The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-12

The ouaden success Oh Ahe Atihnsfe Ae'"h'"f"
Killed on large number Of grave and sagacioas
prophets, Who we're 10 the very act OF predieuns
sss failure, WHOM just as Il 10 spite them, IL laid
S,ssif quietly down In l,s ocean bed and the light
utng, ayine through IL, knocked over large nun.
Der Of the wiscs. aud .most philosophical oroa In
4 both England and America. The knowing ones OF
,sbe Earth havs always had q good laugh at the
speculative folIies Of tho age but they laugh too
rcou, aud are compelled TO look very serious and
foolish afterwards. When Harvey discovered the
ejaculation Of the blood, he hooted at and dc.
prived Of his practice aud bitterly assailsd BY the
solemn looking aud empty headed members OF his
Z own fraternity, who fancied that they had taken
out q patent for all knowledge and wisdom. when
Jensen declared that In the COW he had found =
medy tor small pox. the wags were cxcrucIatingly
funny, and foreteld the growth of horns from the
hesdsof vsccinated babies. When IL was propos.
ed to iiiuuinsts streets by ignited coal gas to be
conveyed In pipes under our feet, the prophets
predicted that the city town having these pipes
- undsrasash It. would be inevitably blown mp By q
wore than gunpowder plot. When Faton first
4 tried his experimental steamboat, and could only
succeed 10 moving her now and then little, tho
vast crowd rosred with laughter; and demoniac
{ shsuts OF snow she goes!" and SNOW she don't
go," filled tho air. When stephsnson's Railway
vel .nftsen niles an hour" discussed In Par.
liasnsns, the Quarterly Review ironically asked,
>swoald not men as soon be shot out OF a gun. -
Strsve} BY such meansfn When ocean steamers
d, were proposed, DR.. Dyonisius Lardner denonssra-
ted their total Observation-Disclosures, since
their success, he stouty denies that he ever said
il Word Of the kind The Electric Telegraph on land
mot With the same incrsdulity; but whom 1t vas
attempted by sea, the wise men had become q liz
) qsiss cautious. and having seen 80 many strange
4 things, concluded not TO commit themselves pre-
maturely. The electrical sprite, however. fooled
them, by refusing, two trials, to be sunk 10 the
yea weeds; and shsn, just ~ the derisive laugh
? broke from the lips of the doubters, he flashed
y conviction into their unbelievisg souls, with a
2 lightning lash two thousand miIss long; and, ma
y turally enough, has made them dumb for =
: season.
We are not Of those who anticipate any coed to
Z the. Upited States from dis telegraph, which, 10
. time Of peace, may be easily monopolized by spec
ulators, and in time of war becomes the exclusive
\, property of the British government, on whose
territery both its terinini rest sBat 40 prodi.
Uious triumph Of inventive genius, and as es-
Ronstration that hundred or a thousand similar
csbIes can be made, in which our country and our
citizens may, participate Mt all times on equal
tsrms, II il . subject Of universal congratuatsn.
I 'Wscsnnot doubt that the United States govern.
|, msnt, which, with the most Astonishing good ma
: ture spd childlke simplicity, has given the use
of its best vessel to Great Britain for the parposs
OF aiding project which brings the War Depart.
msnt Of England to the shores of America will
employ the Niagara and other war ships to
lay down cables for American az soon as they
can be manufactured, and tina. viii not be long,
nov that the practicabiiiy OF the Atlantic tels
I graph 10 demonstrated.