Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-21
mr.. Fisla. Account q sho Laying Of the

Gable.
His ATrisal at Trinity Bay Operators Aszsep
-Ho Tests the Incubation by his Tongue
Is Kn0cted ODer--ls 4nother Cable to BE-
Laid2
Mr. Field has arrived with the Niagara, in
New York, and is now the great lion of that
city. The papers arc after him with sharp
sticks-noting down how he looks-what ne
Says-and all about him. They publish long
accounts ofwItat he relates concerning the land
ing of the Gable, from which we subioin tho
following ,.--
Mr.. Field describes the feeling which perva.
ded all on board the niagara while. the cable
was being laid, as one of the most intense ex-
citement. Every man eXerted himself to the
utmost to achieve success in the work. Through
cut the six and half days the most perfect
silence and attention pervaded among the men,
lest single moment of negligence should de-
stroy the cable. On the first day after the
paying out began it was found that the cable
was being laid out at rate which, in proportion
to the distance run, would if continued, have
defeated the enterprise.
This was owing to the fact that the cable on
the Niagara had caused so much local attraction,
as to seriously derange the compasses, rendering
it impossible to steer the ship. Next Ciay the
commander of the Gorgon being appraised of the
TACT, ran ahead of the Niagara, steering in the
most direct course for Trinity Bay. This he
continucd.tod do day and night until they arrived,
never leaving the deck except for few moments,
and varying his position by repeated observa-
tons by the sun, moon and stars. 10 his agen-
cy, therefore, the success of the achievement is
greatly indebted. seaa
Mr.. Field landed near the telegraph station,
Trinity Bay, at Q o'clock in the morning, and
walked to the house, half a mile distant through
the Wilderness q hninor Vic EI1o-
beach. at the telegraph house he. founCl.,thc
operators from London fast asleep, not one of
them expecting that the enterprise would sue
coed. Indeed, they had not unpacked their
trunks, anticipating that in week or two they
would be ordered back to London. -
The reason why signals and not words were
sent through the cable as it was being laid, is
that on the previous attempt the clerks indulg-
ed in irrelevant conversation, which distracted
their attention from duty Mt n time when the
faintest obstruction might be fatal to the work.
The directors, therefore, ordered that signals
only should be sent through the cable from ship!
to ship. Both vessels had Greenwich time, and
the electric current played to and fro between
them for ten minutes ench way
The signals show ed chat on tho first day the
speed of the Agamemnou slightly exceeded that
OF the niagara, but on the succeeding days they
went at the same pace, there never being more
than twenty miles difference between them
When the cable was landed at both ends Mr..
Field applied his tongue to the end and received
the cheering information that the insulation was
perfect, in shock that nearly threw him over.
The reason why messages were not transmitted
earlier was from the fact that all the apparatus
at both ends was new and untricd and required
great deal of care and skill to adjust.
Mr.. Field states that there is not the slightest
doubt that the cable is an entire success as great
or greater than its most sanguinc friends looked
forward to. By the Persia to-day he writes TO
the Directors to prepare another cable st once,
as tits evident that the present one, which will
in a short time transmit messages as rapidly as
aerial line will be entirely inefficient for the
business which will flow to it.
Until the FIRST of September the line will be
closed. to all messages save those from the gov
ernments orGreat Britain and the United States.
During that time Mr.. Field will keep the public
advised of all matters affecting the success of
the cable.