Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-01
From the Y. Times. July sO.l
TIE Atlantic Gable.

The electric chord which Is to bind
America and Europe Oy a myriad ties has
been completed, and the two continents
talk together, with but a few minutes to,
separate them. ....,s...
Past failures had somewhat abated hope
upon the subject Promise aud perfOr-
nance had borne so slight a relation each
to the other, that sceptieism had qualified
faith and diverted attention from the en-
terprise. There were many who ranked 1t
among present impOssibilities, and yet
others who saw the way to triumph only
through further trials and disasters.
The news of success which flashed upon
the city yesterday produced an excitement
all the greater because hut partially anti
cipated. That success had been achieved,
however became evident as dispatch after
dispatch appeared Aud when, later in the
day, a budget of European news arrived,
with tidings of engagements by land and
water, of a treaty between Prussia and
| Austria, and of smaller incidents in En-
glish politics, the great fact became patent,
aud the dullest mind began to realize the
revolution which has burst upon US. d.
For the tull details of the work, accom-
plished by the Great Eastern, we must ne
cessarily wait until another day. Of the
difficulties connectedwith il, the pOBderous
and neutrality-suspicious. the skill and pa
thence required, the obstacles to be sur
mounted aud the dangers TO be met-we
learned much on the occasion of former at
tempts In the present'inst stance il has been
known that the construction of the cable
had undergone great Improvement and
that former m;shaps had suggested more
perfect arrangements in regard to the sink
ing of the cable aud the testing of it from
the moment of emblrkation. StilL per-
haps, those of us who know of the enters
prise only by its results may but imper-
! fectly appreciate the endurance, the re-
source, the diversity of science and dingenu-
ity whichhave at length brought the enter
prise to successful issue, Time will fa-
miliarize us with'its wonders, and enable
us to comprehend the extent and value of
the efforts which preceded its completion.
With yesterday, then, began anew era in
the history of the world, OF its nature its
disturbing force, its reorganizing tenden-
cies we can yet only Speculate To
the general public the visible result will be
Elittle more than an addition TO the stock of
news available for daily consumption, By
and-by they will accustom themselves to
look for dispatches from ST. Petersburg,
Paris or London as regularly and with as
little concern as now they deYour scraps of
intelligence from Cincinnati or New Or
leans. They will read Of a Conference at
Vienna within few minutes of its ternilna-
ton, and will think no more ofsthe occur
renee than now they think of the trans
mission of the Associated Press report from
Washington, They will glance at the days
| m arket prices at Liverpool or Bremen, with
as fhucfilbf the matter-o ofscourse feeling as
now they scan the trade reports from CHR
cago or st. Louis. Aud they will feel, all
| most as deeply interested In the mornings
tidings of diplomacy at Paris, and Minis
| teriaI explanations in London, as now they
are In the passing history of President
Johnson's Administration. The ramifed
agencies that are at work to concentrate
| Intelligence from the Old World as from
the New, will hardly be Thought Of; and
the Atlantic Gable viii be esteemed IA
miliar friend, the exact value of whose Ope-
| rations it were hardly necessary to COM
pute.
| The business men of the world will feel
! the effects of the new power more directly,
| aud will comprehend their bearing more
! iudiciously. Importer and exporter, job
/ Der and retailer, banker and broker, buyer
4 ana seller-lalI will from this moment be
| made conscious softheGilange. Thebatnre
4 ot transactions in tradeIaud fnapcewill be
! altered; they win assume new forms and
I be- subject to. Smother Set Of contingencies
and though the old fogy trader may object
! totheinnuvatiOns, and grumbleN at the in
| creased sharpness and smartness which will
determine the race, we fancy that the great