The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-06

chief sale consisted OF about 400 bAgs Rio ct l0c
uzc With lots Of Java and MarscSoo and Costa Rico II
prices given in another place. Freishts GULL and
engagements limited whisSsy has taken quite rse,
and sales Of 200 bbs ware MADE yesterday at CSC &c
The Atlantic Cabls-Tnc Woria Revolution
Begun.
The dispatches from Trinity Bay, received
yesterday afternoon, and Published in an extra
HERALD, have announced throughout the
country that the Niagara and Agamem.
non have successfully performed their parts
in carrying out the great event of the age.
The United States steam frigste Niagara, at
tended by the British steamer Gorgon, arrived
off Bulls Arm Bay on the 4th, and the Ameri
can end Of the Atlantic Telegraph cable was
landed yesterday. Our own correspondent au-
nounces that the Agame mnon arrived at Va
lentia Bay about the same time with the British
end of the cable. The electric signals sent
and received through it show that the con-
tinuity is perfect; but no news can be obtained
Of affairs On the other side until the message of
Queen Victoria to President Buchanan has
been transmitted and the reply sent.
On learning the successful result Of this
great enterprise every American heart has ex-
perienced thrill of delight. Every one has
felt glow Of pride in the noble ship that has
shown herself to be the Just pride of our navy,
and the gallant officers and crew whose I'M
wearied and unremitted exertions have per-
formed the mighty tack. They have added
new ray TO the glory of their coun-
try, and they will reap their reward. Mr.
Field, to whose exertions the world owes no
email share of the credit for this triumph of the
mechanical genius Of the age, has, with noble
self forgetfulness, embalmed their praise in a
despatch which will have been published this
morning in every important journal in the
Union.
No man can estimate the full Importance of
this event, which will be the starting point OF
the civilization of the latter half of the nine
teenth century, as Fulton's first trip up the
Hudson in the little steamer Claremont was its
starting point in the first half thereof. Steam
navigation has revolutionized the face Of the
world With US it has built up an empire in
the greatest luvial region the world knows. 1t
has changed the whole character Of commerce
and Of the art of war. It has brought distant
nations nearer to each other, both for offence
and exchange. 1t has cheapened the product of
every region of the earth to the consumer. 1.
has virtually extended the span of human life
by increasing the succession of events within 1t
Though but an instrument 1t has become the
master spirit of the age. But now comes
mightier, to dispute the wand Of power with 1t
The magnetic telegraph ceases to be local,
and becomes an instrument Of universal
power. 1t grasps the thought Of man,
and carries il instantaneously to the ut
most confines Of civilization. Henceforth the
whole world is to be moved simultaneously by
ably quickened In political intercourse there
is 10 be no more waiting for intelli-
gepce as 10 what course this OF that
Power will pursue. In commerce there IL
TO be no more waiting for mails with mar
ket advices. In science, art, literature, and
every branch Of knowledge, every even; that
will quicken the human intellect, every Disco
very that will open new paths of usefulness,
every achievement that will confer new power
on man, will be at once communicated to every
wing Of the great army Of progress, and the
march Of the world will be incredibly FASTENED
We do not cay tina. all this is to occur of once;
but ii is all in the essence Of things TO come.
Humanity is everywhere, and always childlike,
and must learn by slow degrees to use the new
power il attsins. 1t must lose its habit Of
creeping. through the frequent use Of its new
ability to walk erect. 1t must forget to rely
upon the accustomed attendance and support Of
the nurse, by using the new self-conhdence II
has acquired. So IL is with men, communities
and nations. Old habits must be forgotten,
old practices abandoned, old usages laid
aside, and all superseded by the new
systems that will come into play with the new
scheme Of instantaneous worldwide intelli-
gence. Many merchant thinks today that
the Atlantic Telegraph will be Of little or no
use TO bim-that he will seldom have occasion
to use ii In his business. But trade will change
and adapt itself to the new elements at its
command, and he must change, or be left be-
hind in the general advance Every man Of
mature age can look back today and show to
the doubter the fallacy of his idea. Thou
sands once thought that steamboats, would be of
little practical use. They believed, when Full
ton went to Albany in thirty hours in bis new
tangled invention, that they could continue GO
ing up and down the Hudson In sloops which
took a weeli to perform the voyage, and still
compete with those who went with Fulton. The
man who believes to day, in whatever walk of
life be may be, that the Atlantic Telegraph ca
BILE will be Of little use to him, belongs to the
class which once believed that stage coaches
could still keep up with railroads; that the bluff
old shipe OF yore were just as useful as the Adri-
atics ard the Battles Of today, and that
ocesn steam navigation would never
amount to much. The Atlantic cable
will carry lie influence into every mans