Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11
GENERAL tINTELLIGENCE
TIE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Diary of the Voyage-Dispatches from
Queen Victoria. President johnson,
WIN. III. Seward. The Mayors of New
York and London, and Cyrus W. Field I.

| Diary of the yoyage-Dispatches from
Vim. III. seward. The Mayors Of New
| York and London, and Cyrus W. Field.
New York, July 29-The following
dispatches have just been received from
Cyrus w. Field.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 29.-The
Great Eastern left Sheerness on Satur-
day, at noon, June Both, and arrived at
Bearhaven on Thursday morning, July
5, and received the balance of her Goals
and provisions.
The other steamers joined the Great
Eastern at Bearhaven as follows: VIM.
Cory and Terrible on Friday, July 4th ;
the Albany on the 18th, and the Midway
on Tuesday the 10th inst.
On Saturday, the It'll of July, the
end of the Irish shore cable was loaded
from the VIM. Cory, and at 2:30 the
next morning the laying was success
fully completed and the end buried in
"a fathoms; latitude 81; longitude 40.
Wednesday, the 18th, her Majesty's
steamship RscOOn, arrived at Bearha-
ven to render all assistance in her
power.
Thursday, the 10Th inst, the Great
Eastern, Midway, Albany, Terrible and
Racoon were near one another. Ser
vices were held at Valentia and prayers
offered up for the successful laying of
| the cable.
Friday, the 18th inst, the shore end
was connected to the main cabal on
board the Great Eastern, and at $40 %.
N. the telegraph fleet started for New
/ foundland, and the Raccoon returned
10 Valentia. The telegraph fleet sailed
in the following order, the Terrible
ahead of the Great Eastern on the star
board bow, the Midway on the port, and
the Albany on the starboard quarter.
Weather thick and foggy with heavy
rains.
Signals sent through the cable on
board the Great Eastern to the tele
1 graph house at Valentia, two thousand
| four hundred and forty nautical miles,
were found perfect.
! Saturday, 18th, distance ran 10S
miles; cable paid out 116 miles. Sun
day, 18th, distance run 128 miles;
cable paid out 139 miles. Monday,
10Th. distance run 115 miles; cable paid
out 139 miles. Tuesday, 18th, distance
run rs miles; cable paid out l3S miles.
Wednesday, 18th, distance run los
miles; cable paid out 125 miles. Thurs
day, 10Th, distance run 100 miles; cable
paid out 129 miles. Friday, Goth, dis
lance run III miles; cable paid ont 1877
miles. Saturday, 21st, distance run
122 miles; cable paid out 136 miles.
Monday, Odd, distance run III miles;
cable paid out 13S miles. Tue, day,
oath. distance run 121 miles; cable paid
out 135 miles. Wednesday, 25th, dis
lance run 112 miles; cable paid out $50
miles. Thursday, Doth, distance run
12S miles; cable paid out 134 miles.
Friday, 9th, distance run 1l2 miles;
cable paid out / Is miles, which with the
shore end off Valentia, distance q
miles, cable paid out % miles, makes
the distance run 1863 miles, and paid
out |, 1854 miles.
Arrived at Hearts Content at a. M.
on Friday, July 9th. The average
speed of the ship, from the time the
splice was made until we saw land, was
little less than 6 IL nautical miles per
hour. The total slack was little less
than II per cent. The weather has
been more pleasant than | have ever
known on the Atlantic, &C this season
of the year; we have had alternate days
of rain, sunshine, fogs and squalls. [
have requested Mr. John G.. Dean, Sec |
rotary of the Anglo American Company,
to send you by the first opportunity, |
for the Associated Press, twenty-five |
copies of his diary, which will give you |
detailed account of the ups and downs |
experienced in laying cable across the |
Atlantic. We have been IN constant |
communication with Valentia since the |
splice was made on the 18th inst, and |
have daily received news from Europe, |
which was posted up outside of the tel |
egraph office for the information of all
on board the Great Eastern, and signal |
ed to the other ships. After taking III
Goals, the fleet will sail for the spot |
where the cable was lost last year, to re-
cover the end, and complete a second |
line between Ireland and Newfoundland |
and then the Midway will proceed to
Law the new cable across the Gulf OF st
Lawrence. The cable will be open for
business in a few days, and all messages
sent to Europe In the order they are re-
ceived at Hearts Content l cannot
find words suitable to convey my ad
miration for the men who have so ably
conducted the nautical engineering and
electrical departments of this enterprise
so successfully amidst difficulties, which
required to be seen to be appreciated.
In fact all on board of the telegraph
feet, and all connected with the enter
prise have done their very best to have
the cable made and laid in perfect
condition, and He who rules the winds
and the waves has crowned their united
efforts with perfect success.
(Signed) CYRUs w. FIELD.