The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-09
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

At last the great work of laying the Atlantic
telegraphic cable has been aocomplished-the line
is down; the communication has been uninterrup-
ted from the moment of leaving Valentia, and we
publish to-day an important message, giving the
gratifying news of a treaty of peace between Aus
tria and Prussia, and reproducing words published
in last Fridays London Times. This is wonderful,
astounding and true
This makes the fifth experiment with laying
submarine cable, two having been tried in 1857,
one in the following yoar, the fourth in 1865. The
character of the cable itself has greatly improved
from that which was railed across the seas in the
first experiment, nine years ago. The machinery
for performing this delicate and arduous service
has been wonderfully perfected. The Great Eas-
tern, with her tenders, carried all the appliances
needed for paying out the wire with the least pos
sible risk, for graphing it in case of its parting,
and for hauling up length of even twelve miles
of it for splicing again. Everything connected
with the progress the safety, and the final success
of this highly important attempt to link together
the very thoughts of the two hemispheres, seems
to have been devised with the greatest deliberate
ness and perfected with conscientious care, and
the result is entiro, unqualified success Having
performed the main work, the Telegraph feet will
now sail for the spot where the cable was lost last
year. and geek to recover the end for the purpose
of completing second line between Ireland and
Newfoundland, and the prospects are favorable for
the happy termination of the task.
The announcement that the cable twill be open
for business in few days." in view of previous
failures and of the great victory it indicates,
seems preposterous; but it is nevertheless de-
liberate and sober assertion that we have no rea-
son to doubt will be speedily verified. Doubters
and slumberers may now rub their eyes and pro-
phecy must be silent. The great labor of hands
and brains and the steady, relentless perseverance
against obstacles innumerable, and failures four
times repeated, are finally triumphant. Great til
dings will now fash from continent to continent.
and time and space are to be annihilated. And
with such complete revolution in the communi-
cations between one-half of the world and the 9TH
er, corresponding revolutions in ideas and senti-
ments may be expected to follow in due course
The effect will be radical and immense; the bene-
fits no one can doubt
Other cables will of course be laid, for there is
no such monopoly of the sea as there is of the
land and then competing lines will gradually
mako communication with the old world both COM
mon and cheap Besides the submarine connec
ton now accomplished a line of overland tele-
graph from the Pacific coast, through the bleak
and bare northwest, and thence across Behring's
Strait to Asiatic Russia and Eastern Europe, is
progressing under most promising circumstances {;
and the expectation is growing one that we shall
in due course of time be able to pass messages be-
tween St. Petersburg and all the other European
capitals, and Boston and New York From Beh-
rings Strait southwardly to China, Japan and In
da, a line of telegraph is by no means improbable,
because perfectly feasible, Then the world will
indeed be beltad with the wire which is the high
way of human intelligence. Asia and Europe will
both be at our doors. The magnetic is in our eyes
no more than the precursor of the commercial cur
rents which are destined to set from both quar-
tiers directly to the American Continent and the
United States. Let US hope that With the facility