The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-17
The Telegraph Mobile" OF the French
Army
TO THE EplroR OF The HERA.


One Of the city journals gives sca1unt Of me Of
scrt OF movable telegraph by which all oper Hing Ere
troops and corps enabled Be IN immediate and per
manent communication. af
AdmiIpg all which coad add to the glory Of IN
French and their ap,theossed Cesar ths journal wrap
the description Of this ingenious imperial Invention in
cloud Of mystery and gives 10 understand Tia the go
rlous invention up this day perfect secret
belonged perhaps that series OF wonders which
and astonsh the correspondent Of the LondoI
TINES prepared hs readers By some hints mystic
rious and darker than the revelations Of st. John.
Now the use Of the Geographic wire for operating
mhneuvreiDg troops 10 Telegraph. .-.re
called by professional men-s only an invention
already nearly ten years old no ten years Will say maco
Tor teegraphic improvements, but it and is in full
and open practice in almost az great European sres
the Austrian army not excepted
The Prussian army the frat TO make practical
experiments at the great field mneuvres Berlin and
Posdam in 1852 Having witnessed these operations
will give short description Of the working of such
Telegraph mobile" will do It as graphically as pos.
eible:-
Suppose army Consisting OF two corps d'a,m6e, be
about TO operate from Castg0os agans. Macio inc
one corps marching in the direction northeast against
peschera, the ether In the direction southeas. AGAINST
Aantua
In the riire 0arde OF both corps are three or four
te,egraphic otce's, who, by the help Of small BODY 0.
pioneers, lay down very fine telegraph wire supported
on thin sucks two or three feet high, and stretched
strained Tom distance to distance By little
sion rack The wire, being rolled kind Of rolling logs,
SO thin that each roll containing the material for tao
20 thu &c miles, weighs not tnan Eve or Six poun
and 10 therefore managed by wiih facility.
The pioneers carrying the wire rolls, tue supporting
Sticks and the INSTRUMENTS march equal pace Win
the other troops Of the a1e garde bat somewhat IN the
rear Of them From distance 70 distance posts
are left 10 survey and protect the wire.
NOW, the hrst corps arrives viii "a Pesonera,
and the second ~ hantua-a distance OF seventeen miles
wire is laid between Peschere and Eantua The 1yrt-
ere garde OF both corps, and in this the corps the
eelves are Connected via Castigione, by wire, and
every enc will understand that by theee tsiegra
pbic communication Immediately be established be-
tween the two corps.
The galvanc apparatus &c send negative ald positive
currents through The wire, are Of very simple and nge
invention OF Prof remeps, De;sar II sle Ykussaa ree
graphic Department
The indicator kind Of portable clock WORK construct
ed according 20 the patent Of the electric c.oc Of Mr
Weare (of Brkenhead, in England) The wires ara
fabricated and cold tie large establishment OF Eesss
ronrobert rrrckner, at Reflin.
In the Prussan army each corps darnee 70 acconps
MED By some Geographic officers sho have
The ordinary telegraphic lires used oy army
lay and WORK the Telegraph mobile These officers
instructed N the special Geographic (goyef1neasLl)
school at Berlin.
II the Russian army Inc Prussan system adopted
IN 1854; and also the Allies in the Crirnean used
movesble elegraphs Even the governmental Prussan
railway viz the railway from Berlin 20 Bresau,
movable tcegrapns In the that each locO
engineer leader can put himself every moment ia direct
elegrsphc communication with the station The IN
Production Of this invention railway ines would be,
particular reasons OF far greater advantage than
il Is in Prussia In the presence Of facts there
fore leave to the imperial correspondent OF the Is his
admiration OF this mysterious and glorious French and
imperial invention o. P. o.