The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-30
Europe and America United !
Atlantic Cable a Success
Landing of the Great Eastern
at Hearts Content.
DETAILS OF THE VOYAGE.
Foreign News by the Gable

New YORK, July 29.-The following
dispatch has just been received from
Cyrus w. Field:
HEARTS CONTENT, July %.
We arrived here at nine o'clock this
morning. All are well, and, thank God,
the cable has been laid and is in perfect
working order.
Signed CYRUS W FIELD.
SECOND DISPATCH.
HEARTS CONTENT, July %.
We arc in telegraph communication
with Ireland, and the cable is in perfect
order. Dispatches from Europe announce
a declaration of peace.
[Sigued1 CYRUS W. FIELD.
THIRD DISPATCH.
HEARTS CONTENT. July 28.
England and America are again united
by telegraph The cable is in perfect
order, and we have been receiving and
sending messages through the whole ca
bic ever since the splice on the 18th inst.
off Valentia.
GSigned] CYRUS w FIELD.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 29.-The
Great Eastern left Sheerness on Satur.
day at noon, June 30th, and arrived at
Bear Haven on Thursday morning July
9Th, and received the balance of her
Goals and provisions The other steam
ers Joined the Great Eastern as follows:
The William Cory and Terrible on Fri.
day, July 4th; the Albany on the 7th,
and the Midway on Tuesday, the 10th
inst
On Saturday, the 9TH of July, the end
of the Irish shore cable was landed from
the William Cory and at 2;30 the next
morning the laying was successfully
completed and the end buried in "a
fathoms, latitude $40, longitude HOS
distance from the telegraph house at Va
lentia 27t mi les; 29f miles of the cable
paid out
Wednesday, ii inst.-H. NJ, S. RacOon
arrived at Bear Haven to render all as
sistance in her power.
Thursday, 19-.-Great Eastern, Midway,
Albany, Terrible and Racoon near one an.
other. Services held at Valentia, and
prayers offered up for the successful lay
ing of the cable.
Friday, l3-The shore end was con-
nected on board the Great Esafsatrrtte for
24O PM Tee te6Sdf6 e6Sd Che RSooon oo T'Te rotnrU U rUi
&fT Valentia.
The telegraph eetsailed in the follow
ing order: the Terrible ahead Of the
Great Eastern, on the starboard bow;
the Midway on the port, and the Albany
on the weather quarter Weather thick
and toggy, with heavy rains Signals
sent through the cable OH board the
Great Eastern and the telegraph house
at Valentia, two thousand four hundred
and forty nautical miles found per foot.
Saturday 14th.-Distance ran 105
miles cable paid out, lG miles.
Sunday, l5th.-Distance ran l2S miles
cable paid out, 139 miles
Monday, ,16th.-Dstance ran ll5 miles;
cable paid out, l37 miles.
Tuesday, 17th.-Distance ran l1S
miles; cable paid out, l39 miles
Wednesday, lSth.-Distance ran lOj
miles; cable paid out, 125 miles
Thursday, 19th.-Distance ran I22
miles cable paid out l29 miles.
Friday, 20th.-Distance ran II miles
cable paid out, l27 miles.
Saturday, 2lst-Distance ran ID
miles; cable paid out, 1876 miles.
cable paid out, l33 miles.
Monday, 23rd.-Distance ran l2l
miles cable paid out, l3S miles
Tuesday, 24th.-Distance ruu, l2l
miles; cable paid out, l35 miles.
Wednesday, 25th Distance run, ll2
miles; cable paid ont, l3O miles.
Thursday, Goth Distance run, l23
miles; cable paid out, l3l miles.
Friday, 27th.-Distance run, Il2
miles; cable paid out, | Is miles, which
with the shore end of Valentia, distance
go miles, will make 1869 miles, and l.
s6l miles of cable paid out.
Arrived at Hearts Content az eight
o'clock, a. IN Friday, July I'd.
The average speed of the Great Eas
tern from the time the splice was made
until land was visible was in little less
than five nautical miles per hour,
The cable has b8en laid out at an av-
erage of five and a half miles per hour.
The total slack was less than tweve per
cent
The weather has been more pleasant
than have ever known on the Atlantic
at this season of the year. We have
had alternate days of rain, sunshine,
| fogs and squalls.
/ lave requested Mr.. John c. Dean,
Secretary of the Auglo American Tele.
graph Company, 70 send twenty-five
copies of his diary, which will give a
detailed account of the ups and downs
experienced in laying a cable across the
Atlantic.
We have been in constant cOmmunica-
tion with ValeRtia since the splice was
made on the 18th inst, and have daily
received news from Europe, which was
posted up outside of the telegraph Office
for the information of the Great Eastern
/ and the other vessels.