Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-09
THE ATLANTIC pELEaRAPa
COmmENTs OF THE PREss.
prom then. Y Erprs.s Of FFlday morning last.l
A NEW ERA AT HAND.

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[Pronn the n. Y. Express of Friday morning lastl
A NEW ERA AT HAND.
twas our happy privilege, in the Evening
Expires of yesterday, to announce to the public
the successful cons ummation of we hesitate
not to say, the most august andimportant event
the world has witnessed since the discoyervlof
America by Christopher Columbus,-the union
of the Old World with the Newly one of the
most extraordinary achievements of mind over
matter, of which the annals of Science ancient
medieval, or modern, bear record. The Allan
tic Telegraph is no more fond dream, or a
hope, never fated to be realized. 1t is splen..
did reality,-an indisputable fact,-but, at the
same time, we must reVerentlY say-a fact the
suspicious results and operations of which, in
all their infinite and far-reaching variety, it is
impossible as yet for even Imagination to grasp
Meanwhile, all honor to the courageous men
who, IN the face of the most diSheartening dis
cousagements, have gone unfaltcringly on in the
great work until it was crowned-as we see it
is now crowned-with the trophies of victory.
verify, they have their reward. Henceforth be
their place among
the few, the immortal nsnes
That were not born to die" ~ 50
for, without being opttmists, we can well afford
to say that they have accomplished more for
Christianity and civilization, humanity and pro-
greSS in the highest aud best sense of these
terms, than all the glittering names, from MIN.
rod to Napoleon, who hold their places in the
Temple of Fame, solely by virtue of wars, bat
tlehelds and vulgar conquests, which cost whole
oceans of blood and human tears. Christiani
ty we say, will be the gainer,--in so far as this
bond OF communication is destined to bring in.
to being, in due time, great Brotherhood Of
Nations, separated by as wide as deep, and as
stormy an ocean as ever, it is true. but in close
and constant community of thought and intel
iect, sentiment and feeling. Whatever thus
helps to bring man into closer fellowship with
man, tends all the more to'humanize him. and
to make him feel that, notwithstanding the vast
varieties OF climate. condition, language and
race the nations of the earth, after all, are but
SO many individual members of one great hui.
man family, which the great Father of all
intended should live in peace and harmony to-
gether. The slime" for that peace and har-
mony has been long looked for, and il NAV be
that the mighty work which has Just been
accomplished, joining the two hemispheres
in one, as it were-is the dawning Of that
blessed millennium which prophets hive fore.
told, and of which poets have sung for thou
sands and thousands of years gone by Thus
hoping, then, are we not right in saving that
these sons of science have accomplished a nigh.
ty work for Christianity, and gveninew harm6-
ny to the heavenly mesSage-''GLORY TO Con IN
THE HIGHEST, ON EARTH PEACE AND GOOD WILL
TOWARDS MEN 2" Again,-thiS Ocean telegraph
will do great work for Civilization, in furnish
ing new and illimitabe facilitles for successfully
prosecuting the arts and sciences, and carrying
on the operations of commerce inlands hitherto
too remote from the grand centres of intellect
wealth and refinement to be blessed by their
beneficial influences. For it must be remem.
bered that this cable gives us not only direct
communication with Great Britain and Europe,
but at once opens up road, over the same
lightning line, if1necd be, all the way through
to India and China bringing the entire
globe, almost, all at once within its circuit.
The barbarians can't long remain barbarians
set to work; and if Progress is not the gamer
by it at once and for ali time to come, we can
only say that progress is paralysed, and has lost
the power to move one step farther.