Litchfield enquirer., 1858-07-29
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THE ATLANTIC CABLE. From Correspondent of the Loudon Times.


 QUEENSTOWN, July 5, 1858. The Gofgon and the Niagara arrived this morn. ing. Three attempts have been made to lay down the electric telegraph cable. The Agamemnon and Valorous expected hourly. The squadrons ex- perienced very bad weather during their cruise On the 18th of June heavy gale sprung up, during which they were separated, but all met again at the rendezvous, lat. 52 g. long 33 18 On the first at tempt about ten miles of cable was lost on the sec- ond about 12O miles, and on the 18th, the cable was again joined and about 25O miles were paid out, when communication. ceased to be received, the ca- ble was parted, and the Niagara and the Gorgon the Aganemnon and Vaorous not in before them, as they had more than 200 miles start The Agamemnon is reported to have suffered some dam ages in the gale.
 From the Dublin Correspondent of the London Times.
 Although other accounts of this it is to be hoped temporary, mishap, have doubtless reached you ere this, the following version which appears in a sec ond edition of the Cork reporter of yesterday may not be without interest: ,,e
 1.-The Niagara and Gorgon attached to the squad ron for the laying of the Transatlantic cable, arrived in Queenstown at an early hour this morning We regret having to announce that the object of the expedition has for the present failed, and we shall now give readers such particulars of the events which occurred in the of the undertaking us we have been able to collect.
 ''The Agamemnon and her tender the Valorous, and the Niagara and her tender the Gorgon, sailed from Plymouth on the 10th of June: each of the great vessels carrying about 1,5O0 miles of cable with new and improved apparatus for paying It out, which it calculated would have allowed for any strain or unequal motion of the ships, as the very speed of the vessels regulated by the automat ic arrangements the rate at which the coil was to be discharged. After having been three days at seq the expedition was overtaken by fearful gale,' which continued without intermisson for nine days.
 On the seventh day of this heavy weather the shps which continued to keep together had to part company, and the Agamemnon was obliged to scud before the wind for S6 hours her coals got adrft, and coil of cable shifted, so that her captain for some time entertained serious apprehensons for her safety, and from the immense strain her waterways were forced open, and of her ports broken. Two of her sailors were severely injured and one of the marines lost his reason from fright. Yet such was the consumate skill, good seamanshp and intre- enabled to bring her to the appointed rendezvous, lat 52 deg. min., lon 33 deg. IS min The Ni- agala rode out the storm gallantly, having only ried away her jibboom and one wing of the figure head, the great American eagle.
 All the vessels having at length arrived at their central point of junction. the first splice of the cable was made on the 26th. After having paid out two and half miles each, owing to an accident on board the Niagara, the cable parted. The ships having again met, the splice was made good, and they commenced to give out the caGle a second time but after they had each paid out 40 miles it was reported that the current was broken, and no communication could be made between the ships. Unfortunately, in this instance the breakage must have occurred at the bottom, as the electricians, from the fine calculations which their sensitive fn struments allow them to make were able to declare such to have been the fact before the vessels together again. Having cast of this loss they met for the third time and recovered the connexi0n of the cable the 28th They then startcd afresh and the Niagara having paid out over l5O miles of cable, all on board entertained the most sang,ile expectations of success, when the fatal announce ment was made upon Tuesday, the 29th, at D. m, that the electric fluid had ceased to fow As the necessity of abandoning the project for the present was now only too manifest, 1t was considered that the opportunity might well be availed of to test the strength of the cable. Accordingly, this if1- mense vessel, with all her stores, &c:, was allowed to swing to the cable and, in addition strain of four tuns placed upon the brakes, yet although it blowing fresh at the time the cable held her as if she had been at anchor for over hour, when heavy pitch of the snapped the rope, and the Niagara bore away for this port. Before staitihg arrangement was made that should any accident DC cur in giving out the cable before the ships should have gone 100 miles, they should return to their stl ting place in mid ocean but in case that dis tlnce should have been exceeded before any casualty should happen, they should make for Queenstown. In accordance with this understanding, the Niagara, having made l09 miles before the nlshap. returned to this port. Upon her homeward way she must have passed the Agamemnon, but owing to the heavy fog which prevailed for the greater portion of that time she missed seeing or gaining any idings of her. M
 "As the Agamemnon had not yet arrived, ale though her destination was directed toward this shore it is cOnectured that she might not have de- lvered the arranged quantity of coil at the time of its failure, and may have consequently returned to their place of meeting, which will unavoidably pro- tract the suspense which must necessarily be felt, as until she. be spoken with nothing definite can be learned to the occasion of this disaster The two principal electricians Dr. Santy and MT. Lawes, on board the Niagara, inclined to believe that the accident occurred on board the Agamemnon, which, as it would not only duplicate faulty arrangefnent of some of the apparatus, would still leave hope of the ultimate success of the undertaking whereas, the separation had occurred at the bottom its effects will be greatly to damp, not deter the enterprise ing spirit of the directors from persevering in this gigantic project. Should nothing be heard of her consort the Niagara will, after coaling, proceed to her ocean station having still board about 1900 miles of the cable, which, supp0sng that the other vessel has retained similar amount, would still permit of the junction being completed and allow 30 per cent for casualties In this last trial some 500 miles of the rope lost, and when it is calcu lated that it is roughly estimated that the value of the cable is about f100 mile it will be seen that the sacrifice up to the present has not been exten sive as might at first sight have been supposed"
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 SEcEDING FROM, THE UnfTARIANs-REv Ma, Coo. LIDGEs FAREWELL TO HIS CoSGREaAyIoH.--Rev. Jas. I. T. Coolidge preached his farewell sermon yester dsy morning to the Society of the Thirteenth Con. gregational Church, in Harrison avenue It is gen- erally known that MT. Coolidge has experienced a change of faith, and that he now embraces the views of the orthodox churches The text of Mir. Coolidge's sermon was from the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy, .4th chapter, 9th verse :" But watch thou in all things, endure affictons do the f,.ll ,xf