Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-09-17

bration in New York. the occasion of the succpcOs
laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Gable, contains fl.
following sensible remarks -
In regard to the operations of the ENTERPRISE morr
superficial and incorrect statements have been mt G
by various publications. No new invention of anv
great consequence was involved in LAYING the cahe
Submarine cables had been laid before but thew wore ~
a much smaller SCALE The achievement derives Ito in;
portance from Its greatness being the most gigantic
effort made to extend Geographic communicative
between distant continents. Whether the Atlantic %
BILE will ever realize all that has been expected from !;
by sangune persons, remains to be demonsrated-tbnS
far it has not Its operations have as yet been of vn
ry puzzling and tedious character. On page 1874 Vol
XlIr SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN the nature of the subma
rine cable electrical conductor explained It was
there stated to be vast Leyden JAR and messages could
not but travel very slow in i-requiring about six o.
conds for each signal and therefore incapable of trans
hitting more than about half column Of news in tweu
tyOur hours AS yet it has not come up to this figure
and it has baled all efforts to work successfully any of
our common Geographic instruments. The messages
sent have been by slow time Signals and many very
incorrect and contradictory statements have been uu
forth by those interested which are calculated to mis-
lead the public. Thus in the published statement of G.
Saward manager of the line in England he asserts that
the Queens message to the President, consisting of
ninety words, received in Newfoundland in
sixtyseven seconds whereas know, by the published
statement OF M. de Sanity, manager at Newfoundland
took about twentyfour hours. All the messages-and
they but few in number-which have been sent have
required very long time in their tran smisson With
the very best known instruments messages will be very
slow, and unless discovery is made to remove
existing obstacles the Atlantic Telegraph will be of We
ry little general benefit to the commercial people of the
two continents 1t will undoubtedly be great nation
al benefit for special purposes but that will not meet
the wants of the public The instruments for operating
the cable ought to have been adjusted and in working
order long ago. That this has not been done affords
o1,,Ip that
| ties have been experienced than were expected.
| SOUTHERN Corn TRADE.-We noticed a few DAYS
since the arrival of the schr D. c. Hulse of j. SiIo
way Co.'s line, from Wilmington, with full cargo of
wheat remarkng that the first cargo shipped
here direct from that port. We notice the arrival yes
erday of the brig John Freeman the same lne from
Charleston S. c., with 10000 bushels corn which, we
believe, the first shipment, in any quantity, from that
port NOrth other cargoes following. The recent
rail road facilities that have sprung up in the interior
Tennessee Georgia, Alabama and Northern Mississippi,
will have tendency not only to increase transportation
North by the way of Atlantic cities, but ncite the
planters and farmers these States to increase the cu
tlvation of Grain. The State of Kentucky ranks third
in the production of wheat and corn and Tennessee fifth
In 1850 Kentucky produced of wheat 2,l43,823
bushels corn, 58,672,59l bushels. Tennessee-wheat
1,6l9,306 bushels corn, 52,276 223 bushels Ohio the
largest grain producing State produced the year
wheat, l4487 351 bushels corn, 59,078, 695-showing
but small difference between Ohio and Kentucky, SO
far the corn crop is considered while Tennessee has
advanced within the last decade to equality with the
other Western States. The great bulk of this trade
hitherto has gone down the Mississippi to New Orleans
but the improved facilities offered by rail roads, both as
to expense and me must divert this immense trade from
the Gulf and take it to the Atlantic seaports New
ork, and even the city of Richmond, Va, already
reckoning on the advantages these of trade
will open to them let Boston follow their example and
obtain her share There certainly is good why
Boston cannot be grain and cotton exporting city
we'll as New York.-Boston Traveller, It'll inst.