New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-30

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ca rot extero ay down tie coil. ard they were right
| Capt. Pretdy gave item his hearty assistance nsu
were a. wo'k cay aud Iight- dra~lpg it on, Of the
too ard co,pC 1t aft the nsin.oeck. Fer the erft
- the labor ed hopeless for 90 dense WAS
the tsnele that an hours ard work would Sometimes
| sesroely clear halfmile. BY sad By, however
i began to merdi the efforts were redoublet and
late Friday night li0 miles had been got OFT aud
tie remain der found TO be Clear enough 10 COM
Dence work with. On the morning OF Saturday, the
2ota OF June a.. the PREPARATIONS completed for
making the spice and commencing the great uudsr-
taking. The eLd OF the Niagara cable was sent On
beard the Agamemnon the splice was made, bent
sixperoe put in it for luck, and at 2 20 Greenwich time
II was slowly lowered the aide and disappeared
forever. Tne weather wac cod and foggy with
stf breeze and dismal sort Of see and as there
no cheering Manifestation Of enthusiasm Of auy
kid, the whole ceremony hsd most fune.eal effect
and seemed as solemn "a if we were burying srioe,
or acme other moTtusIy tssk Of the kind, equally
cheerful and enhvening As it turned OUT however,
it Just well that display took place as every
one would have looked uncommonly silly when the
same operation came to be repe sed as It had to BE-
an hour or 60 afterward. II is needless making 8
long story longer, as l may state at once that when
each chip had paid out three miles or 30, and they
were getting well apart, the cable broke on board the
pulley Leading On to the machine. TIE break was
Of couise known instantly, both,veeses put about
and returned, fresh splice was made, aud
again lowered over at bslf-put 7. According
to arrangement 80 fathoms were veered out from
each ship ard then al stood away their course
at frst at two miles ar hour and sftsrwsrd at four
Everything then went weL-the machine working
beautifully at 81 revouters per minue-the screw at
26-tEe able running out easily at and 81 miles an
hour tie chip goirg four. The greatest strain upon
the oypamometer 800 lbs., and this only for
few minutes. the average giving only 600 lbs aud
2lOO he. At II at midnight u nAutc miles had been
paid out and the sngle OF the cable with the horizon
had been reduced considerably. At 81 O'Clock 40
miles had gone, and nothing could be more perfect
ard regular than ths working Of everything, when
Thompson came on deck and reported total break Of
tie continuity; that the cable in fact, had parted
and, as was believed, from the Niagara Tee Aga
nenhon was instantly stopped, and the brakes aP,
piled to the machinery in order tina. the cable paid
out might be covered from the mass in the hold and
cradle Prof Thompson to discover BY electric tests
at about what distance from the ship the fracture had
taken place. Unfortunately, however, there was
strong breeze on at the time, with rather heavy
swell which told severely upon the cable, and, before
any could be taken 70 ease entirely the motion
On the ship parted, few fsthoms below the stern
Wheel the dynamOmeter indicating STRAIN of nearly
1900 lbs. In another instant gun and blue light
warned the Valorous OF what had happened, and
Ioused all on board the Agamemnon 10 q knowledge
that the achinery silent, and that the fret part
Of the Atlantic cable had been laid and lost efectusy
The great length Of the cable on board both ships
allowed large margin tor such mshaps as these and
the made before Leaving EGG was that
TIE spices might be renewed and the work recon- |
MERGED till each ship had lost $50 miles of wire. after
whchthey to discontinue their efforts and return
Dro6h-
age Sunday morning, the ships heads were put
about and for the fourth time the Agamemnon again
began the weary work Of beating up aganst the wind
for that everlasting rendezvous which We seemed
destiD to be always seeking Apart from the regret
with which all regarded the loss of the cable there
other reasons for not wishing the cruse to be |
thus iddetinitely prolon9ed since there had been
tome dsys previously in the wardroom the pieces de
assistance had been iufammatorylookirg mOrceauT,
sated to astonishing pitch, and otherwise stable
for II beef which had been pit three years beyond
its warranty for soundnees, and to which all were then
reduced
1t was hard york beating up sgainst the wind 80
hard indeed that it till the OF Monday,
tie 2Sth that we reoired the Niagara; and while all
were waiting with impotence for her explanation OF
how she broke the cable, she electrified every by
running up the inteTrogatory, How did the cable
part l' This was astounding. As soon as the boats
Gould be lowered, Mr. Cyrus Field, with the electr
Clans from the NisgsIa came on board and compsr
icon OF logs showed the painful ana mysterious fact
that at the second OF time each vessel discovered
that total fracture had taken place at distance Of
Let certainly less than ten mes from each ship-as
well as could he judged, at the bottom OF the ocean
Tie logs on both sides clear to the moute
of tin and as to tie electrical tests showing not
ueley iesksgs defective Insulation OF the wire.
but total fracture, that there was no room left on
which to rest moments doubt OF the certainty oil tlis
ms ST oisheaIeIing fact. That Ct all the many mls
bsps com eced with the Atlantic Telegraph this the
Scist and most dishearenlng, is certair-since II
piov,s that after all that human ekil ard science can
CON phshed the,e may be some fatal obstacles TO sue
cet at the bottom Of the which can never be
guarded against for even the nature OF the peru must
always remsD secret ana unknown as lne deptus n
when II Is TO be encountered
No time was lost, after the vessels rej Joined IN max
ing Il Lnd abd last splice, which was Covered over
into 1900 fsthoms water at O'Clock by snip TINS
the came night. Before steam.ng away, as the Agn
nemnon now getting very short OF coal and the
two vessels had expended go NE hundred mules OF cable
between them, il Was agreed that 1t tne wire parted
gain before tee ships had gore each loo miles nom
the reIdezvUus, they were TO return and make an.
other splice; eud, as the Agsuemnon was TO sal
back tie NagsIa, it was decided was to wait eight
days for her resppearance. IT, on the other hand,
the 100 miles had been exceeded the seips were not
10 return but esch make the best Of lts way TO
Queeustown. With this understanding which, from
tie rate of speed which had been agreed on, both
vessels would be abe 10 observe with perfect accu'
ieoy the ships again parted, and, with the wire drop
pi1g steaoly down between them, the Nagsra aad
Aesn smLOn steamed away, ana we've soon loet IN the
cold raw fog which had huog over the rendezvous
ever sIce the operations had commenced.
TIE cable, as bef>re, paid out beautifully, AID
nothing could have been mere regusr and more easy
than the vJIking Of every psrt of tue eppsratu AT
fr.t the clips speed Only knots the cable goog
3 ard 3, with strain OF 500 lbs.. the horizontal
srge averaging as ow as and the vertical about TO-
by ard by, however, the speed was increased TO !
kio.s the cable going 5, at strain OF ? coo lbs: and
al angle Of trom L. to 10. AT this rate 1t was Kept
with tThIrg Variations, throughout almost the whole
of Mono ay ght, And ne tter Sr. Bright MrCannlng
Lor MI Clifford ever quilted the msch;nes for an IN
ssLt Toward the micde OF the night, while the rate
OF the chip continued the same the speed at Wnch the
cable ps,d out slacsered nearly knot al nour,
while tie Cyl amcmeteT Indicated as low es ,5O0 io'
TLs charge could only be accounted for on the suppo-
son that the water had eh allowed to considerable
extent ard that the yeese was in fact passing over
some Submarine Ben Nevis or SkidcsW. After an 10
terys about an hour the strein and rate Of progress
OF the csbe s2an increased while the Increase OF the
yer..csi ar gle sseDed TO indicate that the wire vas