The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-21

Respecting the Atlantic Telegraph, it is pleasant
to observe that other leading London journals are
not so unamiable the success of the undertake
ing the Times. The London Neics thus concludes
an article upon the subject
cit is impossible to review this arduous under
taking, accomplished two days after the anniversa-
ry of the day on which Christopher Columbus dis
covered America, without paying a tribute to the
energy, SKILL courage and perseverance of the Off
GERS and crew, both of the Niagara and Agamem-
non. Gallant deeds have been indeed performed by
the officers and men both of the American and
English navies in peace as well as war; Both ma
vies are manned by men springing from the same
stock, the most thoroughbred and fearless sailors
| the world has ever seen. Both have been nobly
represented both have been united in accomplish
| ing deed which may cement a union between
children of the same fathers, which may never be
dissolved-which suggets a hope that the flags
| which have been iuterchanged between the two
ships may never more be raised in hostility to each
| other
That the old spirit of the ''Pigrim Fathers has
not died out of their sailor children, well
| pihed by the teryid piety with which the Ameri-
can captain gave all the glory to God for the
cess with which his work has been crowned; and
! by the reverent "Amen," sincerely responded by
his sailors 1t is this deep spirit of reverence fos
tered we know, alike by the sailors of both Eng
land and America, that is the surest bond of union
| between the two countries.
Invidious remarks have been made in reference
to this feat. Because the Americans have received
the accounts of the accomplishment of the electrical
union of the two worlds with more active enthusi-
asm than has been displayed by the mother coun-
try it has been alleged that they wish to arrogate
all the merit to themselves. We cannot so read
| their exuberant jubilation They aie Justly proud
of their share of the enterprise-of the part their
sailors and men of science have had in joining the
two worlds together.
1t is chursh to quarrel with them because we
ourselves have been so backward in giving the due
need of praise to our own countrymen. If Eng
land has her Wheatstone, America has her Morse
and her Hughes. 1t is true manufactured the
cable; it is also true supplied the greater portion
of the capital. But this is what ght reasonably
have been expected from the manufacturing re-
sources of Britain and from her accumulated CAPT
tai. We can boast our Wheatstone, who first made
electrical teegraphy practical; we first laid down
submarine wire; an English mechanic devised the
Improved paying-out apparatus, which has acted so
successfully on the present occasion, and English
workmen worked it. These are laurels enough; let
us not grudge our American brethren their share
Had it not been for the energy, the perseverance,
and the faith in the enterprise of Mr.. CYRUS w
Field, the American, the Atlantic Telegraph might
at this instant have been much an object in the
dim distance of futurity as a submarine cable to
India.
We believe, but are not positive, that Georgia is
the only State in the Union that has a railroad the
exclusive property of the State Government. This
is the Western and Atlantic Railroad commonly
called the estate Road" and leads from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, distance of 1873 miles 1t was built
at the expense of the State, with the object of de-
veloping the Northwest section, Familiarity known
at one time as the "Cherokee country" The Treas
urer OF this road. few days since, paid into the
State Treasury S33, 900 for the month of August
This amount, added to previous payments makes
the round sum of $50 900 paid into the State Treas
ury within the past six months, commencing with
the lst of March last considerable fund has been
reserved to purchase iron for such portions of
the track as requires relaying account of the
worn condition ofthe iron. We learn that the road
bed is in fine order and condition. 1t is the settled
policy of the administration that no new debts shall
accumulate. All the payments into the State
Treasury have been made from the net earnings of
the road and from no other source.-Ne,0 Orleans
Bulletin.
The Governor of Oregon, in his inaugural mes
sage, draws the following picture of the natural
resources of that country
Oregon is probably one of the most attractive
portions of the North American continent, at once
beautiful and picturesque, with healthy and salu-
briOus climate, well adapted to the production of
all the cereals and most of the other grains COM
mon to the United States; seaboard of some three
hundred miles, with numerous harbors and mex
haustible fsheries arabic land sufficient to supply
three millions of souls with bread; grazing land
sufficient to supply twice that number with meats
probably country is better adapted to the
production of wool, fax and hemp, and it is ad-
mitted that Oregon exces in her growth of fruit
her mountains are covered with the finest of tim
Der, and underaid with gold, and recent dis
coveries show that we are not without goodv
supply of lime and coal; her streams afford some
of the best water privileges in the world and
her rivers are navigable for steamboats, the year
round.'
The colossal church of st. Isaac, the largest in
Europe, with the exception of st. Peters in Rome,
has Just been finished and dedicated with great |
pomp and ceremony in st. Petersburg The church |
commenced by Alexander |. in 1918, and has
consequently been forty years in the process of con-
struction Its style is unique, and for long time
gave umbrage to the Slavophiles, who preferred an
exclusive Russian style, similar to that of the krem
I'm churches of Moscow. 1t is surmounted by
dome three hundred and forty feet high, supported
by twenty-five polished granite pillars, and sur
rounded by massive bronze gallery. 1t has four
fronts, furnished with porticoes of hundred and
twelve feet In length, which are supported by gran
lite monoliths fifty feet high.
The London correspondent of the National In
teUigeneer, speaking of the economical measures re-
Gently adopted by the Turkish Sultan, SAYS:
The most extraordinary circumstance about this
arrangement is an avowal of public opinion in
Turkey, the part OF the Sultan for which we were
scarcely prepared. Never was the roc popai more
clearly heard, and never more justly raised. That
the Sultan should have taken so extraordinary a
STEP that he should have been driven to it by the
force of public opinion seem to prove that Turkey
Is entering upon new phase of existence.
. The annual session of the United States Conven-
ton OF Universasts will commence on Tuesday next
At Providence, R. J., and continue several days.