The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-02
from the CInclnnatI Ilaes.
The Triumph Of the Nineteenth Gen.

fury.
We have .heintei'igeace thar she esreat Eastern
an led AZ Hearts Consent. the sAters 81 Asp Bay
Sewfoaall.nd. last Frsiav, tbs 27sa instant, having
suede in living sasGreat Ca5ie ali ID way from
yalen,ia Bav, Iseland, r perfect eoaditaon Tbs, I
nothing AlPlSns VII 3 he cr5Wnias trampa Of the
Nineteenth Centur. We mty Be considered rash u
prelscing that greater hisvesneet silt IS aeceF-
rlShei in -te remaining FORTY tlsrse years All tve
months at the eeatars s5liiaS rest tie
cas- on the At'aac saamaTial ie9esr4pa. MaAt can s
eecur NOR y ea3ertaI or. iudeed mses seUl he
human racs than sas aaioa Of coatineats by saeh
narreous iiak by which the pnlsation q tie great
heart 81 Europe be made throb, tire aext in
slant al over tins american word? What is there or
What there ,. Sublime than the annihilatioa
Of three. Tour. tx thousand miles Of distance. by
bringing tue EagiiShmsu. the Spsniad, the French
man. German. the ItaliAn tbs gaSan. the Turk,
the African, he Asatic, in frieaiiy business
versetion with the Yankee, the Buckeye. the H3osier
the Sucker the chev4ler ofthe South, the keeper Of
she Golden Gate Of the mountains uhabitaut Of the
Lad Of the Aoatezarn, the Perlvi.n the Brazan.
AMI even the PataSou.an! Sue. : the triumph Of
peace that VIII distinguish our century. Should any
accident happen to dash hopes the ground for
this year, there other years coming and one is
safe in saving thai wall be the grand achievement OF
the century.
Ani what is the part which America has played IN
this splendid performance: She gave the world a
Morse. who first laugh; mankind how speak as If
face face. with plains, mountains oceans and coz
tinents inlervenng!-how TO serd thought all around
globe in instant and repeating II IN all atttuies
and longitudes in the twinklng Of eye or the fash
OF liehteniue America has also furnished the hero
of this cable, that is likely iil up the
measure Of ielegraphc wonder, al least, viii do
on the next trial; If then the next, for
cess IS written the brow Of
CYRUS W. FIELD.
Who is Cyrus W. Field? He was merchant. he
is the son of Congregational clergyman, and was
born in Stockbriige, Massachusetts. the S0th Of
November. 1919 and IS consequently now forty
wears Of age He is younger brother Of David Dud-
lev Field celebrated jurst. who has made national
reputation. This younger brother Cyrus, has made
world wide reputation, and his renown will be in III
scrbei On monuments erected in all the continents.
At fifteen wears OF age lie found his New York
where in few years he fought his way up from
clerkshp the head OF large and prosperous mer-
camille house. Such was his success that in 1883
when only fcrtvfour years of age he thought he had
accumulated enough, and retired +com business. He
spent SIX months travelling in South America, and
his found possessed with the project
of elt graph the ocean. He first thought Of
line between St JaDlfS ana tape III view roHui-
lani, but the project grew upon him until he could
stop nothing short Of shing teegraphie
rnunca ton between Europe and America, by cable
stretching from New Foun Hand to ireland To 1854
he obtained "A charter from the legislature of New
Fuuniland conveying the exclusive right for hall
century. lie associated himself with Peter Cooper,
NJ T. ylor and others Of New York, under the title
of the New York. New Founiand aud London Tele
graph Company" In 1896 he organized the ATTAIN
tic Telegraph Company" to continue line he had
built in the waters New Founjsnd ireland, and
procured from both tile English and American gov
ernments aid in money and ships.
lie made the first attempt lay the great cable in
1897. 1t cooled halt on board the United States
steamship Niagara and hall the British steamer
Agamummon They began TO lay it in mid ocean on
the 26th OF June, the Niagara proceeding toward
America and the A9amemnon toward ireland. After
the ire had broken three times, the attempt Civ
mp.
In the following August it renewed on differ
ent PLAN the shore eai was made fast at Vaen:ia
Bay, ana tue Niagara began paving the 9Th the
Agamemnnn to begin where the Niagara had
haustsd her end Of the cable. On the Ilth, when
three hundred and thirty five miles had been laid the
cable broke again.
The third attempt made with the vessels
! in 1853 The ends Of the cable were Joined in mid
the 29t of July, and on the 9th Of August
the ships arrived simultaneously their respec
tive places Of destination. Fora fe. days conversa
ton held across the ocean, President buchanan
and Queen Victoria exchanged friendly salutstions
and the people Wild with rejocings. \ few brief
bulletins from the mythical Desaucy and the electric
current became feeble, few faint quiverings termn-
ating the connection. Some at the bottom of
the sea had destroyed the Insulation.
But Cyrus W Field, almost alone of all the world
still had hope and faith because he alone had devoted
his whole thought the subject and knowing cause
of failure lie had doubt but they could be entirely
removed
He had proved that cable could be laid along the
bottom Of the for 1900 miles. and thus tie
main point gained. 1t only remained to remedy the
defects in the construction of the cable, perfect the
machinery for paving out, and the work would be
compshed.
! Accordingly, on the 21st Of JAY. 1865, he sailed
again from yalentia Bay, paying the costly rope
yer the stern OF ths IreIt Eastern ship the
der of the hour, but though failure for the purpose
for whichit was built, seemed to be just suited
this object. When the voyage about half made,
the new cable broke, aud though they grappled il
three times, in depth Of and half miles, they
had no rope, strong enough to bring ii board Il
abandoned for that year. but for all time, be-
cause each of four successive failures had and
assured Mr.. Field, that practicable
! and would lie certain. Each cable has been
great improvement The preceding, and even the pre-
sent should fail, it will only tell Mr.. Field wha.
further Improvement % make.
The cable OF 1858 capable of strain Of
three tuns and could I'VE miles OF length
in water The present bear strain of eight
twelve miles Of its own length Then slight
defect insaI4tinniw fatal now, great has been
the Improvement IN Geographic instruments that the
connection be maintained through a submarine
aIe with foot of its copper conductors stripped
bare TO tie
AMI there She Is, lyag all along the bottom OF .he
great deep, Beneath the of the sharks and all
i other monsters, excepting those OF the biped
rietr no think Only for mischief. Should il be
permanent success il viii doubtless be recognized By
international treaties aud section viii be ai9ed
10 inierua iora for5iiain begereuts break
ing the great connection