The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-18

mission Of signals. Here Is field which will be igent-
y cultivated and perhaps we nssy hsss speedily tbs sub
marine limo KING with the fty and US rapidly
on land This would aid Largely u It's value 10 the
public and the profit Of its owners The next point "
cheaper method OF constructing other hines Many pnns
" ths eiiect are now under consideration aud we shall
soon have lines working successfully into terri
tories, and under our control These facts how
ever for the future; the present occupied entirely
With the great triumph which has been achieved and
over which two continents now rejoice Morse has lived
70 SOC the perfect realization Of his great conception and
however Others may profit by Ills abon the honor and
reno~n are exclusively his forever of having given birth
TO an invention which unites In intelligence continents
which have been separated from the foundation Of the
world. sA sn' 1888 II $3.50 g..I -.,
e .s From The Nov York Herald, Aug III Z ~
Thus, have SAIL the great problem Of the age Is
now fully and fayoraby solved The Atlantic telegraph
Is In operation. London and New York side by
side 81 fsst sm tae sgJrs.
In the attempt TO realize this grandest idea Of modern
days there two distinct problems to BIO solved, two
series Of difficulties to be each OF which
deemed by most men of science and by the world ut
large insuperable The first the actual laying Of an
electric cable between the continents The second which
altogether dependent upon the achievement OF the
rs the possibility Of sending current Of electrid
ty through two thousand miles of submerged WIRE
When attempt after attempt to lay the cable re-
suited ia failure, those who held TO the negative Of the
first proposition plumed themselves upon their discern
ment and almost all the point OF acknow[
edging the feat imposibility, when, 10 the joyful
news flew through all lands that the cable success
fully laid.
Then the question was The cable being laid can the
Atlantic telegraph be efficiently operated Three fourhs
Of the electricians and savants Of the country believed
that could not judging from the difficulties experienced
in sending continuous current for long distance
land lines. 1t was the to that question that
the public mind of the civilized world has been hanging
TO speak lin intense solicitnde for the Inst ten days
The answer has at length been rendered in the Affirmative
The telegraph Is in operation The Queens message has
been flashed from London to Washington and the Pres
dent response has been flashed back That il the con
rmation which men looked forward to to their
doubts and to their minds that the idea Of At
lantic telegraph has become reality.
OF course not to be understood as intending to
assert that all the difficulties and mpedments in the way
of an efficient working of the line removed We do
not know that such is the fact we do not believe that
ii u.s. But what has been demonstrated IL enough for
and that is that with what we believe to be an inferior
style Of instrument the Old and the New Worlds in
telegraphic communication Whether superior nstru-
mens will not be adopted invented IL altogether
other consideration to be hereafter decided by the d
rectors on wise business principles
The double problem being thus happily solved, and
there being longer any doubt left to the practical
biity of laying and working two thousand miles Of sub
marine telegraph the blinking together all the continents
and islands Of the earth is question Of time
and of necessity To achieve this browning wonder of the
viii not call for any greater display of energy any
higher development of skill and science than have been
brought into play In the connection of Europe and Amer
ca TO do the submarine portion Of the line win not
require to be in place the extent of that
submerged between Valentia and Trinity bays. 1t is
not hazadng too much therefore, to predict that within
the next decade Europe, ASIA Africa America Austria
la and the isles of the will be linked together by
that most wonderful Of all modern powers the electric
telegraph