The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-31
CHI A r L E. S TON.
TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 81, 1865.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

fed the whole land with the glorious an
noupeement of the completion and successful
operation of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable.
As the country has gone through this sensa-
ton once before,-in 1859,-and expended its
enthusiasm and fireworks with unstinted libe-
rality,-only to find itself disappointed
cable refusing to work,-our people will
doubtless be more cautious this time in Civ
ing full oredenoe to this stupendous achieve
ment.
We havo dispatch after dispatch from
'Heart's Content" signed CYRus w. FIELD,
announcing in enthusiastic and self f-gratuls-
tory terms the successful completion of the
magnum opus,-but the said dispatches are
far from satisfactory. If the cable is in
"working ORDER" as Mr.. FIELD so repeatedly
announces, why have we not bona fde dis
patches from the other side of the water? If
peace was declared between Austria and
Prussia, why have we nothing but the bare
announcement There is room for doubt,
certainly. We should in all probability have
been more easily satisfied If we had not had
that dispatch from Queen VICTORIA in 1859,
which to this day is by many believed to
have been apocryphal. a day or two will
doubtless terminate this unpleasant state of
suspense.
We shall assume, however, that it is all
right, and that Mr.. CYRus W. FIELD, who for
years has had but this one idea in his head, is
at last about to reap his well.earned reward.
Poets, and Optimists in prose, have for
years dreamed and sung of tho great bond
that is to bring all mankind into one league
and covenant, when peace and concord shall
everywhere prevail throughout this mundane
sphere. TENNYsoN's
parliament of man, confederation of the world"
will now make its advent. Certainly this
great masterpiece of human genius could not
have been inaugurated under more fitting
auspiooe The frat maososo tsensmItted over
the wires was one of peace. There is beau
tiful fitness in this coincidence, which war
rants us in predicting the most glorious fu-
ture for the human race. A fierce fratrioidal
war, making unprecedented havoc and slaugh-
ter in one of the fairest and most civilized
countries of Chrstendom, ceases just in time
to transmit the glorious news to our wes tern
shores by the newly laid cable
Opinions differ as to the influence this an
Inhalation of time and space may produce in
the world of commerce. Some think it will
be pernioious on legitimate business, tending
to an increase ofspeculation. We cannot see,
however, why it should. The means of COM
munioation will be open to all. The press
dispatches will give the markets of the world
twice day; and not only the markets, but
also at the same time publish all important
porary events. This, it seems to us
should annihilate speculation, az every one
will have the same means Of judging of the
probable influence these events may OK ercise
upon the market.
From political point of view we do not
think much Importance attaches to the new
enterprise. Our foreign relations, in all
probability, will continue, for years to come,
to hold very subordinate place in the af-
fairs of the nation. This course is marked
out by our insular position, and, if we mis-.
take not, is in full accordance with the inoli.
nation of the American people.