The Story of the Atlantic TelegraphField, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Transatlantic cables
This despatch embodies about a dozen distinct items of news, not one of
which could be known without a telegraphic communication. The whole was
received in New York, and published in the evening papers _the same
day_.
Not to be outdone in giving news, the next day, Saturday, August
twenty-eighth, Newfoundland thus replies to Valentia:
"To the Directors: Take news first, Saward. Sir William
Williams, of Kars, arrived Halifax Tuesday. Enthusiastically
received. Immense procession--welcome address--feeling reply.
Held levee--large number presented. Niagara sailed for
Liverpool at one this morning. The Gorgon arrived at Halifax
last night. Yellow fever in New Orleans, sixty to seventy
deaths per day. Also declared epidemic, Charleston. Great
preparations in New York and other places for celebration, to
be held the first and second of September. New Yorkers will
make it the greatest gala-day ever known in this country.
Hermann sailed for Fraser's River; six hundred passengers.
Prince Albert sailed yesterday for Galway. Arabia and Ariel
arrived New York; Anglo Saxon, Quebec; Canada, Boston. Europa
left St. John's this morning. Splendid aurora Bay of Bulls
to-night, extending over eighty-five degrees of the horizon."
Let any one read this despatch, sentence by sentence, noting the
minuteness of the details--which could not be known or conjectured--such
as the appearance of yellow fever at New Orleans, with the number of
deaths a day; the sailing or arrival of seven steamers; the number of
passengers for Fraser's River, etc.--and then examine the London Times,
in which all these items appeared Monday morning, August thirtieth, and
if he does not admit that collusion or deception is out of the question,
no amount of evidence could convince him.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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