The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-11
Cyrus W. Fields silver Cable weddIns.

NEw YoRE, March lO.-oyer one thous
and guests responded, this evening, /
invitations issued by Cyrus W. Field L
celebrate the silver wedding OF the incep
ton otthe enterprise, by which Europ
and America were linked together by tn,
Atlantic cable.
His house, on Gramercy Park, wa
opened at o o'clock, and the drawing
rooms were thronged With pro minen
men Of the country, statesmen, scholars
divines, men Of letters, diplomats, and
army and navy officers.
Among the many distinguished persons
present were: The British and Russian
Ministers. Wm. N. Evarts, Rev. Noah
Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. DR.. Buding'
ton, Rev. y. II, Chaplin, Rev. DR.. 0sgood,
Thurlow Weed, ex-Governor Rice, (ol
Mass.) Ex-Governor HartrHnt, Henry
Watterson, Louisville, Whitelaw Ried,
Robert NJ. Pulsifer, Boston Herald.
Horace White, De Zamacoma, Mexican
Minister, Ex-Governor Morgan, ex-Gover-
nor Jewett, General Anson Stager, F. W.
T. Barnard, President OF the Columbia
College, General Clinton B. Fisk, c. p.
Huntington, Admiral Warden, Edward S.
Pierrepont, John Eaton, U. S. Commis-
sioner Of Education, ex-Secretary McCul-
loct, ex-Secretary Bristow, Mayor Coop
er, President Chadbourne, OF VIII
liams' College, Abram s. Hewitt,
Collector John Merritt and David Davis,
Ex-Governor Tlden, Stewart L. Woodford
and Col. VIM. Grosvenor, Senator ALI.
son OF Iowa, Mayor Latrobe Of Baltimore,
DR.. Agnew, ]. Fl. Wade OF Cleveland,
Gen. Hancock, Rear Admiral Trenchard,
Commodore Nicholson, John W. Garrett,
and Senators Anthony and Burnside.
Mr.. Field, during the course OF his re-
marks, said: To-day there are over 7O..
900 miles OF cable crossing seas and oceans,
and as II 1t were not enough to have mes
sages sent with the speed Of lightning they
must be sent in opposite directions at the
same moment have just received q tel.
egram from Valentia, Ireland, which
readsi tThis anniversary witnesses the
duplex working across the Atlantic as an
accomplished fact by which capacity all
our ocean cables were doubled. One thing
only remains which l hope to be spared
to see, and in which ! hope to take a
part, the laying Of a cable from San Frvn.
cisco TO the Sandwich Islands, for which
have received this very day concessions
from King kalakaua, by his Minister,
who is hero tonight, and from thence to
Japan, by which the Island groups OF the
Pacific may be brought into communica.
ton with the continent on either side,
Asia and America, thus completing the
circuit of the globe.
Congratulatory dispatches were received
by cable from Minister Welch, Dean Stan.
ley, Sir Wm. Thompson, Sir Samuel Con.
ming, Sir, James Anderson, Sir Daniel
GooCh, John Fender, Henry Weaver, j.
s. Morgan, DR.. Stephen, Postmaster
General OF Germany, DR.. Lasard, Mana.
ger Of the German Union Telegraph Com.
pany, and Sir Anthony Musgrove, Cover.
nor OF Jamaica.
Similar kilograms and letters were read
from President Hayes, members OF the
Cabinet and Congress, Sir Hugh Allan,
President of the Montreal Telegraph Co.,
ex.GOv. Stanford OF California, General
Sherman, Admiral Porter, VIM. E. Ever
EFT, VIM. Lloyd. Garrison, Rev. DR.. Bel
lews, the Marquis Of Lorne and Sir John
A. Macdonald.
This ended perhaps the most brilliant
reception ever given in New York.