Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-04-20
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TE1HE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, 1850.
The successful laying of the trans-Atlaa-
tic Telegraph Gable marks a era in the kisto-
ry OF Human Progress. Henceforth Europe West
ern Asia and Northern Africa lie within an hours
distance from our shores, and the battle which de-
cides the fate of kingkom, the capture OF a vi
emma or Giberaltar. the fall of dynasty the trj-
umPh of usurpation, the birth of an heir to row
atty the death of a Nicholas or Wellington in anv
country which touches the Mediterranean the En-
kline. the Black Sea or the German Ocean will he
published in New-York the next morning if rot
on the very day of its occurrence In momen
as it were we have been thrown into the irnmedi
ate intellectual neigh borhood of the whole cvilis-
ed ana large portion of the senibarb barous world
The rise and fall of stocks in London or Paris win
henceforth be reported from day day in the Jour
mails of our seaboard cities. The boldest operators
in Walstreet Will refuse to buy or sell until thew
have read the quotations of that days business on
the Royal Exchange and at the Bourse whose
transactions will have closed an hour or so before
ours can begin. revolution in Paris an impor-
tant vote IN Parliament, insurrection in Italy
a ire in Constantinople, viii be discussed around
the breakfast-tables of New Xork few hours af-
ter ITS occurrence. mighty though silent trans
fol nation in the condition of human existence as
just been effected by the little wire stretching A.
cross the oceans bed from the coast of Ireland 10
that OF British America, and one inevitable result
OF TINS must be an unexampled community of feel
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