, 1866-09-21

The South must be made to sec and feel that
t must organize und secure peace and pro-
ection to oil Its citizens ut home, before VIC !
ourselves on the new aud next questions In I
our national life. First peace, then progress; !
Ind II peace can only be reached BY new
progress, SO much the better for the nation
and lace.
TIE ATLANTIC CABLE. i
The Finding Of the Old cable-11oyr it
Was Grappied.
The following additional details as to the
manner In which the old cable was raised,
arc given in the London Times:
From the moment Of the fracture Of last
sear's cable till last Sunday morning, the re-
1lecting marine SatvNuometcr connected With
the 9hors end nt Ea,enta has been ,e ,aees
year au electrician has always been on duty,
watching the tiny ray Of light through
which signals are given. and twice every day
the whole length Of the wire $40 mIles}
has heen tested for "couductlvity" and In
splatien ThS rssnt1 m ct the5s tests were
they showed conclusiycly that up to the
point of fracture the cable was as perfect as
on the day on which Il left the works-apart,
Of course, from the improvement which al
ways takes place in the wire submerged In
the cool and uniform temperature OF great
ocean depths.
The object of observing the rny OF light
Was, Of course, not any expectation of q
message, but simply to Keep an accuratc re-
cord Of the condition of the wire. Some
times, Indeed, wild, incohercnt messages
from the deep did come, but these were
merely the result OF magnetic storms aid
earth currents which DETECTED the galyan-
omcter rnpidly aud spelt the most
extraordinary words, and sometimes
even sentences OF nonsense, upon
the graduated scale hefarc the mirror.
Suddenly, last Sunday morning, at quarter
to six, while the light was being watched by
Nr. May, be observed u peculiar indication
about tho n,ht, which showed at once to his
experienced eye, that message WAS near at
hand. In a few minutes afterward the nn-
steady AickefinE was changed to co}aeseney,
! II we may use such term, and at once the
cable began to speak.
| The messages which have already appear
| cd in our columns came with disti0ctncss
and precision even greater than those of the
| cable laid this year. No repetition Of o word
or letter was necessary, and few sentences
Of warm congratulations were at once sent
back, and as quickly responded to from the
Great Eastern BY Mr.. Ca ming. Both the
shore ends Of the last years cable and that
laid this year being in the
ef f,ro The g9od ~, news ss.os. vas ~, at
reply wishing every good fortune to the rest
of the enterprise was sent back to Foi1hom.
mcrum and transmitted to the Great Eastern
In the centre Of the Atlantic within Il quar-
ter Of an hour. So also with the message:
announcing to the directors IN London tina,
the cable had been raised. These, though
they can scarcely be said to have left IRELAND
before 6eTen o'clock, were delivered In thu
metropolis before none, and return message
went back to the Great Eastern before md
day.
Of our readers can ilnagine what the difficult.
would be Of picking up little rope in Cheap
side from the top Of st. Paul's, they will b
able 10 form o sAint notion Of the ditilcult,
of lifting the wires lost last year in thre
miles depth Of water and In the middle Q
the Atlantic. Apparently, however, til
no more difficulty in graphing the cabl
than one might experience In reising nigh
lines for ecls. They all caught It, aud caugh
: It almost when and where they wantet
The weather was very rough, but, neEertht
less. the Medway, which was first on IL,
ground, succeeded in catching it, missing
partly, and buoyiug it. In the night, how
ever, while a heavy sen was running, til
buoy ropes gave way, and the cablc went
the bottom again. It must be remcmbere
that, from repeated soundings taken for til
purposes Of the telegraph, no ocean bed is s
lantic. Where the cable was grapplc
,, for It was covered with soil cor
| posed literally Of minute shells Of II
.. | diatom0tes tribe, So minute, in fact, as
| be only visible under q microscope, and {
fine in their organization as to prove th:
depths, for Otherwise their delicate fortnatic
= would be destroyed. On these the cable h
lain harmlessly as on bed Of sand, and Il
!, grnpnels, as VIC have said, at oncc caught
:. The Great Eastern aud the Mcdway did u
r arrive on the searching ground TIL the T.
i Of the month, and, after preliminary 6
convert, the Great Eastern, On the event.
: Of the 18th, caught and raised the cat
y more than 500 Eathon1s. In the act Of buoyiI
! 1t, the buoy rope slipped. and It Was a!sn
y lost. On the second duy she caught 1t agai
= and this time brought It to tho surface.
!. the act Of bringing 1t over the bows the gra
$ to TO its Is rsstiing place, three miles beaeath t
- : ships. Once more, within two days, It "
q raised by the Great Eastern, while the I
r bany, to the west, caught and broke II, a
:. all the work had to be begun again. On t
Is Goth the Medway caught It md broug
:. it up 1000 fatlloms, when the sea bel
il ard Violent from the pitching or the vess
- - the rope broke. On the evening Of the 81,
~ day, however, the Albany caught 1t az:
II and brought It to the sur1acc, and the Grt
- Eastern, Ito make assurance 1onbly sur,
+, I rot two miles of It on board and secur,
- : buoyed what was outside the vessel. 7
- work Of making the splice Mt once &C
a. menced, but not where the wire was fast
'6 cd to the buoy. The Great Eastern,
N the contrery, under-ran the wire
- a considerable distance to the east
lo order to get rid Of the tauslc In which
+. different buoy and grapne1 ropes must h
r. involved Its western extremity. After
"a necessary process some eighty miles Of
T., wire were abandoned. The Great East
r.. has now "wednesday about four more
il. steaming to bring her safely into Hea
Il Content. Already she has passed the dt
IL est water on her route; In fact, the =
nir deepest 1.ater she can encounter was t
"a from whlch she has raised the cable Of
~ year. All fear, therefore, as to tic aal
~ -, Of the line may be considered at an E
~, md By Sunday next, at the latest, the shl
ID holders will be in possession Of two per
10 lines. How much they may be congr,
- lated on this may be guessed from the
~ ~ that their present line, which is steadily
"a creasing IN Its receipts, Is already carr
ha money ut the rate Of eo0o, 900 year.
~ ~ there he any one individual to whom II
.it- than another the chief credit of tho en-
~ prise belongs, 1t Is certainly Mr.. Glass.
~; in him have mainly fallen the labor and
and to him is due the honor ofsuccess.