New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-11

Have our readers ever reflected upon fhis sub Y
ject; have they considered what an instrument n
human Information and knowledge will become
shis late modern invention when the whole of our
gione snail be placed in instant communication
"hen, IN the course of time, as this will undouht-
ediy DC inc ease, teiegraphic liaes will stretch
ron me most northery iatitndes To the extreme
soatnern habitations OF the American continent;
when lines Of electric communicated aha II ira
| verse not only all Europe, which now already
exist, bat also the great countries Of Asia. nav
even Africa and throughout the Australian world
and the Pacific arehipelagoes. Will no, the sSiences
commerce, industry, nay, all human activity. re-
eeige an immense increase and impulse AIex
ander Humboldt, in his Cosmos an universal work
says that henceforth discoveries will be no longer
the fruit Of happy accidents, bnt that the human
spirit has SO far advanced in the domain Of posi-
tive sciences that, By its efforts, incessant ex-
pahsion, incessant progress, will achieve an ilni-
table held Of new and surprising discoveries, OF
| novelties in sciences and human knowledge. And
in both, what else can we expect but the most
surprising discoveries when once the united efforts
OF scientific genius, shall be simultaneously placed
IN activity from pole to pole, from continent to
1 continent, across the ocean and equatorial line.
Butnot only this simultaneity of observation and
communication all over cur planet will afford such
Vi 5sAii Vi uSStfSfy SUCH means Of
| advancing knowledge, bHtwhen we come to reflect
how, in the process of time, this instrument may
be sinPlifed, how It may be actually guleanized
ike any other invention, then indeed we learn
to appreciate the value and power Of this almost
miraculous means of communication. Like the
i common pocket watch, which indicates the time
OF day. in sunshine well as dark let portable
apparatus be contrived for every person, with a
System OF common teiegraphing, and LET every one
become ms own telegrapher nay, let the electric
INES be perfected in such manner that rnes-
sages inRurnerable. and in contrary directions,
may be dispatched, and we cannot limit the i'm
J portance of such perfection Of tile telegraph
system. That this will be obtainca, that these
lines will be made towork in this manner and that
every one may become his own telegrapher, can
not suffer any difficulty in theory, the only one ex-
lists in the contriyance, the arranging of the proper
materials. Like the rays Of light, the cleo
trio fluids must be made to traverse each
: other without destroying their distinctive
properties; and as the rays of light although
/ crossing each other in every direction, still
they conserve their entirety, so must the electric
or magnetic lines be made to functionate and
transmit the communications from point to point.
Aye, will it not be wondrous, when any one shall
take out of his pocket his teegrapher, like com
mon tmepiece, and apply to the nearest telegraph
post to communicate to any given point upon
the globe. What singular spectacle, for
instance, for person at New Orleans to place
himself in instant communication with friend Of
his in Paris, say at II o'clock NJ. Whilst the Or
= leanian would be at lunch, the friend at Paris
= would probably be sitting down to his dinner at g.
I O'clock at candle gaslight, that being the dit
u ference in the meridian; whilst the still further
friend or acquaintance in Calcutta, the same tele-
n graphic signal might find in his very bed or the
q midnight hour. So, again, teegraphing from New
L Orleans 10 Buenos Ayres, across the equator, at
this season of the year--winter with US, there
everything in the yernal state--wouId again pro-
dnce the most curious contrasts and experiences.
q But, add to these, the scientific observations
upon natural phenomena, upon the heavenly
{ movements. the changes and phases, at
ID once to be communicated from the different
stand points, and who can doubt the immense pro-
gress that our sciences will be enabled to accom-
Ct plish Such an instrument of simultaneous com
le munication, among the observatories, the mag
netic stations, may give us the solution of many
now insolvable problems Nay, when Humboldt
assumes that the whsle universe moves that nc
so-called fixed stars exist upon the vault o.
heaven that our solar system. like all the rest o
1t the stellar hodes is in perpetual motion, it will
is then be easy matter to ascertain by the trans
4 mission Of astronomical news, how the Southern
!, c0nstellatons-for instance, the remarkable
Southern Cross--is rising or ascending horizon
ID in continuously accelerated rapidy Aye, this is
At a most remarkable phenomenon, and well worthy
y the study of even the less scientific of mankind
s. so-wit: that our solar system approaches a neu
le region in The wide universe, in which hitherto arl
! sesn consultations will make their appearance K
4 the human sight. Under such view, what may
not the perfection of the teegraphie system hav
I'd in store for us, as well upon planet, as ii
sse heavenly space? Who can foresee the marvel
Is of this telographic future?
1is| BILLINGs ON BILLIARDS. Everybody seems te'
a be Citing crazee over new gnme, which has jus
a bin discovered, called blyards.
hn 1t is played on the top label which IL o lit
ed tie longer than it il square, and the game seem
re- tew konsist in pushing sum round red hawls agi
nd sum round white bawls, until they drop into SUI
ed little pudding bags which hung onto the ou
his side ov the label. 4.s 4,
MI MI 1t takes . men to play the game, but or ka
led look on.
al al They take oph their coats and stands cuse u
IN, tew the label, with short peace oy fshpoe
= their hands, which has chalk mark onto the en-
nd ov it. st "a
ng Then one begins, by giving one ov the bawls
4 punch in the belly, which sends it agin the nel
an ones belly, and so on till the tother fellows tui
to for punching comes on.
all But yu ought tew sec the game: IT kant be d
nv One feller generally beats the other feller, al
At then he pays the landlord of the consarn rs cen
hv for the privilege ov Citing beat, and buys su
/ gin, with lemonade in it, and awl hands drink.
eere . Then more takes holt ov the fshpoles, al
they punch for spell, and so it goes til o'cot
old in the morning; then each goes hum, having g
joyed fine exercise, little drunk perhaps but u
h;s muscles in their breast expanded that the
! to kant ketch the consupshum nor the small pox
him This is bllyards.
ked JJ,,;roi. rrodnced in Isc5 one hundred on
in ssyantvsayen Williams of bnsbes of corn twent
her. tro n,l;ons nf hnsbaIs of wheat eight hundre
lich thonaand hnsbaIs Of rye one million of barle
,ou and twenty. eight million bushels OF oats.
iue N-N w 0''>' - - -. = S------
lin CONGRESSIONAL "WANT."-We fear that Il
the much needed institution described in the foowiI
the advertisement of the New York Herald, will n,
me ia fnn.d until the peonle have an opportunity