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Show ATLANTIC CABLE MATTERS. Tho telegraph has givca us ono or two brief items in regard to tho ac ion of tho Now York Cotton Exchange in reference to the threatening Atlantic cable monopoly. Tho recent increase of rat:s seems to have caused very wide-spread dissatisfaction, and the published explanation of tho increase has scarcely had tho soothing effect expected. ex-pected. The .New York Herald is especially severe upon tho Atlantic oable combination. Among its cutting utterances upon this 'subject, it gives an illustration of the consolidation status by quoting the remark of a cart-man cart-man whose services were called for at the great Chicago fire by a man whose house was burning. "We look out for the main chance, sir, and I oan't take off them five trunks for less than fifty dollars," said the cartman; and the cable company, according to the Herald, says: "We have you now Here are our terms, and thero is no help for you; wo guess that you oan count this one hundred and fifty per cent, advance in our charges so much clear gain; you understand!" If any newspaper has the right to grumble at incrcaso of cable rates, certainly the New York Herald is entitled to that privilege, it being tho greatest patron the companies have; and its expenditures expendi-tures for "copy" from across the great deep are dealt out without staint. Upon May first, as was premised during last month, the order cf April first reducing cable rates to ono dollar a word was countermanded and the tariff increased. Tho old tariff from Salt Lake stood ono dollar and twenty-five twenty-five cents per word in gold. The now rate is ono dollar and seventy cents. The explanation of tho increase is that, as there is now but one cable working, it is necessary to discourao tho sending send-ing ot cablegrams for tho present, because be-cause the cable is crowded beyond its cipacity, and notwithstanding every exertion dispatches arc frequently delayed de-layed uutil they become valueless to customers Such an explanation looks rather "ihin" to speak at'tpr il,.- manner of men still tho increase ol I fil'ty-five censs a word is considerable I Hpon lengthy cablegrams. The Cotton Exchange in consider in; the cable question, claimed that the interests by them represented warranted war-ranted tho eeeuricg of liocs in which they should hold the controlling stock. They tben.lore resolved to take 6tepr for the immediate laying of new cables, by tho organization of a company with a capital of XI, 50,01X1. Contract have already been let for making and laying ono line from Ireland, via New-fonnlland New-fonnlland to Massachusetts, to be com jletcd May 1st, 1874. Such action a tuts indiia'oi tho iuiro$-ib:lny of th tuco a- i f the gigantic ethemcs of the-GUbo company as given in the Hxjlld a short timo aiiioe. J |