Year: 1865

Al eheJ hpprOacneQ WITHIN tnIrtl


feet OF the stockade they would be shot BY
} the guards upon the outside. This line O
thirty feet was unmarked by any line what


ever and it was left to the arbitrary deter


minatlon Of the men on guard, the majority
J OF whom we're as incapable of judging thil
distance of thirty feet as were the prisoners


who were doomed to death if shev trans.


gressed. A short distance frsm the stock.


sde was filed where the remains of dead


prisoners were supposed to be buried) to


the number of Il. 800. Three months ago,


at least one-tenth of the whole number there


lying were exposed-the dirt, which had


carelessly been thrown upon them, having


settled or washed away, while the legs are


Protruding.


THE CABLE.


NEW YORK, August I.


A ValeRtia correspondent of the London


Times gives the following account of the


LANDING Of the shere end of the Cable -


The landing of the shore end of the Gable


was begun soon after 8 o'clock on the


morning of the 22d, and the sight was in


terestiDg- Some six or eight hundred


yards from the shore an unbroken line of


boatsa was formed Each arrived with q
crew Of picked boatnen from all the
neighbOriDg harbors and islands there
under the direction and guidance of expert
enced cable men, who, in detached cutters
aud gigs commanded up and down the
line. The first few lengths we're soon got
out, but dragging its po7d derous mass along
the draft was slow and lsborious, and it
only came out foot by foot, although three
or four hundred powerful men were pull
ing on it. It took nearly two hours to pass
over the ring boats, and by that time the
rugged cliffs were thronged by pesssntry,
who not only occupied the steep pass, but
perched on the little juts and points where
any foothold was to be gained, and often
standing on the most precsrious places.
As it happened the interest of the islanders
wssrather rrematurely evinced. Not only
had the cable to be tsnked, but miles were
to be hauled on it to pass up the cliff and
across q couple of fields which led to the
tele graph house. No sooner was the first
of the end of the cable run near them than
q wild hurrRh arose from those on shore
who saw it coming. With contagion char
acteristic of people the enthusiasm passed
rapidly downward from those on the cliffs
to groups on the winding paths and thence
into the cable boats who joined themselves
in shouting. Concluding their work well
done, they at once proceeded to hesve the
massive rope into the sea, every fathom
up to the stern of the Caroline was thrown
over, and the result of this enthusiasm was
that every foot had to be under.run pre-
pArstOry to the whole operation beginning
again. It took SOON time to effect this,
during which time the Irish were silent
and felt very dispiritsd and promised to
refrain from cheering until sll was done,
promise which they kept faithfully. When
the cable had been under-run, and hauled
into the boats again, and the end really be-
gan to inland, al d was slowed away at the
foot of the cliff, the scene was one of real
animation. By IL o'clock the cable was
well up in the groove which had been cut
in the face of the rock for it's ranantinn. and
from this point the work of carrying it, in
massive coils, across the meadows to the
receiving house beyond, was soon accom-
plished, and at little before l o'clock the
end, taken over roads, hedges and bitches,
was all safely housed in the coiling room
here. Batteries were at once applied and
showed both eonductivity and insulation to
the last fathom in the hold on the Caro-
line to be perfect and no sooner was this
fact sscertsined than the Hawk took the
Caroline in tow, while the rest of the
cable was paid out to the sea amid the
most earnest cheers from the crowd. Both
vessels started on their short course, and at
the same time in the testing-room of the re-
the Knight of Kerry and
Sir Robert Peel offered their warm con-
gratulaiions to Mr.. Glass on the success so
far achieved.


The same correspondent writing on the |
24th says: It was after 4 o'clock in the sf- |
ternoon when the last of the tests were con-
cluded. All signals from end to end of the
wire were quite distinct into the room of
the receiving-house. At 4;3O the flags on
board the Caroline and Great Eastern were
hauled down to show that all was ready. |
By that time the Great Eastern, which had |
always kept moving at intervals, had
forged ahead of the Caroline some two or
three miles, paying out the cable slowly
only to float by, while one portion of the
wire WAS kept above water.


The instant the flags went down the
last fastenings which held it to the Caro-
line were cast sdrift and with a great
splash the final joint of the Atlantic tele-
graph and first thirty miles of its length
went down slowly into the blue waters.
Sir Robert Peel and Sir John Haiti had
on board the Hawk, which at
once steamed away, when the splice was
turned sdrift, to meet the Great Eastern.
This was easily done, while the latter wss
barely stesming five knots an hour and
the former running IA. AS the tender came
near the narrow nape of cable, it could be
seen passing over the last wheel astern and
sinking quietly into the foam without
strain of any kind, and seemed for mo-
ment 10 float slowly aft before it DISAPPEARED
in the swell that kept rolling deeply after.
The Great Eastern fred two guns from
boats at $50, to mark the commencement
of the journey, and Sir Robert Peel, mount
ing to the quarter deck of the Hawk, mark
ed time, while three small but earnest cheers
were given by the company on board
for the successful completion of the great
enterprise. In return came back, swelling,
the hearty roar from all on the csble-ship,
as with the lsst salute of hats and hsndker.
chiefs the tender dropped sstern, leaving
the Great Eastern dipping slowly but stead
lily ahead at the rate of about six knots per
hour.


GENERAL J. A. HAsKIN.


WAsHNGToE, August Z.


Brigadier General j. A. Hsskin is as
signed to the command of all troops serV-