The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-03
TIE NEW ATLANTIC cAa1r.-The followin

The NEW ATLANTIC CAR1E.-The following
from the Pail Mall Gazette will be read with
interest by our merchants:
AS the Moniteur has now confirmed in ON
official manner the statement Of concession
ofthe right Of laying down submarine te!e,
graph cable between Brest and the United
States, it may be worth while to mention few
of the particulars of this enterprise. a cor
responding concession has been granted by the
State of New York, AMI the cable will BE- laid
direct from Brest to New York city. This con-
cessionis understood to be- an exclusive one
on the French side, at any rate-for twenty
years. The grounds upon which the projectors
have found favor with the French and New
York State governments have been, chiefly,
that the proposed cable will obviate the circui-
ty and delay incident to the present line, and
win also lessen the existing liability to casualttes.
BY the oalY route We now have, not less than
four submarine cables have to be employed,
while the electric fluid has to operfprm four land
journeys alsobesore amessage can bebent from
tae Continent of Europe to New York. There
intervenes41, the North Sea, or the English
Channel; 2sthe Irish Sea; 8, the Atlantic; 4,
the sea between Newfoundland and the Ameri-
can Continent; while the wires have also to be
carried across England, Ireland, Newfound-
land, and, Lastly, from the the s solst 81 British aaa
haps, surprising that with this circmty mes
ssgee are sent from Europe to the United
States as quickly as they are; but there is no
doubt that communication will be very much
ac .elerated II, as is said, merchant or bro
ker at Paris 1in be able literally to speak into
New York. It may possibly ne q sanguine
calculation that messages between those cities
may then be sent and answered N half an hour,
and that messages may be sent from Berlin
or Frankfort to New York and answered within
an hour: but the difference Of time must obvi-
ously be very great. It is thought, also, that
the directpess and simplicity of this route will
very much diminish the chances ofcommunica-
lion with America being from time to time put
out Of gear, Ocean. .telegraphy has now been car.
ried TO such perfection that there is more fear
Of mishap by land than BY sea; and, 10 point
of fact, during the last two winters, when We
have several times been alarmed by q stoppage
of messages, the explanation has In each case
been that storms had blown down the land tel;
eeraphs, sometimes in Newfoundland, sonne-
times on the American mainland From this
danger, whatever it may amount TO, the new
line will be exempt. As the capital it will rep
resent will, il is stated, be only one million
pounds, and as the working expenses, with
only two stations lat Brest and at New York)
ought to be very small, it is probable that this
project will bring the luxury Of telegrapEing
across the Atlantic within the reach OF persons
of yery moderate means. A cable laid acroes
the English Channel, from Falmouth to BreHt
Would also give us the benefit of II. 1t is un-
derstood that the new Atlantic cable will be
ready for laying next June.