Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — The Atlantic Cable. [ARTICLE]

The Atlantic Cable.

The statement wiih regard to the Atlantic Telegraph cable which we published yesterday from Mr. C. F. Varley, Electrician of the Electrio, and International Telegraph Company, seem to prove that the eastern half of the cable was pretty much .useless when it was laid down from the mernnon — there being many serious leaks itii it even then; that, owing to the weakness of-the currents, iio message sent from,Newfoundland to Valentia has ever been recorded .bv the instruments, the two or thr.m d ispatches transmitted being read from the .dotlections of the ga 1 variometer a lune; that, in addition to the great leak or fault some two hundred and seventy miles from Valentia, there is another quite- as serious some five hundred miles or more from that place; that the copper conductor is too small at any rate, and that the very powerful electric, currents required, both by the existence of the leaks and the smallness of the wire, must yery soon burn up the gutta-percha near every point where the water already peile- ■ trates the wire. Thus, jf Mr. Varley-is to. . be taken as authority, the cable was little! j better thati worth less when it was put dinpw and soon must be totally destroyed as a con- : ductor of electricity, by t the action of the galvanic currents constantly applied to it. It is time to begin to lay another one; but, [beforehand, we trust the company will not think it beneath them to abandon the reckless, hap-hazard method they have thus far pursued, and have the subject thoroughly investigated before setting about the work.— Neiv York Tribune. :