The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-09

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NETT can be received here by ten or eleven
o'clock the previous night, giving the NEW
YoRR HERALD an equal advantage, except in
tie length OF the reports, with the London Times.
Thus, then, the most interesting foreign, IS well
ssthe domestic news Of our own country, will con-
time to be found in the early morning editions
Smsu publications, without enterprise and unable
sustain their share Of the enormous expense Of
telegrephic communication, will have to plum
der from the weslthier newspapers, but then that
will be unavai,ing, for it will have been antici-
pated ana become generally known through
their more powerful competitors The cost Of
Transmitting one column Of the HERALD across the
Al l.. IL
II has been supposed that the change in the
conducting of newspapers brought about by the
telegraph will supersede ali original editorial
remarks and contributions from their associated
staffs, the foreign element being an important
ana controlling one. But this is an erroneous
be excited by the novelty than they have been
with any other. We coon became accustomed
to railways, steamers, daguerreotypes and
q hundred other wonders Of the day
while our immediate and pressing cares
private, social, public and politioal-will
unloose argument and require explanation. We
believe that the press, the news press espe-
cia!ly, viii become more important and infu-
entail. Electricity will bring to US the brief
epitomes of the daily events Of the world, and
the editorial mind will be necessary to eluci-
date explain and criticise these events. Mind
viii be more active, more telling in its express
sion, and therefore have more power and infu-
ence on public sentiment.
In politics it is hard to say what will lie the
result; its effect upon diplomacy is doubtful ;
but in war; the telegraph has been Of the most
ministration may be concealed as well now as
they ever have been, yet it is certain the Eng
GsL government will have an immense advan-
tage in the possession of both the ermini in case
they choose to act as well as devise, in secresy.
The telegraph was found signally beneficial in
the Crimean, as it now is in the Indian war. 1t
would have been of great value in the recent
British outrages on American vessels in the
Gulf
In literary pursuits there will be no particu-
lar advantage perceptiblc, except perhaps to give
greater impulse TO thought. These pursuits affect
the happiness of those who have most leisure,
and the quality of fastness IL rather opposed to
the pleasure OF deliberate and critical enjoyment.
In the spread Of the arts and religion the tele-
graph viii be an agent only so far as their ma
terial and physical interests are to be forwarded.
The religious view recently taken of the tele-
graph viii, of course, have its effect but
our private relations with our Maker are not to
be sustained by the telegraph, but only by the
appointed means of grace, and the presence Of
His spirit in our hearts. These are beyond the
control of all mechanical inventions
Such, briefly, are some Of the conclusions to
which we arrive on contemplating the success
of this great work surprising in grandeur most
of the schemes which have left their footprints
in the pathway Of time. In a few months,
doubtless, some unsupported consequences may
be developed Of equal importance with those
generally anticipated. We presume that several
cables across the Atlantic will lie laid 10
increase the facilities Of communication. II is
with pride we remember that TO On American
the world owes the development Of this new
principle, and that the United States has done
its full share in carrying it out. Ii is TO be
hoped this new bond Of union between the two
greatest and freest nations Of the earth will be
the beginning of an undisturbed career Of mu-
tual respec. and forbesrance, and continued
peace and good will.
The TELEGRAPH A DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTIONS
rsT-It is to the famous Talleyrand, we believe,
that Is attributed the definition given 10 Ian
guage, Of being the medium by which to con-
ceal our thoughts. That definition was pretty
correct il the diplomatic world to which II was
meant to apply, as hitherto the aim of diplo-
matists seems really TO have been to conceal