Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-08-12
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
SUCCESSFULLY LAID!
THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
TELEGRAPHICAELY UNITED.

THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
GEOGRAPHICALLY UNITED.
The United States steamer Niagara ar
rived at Trinity Bay, New Foundland, on
August 4, with the great news of the sue
cess Of the Atlantic Telegraphic enterprise.
The following despatch was received over
all the lines from Cyrus W. Field, Esq, of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company:
TRINITY BAY, August 5th, 1858.
To the Agents of the associated Press:
The Atlantic Telegraph feet sailed from
Queenstown on Saturday, July 18th, and met
in mid-ocean on the 28th, made the splice
in the cable at one O'Clock p. NJ, on Thurs
day, the 29th, and then separated, the British
steamers Agamemnon and Falorous bound
to Vaientia. Ireland, and the Niagara and
Gorgon for this place, where we arrived yes
terday and this merning the end of the cable
will be landed.
1t is l,698 nautical or 1,950 statute miles
from the telegraph house at the head Of Va
lentia harbor to the telegraph house at Bay
Bulls, Trinity Bay, and for more than two
thirds of this distance the water is over two
miles in depth. The cable has been paid out
from the Agamemnsn at about the same speed
as the Niagara. The electrical signals sent
and received through the whole cable are per-
feet. The machinery for paying out the cable
worked most satisfactory, and it was not
stopped single moment.
Capt. Hudson, Messrs. Everett and Wood
house, Engineers, the Electricians, and the
officers of the ships, and in fact every man
on board exerted himself to the utmost to
make the expedition successful and, by the
pf
ceeded.
After the end of the cable has landed and
connected with the land line of telegraph, and
the Niagara has discharged some cargo be-
longing to the Telegraph Company, she will
go to st. Johns fer Goals, and then proceed
at onco to New York. CYRUS w. FIELD.
We add despatch subsequently receiv-
ed:
TRINITY BAY, August TO the associated
Press, New York:
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable was success
fully landed here yesterday morning, and is
in perfect order
The Agamemaon has landed her end of the
cable, and we are now receiving signals from
the Telegraph House at Valontia.
The U. S. steamer Niagara and III. NJ.
steamers Gorgon and Porcupine leave for ST.
John tomorrow.
Due notice will be given when the Atlantic
Telegraph line will be open for public busi-
ness. CYRUS W. FIELD
TaLentia Harjor.-This place, hitherto
comparatively unknown, is about to assume
vast importance, as the European terminus
of the Atlantic Telegraph The following
description of the island and town we copy
from Lppincott's Gazetteer:
TaIentiq, or Kenmore, an island of the west
coast Of Ireland, Munster, county of Kerry,
three miles s. w. of Cahirciyeen, and separa-
ted from the mainland by strait /! miles in
breadth, and which forms the most western
harbor in the British Islands-lat 5l.j5 N,
lon. 1919 w. Length of island, 7 miles !;
breadth, miles. 1t gives the title Of Wis
count to the Annesley family.
Halentia, or Valencia. town or village at
the S. f. extremity of the island of Valentia,
Ireland, is beautifully enclosed among brown
mountain slopes. Population of town and
parish, 2482. The harbor is deep, capacious,
and completely land-locked, and being the
most western port of Europe has lately at
tracted considerable attention in consequence
of proposal to make it the western terminus
of railway comm lnication, and principal
station for Atlantic steamers.
Trinity Bay and Bulls Arm Bay, as our
readers are doubtless aware, are on the
eastern coast of the island Of New Found
land, about lat II n. and lon 81 w.