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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
209
August
twenty-seventh,
comes
a
still
longer
despatch,
which
we
give
in
full:
"George
Saward,
Secretary
Atlantic
Telegraph
Company,
to
Associated
Press,
New
York.
News
for
America
by
Atlantic
cable.
Emperor
of
France
returned
to
Paris,
Saturday.
King
of
Prussia
too
ill
to
visit
Queen
Victoria.
Her
Majesty
returns
to
England
thirtieth
of
August.--St.
Petersburg,
twenty-first
of
August.
Settlement
of
Chinese
question.
Chinese
empire
opened
to
trade;
Christian
religion
allowed;
foreign
diplomatic
agents
admitted;
indemnity
to
England
and
France.--Alexandria,
August
ninth.
The
Madras
arrived
at
Suez
seventh
inst.
Dates
Bombay
to
the
nineteenth;
Aden,
thirty-first.
Gwalior
insurgent
army
broken
up.
All
India
becoming
tranquil."
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."
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