Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-17
The News.


The Atlantic telegraph is completed-the
bottom of the sea has been sounded--the
,,raot electric cable has been laid-England
and America are united-the old world holds
converse with the new This is, indeed, a
proud day for both hemispheres, forit has wit
messed the greatest of all the truly great
achievements of science. Who could have
believed, ere the mind of the presentage con.
ceived it, that the unsunned depths Of the
mighty ocean would thus be made the COM
mon pathway of Thought that the swift
winged messenger Of the upper air could thus
be made to walk the bottom Of the sea, and
bear, from continent to continent, tho words
they would exchange togethcr-faithful in
his office, but whispering nothing of the
grand secrets of the realms of mystery and
silence underneath ? Across his track the
Shiny monster of the inner world of waters
wades, but cannot check his onward flight.
Above his thread like path, far down in will
dernesses of ocean-weeds and flowers, through
whose leafy dens the star.ish CLEANS and
the moon-fsh moves in beamy light the daily
dying myriads of the sea-shell tribes are
piled in tiny mountains, and will still be piled
till the daring diver of a coming miraculous
age would fail to find the trace of what this
age hath done. Yet, it would be there, and
the winged Mercury of the under.deep would
tread with lightning steps his unimpeded
path.
But this is a theme for volumes, and not
for paragraphs. The mind is lost in the mag
nitude and grandeur of such q contempla.
ton as is afforded by this stupendous achieve
ment, and feeling how inadequate is any Ian
guage that we can command to convey what
all must feel on so sublime an occasion, we
can but bow our head in the silence of deep
and inexpressble JOY, thanking the God of
the Universe for the power and the glory
that he has given to man.
To turn to the remaining news by the
steamer, it is no matter of surprise to us, al
though it doubtless is to many, whose zeal
for LecomPton has been permitted to get the
better of their judgment, that the people Of
Kansas have rejected the English proposition,
or, in other words, the Lecompton Constitu-
ton. We should think now that the LIE
comptonites ought to give up their game of
forcing Kansas to be a slave State, as q bad
job. We should think, Ht any rate that they
ought by this time, to be willing to acknow-
ledge that it was worse than madness to
think of admitting Kansas under the LIE
compton Constitution. They ought to real
ize, by this time, the absurdity of contending
that the free voice of the American people,
or any portion Of the American people, is to
be smothered up in the rubbish of legal
quiddities and technicalities, or that the lion
Of popular sovereignty is to be held like a
| fly, in the mere spider-webs of air-splitting
constructions. They were not satisfied with
the overwhelming majority that was rolled
up against this same villainous Constitution
on the 4th of January last, but they must in.
sist upon having another vote upon it, in or.
der to see if by some means or other, the
dilemma into which they had gotten them
selves might not be relieved, and they be en-.
abled to escape with some degree of decency
from a bad predicament. The result is that
the people have walked up to the polls and
squarely voted it down again, by the same
majority of ten thousand In the name of
God, we hope that Mr.. Buchanan, and his
tribe, are now satisfied. If they are not, we
do not know what would satisfy them, unless
it would be full and final dismissal from the
Democratic party.
The election news from the States is rather
meagre, by the telegraph. We shall proba
bly, hear more fully by the papers