Year: 1865

positors in the country to be placed in bank
to the credit of the senders.


REMOVAL OF SIMON DRAPER.


New YORK, August 10.


There is much talk in public circles con-
corning the removal of Simon Draper from
the Custom House. Nothing authoritative
is known, bat it is generally understood to
have been for political reasons.


THE CABLE.


The London Times Valentis correspon-
dent gives the following in reference to the
accident to the cable on the 29th. It was
not defective insulation which was then
discovered st Vslentis, but a total loss of
insulation. In other words, either the cop
per conductor had been stripped of its out
side protection, and was communicating
with the water, or the cable had been cut
or broken. The Admiralty chart of the
bottom of the Atlantic, constructed from
soundings especially made to forward this
great undertaking, shows the distance from
band, where the Great Eastern then lay, to
have been 1900 fathoms of water, that is
allowing for slack little mure than tuo
miles. The enormous pressure of friction
on the saturated hemp covering the line at
this depth would render it difficult matter
to wind in this length, as it could not
be done at sll in less than twelve hours.
1t is most certain that it could not be
done at all had the cable been SO injured as
to leave its conductor bare. A fault could
not have occurred is sufficiently evident
blythe fact that the fault whatever it was,
was repaired in little more than half the
time that it would have taken to haul back
the cable, supposing current to have
occurred to the portion submerged, and
even close at hand. It Is therefore con-
jectured, with the utmost appearance of
probability, that the fault was caused by 8
kink, which having been seen to pass in
paying out of the machine, the vessel
was instantly stopped, the kink extricated,
and piece cut out and new splice made.


This theory is borne out by the fact that
the time consumed in repairing the scci-
dent, which is the known cessation of sig
mails, is almost to the minute equal to the
time that would be required to make
test of such splice on board the Great
Eastern. Those in charge there knowing
sll was right behind them and that ti1ae
was Of vital Importance, would not be
likely to waste it by putting several ends
of wires in communication with the in
struments at Vslentia, while electricians
st the latter station could send no response
through the cable, but on the contrary
there was total loss of insulation.


The intelligence we publish from the
Great Eastern to day is more hopeful for
thesuccess of the undertaking than appears
on the face of it. Nine hundred miles
have been paid out, which means not only
that the after tank is empty, which kept
her too heavily down by the stern and so
seriously impeded her speed, but that the
progress of the cable from the stern-tAnk
TO that forward has been successfully &c
complished and is now fast tightening the
vessel, also the sfter-most tank held $50
miles of cable and 45O tons of weight.


The Hersld's special from Hearts Con-
tent 14!h, says:


The Captain of the Terrible informed
the Captain of the First Fruit that the
cable parted on the 2Oth, and that buoy
was the mark where the cable was seen.
The Captain Of the schooner was not GER
tain Of the location of the buoy, having
had no observations for several days. We
do not give up the expedition as q failure,
as when last seen she was endeavoring 10
discover the location of the buoy, showing
they had not abandoned all hope of event
ually laying the cable. Mr.. Msckey, Su-
perintendent of the Newfoundland line,
is yet hopeful that the Great Eastern will
arrive in few days with the cable all
right. Ieannot describe the deep feeling
sf disappointment which prevails among
people in general The general feeling is
that the Atlantic cable ia a thing never to
be successfully accomplished.


At the time of the cable breaking, it was
coo miles distant from the coast of New
foundlsnd, and this vessel, which arrived
at HsrbOr Grace last Fridsy, reports thAt
she saw, four days previously, large buoy
two miles distant from the vessel. The
captain Of the First Fruit reports that he
asked the Terrible whether they considered
the cable recoverable. The answer was,
"Could not ssy."