Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-06
THE TELEaRApAlU CARLE.

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the progress of ages, by the light of which,
as from pillars of FIRE, mankind march for
ward to greater achievements and new tri-
umphs in ell those fields of industry and en-
terprise, which the All-wIse Creator has
opened to them for the exercise of their God
given faculties. AS the day which saw the
apple fall upon the head of a Newton, and
furnished the key by which to unlock the
hidden mystery of that great law of the UNI
verse, which sustains the planets in their
course, and swings their ponderous bodies IN
creations space, as the day which saw our
own Franklin draw from the distant thunder
cloud, by hempen string, that single electric
spark which illuminated the world, and which
at this hour fills the universe with light, are
ever memorable days, SO will that day be ever
memorable and blessed, in which the Eastern
and the Western continents were welded in
the bonds of indissoluble union, and the
throbbIng hearts of the people of the old
world and the new. were laid close together,
never more to be alienated by the prejudices
of nationality, or melted to hate each other
BY the Misunderstanding which arise from
the time and space which has hitherto divided
them.
Hereafter, time and space, as regards the
communications OF thought and intelligence,
are annihilated between the great nations of
the world. The farmer, upon the Western
prairies, will be brought. as it were, by the
magic circle of iron, which the Niagara and
Agamemnon have laid at the bottom of the
Atlantic, face to face with the merchant
princes OF the corn exchange, in the markets
of Liverpool and London. The cotton plant
ers of Georgia and Of Carolina will be SO
near to the cotton spinners of Manchester and
Of Leeds, that they can almost hear the hum
ming of the machinery, which transforms the
productions of their fields into clothing for
hall the world. The enterprisng Yankee mer-
chant, whose ships are on every sea, will no
more be tortured with the anxiety of ''hope
deferred which maketh the heart sick, - when
he hears of storm that has swept the At
lantic, or stranded score of merchantmen
upon the shores of the stormy Mediterranean
or China Seas for with the celebrity of the
lightning's flash, he will learn the extent of
the peril. or the details of the escape; of the
rates of freight at Cork or at Cadiz, and be
able to calculate his profits between return
to the desired haven in ballast, or loaded to
the scuppers with the products of foreign
climes, in season to meet the demands of
trade.
The great problem has been solved. The
vision of that wonderful poet-seer who put
it into the mouth of one of his fairy creations
to say,
SIN put girdle round the earth in forty minutes"
has been more than realized. The eloquent
and beautiful description of that unfortunate
child of genius,
eWho with the thunder talked as friend to friend"
has been literally fulfilled for yesterday the
President of the United States, through the
mysterious agency of that subtle fluid which
reads the mightiest oaks of the forests, and
scatters desolation in its path, conversed
in fraternal phrase through a distance of
three thousand miles of wstery waste. with
Englapd's gentle queen, and sent forward in
the twinkling of an eye the heartiest congrat-
ulations of Brother Jonathan to his good old
Uncle John, over the success of this greatest
achievement of modern times.
Hurrah for the magnetic telegraph Hur-
rah for the ssgacity, enterprise, and pluck of
the Anglo-Saxon race, which has just now
added another to its long list of triumphs of
mind over matter; which, though it had its
origin in combination of races of pirates and
robbers, has yet, under the benefcent inAu-
ences of an ardent temperament, an iron
frame. and an early appreciation of the Chs
tian faith, been the pioneer in every great and
good work, which has added to the sum to-
tai of human joys, and sped the human race
forward in its career Of progress.
As on the Sd day of August l4s2, when
Columbus made sail upon the Pinta from the
Andalusian port Of Palos, no human mind
could comprehend, or even begin to realize,
the grand and magnificent results of that
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world of mankind, eliminating in the settle
ment Of America, the Declaration of lnde-
pendence, and the emancipation of the United
Colonies from the authority of the British
Crown, 80 no man at the present day, with all
the lights Of the past to guide him, can iathom
the transcendent benefits and blessings which
are to result from the more recent voyage of
the Niagara and Agamemnon.
But, as time rolls on, as the seasons wax and
wane. as humanity rises step by step towards
that holier and happier condition to which it
aspires, and to which the teachings and do
ings Of good men, and sages, and prophets,
have directed and Helped it to aspire, future
generations will look back with JOY and graf.
itude to these days, even as we now look back
to the humanitarian pioneers Of the old time
and bless the memory Of that energetic enter
prising Massachusetts, mechanic, Cyrus w
Field, who has persevered against all OBJ
stacles TO the accomplishment Of the emo
proposed, even as did Columbus Of old. And
they will bless the memory Of those humber
but not less gallant spirits, who shared in the
dangers and trials Of the expedition, as did
the gallant mariners Of Spain, when, upon th,
stormy waves Of an unknown sea, they stood