The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-15
TIE New Atlantic Telegraph.

The New Atlantic Telegraph.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company are again
In the market, for fg00,00o In guaranteed pre-.
ferentiai shares Of IS per share, . part of
which sum they propose to raise In the United
States, through the efforts Of Mr. Cyrus "
Field. The company have reorganiaed with
every prospect Of success. Their xuarantees
income, as soon a. their cable shall be in .nc.
cessful operation, will be $4,000, paid tv IN.
governments of Great Britain aud the IYnit.,
States. irrespective Of mercantile and nrtv.,.
messages. The New York Express referr,n.
to the old Atlantic cable, with the ahrot.,'
continuity says
Reports were freely circulated at one tim.
that no message had ever been Transmitted
over the ocean cable after it was laid: and ths,
We have had enc pleasure of examining tho
message book kept at Trinity Bay, in which
the messages sent to Valentia and the answer,
thereto, were recorded rs they were sent and
received, and find there ninety-seyen MESA
ges, containing one thousand one hundred ana
two words, and six thousand four hundred
and sexenty.six letters. sent from Valentia TO
Newfoundland; and 269messages, :, $40 words,
containing Il, 7a3 letters sent from Newfound.
land to Valentia. In all 366 messages, 3,943
words, and 20,2t9 letters, passed through the
whole length Of the cable. The correctness of
the record is verified under oath. and it SUM-
''that communication by Electric Teleeraph
between Great Britain and America is no
longer a theoretical proposition, but an &C.
complished fact.''
showing with what speed they are transmit
ted. On August 2Oth, quite a conversation wa.
kept up between the two shores. At 9:l9
O'Clock A. M, Valentia asked Trinity Bay !:
"Have you message ~ At 9:21, in Just two
minutes time, the answer came back: "No."
At 9:31, Trinity Bay asked: "Was message
about Europa made use Off At 9:4s, seven.
teen minutes afterward, the reply came: "Yes;
it was sent for publication At 9:55, Trinity
Bay asked Valentia: What weather have
you I" At los, thirteen minutes afterwards,
t6e answer was returned: VERY fine: yours !''
The rejoinder was sent at 10:le: Mosquitoes
keep biting. This is funny place to live in
Fearfully swampy.''
From this time the current in the cable
seemed t6grow weaker. Messages We're fewer
in number, and longer in coming. On the lst
of September, the European Directors sent the
following message to Mr.. Field. 1t was dated
Valen tia, l249, and was received by Mr.. Field
at Castle Garden about noon, though the hour
Of it's arrival at this station was not noted. 1t
was read by Mr.. Field at the Crystal Palace
Cable Celebration on the same afternoon, and,
it Will be recollected, was to the following ef-
feet:
sc w. FIELD, N. Y:
'The Directors are on their way to Valentia
to make arrangements for opening wire to
public. They convey through cable to you
and your fellow-citzens, their hearty congrat-
ulations and good wishes, and cordially SYM
pathiZe in your joyous celebration Of the great
international event. SAwARD" T
This was the last message but one that was
ever received. The same day, not an hour
later, the following message was started from
Valentia, but only the portion italicized ever
reached Trinity Bay:
"Valentia, 130, Sept. l. C.. W. Field, N y
Please inf foyn american Gorernment tce are no,o
in position to do best to forward their govt
messages to England"
BEST was the last word ever transmitted
by the old Telegraph Gable. We trust that
the new one will do better.
THE LOAN SwINDLE AT WAsHINGToN.-
The telegraph has noticed the sudden evapora-
ton from Washington, of an agent of the firm
of Evans Il Bro, "loan agents" The States
says:
Among the expedients by which the agent
contrived to inspire confidence, was the appa.
rently careless display of Ofconsiderable amounts
of specie. On one occasion, amid quite levee
of his newly made friends, Mr. Evans rang
tor the waiter, and, As il short of change pull
ed from his closet a handkerchief containing
about $4,000 in gold, and tossing some pieces
with the utmost nonchaiance to the attendant,
called for champagne He frequently invited
people to dine with him at the hotel; and one
day when pressed by large number of ap-
plicants for loans, remarked" Really, gentle
men, we must postpone our negotiations to an
other time; have o-day an engagement to dine
with Colonel -"
II is estimated that at least five thousand
dollars have been contributed by the people of
the District to the Golfers Of Evans Bros Il Go.
1t seems that the travelling partner of that en-
terprising firm, who has created this stir in
our midst, disdained the petty business of not
settling his bill at the hotel. But even in this
he displaye ed the most mastery roguery, pay
ing the Messrs. Willard with the check Of one
of his unfortunate victims.
A party in this city wrote to the Mayor OF
New York, as to the character of the alleged
firm. Capt. Leonard replied, by direction OF
that functionary, that the locality designated
was occupied by some other party, and that
he had no doubt that the affair was "bogus''
throughout.
A gentleman came to a friend giving him
$500 to invest in the new speculation, but the
latter having strong suspicion of the fraudu-
lent design, failed to do as he WAS desired, and
so saved the gentleman from being gouged to
that amount.
THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE GENERAL ADMIRAL.