Orleans County Monitor

THE NEW ATLANTIC TELEGRAPHIC CABLE.

The new cable which is now being laid, is supposed to be the best ever laid, both as to durability and power of transmission. This will be the fourth cable extending between Europe and America. It has its landing on our coast near Portsmouth, N. H., and from thence runs to the extreme eastern point of Newfoundland, thence a distance of about eighteen hundred miles to the west coast of Ireland. The Faraday, a large ship constructed for the purpose of laying cables, and the Ambassador, a large ship carrying a part of the cable, have, after long delays occasioned by fogs off the coasts of Maine and Nova Scotia, succeeded in getting down the shore ends, and that part of the cable extending between the New Hampshire coast and that of the east part of Newfoundland. The cable ships will soon return to England, load the rest of the cable and lay the remaining portion. While this addition to the ocean cable is being done on the Atlantic, soundings are being made in the Pacific, and soon a cable will start from San Francisco and run out into this vast ocean to some of the islands, (perhaps the Sandwich) and from thence westward, from point to point, till the ten thousand miles are compassed, and Asia is reached. Then there will be a continuous line around the earth, and the telegraphers will have to sigh for more worlds to conquer.