The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-05
TeieSraphic and Newspaper EnterPrise
M DaY.


Europe OF Cape Race, thus getting the intelli-
gence some days in advance of their arrival at
port. During the year the news yacht has been
enabled to intercept some thirty or forty steam
ers, but in future we shall be able to do much
better than that The press has now en-
tered into new and extensive arrangements
with the Newfoundland Telegraph Com
pany, by which we shall be enabled to
get more news than ever over that line
This will benefit our merchants, the papers,
and the community generally. By this ar
rangement we shall be in position to
obtain intelligence of Cape Race from every
steamer outward and inward bound that passes
that point. AT present no less than five hun.
dred and eighty six times ia the year steamers
pass between this country and Europe; but as
the Canadian line Of vessels 60 through the
Straits Of Belle Isle in the summer, and thus
avoid Cape Race, the number with which the
news yacht can now come into communication
is not so large but steamers pass the Cape
over five hundred times year, half OF which
come from Europe, and most of those bring
news.
When the captains of all the steamers,
whether going out or coming home, report
themselves to the news boat at Cape
Race which is kind of half way lookout
between this port and Europe-the press
intend to furnish despatch bags for the con-
venience of our merchants and the friends Of
the passengers on board the steamers, in con-
nection with the regular news bags, by which
means information will be conveyed by tele
graph to the press, and thence to every part OF
| the country far in advance Of the arrivals OF
the steamers The advantage Of this system
will be observed at once. 1t will bring our
people within six days of Europe, and will
place in their hands intelligence of outgoing
steamers after one-thrd Of their voyage is per-
formed Moreover, it will inure greatly to
the benefit of all the other telegraph lines
throughout the country, for the news thus OBJ
tanned will of course be despatched far and near
along the wires.
The telegraph system is progressing 80 won.
derfully everywhere that this may in fact be
called the great telegraphic era but it
is making more rapid strides in this coun-
try than anywhere else. We have more
miles of telegraphic lines at present in
America than in the whole rest Of the world.
We perceive by late news from Europe
that considerable activity exists in the tele-
graph business there, particularly in submarine
lines four new cables having been just sue
cessfully laid in the Mediterranean, between
Valencia and the islands of Ivica, Majorca and
Minorca, and thence to Barcelona. Deep sea
cables, IL Is true, have not worked well SO far,
and it would appear from an article which we
publish from the London Chronicle to-day, that
submarine telegraphs have proved universal
failure; but this is not strictly correct; for
some Of the cables laid In moderate depths Of
water in the Mediterranean aud across the
| Straits Of Dover have been successful, and
| 30 have some Of the submarine lines In this
country. Telegraphic enterprise, however, is
not TO be repressed by a few momentary
failures. In the United States 1t has received
an extraordinary stimulus by the contract just
made between the Secretary Of the Treasury
and Sibley a Co, to run line to the Pacific,
which, when completed, will bind the whole
continent In telegraphc chain. When the Pa
cifc telegraph is In operation, and the line to
| the Straits Of Belle Isle constructed. we shall
| have q continuous communication from Belle
Isle and st. Johns at the north, to
New Orleans at the south, and San Fran
cisco a. the west It only remains, then
for the Atlantic telegraph to be put In working
order to connect the whole glebe. And with
regard to the success Of submarine telegraphs
1t may be said that there were really only
three points to be decided, two Of which
have been determined favorably. First, the prac-
ticability Of laying q cable successfully over
a long distance; that has been done on the
bed OF the Atlantic. The second was the capa-
city 70 send q current through, and that has
also been done. The third point, which Is yet
undetermined, is whether the insulation can be
made 30 perfect as 10 preserve q continuity OF
| the current under the immense pressure Of
| water. But we can hardly doubt that this
| difficulty will yet be overcome by the Inventive
genius Of the age. Some mode of insulation
will be discovered whereby the contamination
OF submarine telegraphs can be effected. For
the past three years, since the failure Of the At
lsnic cable, we have received at this Office not
less than FIVE hundred communications suggest
ing new modes Of insulation, and there are per-
hsps fully Eve thousand minds at work upon
the subject We look forward, then, TO the
accomplishment Of perfect insulation at no
distant day, and the consequent success Of a
telegraph line across the Atlantic.
| When this shall be attained an unbroken
| communication will be established In a few
years hence between every continent and every
inhabited island 10 the known world, and ne
ueirs columns Of each dcys Herald ,riR then
contain nothing bat i,iegraplic accounts Of The
erents uhich t'anspire n erery quarter Of ue
prise comments upon these eyents