The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-18

mission OF signals Here Is field which will he dileent
y cultivated and perhaps may have speedily the sub
marine line working with the facility and rapidly
land This would add largely To It's value TO the
public and the profit of its The next point IL
cheaper method Of constructing other lines Many plans
to this effect under consideration and we shall
soon have lines working successfully into terri
tories, and under control These are facts how
ever for the nture the present is occupied entirely
with the great triumph which has been achieved and
which continents now rejoice Morse has lived
TO perfect realization of his great conception and
however Others may profit by his abors the honor and
ronown exclusively his OF having given birth
to an invention which unites ia intelligence continents
which have been separated from the foundation Of the
world
[from the New York Herald, Aug. III
Thus, have said the great problem of the age Is
now fuy and iayorably solved. The Atlantic telegraph
Is In operation. London and New York are side by
side.
In the attempt realize this graniest idea of modern
days there were two distinct problems to be solved two
series OF difficulties TO be overcome each of which
deemed by most men of science and by the world at
large insupeabe The first the actual laying Of
electric cable between the continents The second which
was altogether dependent upon the achievement of the
first the possibility Of sending current of eectrc
ty through two thousand miles of submerged wire
When attempt after attempt to lay the cable
suited in failure those who held the negative OF the
first proposition pumed themselves upon their discern
ment, and almost all men the point Of acknow-
edging the feat an impossibty, when 10 the joyful
| fully laid
Then the question The cable being laid the
Atlantic telegraph be efficiently operated! -fourths
of the electricians and of the country believed
that 1t couIdnot Judging from the difficulties experienced
In sending continuous current for long distance
land lines IL the to that question that
the public mind of the civilized world has been hanging
to speak intense solictude for the last ten days
The answer has ut length been rendered in the Affirmative
The telegraph Is in operation The Queens message has
been flashed from London to Washington and the Pres
dents response has been flashed back That is the
irmaton which looked forward to to remove their
doubts and to their minds that the idea of At
| lantic telegraph has become reality.
OF not to be understood as intending to
assert that all the difficulties and mpedimens In the way
of efficient working OF the line removed We do
not know that such is the fact do not believe that
1t H. But what has been demonstrated is enough for us
and that s that with what believe be inferior
style of instrument the Old and the New Worlds in
telegraphic communication. Whether superior nstru-
ments will not be adopted invented Is altogether
other consideration, to be hereafter decided by the d
| rectors on wise business principles.
The double problem being thus happily solved, and
there being longer any doubt left to tho practical
bity of laying and working two Thousand miles Of sub
marine telegraph the linking together Of all the continents
and islands OF the earth is question of time
and Of necessity To achieve this browning wonder Of the
age will not call for any greater display of energy, any
higher development of skill aud science than have been
brought into play in the connexon of Europe and Amer
ica TO do So the submarine portion OF the line will not
require to be in place half the extent Of that
submerged between Valentia and Trinity bays. 1t is
not haardng too much therefore, to predict that within
the next decade Europe, Asia, Africa America Austria
a and tho isles of the will BIO linked together by
that most wonderful OF all modern powers-the electric
| telegraph.