The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-09-23
Tmr7 ATLANTIC TELEGRAPM.

yOf tnis great enlerprlse,-lts cost
size of the cable, with illustrated
syiews. &c, we are indebted to the
clever editor OF the Nashville Gazette.
1t is rather old, but still we believe
that the readers of the Journal will be
pleased. as well as instructed, witt a
perusal of it. Whether this Tee
graph will survive the test of time and
the power OF the sea is matterol
doubt, yet,as it is.it mayjustly be called
the wonder of the nineteenth cenu-
ry. When tie Great Bard wrote
"rr put sirdlc round the earth
In iorty minutes"
he little contemplated that the Fat
would be accomplished in as .mny
seconds, and that in the year of gree,
1853, the magic girdle Of IL "Mids'm-
mer Nights Dream" would becotr "a
Midsummer days reality. YetkIch
is the fact. The Atlantic cable t'm-
pletes chain Of instant commuica-
ton from New Orleans to Conshltl.
nople. A short time more will see
the line extended to Calcutta, md
then the habtable world will lold
hourly conversation with each eter.
How sublime the thought
''Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than wal"
And the msanlhropic apOstnohl-
sing Poet when describing the sope,
the wrath and splendor Of the SCI, in
ecstatic eloqucnce exclaimed
Man marks the earth with ruin his eoprd
stops with thy shore,
little anticipated the achlevcmE't OF
science that has just marked ,ew
epoch in the wonders OF the vrld.
All the sublime ideas that yet cling to
the mind from old habit, about the
grandeur of a "dread fathonless
ocean," as boundlcss, endless and
sublime" are dispeled by stern rail-
ty, and come up to US like storv.rom
the land OF dreams.
It is the fate of nature to te sub
dued by the arts Of man, all the
great achievements, whether oflrids-
ing the Niagara, tunneling the Alps,
or girdling the Atlantic, seem to be
done in pursuance of an old conmis-
sion issued at the first interynw OF
man with his Maker, shave d(ninion
over the earth" All our idea, con
nected with the vastness OF ,e sea,
has led US to believe it would brewer
defy the powers of man, and emaIn
an everlasting Interchangeable iarrieI
between the Continents.
Unchangcable save to the wild waves raj
lime writes no WrlnklcS on lhlNc azure DIV
Such as creations dawn bched, thou rollesnow.
The achievement of the Atlantic
Telegraph must be recorded Is the
most momentous, as well as Wnder-
full, in the scientific and peaceful so
luton of the problem Of unversa
Brotherhood, under the grandmotto
ION Earth peace, and good ril to
wards man."
As Americans and inhabitants o
the "New World" we should ftsl par.
ticularly proud of the part We hav,
acted, and the credit due us in thi.
great victory. To America isespeci
ally due this great invention. Prot
Morse may indeed have received ;
lortuitous hint, in that memrabl,
passage which he made acros th'
Atlantic nearly twenty years ago
but he unquestionably ampI fiel anC
improved upon it, with all the iadu
Give power and inherit calculation o
Franklin, when, standing sennely
and confidently upon earth, he ,alm
ly. by the simple instrumentalityof ;
kite and string, brought down th'
lightning from the height wher, tn,
thunder rolled. The experiment o
the great philosopher was compare
lively unproduc,ive; but that OF hi
modern successor has been eninentl
practical, and, having been first ap
piled to unite Baltimore with Wash
ington. has progressively advance
until it joins two worlds toseiher.
This brilliant achievement. an
browning glory Of science and energy
absorbs all minds, arouses the elo
quence of the Orator-the patriotism
OF the Statesman--the devotion of tn
Church-the zeal of the devotees G
science, and answering, universe
Hallujahs are echoed from world t
world, as the glad tidings, fly owe
seventy.feur thousand miIeiI of wir,
while the invisible agent bbeys tn
mental mandate and 'lives along til
line"
The 'eed called lightning says the a e,,
Was caught 10 the United state,.
Twas Frankn's hand ths, caught III hors.,
Twasharnessed by Professor Morse
We compile, from difIere III source
at hand. the following sketch of thi
grand Undertaking, over W hose sue
cess the civilized world Is now r,