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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): article 1
tions which have enabled it to hold out so long were originally constructed by the United States Government. If that were true, it does not much help the matter, for the strongest of those fortifications (Fort Sumter) was taken by General Beauregard in a few hours, whereas the United States required four years to retake it; and could not have taken it then, and never could have taken it, but for the evacuation of the city, in consequence of the unobstructed march of General Sherman through Georgia. And, after all, the Yankees taking Charleston, or taking Savannah, or taking any other city or section of the Southern Confederacy, is only doing, with a great amount of fuss and bloodshed, what they had done quietly and more effectually before the war by the peaceful methods of trade and commerce. Not only Charleston, but the whole South, was taken a good many years ago, and to some purpose, when tariffs, coasting laws and bounties rendered every slaveholding State tributary to Nort
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): article 1
The jubilation of the enemy over the fall of the little city of Charleston (a place which would scarcely make a good-size ward of the city of New York), after a siege of four years, and an over-whelming preponderance of land and naval forces, is equal to that of the French when Napoleon, with thirty five thousand ragamuffins, whipped the whole of Europe. As the little Confederate bantam lies in the pit, "its back to the earth and its face to the sky, " the great, big, unconquerable roosters, gobblers, eagles, vultures, and birds of every race, who have at last brought down the game little chicken, rend the air with their triumphant cries. They crowd round the diminutive carcase, turn it over and rip it open to see what it has got in its crop, and generally agree that such a terrifically sublime achievement as the subjugation of that small bird was unparalleled in war. After this, let the Czar look to Cronstadt and England to Gibraltar. If it requires only four years to take C
United States (United States) (search for this): article 1
the all- conquering American nation? A Northern journal, somewhat envious of the glory which the diminutive seaport of Charleston has obtained, endeavors to detract from its merits by saying that the fortifications which have enabled it to hold out so long were originally constructed by the United States Government. If that were true, it does not much help the matter, for the strongest of those fortifications (Fort Sumter) was taken by General Beauregard in a few hours, whereas the United States required four years to retake it; and could not have taken it then, and never could have taken it, but for the evacuation of the city, in consequence of the unobstructed march of General Sherman through Georgia. And, after all, the Yankees taking Charleston, or taking Savannah, or taking any other city or section of the Southern Confederacy, is only doing, with a great amount of fuss and bloodshed, what they had done quietly and more effectually before the war by the peaceful method
Cronstadt (Russia) (search for this): article 1
the earth and its face to the sky, " the great, big, unconquerable roosters, gobblers, eagles, vultures, and birds of every race, who have at last brought down the game little chicken, rend the air with their triumphant cries. They crowd round the diminutive carcase, turn it over and rip it open to see what it has got in its crop, and generally agree that such a terrifically sublime achievement as the subjugation of that small bird was unparalleled in war. After this, let the Czar look to Cronstadt and England to Gibraltar. If it requires only four years to take Charleston, how long could any stronghold of Europe resist the great and invincible fleets and armies of the all- conquering American nation? A Northern journal, somewhat envious of the glory which the diminutive seaport of Charleston has obtained, endeavors to detract from its merits by saying that the fortifications which have enabled it to hold out so long were originally constructed by the United States Government.
1856 AD (search for this): article 3
of landing cables on the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, without any conditions as to the time within which this right was to be exercised. This exclusive right of landing cables on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was transferred in 1856 to the projectors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company upon the condition that it should be exercised before 1862. The Company obtained from the British Government in 1856, as well as from the American Government, a grant of £14,000, conditional upo1856, as well as from the American Government, a grant of £14,000, conditional upon success, and pledged themselves that the first attempt to lay the cable should be made in 1857. It is believed that the disasters of the company are traceable to this pledge. The cable was hastily constructed in order to be ready in time, and without the aid of carefully-devised experiments. The break machinery was novel and cumbrous. The whole thing was done in a hurry. The United States ship Niagara and the British ship Agamemnon started together with the cable from Valentia on the 7th
1851 AD (search for this): article 3
the copper wires was in perfect condition. This line, of not quite twenty-six miles in length, was followed by other and more important enterprises. Between 1851 and 1853, lines were laid between England and Ireland, and England and Belgium. In 1853, the Electric and International Telegraph Company laid a submarine telegra had been already in contemplation. The leading facts of this most remarkable enterprise are set forth in evidence taken by the Submarine Telegraph Committee. In 1851, a Mr. Tibbet, of New York, and a Mr. Gasbome, an English engineer, devised the plan of shortening the communication between America and Europe by making St. John's, Newfoundland, a port of call for Atlantic steamers, and constructing a telegraph from thence to join the American lines. These gentlemen obtained in 1851 an act of the Legislature of New found land for this purpose, which act also conferred certain exclusive privileges; but having got into difficulties without fulfilling the t
1850 AD (search for this): article 3
The question of Ocean Telegraphy, which has been for some time in abeyance, is undergoing at this time another attempt at solution by British enterprise. Of the principles and manner on which this new effort is being made, we have little information in this blockaded region. It may not be uninteresting, in this connection, to give a brief sketch of ocean telegraphy. In 1850, an unsuccessful attempt was made to connect England and France by a submarine telegraph. A vessel bearing a copper wire inclosed in gutta-percha, intended for this purpose, started from Dover and succeeded in paying out the wire and conveying the other end to the French coast. The printing instrument was attached, and several communications exchanged between England and France; but the next morning communications ceased, and it was evident that the insulation was destroyed. It was found that the wire had been snapped asunder, constructed, as it was, without any power of resistance to the action of
1862 AD (search for this): article 3
The act of incorporation of this company was passed in 1854, and gave them, amongst other privileges, the exclusive right for fifty years of landing cables on the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, without any conditions as to the time within which this right was to be exercised. This exclusive right of landing cables on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was transferred in 1856 to the projectors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company upon the condition that it should be exercised before 1862. The Company obtained from the British Government in 1856, as well as from the American Government, a grant of £14,000, conditional upon success, and pledged themselves that the first attempt to lay the cable should be made in 1857. It is believed that the disasters of the company are traceable to this pledge. The cable was hastily constructed in order to be ready in time, and without the aid of carefully-devised experiments. The break machinery was novel and cumbrous. The whole thing wa
1857 AD (search for this): article 3
e time within which this right was to be exercised. This exclusive right of landing cables on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador was transferred in 1856 to the projectors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company upon the condition that it should be exercised before 1862. The Company obtained from the British Government in 1856, as well as from the American Government, a grant of £14,000, conditional upon success, and pledged themselves that the first attempt to lay the cable should be made in 1857. It is believed that the disasters of the company are traceable to this pledge. The cable was hastily constructed in order to be ready in time, and without the aid of carefully-devised experiments. The break machinery was novel and cumbrous. The whole thing was done in a hurry. The United States ship Niagara and the British ship Agamemnon started together with the cable from Valentia on the 7th of August, 1857, with the intention of laying it across to Newfoundland, in accordance with a
1855 AD (search for this): article 3
ing the copper wires was in perfect condition. This line, of not quite twenty-six miles in length, was followed by other and more important enterprises. Between 1851 and 1853, lines were laid between England and Ireland, and England and Belgium. In 1853, the Electric and International Telegraph Company laid a submarine telegraph, one hundred and fifty-five miles in length, from Oxfordness to Schevening, in Holland. These lines were all comparatively short and in shallow water, but, in 1855, the requirements of the war in the Crimea led to the construction of a line between Balaklava and Varna, from which may be dated a new era in Ocean Telegraphy. This line was three hundred and ten miles long, and served, to some extent, as a basis for ascertaining the law which governs the retardation of the electric current in long lines of submarine telegraph. Three hundred miles of the cable consisted of a copper wire, covered with gutta percha, entirely unprotected, and ten miles from
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