New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-01
TIE PRINTERS AND THE TELEGRAPH.


Truth. BY ts agency the area of thought and inell'
gepce will be expanded and terrestrial space contract
&c TO urt
through the now complete and active cooperation,
the quedruple alliance, as i. we're, Of Typography,
Steam Electricity ard the Daguerreoype, no Ereslde
ia obscure, hamlet remote, to which they will
not brig, not alone the intelligence of the day and
hour but also the practical results ald acus posses
sion Of fcience and art.
Electricity, by overland Tres hss long been tribu.
tsIy to the requirements of trade and commerce, and
We ere already accustomed to its use IN our domestic
iptercoursei but the Trans Atlantic Telegraph oilers
ard astonishing facilities for our international in-
tsrcOufse, spd il will doubtless do much to make Oil
MAJ KIND feel they are akin.
We welcome it also for bringing us into more imme-
ciate contact with the more advanced clylza OF
older States and with oil due respect for "eousns
at the other end we hope the Atlantic Telegraph will
Repnbc and ns tS them the true
principles Of Liberty Equality and fraternity"
The Typographical Union regard the difficult char
actr and of this great enterprise a. reecng
honor upon Gil who have been instrumental 10 Is &C.
complsbment. G. B. SMITH, President.
X ID. DAcK, Rec. Sec
CABLE FESTIVAL DIsPA1CHEs.-Ths American
Telegraph Company have made arrangements with
the Messrs. Leland Of the Metropolitan HOTEL to have
telegraph instrument in the banquet hall during the
great elegrapbc dinner to send dispatches to all pss
Of tie word.
TIE CABLE CELEBRATIoN-A HIrcB Is THE Ar
RASGEMENTs.-Tne Brooklyn Common Council, at
the special meeting on Mondsy night, eu!horiz ID 80
appropriation of $3.50 to be expended in Illuminating
the City Hail. Police Stations aud engine. houses; but
it seems as tie fund from which the money is TO bs
taken not defignsted the Controller refuses to
furnish the cash. The Commissioner Of Repairs and
Supplies, VINO would have charge Of the arrangements,
declines TO have anything TO GO with it, on the ground
that the money voted for the last celebration has no.
yet been furnished, and he does not feel inclined TO
incur additional debts. The deb! already incurred will
be the subject of itigstion l. not likely, therefore,
thst the public buildings will be Illuminated unless the
Committee of the Common Council take charge Of the
matter Themselves
Petitions were circulated amopg the storekeepers
geLersly yesterday and numbar dorg business slopg
Faon street agreed to close their stores at 10 o'clock
in the moriDg in order to enable their employees to
participate in the celebration in Nsw-York.
The brooklyn city authorities viii proceed to New
Yok in carriages in the morning, and join the auhori
ties Of that city in celebrating the occasion.
humber Of stores and saloons along the principal
business thropgbfaIes will be illuminated 10 the
ipg
NEw-JERsEYMES IN THE PROcEssIos.-Mr. Mat
celles has rendered two mammoth and five other omni-
buses to the Mayors aud Common Councils Of Jersey
Cily and Hobokep, and citizens for the purpose of
Joining in the procession in New York to-day. The
omnibusses are all new, and will be gsyy decorated
for the occasion. The large omnibusses will be drawn
by elk horses, ard the others by four each.
ANECpoTE OF CART. HrpsoS.-In 1918, Captain
Biddle was placed in commsud Of the sloop of war
Ontario ard ordered the first exploIcg expedition
ever sent out by the United States. Cspt. Hudson
then lieutensnt Of his oticere Just before
they sailed it was discovered that Of the yards was
defective. 1t was therefore sent down, and Lieut..
Hudscn was stationed in the top to superintend the
raising of a new SPAR When it was raised to the
proper hight greenhorn went to cut away the rope
that held il before the spar was secured. Hudson
called to him immediately but he had made one cut 81
it, and cone twenty or thirty men, who had been haul
irg were still holding on below, haf OF whom would
pretty certainly have been kill5d if it had fallen The
yourg Lieutenant jumped at and caught the two parts
of the balfsevered rope holding on with all his might,
snd cslirg out to the men TO make fast the spar.
They did 20 after while but he was go exhausted
that he fell heavily his back into the top Tue men
picked him up, and passed him down iossnsible on
deck. They soon brought him TO. The surgeon,
however, fourd him SO strained and bruised tha. he
w
laid up for while, but he saved more than one life
that day.
MIR. EVERETTS PAYING-OUT MACHINERY.
Yesterday afternoon, visited the Niagara in the
company Of Mr.. Everett who had the kindness to
show the machinery Of the Telegraph Company,
on board that ship, to review the past operations
of TIE entepnse and TO point out the reasons BY which
he had been guided 10 designing the psyipg-out ma
chine. At the time Mr.. f. left for England, be
thought like most engineers, that a yielding regulst-
ng apparatus Of fome sort would have TO be con-
sructed insure safe laying Of the cable Accord
rgly be proceeded to study those of which accounts
had been published to improve them and give the
result practical shape. At this s'sge he was
s;oppsd by difficulty. The regulating apparatus
had for lis object TO get rid of the momsrtum
OF hs portion of the cable already paid on. or of the
moving parts of the psyingout machine, and conss-
quep.ly needed to be very light; while on the other
hand having TO resis. the tension Of the cable needed
to be very strong. Mr.. Els conclusion was thst in
using such Sd apparatus he would diminish but slightly
the If breakpp by the effect of the momer uu