Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-04-08
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The two Hemispheres will soon again
be on 2p-toe of excitement relative to the
GREAT experiment of stretching pulse be-
tween the Old and New World. Prepara-
tious are fast coming to completion and the
Niagara has sailed for England to take
her place in the work of wire-hying the
Atlantic. The London Times Of March
1lth gives an Interesting account of the
present progress of the work, which, if
successful will crown the nineteenth centu-
ry as the age of miracles. The 400 miles
Of cable ordered in place of the ss4 lost
last autumn have been manufactured
22OO miles of cable on hand when the ex-
pertinent failed last autumn, have been
safely preserved and throug II it constant
experiments have been made during the
winter. The experiments have been In the
highest degree satisfactory; five words per
minute have been sent through the entire
length, and it is expected that this number
will be increased to eight words by the
time of commencing operations of submerg-
ing the wire. The Times says although
4s0 words per hour will doubtless remu-
nerate the company, still it will be far
from accommodating the business messages
between Europe and America, and there
fore, if next summers experiment in lay
ing the cable prove successful, three or four
other cables must be laid as well. The
entire length of cable now ready is 1850
miles, being $50 miles more than last
years one. 1t has been determined, how
ever, to make 800 miles additional SO that
the work will be commenced with 800
miles of wire.
The Niagara on Ter arrival at Plymouth
will take 1900 miles more than she had
before. On the Agamemnon, which is
again to be the Niagara's co-laborer, the
cable will be placed in three coils, fore,
aft and midshaps. Last year it was stow
ed in one huge coil midships and the YES
sci, on the least swell, rolled her yards
nearly TO the water. The vessels will be
laden and ready for operations about the
first of May, when they will make series
of experiments in deep sea soundings to
test the capabilities and character Of the
paying-out machinery.
The result of testimony as furnished by
best authorities and most experienced sea-
men is that there are five or six consecutive
days in June in which gale on the At
lantic seldom or never has been known TO
occur. The expedition therefore will leave
England early in June, SO as to reach mid
ocean at the commencement of those hal
cyon days, hoping thus get over tie deep
sea part before change of weather. The
coils of the two vessels will be joined in
mid-ocean and the Niagara steam for Eu-
rope while the Agamemnon will steam for
America, keeping up constant electric sig
nails between the two.
The fate of the experiment will hang up
on the paying-ou machinery, That ma
chinery, last year, was bad, but now, so far
as can be judged, it is much more perfect;
a new selfacting brake having been devils
ed in this country, and other important al
terations having been made in the machin-
cry under the superintendance of MIR. Ever
ett, the chief engineer of the Niagara, in
consultation with eminent English engin-
GERS.
OF the $50 miles of cable laid last au-
tumn, 81 miles have been recovered-the
balance cannot be raised. Some of that
recovered was raised from depth of 1000
fathoms and was found is as good order as
when laid, so far as its electrical condition
was concerned, but the outer spiral wires
had stretched considerably but not enough
SO as to affect the insulation of the conduc-
tor Cleveland Herald.