Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-24
The AdGnIic Gable.

The ancients had a wythical:character
named Sisyphus, whom they represented
as being engaged in perpetually rolling a
round stone up a hill, asa punishment.
OF course, the man could only roll the
stone O hundred feet, or 80, and it came
right back to him, thereby keeping him at
work forever. Americath produced q
similar character, whose punishment seems
to be self-imposed. His name is Cyrus
w. Field, his hill the atlantic Ocean, and
his stone tho telegraph cable by which he
hopes to bind the old world to the new.
Seven years, ago BIZ. Gisd it, with the as
sistance of the navies Of England and
America, and the cable was successfully
laid. Two messages from the English side
and one from the American, passed over
the magic wire, and, then all was hushed
into a silence like that of the death cham:
Der. Occasionally Che mysterious and
deep ode Sauty,"" whose character. was
as unfathomable as the trsckless waste
through which the wire was laid, told OF
" currents " and quotations." but ct last
there was ano connection" and the great
enterprise, in honor Of. which a thousand
cannons belched forth their sulphurous
fumes and as many eloquent tongues pro-
claimed. the nuptials Of the land Of Wash
ington and Franklin to the birthplace Of
Hampden and Milton, was voted a failure.
1t seems to US but'as yesterday, that we
sat entranced at the. clarion voice of tho
now glori6ed patriot Baker, as he uttered
that brilliant apostrophe:
"0h, science, thou thought-clad leader
of the company Of great and pure souls
that toll for their race and love their kind!
Mensurer Of the depths of Earth and the
recesses Of Heaven Apostle Of civllisa-
tion-handmaid of religion-teacher Of
human equality and; human right-per-
petual witness Of the Divine wisdom-be
ever, as now, the great Minister Of Peace.
Let the starry and benign front still CLEAN
in the van Of progress, brighter than the
sword Of the conqpeior, and welcome as
the light of Heaven!"
The twang Of that magic wire no more
thrills from shore like the soft melody Of a
rich harp string, and the silver.toned voice
Of the patriot is now hushed in death.
One was O masterpiece of man. the other
one of the most exquisite productions OF
the Creator. Both rest in peace.
Again, the indomitable protector OF the
submarine telegraph has been unsuccessful
in his all .sbsorbing ambition to join the
hands of Europe and America at the altar
of science Again he il. cheated out Of
the contamination Of q HES hopes. Full
twelve hundred miles astern were the YER
dure:ciad shores Of Valencia Bay, where
the magic wire first -ancoiled itself to
stretch out and graspSAmerica, and thrill
her pulses with the lightning spark, but
the treacherous wire broke, and all became
sorrow and disappointment. We cannot
resist the belief that the great length Of
tho cable creates such'a strain, owing to
its weight, that uninterrupted communi-
cation under the Atlantic's treacherous
waves can, never be made permanent or
| reliable.
The Collins telegraph project, via Behr-
ings Straits, has always seemed to US the
most certain and feasible route of telegrahic
communication with the Old World. If
America would speak to England or
France by the aid Of the wire, she must
call in the aid of tho fur-clad Muscovite
and Esquimaux who live in the huts of
snow, where the aurora dazzles the polar
bear. Russia stretches out her coarse,
rough, honest hand to us and in the name
of three millions of emancipated white
serfs, greets the land. that no longer calls
the black man a slave. Let US grasp that
hand. firmly and intertwine the banner Of
the double eagle with the stars and stripes.
That hand never struck US in the back.
During the late bloody wal for our exist
ence as q nation, Russia fitted out no pri-
vateers to rob u unarmed merchantmen
nor peddled supplies To. those who sought
to destroy our Republic. Can England
and France say as much?
The Russo-American telegraph will, in
our opinion, be the only accurate and
practical means of magnetic communion
ton between the two hemispheres. With
all due sympathy, therefore, for our enter
prising and unlucky countryman, let US
hope that he will turn his wealth and en-
terprise into more practicable channels in
future. The next attempt at laying a
submarinec cable should be across Behring's
Straits, where theyeas far more likelihood
| of the contamination Of the wishes Of the
united world. And when the day does
come that the fash Of lightning shall
speak our friendship. TO all the remote ma
lions of earth, let ar hien render thanks to
Him whose portion is Glory on high, that
he may bestow "Peace on earth and good
| will toward men.""-SGc. Bee.
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