Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-09-15
The Ocean Telegraph.

The triumphs of electricity over time and dis
tance of which the success of the Atlantic Ca
BILE furnishes the most impressive illustration re-
calls to mind the following lines, written by Rev
John Pierpont during the Presidency of General
Taylor:
"The warrior statesman laying down his pen,
Retres to bed in Washington at ten;
The lightning courier leaps along the line
And At st. Louis tells the tale at nine;
IIalting a thousand miles whence he departed,
And getting there an hour bef,re he started"
The New York correspondent of the Sacramen-
to Union reproduces from the Independent, of
that city, the following vivid picture of the first
message from Egypt to America
"On Monday, July 3Oth, Cyrus ". Field re-
ceived message of cnngratulation from Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps, the protector of the Suez Ca
nal 1t was dated at Alexandria, in Egypt, the
same day. at half past one oclock, P. M, and re-
ceiyed in Newfoundland at half past ten, A. NJ
Let one look at the globe and see over what
space that message few 1t came from the fur
thest East from the land of the Pharaohs and
the Ptolemes it passed along the shores OF Al
rica and under the Mediterranean, more than a
thousand miles, to Malta thence it lsaped to the
continent and shot across Italy and over the
Alps, and through France, under the Channel to
London then across England and Ireland, till
the Atlantic darting down the submarine noun
tain which lies off the coast, and over the hills
and valleys of the watery plain, resting not till
it touched the shore of the New World. In this
mornings flight it had passed over one-fourth OF
the earths surface, and so far outstrpped the
sun in his that it reached its destination
three hours before it was sent. Who can say
that the age of miracles is past?'
The laying of the first Atlantic Cable brought
from the pen of John G. SAKE the following bal
lad in praise of the d" courage, faith and zeal y
of the protector. The eulogy is now better de-
served than ever. Verify, "poetry is prophe-
cy" and few changes required to adapt the
lines to the las. and great success of the most
stupendous of modern miracles
HOW CYRUS LAID TIE CABLE
Come listen all unto my song
1t is silly fable;
Tis all about the mighty cord
They call the Atlantic Cable.
Brave Cyrus Field, he said says he,
i have pretty notion,
That n telegraph
Across the Atlantic Ocean.
Then all the people laughed and said:
They'd like to him do iti
lie might get halfsca50yer, but
He could 50 through it,
To carry his foolish plan
lie never wonId be able
But Cyrus was a valiant man,
A fellow Of decision
And needed not their mocking words,
Their laughter and derision.
Twice did his bravest efforts fall
And yet his mind was stable
He want the man 10 break his heart,
Because he broke the Cablei
Once morc my gallant boys he cried;
Three tmes!-you know the fable -
Qll make it thirty. muttered he,
But will lay the CabeD
Once they tried-hurrah! hurrah
What this great commotion!
The Lord lie praiscd-the Cables laid
Across the Atlantic Ocean,
Loud ring the bells for flashing through
Six hundred leagues of water,
Old Mother Engand's beniZon
Salutcs her elaest daughter.
Now long lire President and Queen;
And long live gallant Cyrus
And may his courage faith and zeal
With emulation fire
And may honor evermOre
The manly, bold and stable
And tell to make them brave,
How Cyrus laid his Cable!