midnight and noon are the same.
m
EB
the nearest European point—i. e., four
hours elapsing after mid-day in Ireland,
before mid-day in New York—we are
placed in that seemingly paradoxiea], but
in reality true and auspicious position.-—,
Hence, when the telegraph is in full ope-
ration we shall, ere noon, receive intelliy
gence 6f the closing of the London Ex-
change at four o’clock in the afternoon
of the same day. Arrangements will
doubtless be made for transmitting intel-
ligence with equal promptness from the
different capitals and various important
cities of the old world. '
To America is especially due the glory
of this invention. Professor Morse may
indeed have received a fortuitous hint, in
that memorable passage which he made
across the Atlantic nearly twenty years
ago ; but he unquestionably amplified and
improved upon it with all the inductive
power and inherent calculation of Franklin
when, standing serenely and confidently
upon earth, he calmly, by the simple in
strumentality of a kite and string brought
down the lightning from the height where
the thunder rolled. The experiment
of .the great philosopher was compar-
atively unproductive ; but that of his
modern successor has been eminently
practical, and having been first applied to
unite Baltimroe with Washington,has pro-
gressively advanced until it joins two
worlds together.
.In a commercial point of view the ef-
fect of the Ocean Telegraph will be very
important. It may, indeed, put an end
to those great speculations which have
until lately, been so largely carried on,
on both sides of the Atlantic, when twelve
(or more) days on an average separated
its shores from each other ; but it will
promote a more healthy trade. The mer-
chant will securely give his orders—the.
stockbroker and the banker will issue his
commands—with the certainty that neith-
er can be materially affected by the con-
dition of markets distant in point of posi-
tion, though no longer of space. We
niay thus no longer-have so many of those
colossal strokes by means of which for-
tunes were realized at a blow, but we
shall be free from many of those individ-
ual reverses which have hitherto followed
the arrival of almost every steamer.
~ In a moral point of view, the advan-
tages will be great. It will no longer be
in the power of the most rampant dema-
gogue, or expartiated patriot, to sever
nations which are thus closely united.—
All the ties of ,a common language, a
general affinity, and for the most part of
a, similarity in institutions, will receive
their fast and most enduring touch from
this electric wire ; and it is safe to predict
that in future it will be almost impossible
to involve the two nations in strife, when
hostilities, can be so easily averted by a
few instantaneous explanations through
the medium of the telegraph.
. An inferior consideration presents itself
but‘to the individual members of a com-
mercial community it is not of slight im-
portance. We shall I15 longer have so
many of those cases of fraud and flight
from justice, when intelligence of the fu-
gitive’s escape can be transmitted so long
in advance that his arrival may be looked
for by every steamer. In short, the ad-
vantages-now about to be opened to us
are so numerous that it is only matter of
regret that they must in the first instance
be necessarily limited. Should the ex-
periment‘be attended with that success
which many anticipate, there is no doubt
that other wires will be added, and the
cost be ultimately reduced by competition
so that we shall at least see as has been
beautifully expressed, the great event
'which we this day record, productive of
" peace on earth and good will to men.”
From the flmerican and Gazette August, 6.
- THE OLD WORLD CALLING TO THE NEW.
—-The greatest single event in the history
of civilized man has transpired within the
day on which we write. Time, and space
and all material forces, have bentlowest
and have paid their deepest homage to
intelligence—to intelligence which by this
measure of its triumphs, seems scarcely
less than supreme. The ancient geogra-
' pher drew his sketch of the Orbi Tserm-
mom in a small oval, concentric around
Greece, with Cimmerian darkness at the
west, and Ethiopian night at the east,
and to his loftiest conception there was
no transmission of intelligence other than
by the living messenger sent. Twenty-
eight centuries later, his descendant may
converse with the denizens of anew world
at his a'ntipodes, and to these colloquists
I The
' Home are no longer gods of the hours,
’Greece 1
' meats.
and times is no longer time. Terror of
How would the sages oi the
first Academy have struggled under a
problem so vast as that when day and
hight flee away, and become obsolete in
measure of time i The day is not what
'it was, and it is no longer to fix the
standard conditions controlling our move-
The periods named day and night
have become changeable and uncertain
' —-of three parties in conversation, one
' have it done at six o’clock A. II.
' may have high noon, one morning, and
the third deep night. The business they
i transact must have a place in positive
time, but which one claims the right to.
Obvi-
.. ously the sun and moon are efi‘ete, and
leaving the small system called solar, we
must mark our time, and take our guides
‘. forel
among eternal suns.
How this great fact of the hour sweeps
away the landmarks of existence hereto-
The world, as we first knew it,
bends, and moulds itself, and declares al-
legiance anew. Greatest of all is the
J ' fact that intelligence gains these triumphs
through means which we must pronounce
inadequate, by all ordinary rules of judg-
ment, and, which, when they triumph,
impress us only the more overwhelmingly
with the conviction that the ultimate
scope of the serene intelligence which lifts
'self at intervals even in humanity, is to
embrace attainments now possible only
' the Supreme.
~Iu reaching over this belt of ocean be-
tween America and England, the tele-
graph does infinitely more than is done
by traversing so much of land surface.—
Connecting two continents, as it does, it
leaves but the Pacigc ocean inaccessible
in the circuit of the "world. Nobody
doubts that a few years will see a tele-
graph line completed and in actual opera-
tion from the Mississippi to the Pacific
coast. The improvements already effect-
ed in the machinery of transmission, as-
sure us that the obstructions constant for
the past few years may be u holly remov-
' ' ed,.and the lines on land may at any time
. be kept in complete order.
We have
been out. of patience with many things
the telegraph has done, or failed to do,
but we forget that all its processes are
' still making progress towards higher ef-
,ficiency. . In this-course of progress there
" Is tO be a steady advancement, until the
'transmiss10n of intelligence becomes as
free by the telegraph line as by the pen
"of aready writer, who conveys it merely
from brain to paper under his hand.
Through thelprofound depths of the At-
lantic, words of meaning are now passing
for two thousand miles. The tcmpcsts,
which came near destroying the Agamem-
”non and its freight, may rage over the
bed of the cable for decades of years in
‘vain. If unable to restrain these materi-
.91 forces, human intelligence has sur-
i‘ou'uded them, has penetrated them, and
proves iftself superior. This conquest of
the sea is a grand and proud event, and
he whose energy won it is greater than
the ancient monarch would have been
.had he succeeded in chaining it. The
storms of the Atlantic are so terrible that
the most powerful ship only serves to show
how \veak the structures built by hands
are in the fury of winds and waves, but
now one may call to his friend through
two thousand miles of blinding Atlantic
storms, and be answered instantly. The
achievement is almost inconceivabl y great.
The aspect of the case is rightfully the
first one. It is an era and a landmark in
the march of the human race to higher
civilication, and to greater dominion over
the dead matter of the earth we inhabit
in the intervals of steps like this come the
long delays, the dull level of small difficul-
ties and small triumphs, which eke out
most of moral time. Doubtless the tele-
graph will be inefficient and perverted at
times, and perhaps we shall vote it to
cost more than it comes to—to be the
agent of unscrupulous men—to be the in-
strument of national disadvantage, and
to commit many other sins. All these
have a certain place in the greatest agen-
cies yet given to the world for its advance-
ment, and we may not hope yet to expel
them. But when intelligence first places
its living thread along two thousand miles
of the bottom of the sea, and sending lit-
eral words along this subtle mysrery, calls
the old world to the new,~,and from the
new back to the old, let us utter a few
words adequate to the occasion of so
great a triumph, and for one moment
look beyond the hackneyed business of
the hour.
From The Washingtmr Uriion.
It would seem from the telegraph an-
nouncement in another column, that the
laying of the Atlantic cable has been suc-
cessfully accomplished, and that the great-
est aud boldest project of the age has
been finally achieved. A girdle has been
put upon the ocean, and a constant stream
of intelligence, rapid as lightning, swift
as thought itself, will soon connect the
two continents with each other. Since
the discovery by Columbus, there has been
no attempt of man so audacious, no proj-
ect of science so bold, and no event in his-
tory so important, as that which we chron-
icle this morning. The mind can hardly
realize the fact of a means of instantane-
ous communication having been establish-
ed between two worlds, so long unknown
to each other, separated by waters so vast
and by perils of transit so prodigious and
proverbially formidable.
The presumption of Xerxes when he
undertook to chain the sea, and lashed it
with thongs when it refused to be bound
by his shackles; or of Canute, when he
forbade the tide to rise in his presence,
does not seem more preposterous than this
modern attempt to open the ocean with a
cable; and from none of its feats does
science rise more sublime over the pre-
sumption of ignorance than in confidently.
projecting, in perseveringly prosecuting,
and triumphantly accomplishing this most
stupendous of its undertakings.
From the News, 0.
The consummation long talked of, long
hoped for, and it is not too much to say,
long prayed for, seems at length to be re-
alized. So, at least, our telegraphic re-
ports informs us, and with a measure of
solid particularity in details which leaves
little room for rational doubt; and hence
we are bound to believe the Atlantic tel-
egraph cable has been sucgsssfully laid.
It is idle to attempt any particular es-
timate of the importance of such an event
to the nation and the world. It is noth-
ing less than the Wedding of the conti-
nents, and the bond of union and fellow-
ship between the nations.
Future generations, to the latest day
of time, will mark the year of this achieve-
ment as the brightest epoch since the
birth of the Savior, in the world’s history,
and will be compelled to chronicle its re-
sult as the most momentous in the peace-
ful and scientific solution of the problem
of Universal Brotherhood, so long discus-
sed by the utopiaus of modern reform.
If the success of this gigantic scheme is
as reported, the leaders in the enterprise
have achieved a fume little else than im-
mortal.
Tlic steed called lightning. say the fates,
Was caught in the United States ;
’Twas Franklin’s hand that caught the horse,
’Twas harnessed by Professor Morse.
But while we may rejoice to-day and in
all the fury in this modern and memora-
ble sentiment,‘we cannot forget to bestow
the largest praise upon Cyrus W. Field,
to whom more than to any or all ot-
her men, the credit of this grand achieve-
ment belougs.
A new area‘ has dawned upon the
world, ahd through the co-operation of
the only two great and free nations upon
the face of the globe. It is as if time and
space were annihilated, and the broad
Atlantic dried up. It is the completion
of a perpetual bond of union between the
Old World and the Now, as well as a
new guaranty for the integrity of our own
national confederation, through the po-
tent agency of universal sympathy and
good will.
The hearts of nations pulsate in harmo-
ny—a harmony “ never to be forgotten,”
and let us hope, “never to be broken.”
National pride and scaptious criticism
have both been employed to decry the
fact that the telegraph begins and ends
on British soil. It is true there are its
termini. There let them remain. Every
moment’s reflection will only tend to con-
vince the reflecting mind that such objec-
tions are of small consequence, and for
two reasons, among others. In the first
place, an East river ferry boat could go
and draw an anchor and destroy the ca-
ble, if necessary. In the next place, the
interests of commerce, of humanity, and
of general progress, immediately and per-
petually enlist the sympathies and en-
deavors of the nations for the preserva-
tion of the Atlantic telegraph.
The project is American. Its consum-
mation belongs to the World. It- mat-
ters not upon whose soil the consumma-
tion was achieved. It opens a new era
upon the world’s history, a. new medium
for the dissemination of democracy, a new
instrument for the promotion of universal
harmony. Let us trust we cannot be dis-
appointed in the fancied completion of
the work and rejoice in the glad tidings.
The President may now give his daily
compliments to the Queen. Let the peo-
ple ofthe two nations indulge in mutual
congratulations.
o<.
n@,John Hammond, of Bridgeport,
was walking on the railroad track in that
city yesterday morning, when the cars
come up behind him, and in moving 011'
he fell, and his right arm was crushed by
the car wheels.
«.we——
98... Henry De Corsey, a journeyman
tailor Of Hartford, was arrested and fined
yesterday for the most brutal cruelty to
. clerk of our Pilgrim boat.
his wife. He beat her with a club, and ,
disfigured her face with the heel of his;
book
deb-0W !
3%... The corner stone of the new St. ,
Patrick’s Cathedral, on 51st street and
Fifth Avenue, N. Y., was laid Sunday.
THEGAZETTE
Norwalk, Tuesday, Angus 17, less.
@THE an PRINTING Rooms or
THE GAZETTE ARE IN Woop’s New BRICK
BUILDING, IN MAIN STREET.
‘-
I. O S '.l.' '.
Our Ridgefield Carrier dropped one of his
Route Books, week before last, somewhere on
the road leading from New Canaan to Wilton.
The finder will be suitably rewarded by leav-
ing it in the possession of any subscriber
whose name is written therein.
K.->
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
On the Wing.
Having, on Tuesday morning last, de-
posited the “ better half” of us on board
the Confidence, despite the “ hazards of
Sound Navigation,” and placed those two
promising scions of the parent stem—“the
pride and hope of all the race,”—-—in charge
of their ever kind, ever watchful grand-
mamma— [Heaven bless those grand-ma-
mas! What visions of plumb cake, dough-
nuts, choicest fruits and rarest tit-bits,
cluster around their hallowed memories !
And then those little blue stockings she
used to knit, on purpose for her boy l-——
toes tipped with white, and tops corruga-
ted so as to hug, like her own dear arms,
ihe tiny little leg 1 Then, 0 bliss com-
plete, those little red mittens ! Placed
by those ever diligent hands in those lit-
tle stockings of a Christmas night ! And
then, with what transports the half-asleep,
half-aware boy, creeps from his trundle,
long before the morning stars have blush-
ed themselves colorless from the sky, and
cautiously, and with soul filled with the
dancing fragments of golden dreams,—
touches the magic garment .’ _ Oh, how we
pity the child who hath never known such
a “ ministering spirit” in his childhood l
Such memories are fraught with more
Of Heaven than any experiences of after
years. God bless those dear old Grand-
mothers, and as He tempereth the winds
to the shorn lambs, may He gently lead
and sustain their tottering steps as they
peacefully pass from earth to Heaven!
Render, if thou hast ever been blessed
with such a “ guardian angel,” thou wilt
pardon our parenthesis]
Having, as stated, disposed of all our
“ household gods,” we resigned ourself to
the watchful care of Conductor Nichols,
and Were soon safely landed in the streets
of Gotham. Here we fell in with our old
travelling companion to the NatiOnal Cap-
itol some two winters past, GEN. KEYES,
the Dry Goods Prince of 343 8th Avenue,
[Reader, if you have a suspicion that
he got off without paying for this arloer-
tiscment, just consult him on the subject
when you visit his attractive Bazaar.]
and like our departed friend Cooney, “by
the authority of the State of Connecticut,
we compil'd him” to march along with us.
His success as an advertiser has taught
great reSpect for the fear of the Editorial
tripod, consequently without ado he obey-
ed orders. We then proceeded to the
steamer Plymouth Rock, Capt. J OEI.
STONE—a gentleman whose big, noble
heart has never been touched by the pet-
rifying influences which seem to have in-
vaded his name. Here we met our fel-
low-townsmnn, C. S. Lockwood, of Skid-
dy’s Block,—“ ye happie taylore man”—-—
who, with his lady, wurc on route for Na-
hunt, to see the “ sea serpent,” and reju-
venate their health, like ourselves.
Reader, we are on our annual rumble
and complain not if our pen rambles with
us. In travelling one sees strange sights,
and odd fancies will pop into the mind ;
at least they always did into ours, and
everybody knows how much more humane
and comfortable even, it is to jot them
down than to strangle them at birth.
One single cup of the Steamer’s tea filled
our cranny as full of strange couceits,
grotesque images and living phantasies,
as ever the berth of a north river tow-
boat was filled with other living things,
and If like the literary woman,'we had
only got up and “ put them down on pa-
per,” our letter would have stripped eve-
ry laurel from the brow of Bayard Tay-
lor! How lucky for him, but oh, dear
reader, how unfortunate for you, when
you consider this poor substitute ! We
came from home and left our pocket Bi-
ble, Shakspeare,.aud Overcoat—a thing
we were never guilty of before—from
Canada to “ Old Virginia,” from the
White Mountain tops to the falls of the
Minnehaha, from “ Auld Ireland” to the
head waters of the Rhine, these three
were as indispensable, and as invariably
with us as our boots, and we can account
for the omission on the present occasion
in no other way, than that, in this ins-
tance we brought our wife, and left eve-
rything else! And doesn’t this speak
volumes for us, when it is remembered
that some wines have been known to
leave home and even forget the baby i
But to return from our forty-first di-
gression. A properly authenticated cer-
tificate of character, from our old friend,
R. E. Lockwood, Esq., (agent of the
Stonington line,) was a passport to a
pleasant acquaintance with GEORGE «BAI-
LIES, Eso., the excellent and courteous
From him
we received the “key to the best the
boat affords." Thus equipped, we seat
ed ourselves upon the forward deck'of
the noble steamer, viewing alternately
the wonderful physical achievements of
our humanity, and the natural beauties
of either shore of the SOund. \Ve con-
fess to a feeling of national importance,
as we passed rapidly by those great
brick warehouses, that interminable forest
of spars, those monster steam leviathans
and clipper ships, that bestrewcd our way
out of the greatest commercial city of
the world. The “ American Eagle”
soared considerably in our bosom, and
we yield to the opinions of our friends of
the Tribune, that whether considered or-
nithologically, metaphorically, oratorical-
'iugton Street Grammar School.
ly, heraldically, poetically, or bombasti-
cally, that “.fierce gray bird with bend-
ing beak” is sariainly “ one Of the fowls,”
and we loveto, recognize him anywhere
and everywhere, (unless perhaps it be up-
011,0“? new cent, where he looks like a
founmqnths .Sh'anghae, escaping from a
hen hawk,) and we love dearly, on every
suitable occasion, at least mentally, to
' 'spread‘him‘ to the utmost latitude. We
thus contemplated him, perched astride
the Rocky Mountains, with his right
wing fanning the brow of that gol-
denl-haired’gir], baptized [in the placid
waters of the Pacific, his left. stretching
over the Green Mountains of Vermont,
and the pine forests of . Maine, flapping
in the angry crests of the Atlantic, his
tail feathers casting their shadow away
up to the Arctic Zone, while his enger
beak and covetous eye bend down o’er the
silvery sheen of Mexico, and coquettish-
ly smile upon the orange-bowered . Queen
of the Antilles. - B.
’ ——-°'<O>>~——-—-
CORRECTION.—In our Union School art-
icle last week, we stated that Mr. Camp,
the new Principal, was for several years
Principal of the New London High
School. It should have been of the Hunt-
The
situation since proffered was as Principal
of the Young Ludies’ High School.
.<.>~
The United States Agricultural Society.
The next Annual Exhibition of this Society
will be held at the city of Richmond, Va..
October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. The July
number of the Monthly Bulletin, published by
the Society says that the Premium List for
1858 is in reality more liberal than that of any
preceding National Fair, as the entry fees
will be greatly reduced, and entirely dispens~
ed with in the Horticultural, Domestic, Pro-
duct, Genern] Utility and I Art Departments.
Premiums to be awarded in plate, of which
there will be a large and beautiful display,
enabling successful competitors to choose such
articles as they may prefer, for their .premi-
ums. Certificates will be given with each
premium, and Certificates of Merit will also
be awarded. The Grounds at Richmond are
commodious and accessible. There are stalls
for the exhibition of animals, with halls and
tents for the proper display of machinery,
products, &c., and a track for trials of speed
against time, processions Of horses, die.
.>~o—-—————
The Magazines.
Tun KNICKEnuocxen has been very much
improved lately, although it has always main-
tained its position as one of the very best of
American Monthlies. The September number
contains a steel plate portrait of Epes Sar-
gent, “ Life in Virginia,” by G. P. It. James,
and contributions from H. T. Tuckerman, Os-
canyau, Stoddard, Park Benjamin, Epes Sar-
gent, Phrcbe Carey, John G. Saxe, T. B. A]-
drich, (so, and a rich Editor’s Table of 33 pa-
ges. Dr. James O. Noyes has.become Mr-
Clark’s Associate Editor.
Gonsr's LAnv’s BOOK for September has
been received. It is full as usual with choice
reading, and matter peculiarly suited to the
Ladies.
EnEnsON’s MAGAZINE AND PUTNAM’s MONTH-
LY, for August, has been issued. The“ Life
of Washington” is brought down to the cap-
ture of Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen. The
other illustrated articles are “ A Chapter on
Shoe,” and “Our Architect.”
Tun Purxruu,for August, is at hand. It
is handsomely “ got up,” and containsu great
deal of matter of interest to printers and
others. Henry dc Huntington, Publishers,
No, l, Spruce St., N. Y.
HAurEa’s MAGAZINE for September is for
sale at our Village Bookstores. It opens with
“ The Finishing School,”an illustrated Poem
after the style of“ Nothing to Wear.” “The
Virginians,” is illustrated with three engra-
vings by Thackeray ; and “ The Tribes of the
Thirty-Fifth Parallel,” “ The Death of Louis
XVI,” " Our Charley,” Comicalitics, and the
Fashions, are also well illustrated. .
. «o» .
”A Ludies’ National Equestrian Cou-
vcntiou is announced to be held at the Union
Course, L. I., on Wednesday, Sept. 81b. The
design is to promote a pure and healthy ad‘
miratiou for the art of Equestrianism, and
the premiums offered for competition, fer La-
dy am‘hteur equestriuns, have been thrown
open to'competiiors ,from' every part of the
Union, without fee or expense.
«.5-
Mn. EnITon: ' .
Can you believe it? An American
born citizen, of mature years, living in the
centre of one of the villages of old Fairfield
County, had never heard, up to Saturday
week, that such a thing as the Atlantic Tele-
graph wus ever thought of. Evidently he
does not take your paper, nor even borrow it.
Perhaps you will think it best to enquire him
out, and send him one gratis. ’
Query? Do not the laws of Connecticut
need another revision respecting the qualifi-
cations of voters ? Yours’in
AsrcNIsnMI-zx'r.
——-—O«'
m. Knapp d: Lyncs have the “ German Fly
Paper,” which is said to be an excellent arti-
cle roi- killing flies.
——————o~<.>~~o—-—— ‘
fia‘ At a large wedding party at New
Orleans, not long ago, the guests were chea-
ted out of their supper in a novel way. A
gang of thieves having entered the dining
room by a back window, gathered the edges _
of the table cloth together, and folding it
into a bundle, made Off with everything that
was ppon the table, including the family
plate, valued at some hundreds of dollars.
When supper was announced, the table was
there,und nix besides.
‘ —-—--———~<O>«-o—-—————
fiGet your slate and pencil ready, for
a lover of the astonishing has reckoncdthat
one pin dropped into the hold of the Levia-
than the first week of the year, 2 the second
4 the third, 8 the fourth, 16 the fifih, and so
on, doubling each week. for the whole year,
(52 weeks,) the entire number of pins drop-
ped, would be 4.503,599,627 370,495 ; the
weight of them (allowing 200 pins to the
ounce) would be 628,292,358 tons, or tonage
enough to fully freight twenty-eight thou-
sand ships Of t he size Of'the Leviathan.
————-———ov<.>e
fl“ The Liverpool Mercury compliments,
in the highest terms, Church’s painting ofNi-
agara Falls. We copy the following extract
from its notice:
“American art critics and connoisseurs
agree in placing ut the head of his profession
in the new world, Frederic Edward Church,
whose highest achievement is ‘the picture of
the cataract of Niagara, now on view at Mr.
Grundy’s gallery, Churchstrcet,wherc it will
remain for a few days, when it will be sent
back to America, having already been exhib-
ited at London, Glasgow‘aud Manchester. It
is pronounced to be “ incontestably the finest
oil picture ever painted" on the other side of
the Atlantic. It is interesting as indicative
to some extent of the advance of art in Amer-
ica, and also, in itself, as the first successful
painting of nature’s. grandest subject, the
chef d’ oeuvre ct Niagara upou‘ canvass.
v ,
HEAVY Barn; ROBBERY. " ‘
We copy the following account of the late-
robbery of the Huttcr’s Bank, of Bethe], from
the Danbury Times of last Thursday :
The village of Bethel was thrown intoa
high state- of consternation and excite—
ment on Monday afternoon by theintelli—
the only Bank in the village, had been
broken into and robbed of between $80,-
000 and $90,000. The Cashier of the
Bank, Mr. Wm. A. Judd, entered thei
Banking room about half past 6 o’clock
on Monday morning for the purpose of
securing and sending of a package. Up-
on applying the key to the door of the
vault, he found that owing to some ob-
struction in the interior he was unable to
turn the bolt, and after several ineffectu-
al efforts, sent for the clerk who locked
the door on the Saturday previous.
united efforts proving insufficient to gain
admittance into the. vault,'a messenger
was dispatched for the manufaturer, and
thus matters stood until about 3 o’clock,
when the door was forced by means Of a
pair of blacksmith’s tongs, and the secret
revealed by the discovery of the removal
of nearly the entire bottom of the vault,
consisting of stones and cement, as well as
the funds of the bank, in specie and notes
to the amount above-named. ' A search
being instituted, it‘was discovered that
the burglars had entered the Bank prob-
ably through the doorway, aud passing
into the director’s room, in the rear of
the vault, removed the carpet from one
corner of the room, and by means of a
circular saw had Opened an aperture
through the floor sufficient for the admis‘
sion of a man. Although this was with-
in four feet Of the vault, the burglars, for
some cause not fully apparent to us, com-
menced digging a triangular passage at
least thirty feet in length! until they
reached the baseof the. vault. Theat-
most care and ingenuity was displayed in
replacing and fitting the boards removed
from the opening in the floor, an indent-
ure made by inserting a chisel to remove
them being carefully filled in with putty,
and screws inserted to secure them again
to their places. From this, there is good
reason to believe that a longer period was
consumed in effecting the robery than the
interval between Saturday night and
Monday morning. On examining the
subterranean passage to the vault, chisels
gimblets, and other tools of superior ma-
terial and workmanship were found, to-
gether with pieces of coin which had been
dropped in the removal. The entrance
through which the burglars passed in'the
floor measured eleven by fifteen inches.—
In order to gain time before the discoverd
of the riding of the vault ; they inserted
an obstruction in the lock by means of a
wooden wedge, at a place which no one
but those thoroughly acquainted with its
complications would have discovered or
thought of. Not the slightest trace has
yet been discovered of the thieves.
Of the money stolen, $6,000 was in
specie. $1,200 in bills on other Banks,
the remainder in bills on the Hatters
Bank. Of the latter the robbers left
$40,000 untouched, thinking probably,
that they had secured as much as they
could conveniently dispose Of.
The wholesale robbery will not only
seriously affect the welfare of the Bank,
but the business interests of the thri-
ving town of Bethe], embracing a class of
manufacturers as high minded and liberal
as those of this or any other State.
Of course the bills of the Bank‘ have
for the time being ceased to be used as a
circulating medium, and nothing short of
a recovery of some portion of the large
amount withdrawn will enable the Bank
to continue business. Most of the hold.
crs feel confident that the Bank will event-
ually be enabled to redeem its notes and
the probability of a recovery of the'funds
will suggest the impropriety of any great
sacrifice being made in their sale. The
numerous holders of the bills in this vicin-
ity, and especially in Bethe], in some
cases comprising their entire available
funds, must, for a time at least, suffer
great inconvenience. .
A reward of $5,000 has been offered
by the Bank for the detection of the rob-
bers, or for the recovery Of the whole or
part of the stolen money.
The foundation of the vault appears to
have been its weakest, if not its only
“weak, point The' sides and top could
scarcely have been removed by the ordi-
nary means in possession of burglars, ex-
cept that of gunpowder. They appear to
be of solid, heavy masonry, the stones
well bolted together.
If operations were commenced by the
burglars in view of this condition of the
vault it was either from a shrewd guess
on their part, or a prior knowledge that
such was the case. There was in reality
nothing of a fOrmidable nature to resist
approach from und’éi‘neath, as a very
slight effort would remove the crumbling
. cement. ,A single solid stone for, the
foundation well secured, would have rend-
ered the underground journey entirely
useless. , Whatever of insecurity, how-
ever, there was in the condition of the
vault itself, might have been remedied by
furnishing the interior with one of the
modern burglar proof safes. We find
that however secure bank‘ vaults may
,.otherwlse be regarded, the udditipn of
"this piece of furniture is considered a' net:-
essity. The confidence reposed by the
public in Banks as places of security for
the deposit ofIlheir funds, will be serious:
ly shaken by the repetition of calamities
like that occurring in Bethe]. ‘
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Hatters’ Bank Robbery.
We get this item by telbgraph from
New York :—
It is stated here, on reliable authority,
that the robbers of the Hattcrs’ Bank, at
Bethel, Ct., are known, and that the of-
fair is being arrai'nged in a mamm'r satis-
factory to both parties. The robbers are
said to be professional burglars. -
It is probably according to the New
York idea of justice to settle a burglary
“in a manner- satisfactory to both par-
It is probable the burglars are to decide
equally with the Bank, and take a receipt
in full.-—New Haven Paper.
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' Look out for Thieves.
The good people of Greens Farms and
vicinity have been much troubled of late
by a gang of thieves that prowl around
during the darkness of night, and steal
everything that they can lay their hands
upon. Mr. Burr J ennigs, Capt. S. Gor;
ham. Mr. Bradley Goodsell and others,
have each had a brass kettle stolen from
their loose property locked up at night.
3%... At a recent meeting of the Offi-
cers of the 8th Regiment,George N. Strat-
ton, of Dahbury, was elected Major, in
the place of W. SJCowles, who has left
the State. . -' . .
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nap’There' were 140 deathsfrom yelé
-low fever N.,Orleanslast week. .
gence that the vault of the Hatters Bank '
Their .
ties,” but it sounds queer in Connecticut. ‘
them, recently. People in that locality, .
as well as this, would do well to keep, .
“By Telegraph to the Gazette.
UNION TELEGRAPH co.
‘ OFFICE IN ng’a.N._uAILa0Au DEPOT.
JULIUS PINNEY. Operator.
The "Atlantic. Telegraph.
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Queen’s Message,
AND THE '
PRESIDENT’S REPLY!
THE QUEEN’S fmsaen:
Tat/1e Hon. President of the United
States .-
Her Majesty desires to congratulate
the President upon the successful com-
pletion of this great international work,
in which the Queen has taken the great-
est interest.
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THE PRESIDEN T’s REPLY.
WASHINGTON, AUG. 16.
To IIer Mljesty, the Queen of Great
Britain :
The President cordially reciprocates
the congratulation of Her Majesty, the
Queen, of the success of the great inter-
national enterprise accomplished by the
science, skill, and indomitable energy of
the two countries, because far more use
ful to mankind than was ever won by
conqueror on the field of battle. May
the Atlantic Telegraph under the bles-
sings of Heaven, prove to be a bond of
perpetual peaceand friendship between
the kindred nations, and an instrument
destined by ’Divine Providence to diffuse
Reiigiou, Civilization, Liberty and Law
throughout the world. In this view will
not all the nations of Christendom spon-
taneously unite in the declaration that it
shall be ever neutral, and that its commu-
nicatiOns shall be held sacred in passing
to the places of their destination, even in
the midst of hostilities.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
The following dispatch came through
last evening :
Crass STATION, New Foundlaud, Aug.16.
To the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, IV. Y. :
Europe and America are united by
Telegraph. GLORY TO GOD IN
THE HIGHEST, on EARTH PEACE
AND GOOD WILL TOWARDS
MEN. ,
DIRECTORS ATLANTIC TEL. 00.,
Great Britain.
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[6* Professor Fowler, of Amherst, is
about to remove his residence to Derby,
Ct, where some deceased relative has left
him a fine farm.
————oo<.>o
The Third National Exhibition of Im-
ported blood aud American breed of Horses,
is to come off at Springfield, Mass, the second
week in September.
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.Ptazor'a River.
A friend has handed us a copy of "The
Northern Light,” a small but neatly print-
ed journal just started at Whatcom, Be]-
lingham Bay, Washington Territory,
about 250 miles from the mining locality
from which we make a few extracts rela-
tive to the newly discovered Eldorado :
“ Mr Isaac D. Jones, a member of’ the
Third Legislature of Washington Territo-
ry, and highly respected as a gentleman
of veracity, was among the very first mi-
ners who went to Frazer River. He has
just returned from that region, and fur-
nishes us with the following information :
His claim is on Hill’s Bar, two ”miles
below Fort Cale. It has thus far yield-
ed him about $1,000., The tOp sand
pays, and is stripped a short distance
down, when a vein Of yellow clay is struck
about eight inches thick, which pays at
the rate of an ounce to the hand.”
. “ Mr. Jones exhibited to us 40 ounces
of dust, taken from his claim. He says
there is no question about the diggings'
being'rich —“ richer than were ever heard-
before.” A few miles below Hill’s Bar,
the first sluices have been put in opera-
tion, in the weeds where the dirt pays
from a bit to a dollar the pan.”
“ Mr. I. P. Russell, formerly of W'eav-
erville, Trinity county Cahforniu returned
from Fort Hope on Wednesday morning
by canoe, for provisions, He furnishes
us with the following items of news, which
welthiuk reliable.
He was at Fort Hope ten days, where
there are between three and four hundred
miners. Owing to the high waters of
Frazer i‘iver, they are all idle. Many
have staked of claims, ‘ to be‘ worked
when the waters recede. '
About three miles above Fort Hope,
before the river rose, several miners were
averaging an ounce a day, by stripping
some five feet depth of sand. The dust
in that region is float gold, and generally
obtained near the surface.
Mr. Russell saw two men from the
forks of Frazer and Thompsoe rivers who
told him that miners there making from
one to four ounces a day; and that there
was plenty of ground there for as many
persons as chose to occupy it.”
" Mr. R. brought down eight dissatis-
fied persons who are returning to Califor-
nia, cursing-the mines and swearing that
the whole country is a humbng. But he
assures us that neither of them ever did
a day’s labor at Fort Hope. They left
the diggings entirely untried, and of .a
consequence, could not know anything
about them. Those that he met who
could and had worked, nearly all exhibit-
ed more or less gold, and cxpressedthem-
selves hopefully of abundant success when
the waters subside.” '
“ Mr. Charles Brown, formerly of Cal-
averas country, on Italian, in company
with ten others, returned to this place
by canoe, from 35 miles above the junct-
ion Of Frazer and ThOmpson Rivers, on'
Thursday afternoon. _
The were on a prospecting eXpedition
but exhausted their provisions before do-
ing much. Wherever they took out pros-
:were making from $20 to $150 per day,
in surface diggings.
Above the forks of the two rivers, the
gold is course. The Indians exhibited
pieces to them as large as pigeon eggs,
and signified to them by signs, that during
the diurnal revolution of the sun, they
could take out a double handful of it.—
They are very numerous and insolcnt,
making their appearance suddenly in
great force. when least expected.
On their return, they fell in with a
Canadian who was building a Fort at or
near the forks, where they left two of their
partners. He had been three days with-
out food, and was forced to kill a horse ;
fifteen pounds of the flesh of which, Mr.
Brown and party purchased at fifty cents
a pound their own stock of provisions
having been exhausted. From this point
theysull‘ered severely from hunger ;_ pro-
curing a scant supply from time to-time,
those they met, in the best manner they
could. ‘
There are about a thousand miners at
Fort Yale, doing nothing, watiug for the
river to fall. PrOvisions are very scarce
there also; _
Mr. Brown was a miner in California
nine years ; bur he says he never saw as
rich surface diggings there as on Frazer
and Thompson Rivers. Hes intends re-
tumiug'with his party to the diggings, in
afewdays. '_ ,
Correspondents. iu the Sacramento Un—
ion for July 20th writing from Whatcom
speak very 'disparagingly. One Corres-
pondent writes as follows :
“I have now been herefive days and
have heard, at the lowutcalculation, five
hundred different reports concerning the
mines ; in fact, every-man adds a little to
the yarn, be it a good or bad one, and by
the times, it gets too big for the origina-
tor to recognize. I have watched and
listened much since my arrival, and have,
after putting all I have heard and seen
together, come to the conclusion that
there is gold in both Thompson and Fra-
zer rivers, but to- what extent we cannot
form any idea, until the water falls.
Whatcom is quite a lively little place.
The hammer and saw are going all day
long, and each man is trying to get his
house up and opened first. Lots are
worth from $50 to $500 each ; lumber,
$35, and shingles $35 per M. ,Tools are
as low as in San Francisco—so are dry
goods, boots, etc. ‘ Provision are some
higher. There is very little demand for
anything except fer the use of those who
are coming here. - No goods are allowed
for sale in the mines, and no one miner
can carry but 200 pounds with him, and
when that is gone he must either come
back here or pay the Hudson’s Bay Com-
pany 500 per cent. prOiit. At present, I
should think there were at least 3,000
men waiting here for something definite
to turn up, or in other words, waiting to
get to the mines. Some have alreadybc-
come discouraged and gone back ; others
will leave on the next boat and each fu-
ture one will carry more and more. Those
who came here expecting to have an easy
time will find themselves much mistaken
sure. ~The only thing I- have seen that
looked anything like California in ’49 and
’50, is gambling. Your car is saluted at
every turn of the street, by the cry of
“ here’s the place to get your money
back,” and not a few are seeking their
fortunes in that way. Rondo, twentybne
faro, monte, and every other game is go
ing day and night and many a poor fel-
low will wish ere a week is gone, that he
had never heard ofFrazer river. I am do-
ing the best I know how, getting along
the cheapest way .possib]e——cating two
four-shilling meals a day, and sleeping on
the soft side of a plank with'my boots
for a pillow and my blankets for a cover-
ing. The climate is 'miserablemrains
every day—and the sun never shines at
all ; at least I have not seen it. There is
no game here of any description, and if
there was the brush is so thick that' it
could not be found.
I had anything but a pleasant trip up.
Our ship was much crowded and fare
awful mean, but saw some very pretty
cOuntry in Oregon. Tell all my friends
to remain in Sacramento, unless they
want to see hard times, mean grub and
no. money.” _ .-
“ The news of this state of thingshad
almost extinguished theFrazer River fe-
ver at San Francisco for a time. There
is however no reason as yet to believe
that the gold is less than it was at first
represented.
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THE Orrrcsas’ DRILL—The annual
drill of the Militia Officers, which has
been in progress at Hartford, closed last
Saturday. The. Courier states that du-
ring the five days a very decided improve.
ment in theoretical and practical knowl-
edge was manifested by the officers pres-
ent, under the able instructiouof Col. Har-
dee and Lieuis. Base and McCook, of the
Army. These gentlemem devoted their
time. to the duty of instruction with great
cheerfulues’s and decided‘eil'ect. The new
system of Tactics, compiled by Col. Har-
dee, from the most approved of European
systems, was introduced to our militia at
this drill, and was universally liked, on
account of the rapidity and effectiveness
with which all movements are executed.
As it is ordered by the Federal Govern.
ment to be the drill of the militia, it is
presumed it will be adapted generally in
the State.
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‘ 3- There is to be a performance up-
on the chimes of Trinity: Church, New
York, on the opening of the Atlantic
Telegraph line for business, which would
almost pay one to go to New York to
hear. A joyous pen] is to be rung,~fol-
lowed by a uumberofwell known airs—
among which are Hail Columbia, God
,Save the Queen, Yankee Doodle, the
Briudisi Lucrezia Borgia, Home, Sweet
Home, Pleyel’s Hymn, Days‘ofjAbsence,
Lust Rose of Summer, Blue Bells oft Scot!
' land, and Evening..Bclls.. v, .Iuside ithe
church a grand Te Deum is to be sung,
all the clergy of the EpiscOpal Church in
the city hgvipc been invited’to bepreseut
in their robes.
HM . .
_ Revenue Cutter Ashore.
The Revenue Cutter James Campbell,
is reported to be ashore at Blues Rock,
pacts, they {Wild gold ; some place more
and some less. They saw miners who '
x. -'-t
'(Fairfield) high and dry, in a dangerous
i
“a
From the Buflalo Commercial advertiser.
EUROPEAN commm
No. III. '
WALLRALL (near Birmingham) June 1-5.,
Emrous COMMERCIAL Anvsarzssx :—
We left Liverpool yesteryay for Bir-
mingham, to witness the grand rscepilm
of the Queen, which was fixed f6? this
day. The rush was so great that no lod-
gings could be obtained in the city, and
we were obliged to secure them in this
town, being some eight miles ofi‘. We
however passed the city on the whole line
of the‘proposed procession, and found the
preparations on a great scale. Every es-
tablishment, and every individual appear.
ed to vie with each other in the extent
and splendor of the decorations. Flow-
ers formed a large part of the ornaments,
and in some streets the buildings were lit-
erally covered with them, arranged with
great taste, and with a profusion of
wreaths from house to house across the
street, 'forming a complete bower of roses.
There were several splendid arches, one,
in particular, got up by~the 'gnn' makers, '
which was composed of» guns, bayouets,
swords, &c., arranged with great skill and
beauty. Early in the morning-the érowd
came pouring into the town, and it was
with great difficulty we could get on any
sort of a car. After reachiugthescity we
made our way through the crowd to the
stand we had engaged the day before, .
which we succeeded in reaching about ten.
o’clock. As the Queen would not pass
the point till two, P. M., it was a long
time to wait in the heat and crowd. The
tedium was relieved somewhat by the view
of the immense crowd, and the wonderful
extent and variety of The decorations in
honor of the event. The mottoes and in-
scriptions were specially interesting, and
the desperate efforts at variations in “Grid
save the Queen,” “ Welcome Victoria,”
&c., were very amusing. .
Whatever difference of political opinion
there may be in England, there is none
in regard to the Queen personally. Eve-
ry one speaks of her in terms of affection,
and among that great crowd the expres-
sion of sincere regard was universal. “ She
is a dear good Queen,” is a commouex-
pressiou among the people,which we seem-
ingly heard a thousand times in the course
of the day. " . .
At length the procession cameiu sight, .
headed by a splendid full baudou horse-
back, aud a large detachment of cavalry,
followed by the local magistrates in car-'
riages, many of them in robes of ofice,
some of which were fantastic enough ;
three more carriages, filled with all sorts
of dignitaries, in full dress, and finally the
court carriages, in the last of which was
the Queen and Prince Albert, then more
cavalry, and finally amiscellaneous string
of carriages filled with “ distinguished
strangers.” We had a fair view of the
Queen and Prince as they passed They
both resemble the published portraits, ex,
cept that they are somewhat older, as
might be expected. The expression of the
Queequ face was good, and she appeared
much gratified with the enthusiastic ro-
ception which she received, Birmingham,
by the way, being the most radical city
in England. Her complexion had that
sort of beefy tinge, so common among'
high-fed English people, but on the whole
she was better looking than we had been
led to suppose. . . .
After the procession had posed, the
crowd distributed itself about the city,
and in the countless refreshment booths.
Eatables were abundant, and Oceans of
ale, porter and ginger pop were annihila-
ted, but the crowd conducted generally
with great decorum.
The great attraction was now Artou
Park and Hall, where the Queen-was con-.
ducted, and an important part of the day’s
ceremonies was the inauguration, as it '
was termed, of that- The building and
grounds having been purchased by theci-
ty of Birmingham, it is to be kept as a
depository for works of art, and especial-
ly of the skill and workmanship of Bir-
mingham. The hall and grounds were
once the property of J umes Watt, of steam
engine immortality, and his statue is pla-
ced in the great hall. The ceremonies at ,
the Hall we were unable to see,‘tickets a.
guinea and scarce at that. We abtained
admission into the Park for two English
shillings each, and the investment was deo
cidedly a good one. Large numbers of
well dressed people were in the grounds,
and the numeronswhite refreshments tents
scattered about, covered with streamers
and inscriptions, produced a fine efl'ect.
After the cermonies were over, of which
the Royal lunch appeared to be the most
important item, the Queen and Prince
presented themselves,on the , balcony to
the crowd, and‘ Were received with enthu-
siastic cheers. She remained some little
time gracefully acknowledging the recep-
tion, and retired amid the shouts and wa-
ving of handkerchiefs of that great crowd,
who seemed to participate in the enthusi-
asm of the occasion. The great band on
the lawn, which seemed a small regiment,
played “ God save the Queen,” during the
whole of the ceremony, and the effect was
exceedingly fine. ‘
Before finally leaving the Hall, the
Queen again presented herself, and walk-
ed with the Prince dowu the walk among
the people several hundred feet. This
mark of condesceusiou was received with
the most frantic expressions of delight, as
it appeared to have“ been unexpected.—
The Royal party then left the Hall, pass-
ing through the crowdoutside of the Park,
to_the railway where the state car, or car-
riage, as it is called, was prepared for her
reception. We could hear the shouts of
the crowd as she passed, which went up
like the roar of the cataract.
Thus ended this great affair, which it
was apriv'ilege to see once, but the heat,
crowd and press was so great that it Would
scarcely " pay”’for a secoud'iulliction.--
-We saw John Bull in his best humor, and
Illustsay. that heiahowed his points to
great advantage. ‘ ,
We leave. tomorrow 'var' Warwick and
and Stratford on Avon.»
Yours truly, ' 8.
&A serious accident occurred at
Norwich, on Monday afternoon. The
staging of the third story of the new aims.
house buildiuggave way, while twelve
men were upon it, six of whom were
thrown thirty feet to the ground. There
is evidence of a shameful carelessness in
the builderswho erected such a dim]
scadold. '
W
‘ Sr. Louis, Aug 11.
Eleven cases of sun stroke occm'l‘eii
yesterday, 7 ofwhich'resulted in death.
The heat was intense, the thermometfl’ In
the evening” raging from 95 to 104.
M
Lecture.
’The Rev. Henry A. Thompson" late of
Baltimore, Md, will Lecture at the Town '
Hall this (Tuesday) evening on the sph-
ject of Slavery. ' ' 5
The public generally are invited to at-
tend. ‘ ‘
Norwalk Chronicler