SUCCESS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA AND GORGON AT
TRINITY BAY.
1950 STATUTE MILES LONG.
NOT A SINGLE BREAK!
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE IS LANDING.
And its leading editorial of the same day said:
“Such is the startling intelligence which reaches us just as we are going to press. We find it difficult to believe the report, for recent events have prepared us for a very different result, and yet the despatch comes to us through our regular agent, who would not deceive us. He may have been imposed upon, but that is quite unlikely. If the few coming hours shall confirm the inspiring tidings and the cable is landed and in working condition, all other events that may happen through the world on this day will be trifles.
“To-morrow the hearts of the civilized world will beat to a single pulse, and from that time forth forevermore the continental divisions of the earth will in a measure lose those conditions of time and distance which now mark their relations one to the other. But such an event, like a dispensation of Providence, should be first contemplated in silence.”
The message for the Associated Press was:
“Trinity Bay, August 5, 1858.
“The Atlantic telegraph fleet sailed from Queenstown on Saturday, July 17th.
“They met in mid-ocean on Wednesday, the 28th, and made the splice at 1 P.M. on Thursday, the 29th. They then separated, the Agamemnon and Valorous bound to Valentia, Ireland, and the Niagara and Gorgon for this place, where they arrived yesterday.
“This morning the end of the cable will be landed.