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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 15: camp Floyd. (search)
ation would have carried it down the Provo River to the bench-lands of the valley, and thence with the main trunk south of the lake, and with a branch to Salt Lake City. General Johnston bore with some impatience the political arrangements that kept him in Utah. He found the climate healthful but disagreeable, and the separation from his family and social isolation very irksome. Though he could not express these feelings to his superiors, he did to the writer occasionally. Writing August 5, 1858, he says: I shall be obliged to remain here another winter, at least. We cannot avoid our destiny; so I will try to be contented, and hope always. This is the most sterile country I have ever seen or imagined. Again, September 15th, he says: I bear my exile here badly. My philosophy sometimes gives way. I try to be content, and hope for better times. Finally his request to be relieved was granted, and on February 29, 1860, he turned over his command to Colonel Smith. Gladly obeying
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Atlantic Telegraph. (search)
, the attempt failed, but was successful the following year. Two vessels, with portions of the cable. met in mid-ocean. July 28, 1858. The portions were spliced. and they sailed for Ireland and Newfoundland respectively. and succeeded in laying a continuous line across the Atlantic. It was 1,950 miles in length, and traversed water two-thirds of the distance over 2 miles in depth. These wonderful facts were communicated by Mr. Field, by telegram, from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, on Aug. 5, 1858, and created intense interest all over the country. The first public messages across the Atlantic were transmitted, Aug. 16, 1858. by Queen Victoria to President Buchanan, and by him in an immediate reply. in which they congratulated each other on the success of the enterprise by which the two countries were connected by such a mysterious tie. The Queen hoped that it would prove an additional link between the nations, whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and recipro
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
nd treaty with China of peace, amity, and commerce......June 18, 1858 Debates in the senatorial contest in Illinois between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during......June and July, 1858 Remains of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, buried at New York, 1831, taken up and conveyed to Virginia......July 2, 1858 Lecompton constitution for Kansas rejected by the people of Kansas, 11,088 to 1,788......Aug. 2, 1858 Atlantic submarine telegraph completed......Aug. 5, 1858 First message from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan......Aug. 16, 1858 [After twenty-three days, 400 messages having been transmitted, the cable lost its conducting power.] Seizure of the Echo, a slaver, with 318 slaves, by the United States brig Dolphin, Lieut. John H. Maffit commanding......Aug. 21, 1858 Fifteen hundred United States troops leave Fort Laramie for the suppression of Mormon troubles in Utah......September, 1858 Crystal Palace burned in New York......Oct. 5
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
rvivor of Washington's Lifeguard, Sergeant Uzel Knapp, dies, aged ninety-seven, at New Windsor, Orange county......Jan. 11, 1856 St. Lawrence University, Canton, St. Lawrence county, incorporated......April 3, 1856 Dudley observatory built at Albany......1856 Failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company in New York; a commercial panic spreads throughout the United States......Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph......Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elected governor......1858 M. Blondin (Émile Gravelet) crosses the Niagara River, just below the Falls, for the first time on a tight-rope......June 30, 1859 Washington Irving, born in New York City in 1783, dies at Tarrytown, N. Y.......Nov. 28, 1859 Population of the State, 3,880,735......1860 Erie Canal enlargement completed; entire cost, $52,491,915.74......1862 Horatio Seymour, Democrat, elected governor......November, 1862 Manhattan
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
th a plan which necessitated the junction of the two sections of the cable in mid ocean as soon as one vessel had paid out its cargo, whatever the weather might be. After paying out about three hundred and thirty-five miles, the cable broke on the 11th of August in two thousand fathoms of water. The expedition then returned to Plymouth. The vessels started again from Cork on the 17th of July, 1858, and accomplished the laying of the cable between Newfoundland and Valentia on the 5th of August, 1858, with apparently complete success. From the landing of the cable till five days thereafter, mere indications of signals were received, although signals were being regularly sent. On the fifth day, strong induction coils having been applied at Newfoundland, the signals were easily read. The first words were, "Please repeat power."--The Queen's message to the President occupied sixteen hours in transmitting, which is explained by its having been stopped in the middle during some opera