, 1865-08-12
THE ATLANTIC CABLE,
First Failure Of the Insulation.
Excitement Caused by the Event At
TAEtntl&.

Iyalenta Cor. OF the London Ecwe, J1ly ISL
1.-THE reported fault In the .AtIantic cable
had been 8 premedltated hoaxf 1t could not
have more completely du1nbfoupded aE who
are interested IN It's success. II II had bten
sdodgt" for astute1y rigging the eaa1e
uarket, instead OF settea q ionoeent is'a..
ttek, it could not for the time hare eleaea
greater annoyance and anxiety. lttss enrs
Gus fact TINT the first rumor Of II rsacusu
here from London. 4 gentleman sa!14E
hese received telegram from 1asao - -
town, asking II aught had tappeneo 70 oa.as .ns
Great Eastern. Rumo;s VET *eat a,rna. ~ ~.
tblnr III Vs vas = Sronc, D nd an autho.atlye cor.
tradietion Hps not Irnoatufauy desired:
fIn IN this incment no Whisper Of
dcfeat md no suspteion Of misfortune had
reached Valcnt1a. An honI " Amu Aase1 tae
supposed eana1d +.,se1am Ma1 I 1eceIyed Cd from H. H.
~ sh1n thst defect in the tnsulstion Of the
In VI XII coprle Of miles westward OF
e'I ~ sn1sce had been discovered, and Ind
csHscd hcr 20 hea!e-to. At the game time
the signal II TIE @ 1cessy'ing house were Re.
~enfidt tufl5 felt thst the hitch, whateret It
n,irLt pJosc 10 be, wpuld involve no serious
rnnseauepces to The enterprise, the TACT of
tLert bling hitch at all gave rise to a world
ct copjec :ure, and no little constsrnation.
TIE Hawk WIs Immediately sent ont to
the 1tfGht LAatc1ut %uc AaFouOe Was 01utrcQ
under weigh, and the neighborhooa was
secured for recruits to put the necessary bal
last On board. kilograms announcing the
fault In the cnble were Ecut to town, and tie
little village Kss thrown into State Of ao-
normal excitement as the news Of the mis-
fortune spread. All night long cats and
horses and men were heard through the otd.-
IT WRs Imperative that given number Of
loads Of ia last should BE- on board beforethe
tide ebbed, and the Caroline Was 50 prevent
ed coming alongside the little pier.
Easly yesterday morning Ms. Henley; tha
owner OF ths Caroline, was rous ID out Of his
bed, that be might by bis presence hasten ou
the work, and The result OF this combination
Of forces IVES that the Carol ne was duly
started, after running aEeoun1 end los
ing +.ae, for the point vince the spllc. had
been made with 60 much apparent SUCCESS
scme forty hours before Her du:y WAS to
proceed to this spot-tweuty- fire mtles from
abore-to tlsh for the cable, to then nndsf-
defective part, to cut It ont, to male new
splice, aDd to then wn,t aor Signals th ,w-
fog the fault to be re1nediet and that all waa
wcl1.
TIE FAuIT REMEDIED.
Just Us, thsnks to The sp.rittd cxertions Of
those engaged In stimulating the }aborets
into working At double their nsuai speed. the
the channel {endiDG to the mouth Of the ha,-
bor, smother message Was received from the
Great Easn m, announcing that the fault in
the cable had been discovered, that every
thing Was right, and thIt full particulars
would Re forwarded back by the Hawk. The
next thought was to relieve the minds Of all
interested IN the. Atlantic Cable hy
forthwith tclcgraph:ng tho good news.
Bpt as Ill luck would have It. the
iire between here aad Killarney
b1oke down Immediately after the official
xps impossible to telegraph from Valeuta 10
London aDd, though no serious fears had
bc.n enter tanned for the success Of the enter
p1ise. 1t TRs truly mprtttying that the last
messeee from the Great Eastern was tempo
ratjly useless, 20 fer as distant CO 7es2 nd
cnts were concerned. Mr.. Glass took Infinite
palus TO hare his public message forwarded.
# h trstruments for working the wiseidSre:ly
Tie wbert nuouta OF the break down va. dis.
covert and tue officers here aud at Fait-
homui un Bay tested the line throughout the
day, in 1he Eopr Of establishing comuaun o.
tiou With Dutlin and London.
NlsEs.
Meanwhile the cause Of the lt.ch rem asned
q mystery, though the fact Of signals having
been made up tn the time Of its announce
mfnt made the fact Ct It's having beea dis
ccvcrtd en- beard the Great Eastern herself
easily understood. II 1t be Iemembes ed tnat
there are come two thousand four hundred
Inks IN TIE gseal cable, and tha. the slight
Of these, 1hat the fa1ntess pune ure o. the
gutta pefcha coating, OF the lcas: flaw IN tie
testing process, wpn1d he kh0wu by the seI1-
e.tive wire, it will be readily undsEstoot that
dsfediw iasuEation might <asRy appcdr ,ei.hou&
The euxe bring s<7foaslu erecied. Il is not
enough that these JOINTS are mechanically
perfect, they must be electrically perfect too;
ard the comparative fri quency Of etopplees
for which scisnce cannot acconnt, is one OF
the most annoying OF the d111cult!es against
which s1bmar1ns lelegrapby has had TO con-
tend. However, there can be np question
ttat the tault in the Atlantic cable was trir.
Isl and 1ntmportaht, both from the raplduy
with winch It was 1emcdied, and from lhe
di.tinciness and prtc sion with which sig
mails KrFl Eirt q ereu at the time the uc5:arr
Gom tie bjE chip announcing 1t, Ant asking
that The Hawk should be sent out, arrived.
NEWSPAPER REPORTER cACGnT on TIE
GREAT EAsTERN.
After all the pains taken bY the Telegraph
Construction Glrti tors to exclude reprtsent-
aiirts Of the press from the Great Eastern
during her voyage from Talentiz TO New
1cnndlald, they narrowly escaptd carrying
out oce unHittiDEiy. A. the eleventh houf
it Was head In London that ONT Of the sub
ordinate elect1Ieians, Who had been sent On
bad IS assistant to q gentleman actIus for
the Atlantic Company VAS not merely tbs
special correspondent Of daily contenpo-
ruy, but had engaged to supply two weekly
}oui ua1st the cnt With pictorial and the other
with descriptive matter. The s.ar:lng news
was tc1es1aphed by the secretary Of the COM
pany to MIR. Glass, who sent out letter By
tbe hawk en- Sunday, with orders TO Captain
Anderson that the correspondent tn question
shcuid bc stnt back These were carried
ont With such promptitude that there Was
70 time for packing, and despite argument
end cx4ostulatiou, this luckleas writer was
| put en- beard ere Of tie last boats leaving
the hig ship for the aAEk, wh IL his bag and
| baggage hare been carried on to AnlsFica.
| WHAT Is AACCED AND HOPED ron PROM THIS
EXPERIENCE.
Here 1t is generally regarded es most
gratifying fact, and ono a1tgnffnG we'll for the
euccefs Of tie attempt, that not only can
fault lie discovered ut once, but Its place in
dicated, the cable hauled In again, and the
signals we're received ftom the Grrat EASTERN
which report oil well. She was than more
than two hundred knote from land going In
to oor thousand fathoms Of water. The Ca
bic WAS pay Ing out at tho rate Of nearly sey-
en- knobs an hour, and the signals to the
as clear as II only cent from two miles dis
tance. The strain On the dtnamometer In
sinking the repe was less than foartsen hund-
red weight, OWING to the high s2ecif gravity
| oi The cable; or, in other words. the bulk Of
| its ta.r=d hemp has sufficient buoYancy to
balance and almost Keep up the weight Of
Its copper conductor and t.ide Iron wires.
TIE GREAT EASTERN BEroxD REPORTING DIS
| TAKCE on THE T1u ULT.
Before twelve hours more are out the Great
Eastern will have run into 500 tathoms,
Hhcn II any mlshap occuts she Will hare TO
hr1ng lack her oWn intelligence, f,r no sig-
nails under such circumstances can reach her.
Frtm this time forth, therefore, the public
must depend on the messages forwarded from
the Vessel itself, md, whtn these messages
cease, will be at liberty to conjecture With as
much wndnee6 as to the cause as Ill here did
when the atom Of wire discovered on Monday
put an end to communication with Valentia.
The compression of the water and IN varying
Temperature Of the Atlantic are already in
proving the miles that hare been SINK, and,
If al should happily 10 we'll, the wire will
continue to improve to the last fathom-
Horace Greeley and the New York
Tfakune-ChAfacttx1e 1 etfer IRON