place IN
the greatest agencies vet given 10 the Torid ior its
advancement, ard we may not hope yet TO expe ineh
But when intelligence fret places its LIVING thread
along two thousand miles of the bottom Of the ssa. and
sending literal words along this subtle mystery, calls
from the old world to the and from the neS bsck
10 tie old let us utter few words adequate to the
occasion of 10 great triumph, and for one moment
look be yond the hack kneyed business Of the hour
From The A6any lftlas and Ar9as dag. 6.
Just at the moment when everybody appeared to
give up all hope of the success of the atenpto ay
the Atlantic cable the electric spark flashes from the
wire with the announcement that it is done 80,
The experiment is successful! There may be still
some incompeteress, and some cssuslty may yet
occur 70 dsappoint tie views Ct the propnetors But
the deed is DONE The work has passed IRON the cate
CORY of experiments to the record Of the rea acheye
msnts of the nineteenth century Locking back al the
few years which hsye passed since the first essay to
bend this ethereal messenger 70 hann uses one as
tonshed alike at the magnitude OF the conception ana
the vastnsss of the application that has been given
to il.
II is not merely force that is made to resch from
contr ert TO con.nent-uot merely impulse Ot un.
Known power-not merely h.ue OF hfe pas;ing un-
eNtinguished through Thousands " niles OF OCEAN
not merely the lightning of heaven boring beneath
the waters of the eaithro. msrsly mute sign or sn
iea-it is syllabed word. II is that artc clsted IAN
euage which Distinguishes man from all the rest Of
created things, and the stamp OF his iesemosrce 10
God
Locking q. this embodiment Of that al-pervaiing
and creating spirit. ore is romodei Of the msgnihcn mt
ard mysterious language # TIE Eyangehst: 10 the
beginning was the Word, and the Word Was with
" God, ard the Word VS., God In Hin the Word
was hgat-snl the bgh was the lie ot men.
And the light .hneth IN darkness and tbs darkness
"comprehendeth Il not II was in this form that
10 the beginning "ihe spirit Of Coo moved on tae
face Of the waters. i. this that fro chso5 10
night brought forth.the light and the dViae order
Nature.
We know the infuite distance which ssp.r'es the
iumeterisl from the mater. world-the mortal ron
immortality But il Is when soms sue human ulira-
Gle as this Is performed ths are taught 10 realize
the greatness Of the agencies OF God, ana to Jucgs
low narrow is our finite horizon, even expanded
for, this pew hight OF knoNledge, eonpirsi With
the infinite of which Hs is the certer and the crcun-
F,on Ths gri,ipors E1cAaHge iygrHe.
Whether Dr. Dionysius Lardner did or did not de-
noustrate, TO the entire satisfaction Of nimeef and
ohe1s the utter iu prscc soty OF crossing the ocean
by steam is a matter nov OF no consequence what
ever. That quite number of very lesrned and very
scientific gentlemen did express such go option-ihs.