New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-20
TIE ATLANTIC CABLE.
..,n m REyoINDER TO "a CARD"

'"'. 80, has this moment been called 10 " A
";,n,d by Cyrus W. Field, his brother Dudley,
'.s, o.hers. in which my communication to The
of last Saturday, signed L.. IL called
ard the drift Of the innuendo Is to the
49,, IKE other anonymous articles, It was cow
en'' ..d ~ assertions entitled to no credit.
Sw., N those gentlemen know very well, that to
w. a. sp,ho, Of that communication they had
bDs - md IN THT TRIBUNE, and IT would have
.o! cteer fully furnished. .,
bea ne ,rcpal object Of my noticing the Card
.hou that Il was uuoaned-ior and unnecessary,
y 10 Lch !. epdeayU most s'renuonsly to prove
or tha' admitted and declared in my letter, viz:
= efPi',s! !~;rsl charter Of the Newfoundland Tele-
tpss !" cam,any il was not part OF Mr Tibbet
giSpn uY ~ rooneea Europe and America continuously
by telegraph but from 81 yohn :" i',n une oi las'
nys IA ,at ssy that those most honorable gentle
i".ndsd "oss' 10 raise q false issue, some would
eA ;ssnice in special plesdingi and yet no one who
not At hand my article could fail OF understanding
%nGCsn5g as charging t1e friends Of Mr.. Tebbetts
.,b claiming that his original enterprise included the
Ind supposed that, least of all the brothers Field
.[nN 6nd fault with shat communication, so full OF
1nise for their perseverance, an d'sregardtng hno"n
rf,;s,oe ard iaytrg ne CaJie
~ibsd supposed that in view Of the uuconradicted
statement that it was through the agency Of Mr.. Tib
i,tt, thew were brought into the enterprise, they
rouh suffer him 10 IN for passing notice, al
ime when they can 50 well afford to be just aud
generous.
Rnt the public are much less Interested in the ques-
nu Of originality than in the utility and praccablty
A the Atlantic Cable and should another twenty days
espse before another message passes over it, all the
esimsuts to originality will probably he very willing
10 s,y no more about it, and the Directors of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company viii be compelled to con-
ia that Mr.. Tlbetts did wisely ia listenng- to the
o,unse Of scientific men in both continents, who re-
ported that there were no laws Of known science to
warrant the enterprise.
A dsy or two before the arrival Of the Queens
Message, in u communication to The EreniRg Post,
yLch at the time attracted notice, stated that
Tie reasons assigned by Mr. Cyrus Field for the delay
IN working the cable not sound or satisfactory
fo those acquainted with the science and practice Of
elegrephing and in later article In another evening
paper presented some considerations tending to show
he great probability of more delay and difficulty.
The transmission of the five or six dispatches
which the public have seem prove simply that at the
lucky moment there were favorable phenomena, and
% insurmountsble obstacles to the principle upon
which the enterprise was predcated; and IL is not
unlikely that Oh the of that condition Of
things more dispatches may be transmitted
But that the public may not be disappointed if Prot:
Hughess experiments should not at once be crowned
With success, state the fact told me by the clerk in
the Office of the Company, that they were forty cont'n-
,op aighs experimenting with his instruments before
Os single word was got through the line from Ner-
York 70 Boston
The proportionate time for success on the Atlantic
cable Is then of mathematics, and any curious
esn easily calculate it,
One Of the gentlemen whose name is signed TO the
@psrd" gives another solution to the singular 81.
erce which since the 9th of August, has character.
lied the cable viz that before it laid, the Com
psuy had promised the several electricians that they
should each have opportunities at trying their pc
eutar apparatus, and the Company must keep their
contract .
But the public were told early in August that oil
experimenting should end ON the lst of September,
and vet Prof Hughes is now il is said, on his
way there 10 take his turn.
Cyrus Field does not hazard any explanation, but
simply conjecture that they are changing the shore
end vi the cable from Valenta to some other place.
From these and other familiar facts, is not the
conclusion unavoidable that the gentlemen who signed
the card not in the secrets OF the Atlantic Tee-
graph Company or that there is serious, perhaps
fatal difficulty with the cable p!
On subject Of this moment the public have right
10 all the information in the possession Of those who
claim to have originated and contributed mnch TO
it, and il, as II is now said, the Newfoundland Telc-
an entirely distinct corporation from the Atlantic
Company, are not enjoying the confidence of that
Company, shall then know TO what quarter ~ look
for relief TO the painful uncertainty experienced
BY the well wishers to the enterprise.
IT. as is believed there is difficulty, let the fact
appear and at once the wisdom Of science will be ap
pied for remedy and if the cable is not broken,
which is unlikely, he remedy 'ciH be found. t-
FRANCIS O. YOUNG,
No. Ill Broadway, Trinity BuildiaS
Fte York Sept i6 1858.