Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-03
Daily Sirgiaiau.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
Progress and Further Extension.
From the London Daily News. Aug. Is.

no longer heard The angelic salutation. "ulory
to God in tho highest, and ON earth peace, good
will toward men," has sped in winged words, with
lightning speed. through all the wonders of tho
great Deep from the Old World u tho New
Tho same words have been echoed back by tho
responsive lightning from the adventurous colo
nists of America to their parent isles. Is it not
we'll that these words should bo the first nrtic-
ulatc speech of the new wonder of mans pro-
gressy
Tho Same Almighty Power who gave man do
minon over the fish Of the sea, and over tho fowl
OF the air and over every living thing that moveth
upon tho earth. has taught him in those days 10
subtue to his use the most mysterious powers of
nnturc Let him. therefore, in all humility celc
brac his triumph by rendering tho glory to God
in-tho highest.
The inhabitants of these British Isles have ~
increased and multiplied that their horne hns
long been too narrow for thom. Thcy have gone
forth to roplcnish Tho earth and subdue it. They
hayc spread over tho greater part of the New
World. Over tho northern brcndth of thut continent
the British tongue aud tho British race are pre-
dominant. The bond OF instantaneous communca-
ton. nnnihilnting time and space between broth-
rem of the same blood, speech and religion. ought
surely To bo tho means of perpctaating peace and
good will
AS yet. we know not tho message of Queen We
roRlA To tho President Of tho United States. This
we can nntcipatc-that 1t will bc worthy to 30
down to history M httngword to be sent from the
ruler OF half tho Anglo-Snxon race to the ruler
Of the othcp-Htting words To cement umty And
union between the representatives of tho progress
and freedom of tho world
Tho speed of transmission seems steadily to IN
crease; first. 81 words arc transmitted in 81 min
ucs. then - words in 61 minutes, now 100 words
per hour are transmitted by perfect signals with
accuracy 10 estimate this speed wo must re-
member that every letter requires the transmission
of a certain number Of signals. electric waves,
for the speaking instruments now in usc. Totrans-
nit loo words per hour indicates tho passage of
about ~ signals per minute u each OF these sr
mails were to record n letter. some seven hundred
words per hour mi ght be flashed from Ncwfound-
land To Nalentia.
Nothing can hc more promising than these ex
PLOTS Of the infant Telegraph. No one could pre-
dicatc with any certainty what retarlstion the
electric waves might experience when passing
along their narrow road beneath the pressure OF
two miles of ocean water. A sensible retarlation
had been observed in submarine lines trifling in
length, when compared with the two thousand
miles of cable now buried in the depths of tho At
lantic- Who could tell beforehand that this
tardaton mi ght not hnye increased in some fear
iul ratio with the distnnce2 Now all doubts arc
solved; tho powers Of transmission Of tho cable arc
found to be increased rather than diminished by
the pressure und temperature to which it is sub
iccte1.
ing apparatus Of the Atlantic Telegraph can be
raised to the highest degree Of efficiency, tho wants
Of two worlds must speedily outstrip its capnbili
ties. 1t is but single limo of electric rail. Mes
sages can pass but one way at time. The same
craving necessities which demand not only double
lines of railway but express trains of GO miles All
hour will soon require n double path for the win
gcd words Of the East to pass to the West without
jjostling the Arieis Of the New World
Two thousand miles Of cable joining Britain
with America Is but the swaddling- -bnud of infant
Tclegraphy. 1ricis work is not half moo quar-
ter done. The girdlebelt OF an empire on which
tho sun movers sets must follow the course of tho
luminary of the day 1t will not be complete till
Fast meets Wcst, and the Queen of the Ocean be-
comes tho bright jewel which unitcs tho electric
zone.
We have messages of peace and love for
brethren of the extreme West, but our hearts pant
with burning words for tho encouragement Of our
heroes in the East. II it DO onr mission TO civil
izc the dark abodes of erxeliy and anarchy in tho
Western Indies, is to DO preserved for our rules,
ifiusticc and peace nre to succeed lawless rapine
and demoniac strife the electric cord which shall
unite England with her Indian Empire cannot be
longer neglected.
The submarine road to India requires but three
or four strides each less than those Just accom-
pkshed The experience already acquired is not
insignificant. 1t is but small proof of sanguinc
temperament to express the conviction that tho
new strides OF electric communication required
can be made far more easily and with fur less OK
pense than that already accomplished Though
we by no means Join in the omnous forebodinCs
of those who dream of French invasions, yet we
know that the volcano of European politics il but
slumbering under the surface Of affairs. An ir-
ruption may burst forth ut any moment which
may involve the relations Of Europe III universal
conlagration. ...
Is it wise, when We can 80 easily, 20 readily,
make ourselves master of an Independents route t.
trust tho exigencies Of our Indian Empire to lines
from which at any instant we can be excluded?
We trust own mails, which pass by no
prying eyes. Telegraphic communication is pat
ent to every governing Power through whose do
minons it passes. No cypher can withstand the
scrutinising glance of human intellect. WHEAT
STONE, whose name must ever be associated with
the triumphs of electric tslegraphy is one of the
fathers. II not the very parent, Of the most won.
drous child Of mans brain, defes YOU to invent
any cypher he cannot decypher.
To give up oil our Mediterranean hard-fought-
for and hard-earned possessions, to make Franco
and Austria the bearers Of our unsealed dispatches,
would be policy as wise as to extinguish our do
minon over the sea, and to neglect u Submarine
Telegraph to India. ....I.
We cannot for an instant suppose that our Min
listers will be so judically blind, we do not believe
our commercial men destitute Of public spirit
and enterprise, rs to neglect 30 plain task
Symptoms of the restoration Of peace to India are
already apparent. We desire, as the most ardent
wish Of our hearts--a wish which will find an echo
in every Engshman's . breast--that peace and good
may be most speedily restored to our Indian En-
pire. We also hope that the sun will not run
through another circle Of the heavenly signs before
the lightning words may flash through tho Atlan-
tic. Mediterranean and Indian Oceans, the angelic
salutation Of peace and good will to the swarthy
children Of the sun; that Queen Victoria may have
sneed the words of neaca and pardon to her delu-