Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-22
Tho Cable Celebration in New York "A
Growl from John Bull.

Fron the London Times August 1-th)
The way i'll which tho people of England and
America have each received tho news Of the sue
ccssfn laying of the Atlantic Telegraph is perfect
~ characteristics. Tho iQamcn,non comes back to
Portsmouth and pnys on officers and crew going
right or left, without any one tesfying cxtrnord
nnry interest III their proceedings or giving n |
second thought whether they 20 or stay, or even |
who they are. The staff of engineers and ecc,ri
cians ON board the ipumcmnon tho working hccs
Of the hivc--thc men who really laid the cable
are fast dispensing The cnusc of submarine tclo-
grnphy stands in too urgent need Of tho services Of
these master hands to leave them idle long. Ships
arc waiting, ircightcd with cables. und European
Governments nnd companies ARE loud in their do
mands for the aid aud assistance of these great
cable layers In another week, probably of those
actually engaged in laying tho Atlantic Cable, only
Mr.. Bright, the Chief Engineer will be in Eng
land, aud, when he has received his well meritcd
ovation at the hnnds oI the municipality OF Dub
ln the whole affair OF that cable will he forgotten
in lis y-dny working. till On some other fine
day cur countrymcn will learn, perhaps, TINT the
same men have completed our electric communi
cation with Australia. with India. with the Cape.
or wherever else il may be wanted. In America,
however the ease is different. and there the nows
has been received with all that enthusiasm, of
large "postcrs.' speeches, and j" Bunkum" nj
dresses in which such occasions, whether
Of British union or British outrage. our cou-
sins nrc always ~ prolific. No town cumm,i-
nifty too small to present its address Of congratu
laton. There are to he fireworks in New York.
The city il to be Illuminated and $40, 900 have
been voted for an entertainment to Mr.. CyRus
FiEip and - tho captain and officers of the NJ
o9dra. According to this il certainly appears,
first that the English have on tho whole rather
underrncd the Importance of tho event aud, Sc
condly that the Americans are rather overriding
il, considering the object they have in view, which
s simply that Of monop,lizng all the credit due
Ia tlp inp aud rninpiptihn # tbia N
drrtaking In every speech mndc in every nd
dress presented. not only is England not mentior
81, but nllusions to tho wealth and enterprise
she embarked in tn" scheme are 50 studiously ig-
nored that people here begin to rub their eyes,
md wonder if English science. English money
and English men really did conceive and carry out
10 successful issue the whole plnn Of the Allan
tie cable from beginning 10 end. Under such cir
rumsinncca it mny hc we'll 10 state nj that the
idea Of the submarine telegraph between England
and America started here and worked out
here, formed into II practical plan, aud into COM
pany. BY this company the money was raised al
most entirely in England in fact, all the shares
held in America from first To last are scarcely
more than halitlc number taken up in Liverpool
in week alone. The cable has been made in
England, English engineers devised and construc
ted the payngont machines Mt the works Of E.s
Ton AMos. English electricians planned and
ascerlained by practical experience the best means
Of working through the wire All the ships of
the expedition. except the Nmyonn and .Snsqne
hmm last year, and the Niagara this year were
provided by the English Government, and both on
board the dgamiemnon aud Niagara English cleo
tricnns and English engineers were alone employ
ed TO submcrge the cable--in fact, to accomplish
the undertaking. Yet it is actually upon such
facts these that the Stntes go into ccstacies and
get up demonstrations upon their own courage per-
severence, and cntcrprls" in the accomplishment
of this scheme, upon their firm belief in its ult
mate success, and upon the wealth some 0,0OOor
E9000o)they had embarked it, banquet istob be
given at Ncw-iork to the captain and officers of
the N,dynr1, "to commemorate the successful lay |
ing of the cable Not word of tho English cleo |
trlcans and engineers board that vessel, the |
men who were sent to lay and who did lay, the |
cable. 1t is generally the fate Of those who grasp
at inordinatc quantities to have even the small |
share which would otherwise be given TO them
withheld This rule is likely to apply in tho case
Of the officers IF the Niagdru, and if they put in
n claim to be considered foremost among the
agents in this great scheme they must expect to
hear IF things which, in the general satisfaction
this side Of the water would otherwise have
been forgiven, if not forgotten. They will be told
how the rough. and, to say tho very )east of it.
the careless manner in which they threw out the
rope from the Niagara at Key ham, after the first
failure. nearly destroying that half and it, III
fact. did destroy very many miles Of it. They
will be told also, how, even in the last trips even
the English gentlemen and workmen on board
their ship from such annoyance and insult that
it was feared that when the vessel Joined at the
rendezvous the English Oh board the Niagara
would refuse TO proceed any further in her, and
so put n stop for time to the whole scheme. In
fact it was only through the influence of Mr. Can
ming, board the Agomemnon, that such a strike,
if we may call it, among the men, was prevent
ed before the vessels left Plymouth. Capt. llUD- |
SON aud his officers will also be reminded how, |
when the ships returned to Queenstown, after the
great Storm they almost to n man against
further attempts, and if their opposition had had
the least weight with those intrusted with carry
ing out the undertaking tho second voyage would
never have been made, and the completion OF
the Atlnntic cable deferred at least for many. !
many years. This is not the first time that
American ships have gained great name Of a GER
tain kind under false colors and the officers ofthe
Niagara are building up n reputation on the At
lantic cable with whicl however. thew have had