The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-12
From the ". Y. Post.
THE ATT A NTIT TLI INIt d 4 ID l.

Although nearly two years have elapsed since
enthusiasm in regard to the supposed success
full completion of the Atlantic telegraph caused us
to make bonfire of our City Hail. the public should
not think that the enterprise died with the disaster
the cable, which soon followed that notable
celebration 1t is true, the time appointed for the
resuScitation of the work has fully come, and the
voice of De Sauty is no longer heard in the land;
but Notwithstanding vexatious delays and pecu-
mary losses, the originators of the great scheme
at least those of them in England-have by no
abandoned all hope of successfully laying an
Atlantic telegraph cable. But the delay has given
rise to competition, and ocean telegraph
project called the Danish route, has been talked
of. By this plan the wire will extend from London
to Inverness, across the Sutherlandshire mountains
to Cape Wrath, thence to Farce, thence to Iceland
across Iceland, by water again to South Green
land, across Greenland, by water again to Labra-
dor, and the unexplored country of Labrador
by the nearest route to join the American lines;
the total distance being three thousand four hun
dred and seventy-eght miles, The projectors of
this enterprise, carried away, doubtless, by the
spirit of competition, have endeavored to prove
the impossibity of the success OF the previous un-
dertaking, and have maintained that the researches
of scientific electricians have recently demonstrated
that direct line from Valentia to Trinity Bay
cannot be laid, if laid, cannot be worked at
profit. In reply to these charges, Mr.. George Sa-
ward the secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany, has published long letter in the London
papers urging the feasibility of the original scheme,
and showing forth its prospects of success. He as
of 1858 which could be termed ga failure;" that
the scientific questions involved in its origin and
submersion have been fully solved, and the import
ant uses to which it ministered while in working
order rendered the establishment of Atlantic tee
graph necessity, and that the whole difficulty now
arises from the simplest of causes-a fault in the
insulation, which is susceptible of reparation.-
Mr.. Saward also gives some interesting and deci
ded information in regard to the enterprise. There
is no intention of abandoning it, but the next
cable Atlantic must be much
ly than the original one, if constructed in accord
ance with the scientific principles generally
admitted to be desirable and the public will not
be asked to subscribe again, unless the risks
shared with them by the government, it has been
determined, in TIE first instance to attempt to re-
store communication through the original cable
during the present summer. To effect this,
pedition has already been sent out. 1t has been
asserted that the Atlantic cable is three thousand
miles longs but this appears to be incorrect; for its
total length, including the slack, does not exceed
two thousand and fifty miles. On the other hand,
the so-called "Danish route requires nearly four
thousand miles of cable, with not less than four
teen relays, to be worked in synchronous connec-
tion each with each During the last eight months,
we are informed that the whole question of "deep
sea telegraphy," as it may be technically termed,
has been under the careful investigation of a com
mttee appointed by the British government for
that purpose. Every person whose position and
experience could enable him to afford information
has been examined and experiments have been CON
Quoted with view to clear up important points,
The result will be shortly embodied in report,
and presented to Parliament. In the meantime
our readers will be gratifed to be assured that the
Atlantic telegraph has not been abandoned that
an expedition is now at work trying to regain the
lost cable, and that the eventful summer OF IS6O
which will probably bring to US the greatest snip
ever built and the representatives ol orlehIdi en-
pire and British monarchy, may also De slgnalzeu
by the triumphant establishment OF instantaneous
communication between the Old and the New
World.
INTERESTING Discovery IN EGYPT.-An interest
ing discovery of which further particulars will,
no Doubt shortly be given to the scientific world
was recently made in Egypt, in the neghborhood of
the Great Pyramid, by the celebrated archeOlogist
NJ. Augusta Marriette. 1t would appear that in
the course of his explorations he had lighted the
Palace of Cephren, the King of Egypt, who is sup
posed to have been the constructor of the Great
Pyramid and who lived about 5000 years before
Christ The immense editce is built of solid gran
ite and several magnificent colossal statues of King
Pharaoh Cephren have already been discovered on
it. which leads to the belief that further investiga-
tions will bring forth still more curious aud inter
esting remains.
AN INSULT TO THE JAPANESE IN PHILADELPHIA
We see it stated in Philadelphia paper that
while the reception procession of Saturday last was
passing along Broad street near Walnut, gang
of "roughs" reached to a carriage containing two
of the Japanese, and after shaking hands with
them, attempted to drag one of them through the
window OF the carriage into the street. A few
citizens interfered and stopped the outrage.
POSTMASTER FOWLER STILL IN New YoRK.-The
New York Sunday Mercury says: 'Mr. Fowler
neither took passage on board of the Moses TAYLOR
for Havana, nor has he at any time contemplated
future residence in Brazil. He is in the State OF
New York-almost daily in the city of New York;
and, if we are correctly informed, he has not the
remotest idea of availing himself of the 'uncom-
Portable advantages incident to self-expatriation'