Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-03-23
rH,HE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. 1850.


tic Telegraph Cable marks in the histo-
" of Human Progress. Henceforth. Europe, West-
ern Asia and Northern Africa lie within an hour.'
distance from shores, and the battle which de-
cides the fate of king kOn, the capture of Z Vi
emma Giberaltar, the fall of a dynasty the tri-
umph Of usurpation, the birth Of an heir to roy
atty, the death of Mich olas or Wellington in any
country which touches the Mediterranean, the Eu-
kline, the Black Sea the German Ocean, will be
published in New-York the next morning, if not
on the very day OF Its occurrence In q moment
it were. we have been thrown into the inmedi-
intellectual neighborhood of the whole cviliI-
ed and large portion of the semi bar barous world
The rise and fall Of stocks in London Paris will
henceforh be reported from day to day in the jour
mails of our seaboard cities The boIdest operators
in Wall-street Will refuse to buy sell until they
have read the quotations of that day business
the Royal Exchange and at the Bourse whose
transactions will have closed hour or so before
can begin revolution in Paris, impor-
tant vote IN Parliament an insurrection in Italy,
fire in Constantinople will be discussed around
the breakfast-tables of New Nork few hours Gf-
ter its occurrence. mighty though silent trans
foI nation in the condition Of human existence has
just been effected by the little wire stretching a
cross the oceans bed from the coast of ireland 20
that Of British America, and inevitab bic resul-
of this must be an unexampled community Of fee
ing ana interest among the nations of Christen-
dom, and consequent desire for more intimate
acquaintance with each others doin-s throug gh the
medium of the Newspaper Press 1t seems hardly
possible that thousands should not henceforth reg
ularly read their own journals. who have hitherto
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