The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-25


tropolis to keep them going for another year
while they continue to allude to us IS sinners
who are utterly lost-pilgrims On the direct
road to perdiioA, going TO the devil, In point
Of fact, ct the rate Of fifty miles an hour. The
question recurs ss to what the sufferers will do
when the supplies stop altogether. 1t is awful
to think Of but 1t is barely possible that some
of them may have to 60 to work aud earn their
own living. Think Of Aminidab Sleek at work
on . railway, or the Rev. Mr.. Cream Cheese
digging canal, or Mawworm washing out
pan dirt In Carson valley! But, according 70
the present uoearanoe Of things, and unless
they can mana0to get into Congress, to that
complexion sasAr all Of them may come at
last Let US uDH aad see.
How America Uses Elcotricity-Tho Time
Ball and TelegrsPhic Fire Alarm.
Nobody doubts that We are great people.
The fact stands out ss plainly ~ the Fourth Of
July or the battle of Bunker Hill, and Is Illus
trated in thousand different ways. We have
the handsomest country, the biggest lakes the
longest rivers, the highest mountains, the most
extensive railroads, the best and worst ofnews-
papers, to say nothing Of fast men, fast and
beautiful women, magnificent babies, and ten
thousand other llustrious objects Of gloriaca-
ton, over which patriotic Yankee will wave
his hat and shout hallelujshs until he is hoarse.
We furnish the gold, grain and cotton of the
world. Our earth produces the largest crops,
our air flies the highest balloons, our watsrs
float the fastest steamers and clipper ships and,
to finish with the elements, nobody will deny
that We get up some of the most extravaganza
couHagrations and foundations with which an
individual is likely to come in disagreeable
contact this side Of eternal perditon. Steam
has become our serving man, the lightning our
errand boy, and, to employ local term In
general sense, our broad continent Is grid
ironed" with railroads which carry to and fro
the riches OF the world.
More than this: We teach the rest of man
kind. Our country is the schoolhouse Of the
world. 1t Is here that the present Emperor
Napoleon learned some Of those lessons by
which he has so well proited, which have
taught him to employ the electric telegraph
upon the field of Solferino to convey his orders
from point to point, to patronize manufsc'
lures, encourage the ingenuity Of his subjects,
develope the resources Of his empire, and to
pursue that course In his relations to his poo.
pie best calculated to enhance their power-in q
word, which have demonstrated the fact that
Louis Napoleon Is nothing more nor less
than q live Frenchman In Yankee brooches.
We are emphaHcally a live people. We
invent, improve and progress sowing mind
and reaping wealth. We have talent, energy,
enterprise and opportunity, and whatsoever our
hands have found to do, we have generally
done II with all our might advance" is the
order of the day. The old succumbs to the
now, and In short time an obituary notice ID
al that marks its former power.
It is only few years. space easily spanned
by the memory Of thousands Of our readers
since Morse established, between Washington
and Baltimore, the first telegraphic communi.
cation which inagurated tho system. To-day
The electric wires almost girdle the earth.
They have become the tongue Of the nation,
| speaking alike for ALL from the humble indivi.
| dual who transmits q message Of affection
which thrills . distant heart, to the proud mil.
| lionaire who issues mandate which unsettles
the foundations Of q community. Yet 1t Is not
in this department alone that we are to enjoy
the usefulness Of the magnetic telegraph. The
"time o. day." Is to be caught from the sun,
flashed hundred miles from the point Of OBJ
servation at Albany, and through Time Ball.
erected by the efforts Of number Of pub.
Lilo spirited gentlemen, transmitted to the chro.
nometers Of our navigators here, thus enabling
them to make their reckonipgs and record
their longitude at sea with greater perfection
and accuracy than ever before, and at the same
time afording to the city itself a boon it ha,
never yet enjoyed, in the shape Of standard
by which every watch and clock in Its pro
cincts may be correctly adjusted.
It IL little remarkable that the rural village
Of Albany will not be content with the power
1t already possesses over our Metropolitan Pc
lice and other Institutions Of public char
acter, and that ii must needs, through tn
big red globe which viii drop every day .
high noon from the heavens above tie Custom
HOUSE, dictate to the minute hands Of q hundrei
thousand metropolitan watches the rate Q
which they shall move. tits some consolation
however, that though the Albanisns furnish III
with tho time, they cannot get nd Of New Yorl
newspapers for breakfast, or escape the moral
domestic and political Improvement which sucl
mental pabulum viii be sure topSoduce In tina
benighted region. =
The new system Of Fire Alarm Telegraph
which 1t Is proposed 70 introduce In this city
and Of which trial win be made this noon, 1
another of the great electric enterprises Of tn
day, and illustrates the fact that whatever de
velopes the prosperity or inures to The benefi
of the public, will in this country, before d
| others. receive the announcement to which