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—— 7 ertisement. than History of the Electric Telegraph. 1 bas been supposed by many, that the ides ofan electrio telegraph did not exist anterior to Dr. Frankho’s experiments made to test the identity of the lighting with that generated by an electrical machine; bat such was not the fact. Grey and Wheeler, of England, as early as 1728, showed that electricity could be conducted to a great distance. {See the life of Dr. Franklin]. Dr. Watson, of England, was the first te propose the construction ofan electrical telegraph, in 1817. Dr. Franklin’s attention was firet drawn to the subject between 1745 and 1746. It was not, however, until Jane, 1762, that he raised his kite and drew an electric spark from a@ passing thunder cloud, the result of which he communicated in a letter to Mr. Colli- son, of London, dated Philadelphia, Ostober 19, 1752. Thero are many curious things connected with the progress of electrical telographs, from the easlicat suggestions regarding their practicability up to their latest improvements and application, as we at present see them in use in this country and in Europe. The introduction of electrical tolo- graphs, and their daily employment in the speedy transmission of news, forms one of” tho most remarkable eras of the ninateenth centary, and marks strongly and indelibly a stage in the conquest of mind over matter. Such is the importance of the subject, that every ink in its history should be clearly noted and re- corded. Like most other great discoveries, its commencement, rise and progress do not belong to, nor havo thoy originated with, a single individual. But, from ita earliest conception to the prosent time, its utility hae been rendered available, step by step, by the labors and discoveries of a large number of distinguished scientitic men, whosa de- | velupomente in electricity, electro-maguetism, and | permanent batteries, &c, were all given to tho world in scientific publications, at ditfvrent periods | of time. Tho mass of mankind, as yet, do | bot seem to realize the vast consequences to which | the use of electric telegraphs may lead. They do not, and cannot, cemprehend tho future in the applications of electricity. Ic is didivult | jor apy ono to give a clear and popular idea of the manner in which electric tale- graphs are really worked—how 1, is, that a | meesage of more or less longthis so instantane- ously, ag it were, reproduced, at the distance of the use of the deflection of @ number of needles to eon- stitute a te now io From this me t ame at og. riiece me subject bee: ba among philosophers ‘was, however, finally introduced into practice b; bd ling, im Russia, at the end of 1832; by Gauss and Weber at Gottingen, in 1933; and finally, on @ i soale, by Wheatstone, ia England, and 8teinbell. at Munich, ia 1837, or soon after The credit of the first construction of the ic telegraph belongs thus, to dchilling. Steinbeil, and Wheatstone, by the latter of whem, with some of bie English coadjutors, many of the practical diffleulties the modes of transmitting the currents ‘were overcome. ‘The telegraph of Bteinbei!, which was in operation ba- tween Munich and dogenbausen ja the summer of 1837, seems to be t tet electro-magnetic telegraph oa re- cord which employed 4 registering apparatus, The de- flection of his needles moved littie levers, carrying pen points, which marked dots or short lines on a fillet of paper moved by ciock-work, aa had been done with com- mon électricity previously by Dyar, and as was subse- uaay. brovght into use in this country by Professor or The defieotive telegraph wi flection of the needle requiring a to be accomplished, The use of the electro- ma; the next step taken fa advance, It was not until the | experiments, in 1530, of Professor Joseph Henry, now | secretary ofthe Smithronian Institution, upon powerful | electro-inagnets, and the effect of lonz conductors, that | this form ef telegraph became possible; and in hie first | | paper on the result of these experiments, he at once piled the new facts to the idea of the couetruction of telegraph. « In 1864, the registering telegraph of Professor 8. F. B, Morse, employing the electro magnet, was introduced upon a hire between Baltimore and Washington, tho caveat to his patent bearing the date of Octobsr, 1837. The first suggestion of this torm of telegraph isclaimed to have been made by Protessor Morse in 1832, and also, in its general character, by Dr C. T. Jackson, ‘This telegraph, together with the House telegraph, and the Bain decomposing telegraph, constitate the three ays- tems now, for the most part, ia operation in this country. From this sketch, given by Mr. Davis, it will appear that the idea, or early suggestion, of an electric telegraph, is quite ancient, dating back early in the eighteenth century. In the trial referred to above, we find in the evi- dence of Oliver Byrne, page 199, the following questionand answer occar:—‘‘ State some persons who propored to uso electricity, or galvanism, fog, telegraphing, prior to 18381” Answer—‘:Publica: | tions show that, among others, ia |.esage, in 1774; | Reiser, in 1794; Soemmering, in 1798; Ampere, in 1820; Baron de Schilling, in 1832 and 1833; Stein heil, in 1837; Cook, in 1837—some of whom actu- | ally did apply it. And in the year 1830, I attended the public lectures of Abraham Booth, (afterwards scientific reporter for the Times newspaper, and who four or five hundred miles, copies of which aro dropped on the way. The public see posts erected | and wires stretched on them. They also seo ma- | chines of small dimensions, in telegraph offices, | managed by operators, and may imagine what a battery is that RanSrAtes electricity, as well ag that a piece of cold iron may be convorted intoa magnet, while the electricity is passing round it | through @ coil of copper wire, which ceases to | be a magnet, or to attract, when the current is cut off. But there are few who can comprehead, after all, exactly how the thing is done—how one system of telegraph differs trom another—wby Morse’s machines make blank dots, oa white slips of paper —how House’s prints messages in Roman lettors— how Bain’s employs electricity a3 a chemical agent in the discoloration of paper, by whfch mes: | sages are transmitted. And uniess partios | to whom tho whole is to be explained pos- | 888 80MO previous Knowledge of electricity and its laws, it is difficult for them to underatand it. | Neither can the peculiarities of the various tele graph machines employed here and in Europe, be | explained without diagrams, which aro not suited to the columna of a newspaper. It is easy to undor- stand the steam engine,—the workings of a steam- boat, cotton, or ether more palpable or demon- strative machinery ; but not so the workings of the | telegraph machines, or the nature of the subtle fluid by tho agency of which they are propolled. It would extend our narrative beyond ali reasonable limits wore we to attempt to give any descriptive notice of the different machines in use, which now amount to more than @ dozen, here and abroad. Of one thing all may feel assured—that the cle c- tric tolegraphs are yet in theirinfancy. The time must come when they will work a great revolution in the affairs of men—in their social, politisal, and commercial intercouree. The time will oome when all the Lalas in Congreas will be transmitted, in extenso, to parts of the Union daily—when they will become the medium of communication for all letters of consequence, passing between dis- tant points of tho Union, instead of their slow | transportation by mail. The time will come, whea New Orleans, the city of Mexico, San Francisco, and Astoria, on the Pacific, will be in as constant, steady, and daily communication with New York, as Albany, Philadelphia, or Boston now is. And furthermore, the time must and will arrive, be it fifty or a hundred and fifty years henco, when great telegraph liges will unite all parts of the civilized world, in daily communication. When tho telegraph is well established hence: to the Paeific, it will be practicable, by prope means and enorgy, for it to be extended northwest to sarin Strait, which is only about thirty miles wide, and found by Capt. Cook to be only six fathoms in depth. Once carried into Asia, a this Strait, by tho liberal co-operation of the ror of Russia, they could be carried to St. Peters- urg, and from thence to Germany, where, intsr- vecting with the present lines, London and Paris, with other European capitals, would be put into communication with New York. All idea of connecting Europe with America, by lines extending directly across the Atlantic, is at- terly impracticable and absurd. I: is found on land, when cope messages over a cirenit of only four or five hundred miles, neces:ary to have relays of batteries and magnets to keep up, or to renew, the current and its action, similar to canal feeders. How is this to be done in tho ocean, for a distance of three thousand miles? But by the way of Bhering’s Strait, the whole thing is practicable, and its ultimate accomplishment is only a question of time, made near or remote by the progress of population and civilization. The time must come when the political movements and dis sussions—tie state and condition of trade and commerce—the ups and downs of daily life, will be daily and simulta- neously published in Paris, Vienna, London, and New York, thereby ushering in a higher degree and wider sphere of civilization, aud of *‘peaze on earth and good will te man. We hero give a brief sketch, or narrative, of the | electric telegraph, taken from a publication made the present year, by Daniel Davis, isq., of Boston, which, for conciseness and accuracy, is well suited to,our present purpose. ere is no fact stated in it that is not suscepti- became Dr. Booth,) delivered in Dublin, among other subjects, on electricity and clectro-magnotism. in eaid lectures, the said Booth, ia my preseace, used in combination a toug circuit of insulated wiro conductors, or galysnic battery, an elec’ with an armature and mercury cups to disjoin the circuit, with which he magnetized and demagnetizod the iron of the electro-magnet, caus- ing it to attract the armature when the circuit was joined, aud to recede from it when disjoined. Mr. Booth, at tnat time, stated to his audiences that that power could he produced and used at distant places, ag signe of information; and he repeatedly illustrated what he meant, by causing the arma- ture to approach the magnot, and then to fall from itonthe floor, stating at the same time that it made marks by so falling.” In tho evidence of Dr. Wm. I. Channing, a sci- entific gentleman of Boston, in tho trial of Smith vs. Downing et als, page 11, he says: ‘* Thehistory of the telegraph naturally divides itself into three ortions—the first from about 1715 to 1800, when tee electricity, but that alone, could be employed in anefficient form ; the eecond from 1800 to 1820, | when galvanism was added to frictional electricity ; and the third, from 1820 to the present time, when electro magnetism had been added to the two pre- ovding agencies.” (And also Grove’s permanent | battery, as well as Professor Henry’s discovery in | 18831, of vastly increasing the power of electro | magnets by an increase of the length of copper | coils, and by which electro magnetic action could | be produced and reproduced by intervening mag- nets at great distances —AU mor.) Before the year 1750, continues Dr. Channing, | the apparently instantaneous passage of electricity through several miles of wire, and even the use of | the ground for the return circuit, had been observed. Various telegraphs had been.invented and dos- | cribed during the first period; and in 1798 Betan- court is stated to have operated successfully in | transmiting signals on a line of 26 miles, between | Madrid and Aranguez (See Sturgeon’s Annals | of Electricity, vol. 3) During the second period, | telegraphs by free electricity wore desoribed and | used, and also the galvanic telegraph of Smmmer- | ing aod Dr. Coxe, in which the indications were made for the most part by the dccomposition of | water. Soon after Professor Oersted’s discovery of electro magnetism, Ampétre described the first electro magnetic telegraph in his memoir, in the | Annales de Chemie of 1820; he describes the use of the deflection of the needle for signalizing letters | at any distance, by means of depressing signal keys to close and break the cirouit. (See Annales de Chemie and Physique, vol. xv. p. 73--1820.) The use of gignal keys in combination with the tele- graph was thus early invented and desoribed. | — Professor S. F. B. Morse claims that the first time the idea of an electro magnetic telegraph en- tered his head, w 8 he came home from france inthe ship Sully, in 1832. Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, of Boston, pete a passenger in the same vessel, claims to have imparted tho first ideas of such an enterprise to Prefessor Morse, which the latter denies, and both have introduced elaborate state- ments ard evidence to maintain their relative declarations, which, however, pak tote so much had been already done to establish the practicabili. ty of an electric and electro-magnotis telegraph prior to their crossing the Atlantic togothor, in 32, we cannot perceive that the claims of either for suggestions at that time, possessed any origi- nality,or had anything to do with the history of the telegraph ‘Tho caveat of Morse for a patent, bears@ate Oc- tober, 1837; his French patent, 1838; and his first American patent, 1810. Dr. Canning (page 40 A., 8S. V.S. D., et al,) states: “I believe the connection of the graphic re- gister with the electric telegraph, to have been madeand published by Stienh in Germany, be- fore the date of the caveat of S. B. Morse, October, 1837. In the paper of Stienheil included in the trangactions of the French Academy of Sciences of the 10th September, 1838, and published in the Comptes Rendus, of 18 he described the results of the practical operation of his graphic telegraph, for more than a year previously, between Munich and Bogenhausen, and | understand the 19th of ty ble of proof by roference to scientific records,«| July, 1537, to be referred to by him as an histori- strengthened, also, by the testimony of scientific witnesses, given in the trial of F. O. J. Smith (rep- resentative of Morse’s patent) vs. Hugh Downing et | als, (che representatives of House’s Patent Printing Telegraph, ) in 1850. The brevity of Mr. Davis’ sketch is such as to exclude several names connected with the early movements made to ostablish an electric telegraph—there we shall allude to in our sub- sequent remarks :— Boon after the discovery of the Leyden Jar, in 1747, it was observed by Dr. Watson, in England, that the shock, passed chrough twelve thousand feet of wire, allected perrons placed at either extremity, apparently at the Same instant of time. The idea of the instantaneous passage of electricity was probably thus first received, and it was forced, by new observations, on the attention of all succeeding electricians. Dr Watson also observed, in 1747, that when the current was conveyed on wires, supported on posts of baked wood, to ® distance, and allowed to return through the earth, taat the ground proved ® good and sufticient conductor. telegraph was naturally suggested by these experiments, and Lomend, in 1787, employed the electricity of the machine, by means of a pith lectrometer, to com- municate with a person ina diffe houre. Should this have been the frst experiment it isan islustration of the humble origin of many discoveries In 1704, Reizen proposed a telegraph, employing the spark, with seventy-six wires, or thirty-six complete ci cuits, one for each letter and number. In 1705, Beto de. at court coustructed a telegraph, also employing the spack, | which is rtated to have been in # ful operation between Madrid and Aranjuez, for twenty-six miles. ‘This was the achievement of che clove of the iast eontury. The difficulty of insulating free electricity made it im- possible that any great results should be obtained from ite ure ‘The first year of the present century prodused the vol- taic or galvanic battery, Ia 1809, Semmering improved this discovery by inventing @ telegraph of tairty fire wires, which indicated the letters by the decomposition of water, which took place under the eye of (he ovrervor from little pins of gold, Ie also caused the liberation of the gases to raise a cup attached to a lever, and thoreby drop a weight on a litde platform connected with chime machinery, £0 as to ring a bell 16, De, J. K, Uoxe of Philadelphia, proposed a tus, and conidently predict the telegraph. In the came ye returved to the use of fr borate telegraph, which was p geht miles of wire iret registering telegraph constructed by dir. Harr in 1826, who ured the decompo pon a fillet of paper Tae paran, mductor to the pap produce different combinations of . ‘acnmitted and ¢ very and apy stem fn later fave uf the Jograpk Of ele graphic alphabets so generally us Lions, In che telegraphs already referred to, it b nd heen ne- eexrary to interpose the iad course of the cirouit; (hat ia, to eaters space This was obvia! t discovery of the deflection of (he compass needle by U.teted, im 1819, and the disecvery of the electro migac! vy Ampece, in 1620. Aecording to the first of these J iow, # mage netic needle tends to place itself at right angles to a wire | in ite 1 orhood, through whivl vaulo, current ng to the second, w p f pote icon sof gentre of a coil of becomes a ne pacenge Of a galvanic curreut (hrough parte placed in the @ magnet during the eo) Bln 1620 avd 1822, Awpére preposed end fully deacrived The idea of the | nt part of the same | cal date, on or before which his electro magnetic telegraph was in actual operation and public use. In an article by Stienheil, translated in Stur- geon’s Annaiesof [lectricity, of March and April, | 1839, the use of posts for insulation, of what is | technically calledthe ground circuit, and of iron instead of copper wires for conductors, facts or in- ventions of great importance te the practicable | operation of the telegraph are fully described. [ | consider Stienhiel, together with Gauss and | Weber, who erected their telegraph at Gottingen | in 1888 and “34, the oxplorers of the electric | telegraph, to whom the most important part of its practical application is undoubtedly due.” | The telegraph of Steinheil, as described, rogis- | ters serial dots, or, more strictly, short lines, by a | point breught into contast with a moving fillet of | paper by the action of alever, opcrated by the de- | Uection of a magnetic bar, or bars, in a coil of wire. Without forming electro magnets on the plan of Prof r Henry, ii would bave been diflicult, if not impossible, to have produced signals at a great dis- tance, on the plan of Professor Morse. | Notwithstanding this was given in evidence be- | fore Judge Kane, in the late trial between tho com- plainante under Morse’s patent against those repre- senting Bain’s patent, the Judge decided that Scoin- beil’s registering telegraph was a visual or sema- phoric, and not a registering, telegraph. Heury, by using batteries of intensity and quan- tity, connected them with electro-magnets, so as to produce them also of intensity or of quantity. In the first case, the iron ased for a magnet was wrapped with as e long covered piece of copper wire: and, in the second instance, he wrapped the iron with a number of wiros of the same length, He showed that one magnet could be used to break or connecta circuit. Professor Henry published his experiments in the nineteenth volume of Silli- man’s Journal of Arts and Sciences, in IS3L. ‘The magnets now employed in the Morse tele- graph lines are upon Henry’s plan. ‘Chose of in- tensity are employedupon the main lines, while e of more quantity are employed on local cir- e Profeseor Henr7 states in his evidence, | (Smith vs. Downing, et’als, page 87) after dotail- ing ethods and results of his important oxperi-+ ments ol having furmeda magnet whish suspended 5,000 pounds in weight, and showing how cold iron ely magnetised and demagnotised e, as follows: ment of the fact thal to develo > of tl be xocon tolegrap »perimen's, uted tho fact abov rlow's project of sic ecnwich, england, Magnet then in uso, bieph, but considered it impracticable " to the te to produce sig “This was tho firs tag ‘ ism inan t establish- ranic current could be lostro maguet nd p y mcans ed men | sor Morse, according ony 0 Dr. Gale, adduced by Professor Henry, statos that | when be, Gale, first bocame connected with Profes- | sor Moree, about 1837, he, Morse, had not sue- | coeded in producing offecte at a distance; that when | he first catted in, he found Professor Morse could not, | by an electro magnet, produce effects at the end of | and that he formed his plan of a machine, which is | teo long to give entire, which seems to have been on Long Island, in 1826. | mony given before Judge lane | magnets and clock-r se ee seen the paper pabliane’ on tke subject Professor comes f ewered ** No.” He then informed Mr. Morse he would find the principles of success ex; that paper--that instead of a battery of a sing) element, he should employ one of a number of pa! that inatead of a magnet with oa short wire, he should use one with a long ooil. Mr. Gale stated that be had apparatus of the kind inthe building, and that, by applying it, ac- tion was produced through the wire for & oe of balf @ mile.—-See page 92, S. vs. D., et al. Professor Henry states that Professor Morse, after this, visited him frequently at Princeten, and con- eulted him fully on the principles of his experi- mente. He si that Stienheil fret used a ground circuit in 1837, and that Morse did not adopt it, or the use of posts, until after his unsuccessful at- tempt to convey bis wires in leaden tubes under peace between Baltimore and Washington, in _He eays that, ‘1 heard nothing of the cirenit as a part of Mr. Morse’s plan, until return from Europe, whither he went in 1838. was not until after this that Mr. Merse used the earth as a part of the circuit, in accordance with the discovery of Steinheil.” He states that he is not aware of Professor Morse having mado any discovery in the science or prin- ciples of electricity, or electro-magnetic principles, peculiar to bimself, worked by principles and im- provements in electrical and clectro-magnotic science, which were discovered and given to the world’ by others, and which no individual can exclu- sively appropriate. See pages {0 and 91, in the evidence referred to. Had Barlow been in possession of Professor Hepry’s improved methods of forming magnets, the telegraph would have been in successful opera- tion in 1525 ; or had Harrison. Dyar been in posses- sion of what Ampere did before him, or Henry after him, with money to have aided him, he would have succeeded in establishing a permanent working telegraph on Long Island, in 1826. The account of Dyar’s experiment is given by himeolf, ina letter to Luther J. Bell, Esq , living near Boston, written from Paris, in 1548. We can- not close without giving some account of it. His letter to Mr. Bell is dated, ‘31 Rue do la Madeline, Paris, March 8, 1848.” His letter is written in reply to inquiries made by Mr. Bell, ro- garding his establirhment of an electric telegraph, He claims that Professor Morse’s mode in representing the letters ot the al- pbxbet is similar to his own:— “Since reading your letter, when searching for some papers in reference to my connection with this subject, I found a letter of introduction, dated the day betore my departure from America, in bebruary, 1831, from an old and good friend, Chas. Walker, to bis brother-in-law, S. I. B Morse, artist, at that time in Europe. At the sight of this letter, it occurred to me that this Mr. Morse might be the same person as Mr. Morse of the electric telegraph, which | found to be the case. The fact of tho patontee of this telegraph being ao identical with my own, being the brother-in-law and living with my friend and legal counsel, Charles Walker, at the time of and subsequent to my experiments | on the wire, or electric telegraph, in 1826 and 1827—or about twenty years ago—has changed my opinion as to my remaining passive and allowing another to enjoy the honor of a discovery which, by | priority, is clearly due to moe, and which, pre- | sumptiously, is only a continuation of my plans, | without any material invention on the part of Saw (See evidence incase of S. and D,p. | 20, Mr. Dyar, although dererving of much credit, did not accomplish any more, if as much as others who had preceded him, and particularly Ampéré, in France, in 1820. From his statement, it seems likely that Professor Morse may possibly, while in Europe, in 1831, have learned something of what Dyar had attempted, from himself, or of attempts made in Europe by leading scientific men, by other partice, or from scientific publications. And that Dr. Jackson had also heard of the electric talé- raph experiments of Ampére and others, and that oth, returning home in the same ship, having the | subject in their heads, conversed freely about it ; | and that Dr. Jackeon, understanding more of eloo- | » through the ice referred to, will not ar- at tho conclusion that the decision of Judge Kane is one of the most ex: ever delivered in a court of justice. It was given in direct oppo- sition to the ct testimony of more than a dozen highly respectable scientific wi , bear- ing upon the direct points at issue. His decision proves either ono of two things, that his mind was probably made up without @ careful examination of the testimony, or that he grossly erred in inter- preting it—‘‘If & man is honest, it ia his duty in writing a history of the telegraph and to tell the Gull: and to speak from facts adduced under oath. ‘We aro personally friendly to Professor Morse, esteem him as an aimiable man, deserving of credit and of a foitune (or his application and poraever- ance in the introduction of the telegraph. But were ho our brother, in writing a history we should still feel bound to tell the honest convictions at which we have arrived, to utter the whole trath and nothing but the truth. We have no private ends to subserve. Wo own no interest in any tele- graph patent now inuse. We own nota dollar of stock in any telegraph line. We have not writ- ten anything at the suggestion of any patentee or telegraph company, nor received one cent of remu- neration, or tho promise cf a dimo, from any tele- gtaph company or patentee whatevor. ‘Thoso for whose interest we write aro the people—thoy havo a vast deal at stake; and as ono of the people, we have aright to examine the subject, and to urge our rights in the premises. When a steamboat SOmPRDY: by a legislative act, claimed a monopoly of exclusively navigating ail the rivers in the United States, it was thought to be oppressive. Professor Morse and his friends claim an exclusive right to navigate the air by elec- tricity, over the whole continent. As broad as the claim is, we eheuld be perfectly willing to accord it | to them, did we not know, from incontestible evi- dence, that they are not entitled toit. it may be stated, ard oan be indisputably proven, that, had neither Jackson, Morse, Neuse, nor Bains ever existed, we should still have had, at this | time, clectric telegraphs in operation. The dis- I Believe That am Born french at Least I was raised in france, although I nave The Passion of a italien, and Some bh in my veins, and Tho sniety # la mode (Lione ) I Speak four, five, and Six usge, Boaide: The languages of love, and The True sentiment. I Sing well, and dance most charmingly, | am Cunning, quiek, and fiery, | am Soft and mild at The occasion. | am Sensible, Romantis, and Son- timental. I am Loving and passionate, | could be a good loving Faithfal wife, and a very good house Keeper, good Company, of a good ainusing disposition. Ihave @ gold Sound Sense, | Can read human nature at first Sight. I always find cae aieogne by a glance. I have much Taste for every thing Grandiose, and Sublime, [ Love Justice, and admire talents. I 2m an excollent book Keeper, and a first rate calculator, and as good a Lawyer, by in Tho Unite States, if it takes Sevon German jows to beat a yankee, it takes seven yankees to beat me. My Features are rather masculin, and Charac- tkin Coarse, dark, and Sandy, with long black hair, Large black eyes, (2 L’espagnole.) Nose a la francaiso, (occeliane ) white md good set of teeth, Small hanes, Smail feet, (Chinese. ) waist Slender, weight ninety pounds Ages | do not know, wasn’t there whon born. My disposition is lively, + ical, and witty, and with all Taat | am not pretty, and so much ‘Che Better should I go crazy. How much I Should like To live in a Cottage, far away in The Country, for away from any human being, im The woods I Say, alone with Tho only ene | could love, far away with him only. where | could go fishing, hunting, and Cultivates flowers, raise chickens, milk The cows, Rido on horse back, and have a wild Jife. where | Could love and pray god, and admire ‘The whole Creation. Then I Could, talk, laugh, play, Sing, dance, read, write, play the piano, guitar, Harpe, tagnettes, wist, &c. I never scold, or grumble, and that is something!!! 1 Let every ono have Their one away, ond | havemine Accordingly, but reasonatly, To cook Ido not know, Neither wash, my hands are too small, but [Can Saw a button osoasionoly. Ihave no fortune, gentle reader; but what you See, iens’t it enough, for a good Constant Loving little wife, if that can suit @ partner, Como | am coveries of Oersted and of Ampere, in 1820, of Henry, in 127 and 1831, with the erection of a working recording SaISETADE, by Steinheil, in 1837, and of @ magnetite telegraph patent, by Whoat- stone & Cook, in 1857, (all in advance of Morse’s patent, ) placed the permanent introduction of elec- trical telegraphs beyond all doubt or dispute. Morse, | and others who bave followed thom, have only added mechanica! contrivances to what had already been invented or discovered, and for which alone | ae are entitled to exclusive patents | ¢ shall proceed, in our next, to show from the evidence given in the trial of French va. Rogers, all that had be known about electric telegraphs before Morse’s time, in addition to what we havo already adduced, and also show that there is no ia- | terference or infringement on Morse’s patent by that of Bain’s; and to prove what Morse is really enti- tled to, and what he has no claims to—with a synop- | sis of the evidence get aside or overlooked by Judge Kane in making bis declsion—conciuding with an | historical and chronological table of a!l the discove- ries made, and attemp's growing out of them to | cstablish electric telegraphs, for mere than a cen- | tury past. | Errata.—In our previous sketch of tho tele- graphs, the estimates maie up for the quantity of zine consumed by all the telegraph limes in the United States, was handed to us by a young man connected with one of the oflices. It was based on | | the use of 30 cups for every milo, instead of thesome number for every 100 miles. We inserted it with- | | out going over the figures, supposing it to becorrect. | By conforming the estimate to 30 cups for each 100 | miles the error will stand corrected, and the quan- | tity of zinc consumed per annum prove & great deal | less. 1t ia also stated that Dr. Gale, ofthe Patent | Office, is not now # part owner of Morse’s patent. Flogging in the Navy. James Gorpon Bennett, E: tric science than Mr. Morse, who had been’ for some years devoted to the palette as a painter, and that the latter freely sought information of the for- mer on the all engrossing subject. As far as the original discovery of the clectric telegraph was concerned in 1832, neither party could make any exclusive claim to it. Mr. Dyar says that he contemplated in 1526, ex- tending telegraph wires on poles, through the air, from New York to Philadelphia, but thinks he was ten years too soon. ‘invented a tolegraph which should bo inde pendent of day or night, or weather, which ehould extend from town to town or city to city, without any intermediary agency, by meansof an in sulated wire in the air, susponded upon poles, and through which wire | intended to send strokes of electric ty ineuch a maner as that the diverse distances of time, feparating the divers sparks, should repre sent the different letters of the alphabet, and etops between the words H and ©. ‘the absolute stops en the relative difference of time between the several sparks, | intended to take off from an ectric machine by a little mechanical contri- vance regulated by a pendulum, and the sparks were intended to be recorded upon a moving or revolving sheet of moistened litmus paper, | Which, by the formation of nitric acid, by tho spark in the air, in its pareage throvgh the payer, would leave a red spot for each spark on this blue test pa- per.” These spots he proposed to be eo spaced as to represent the letters ef the alphabet, or for other signs to be transmitted, over any length of wiro, backwards or forwards. He also proposed to em ploy an auxiliary aid along the wire to gain great- | erimpulse [meaning, provably, electro magnetic power.—Author}. “In reference to what | did to carry out my in- vention, | associated myself with Mr. Brown, of Providence, who gave me certain sums of money to beceme ageociated with mo inthe invention. We employed a Mr. Connel, of New York, to aid in getting capital wanted to carry the wires to Vhilw elphia; this we considercd as accomplished; b before beginning on the long wire, it was decided that we should try some miles of it on Long nd, Accordingly | obtained some fine card wire, inten ing to run it geveral times round the race course en Long Island. We put up the wire, i. ¢., Mc. and myself, at different lengths, in curves and straight lincs, by suspending it from stake to stake, and tree to tree, until we concluded that our experiment justified our undertaking to carry itfrom New York to Philadelphia. At thismoment ou agent, Mr. Connel, brought a suit, or summa against me for $20,000, for agencies and serviovs. which I found was done te extort a concession of a ebare of the whole project. I appeared bofore Judge Irving, who, on hearing my statements, dis- missed tho suit a8 groundless. A few days after this, Joseph E. White, who knew about our plan of a now telegraph by wire hung inthe air, and who was our patent agent, rate to take out a patent when we could no longer keep it a secret,) came to Mr. Brown and myself, and stated that Mr. Connelhad obtained a writ against us, under the charge of conspiracy, for carrying on secret ccmmunication from city to os and advising us to leave New York until be could settle the affair for us, a8 the Sherifi’s efficers were then after us, As you oo suppose, this happening just after the notorious bank conspiracy trials, wo were fright- encd beyond measure, and the same night stepped ofl for Providence, where I remained for some time, and did not return to New \ork for many months, and then with much fear of a suit ’ This sooms to have putanend to Mr. D’sexperiments. On ro- turning to New ) ork, he thinks that he “ consulted Charles Walker, hought, however groundless euch a charge might be, that it might give me infi- nite trouble In the late trial before Judge Kane, at Philadel- phia, in the case of Benjamin B French, ct als, re- precentative of Morse’s patent, vs. Honry.!. Rogers, ct als, representative of Bain's patent, Mr. Dyar, having returned to the United States, testified in person to the improvements he had made, pretty much in substance as stated in the extracts given from his Paris letter. Ile, however, declined to tell all be professed to know about it, or which he claimed to have discovered, on the ground that there were principles involved in it for which he was secking patents in the United States and (ireat 22 French vs. Ltogers, Britain —(Sce pages 13 to 2 September, 1851.) Before we prosced furthor, we may remark that the testimony taken in the trials of I’. ©). J. Smith ys. Downing, ct als, or Moree against House’ bad in Boston, in 1859 ; and that of V’rench, ve. Rogers, «t als, or Morse ys. Bain, had at Phila- ia, in 1851, is exceedingly voluminous. Inthe former case, its publication cmb 3 about 400 pages, and in the latter about !,000 pages octavo. it may bo atated, however, that all tho matorial ovidence in the first is repeated aud included in the second publicatic In the trial of Frer Bain), tho* evidence t c f new and addilion clating to now mattore at i We shall next proceed to in tigate t of Philad eptember last. We shall show irom at there is not the slightest intorfer ort of the Bain’s telegraph, with tha’ We chall thow, that the great snd his friends have boon, to « use of principles which he novor discovered or vented, and that all he could ever j his mechanical contrivances, to be o by electricity, or cloctro-magnetisa. port-rule, and his penlever, in combination with heels. His pen lever to make dots and lines, on slips of paper, passing over a grooved roller, moved by tho clock-whegis. There My Drsarn Sir—A great deal has been, andis being said, in and out of Congress, relative to the propriety of having a cat on board our national versele, as well as our merchant vessels; or, in other words, whether the uso of the cat-o’-nine- | tails is good for the wholesome condition of dis- | cipline. ‘The gallant Commodore Stockton advo- | cated, in a long speech, in his place, as Senator of | the United Statee, its continued annihilation—that | ie, it st ould not, with bis voico and influence, be re- stored. Commcdore Stockton says he has seen much service in every ocean andclime, while be- longing to the navy, and yet he is principled oguimet the infliction of corporeal punishient as a means of cnforcing discipline inthe navy. Commo- dere Stockton is « bold, fearless, gallant man, and i ing bim from among its members, iced with a bright and shining star. Bat it b tobe deubted ifthe penetraung and active octey of such & map, ene too, who has served £0 long xs modore Stockton in the service of his country, bas never obeerved, during his glorious career, many instances wherein the cat-o’-nine tails has proved of salutary advantage to the culprit re- cipient, and hence served as an example to others. Near thirty years of my life has been passed in srsociation with the navy; one third of this timo pagecd on board mon-of-war on distant station. My experience, therefore, brings me decidedly to the opinion that punishinent with the cat, cannot be dispenzed with entirely and discipline proserved. On beard of almost every ship there are found worthlese, skulking vagabonds, who are rey beyond any moral euasion, other than that whic! the loeb can inouleate--thore were many such found cn board of every ship before the passage of the law abrogating its infliction was passod, but, since ite passage they bave increased ten fold in nu:nber, ana have assumed ton times moro indifference, and have no hesitation in saying to an oflicer, on ra | ceiving an order, ‘tyou dare not flog me.” Such incorrigible insubordinate characters, lam infavor of having severely punished. I am opposed to in- discriminate corjoreal chastisement, nor would | leave it totho judgment of eny one man to say, | what the punishment should be, lot the zank of the | oflicer be ever so high. ‘This indiscriminate inflic- | tion of the lash I have often witnessed, and that | too when wholly undeserved. In the first five years | of my service, Ihave seen the men called down | from the tops, and from off the yards, and flogged, each adozen and sometimes more, for an olfence committed by some unknown delinquent. I have secon an officer order daily a chair to be placed upon the berth deck before breafast for his convenience, and there order every man within sight to stand up andreceive punishment with the ‘‘colt,” without, in many in etances, any cause whatever. The cons quence was, the ship was in firet rate discipline, and had the enviable cognomen of being the crack ship of the navy, or ofthe squadron to which she belonged. | There are many oflicers now in the navy, and | “crack” officers they are too, to whom these facts | are wellknown. | would by no means have you to urderstand, that he who is giving you this infor- | mation possesses any more ofthe milk of human | kindness,than any other oflicer connected in any | manner with the navy; on the contrary, | was | brovgbt up in a strict, rigid, naval school, so far as | education with the ‘‘cat” goes, and have boen the means of ite use as much as many who are now the | advocates for its uso. Ido most sincerely hope it | will be restored, but governed and restricted in | such a judicious manner as to be of service, instead | of a curse—as I have too often been an oye-witness to its abuse. 1 would, therefore, Mr. Editor, sug- gest the propriety of establishing or authorizing | trial by what is termed in the army, “Drum head courts martial.” ‘This court should be compose | exclusively of non-combatants, a class of officer supposed to be highly educated and sensible men, | ana from the nature of their duties are entirely dis- tinct from any co-operation with the crew, and | therefore, well suited to sitin judgment upon any | case requiring animpartal hearing A court thus | constituted excludes all *‘oflicors of the line,” or, in | otker words, captains, lieutenants, passed-mid-hip- | men, and midsbipmen, who are, more or less, in ac- tual contact with the crew. On board a frigate | there are usually one surgeon, one purser,one chap- | jain, two assistant surgeons, one captain's clerk, | and if she be a flag-ship, a secretary. Vessels of | 1 smaller class have these officers in proportion to her size. Other punishments, of a minor hature, than the lash, of course, invariably exists on boardship; in all cases where, in the opinion of the Captain of the ebip, after a proper and porsonal investiga ticn, he deems the offence one worthy of a ; uvishment than he has power to inflict, bo ried to the highest authority prosont; if in the Jyicdiction of the United tes, to tho Seoretary ol the Navy; if ina squadron, to the Command “Chief; or should the ship be sopargted and acting -being service, then the Capt nail act, and or- ra court composed of 2 above enume may, perhaps, be argued by such or of an unrestricted restoration of th imerly, the impracticability of constitu ccurt upon the basis as here presented in cx nee of the few innumber of non-combatants on d st 1 should prove to be the ca why ne t corps of Pareors and the augmentations of thi orps have for time been needed, and, I believe, froquentiy vd for—if an Assisiant Purser and additional nt Surgeon be added to cach vevsel, from sioop-of-war up to a frigate, there could be no ob- tion to the measure; any method, whereby har | mony, good feeling, contentment of mind could be | produced among the officers and with the crew, will be acceptable, which, however, never can be | efected without the proper and judic'al aid of the ingly, and dolay prove prejudiciul to the well of ub n * cat- of nine-tails. Re | you know? | Forrest ready. ‘The Most excellent references, from ail quartere of The world, franco, [talie, England, morica, Bankers, Senatorr, li epresentative, | tors from the wholo America, Prinvo, Count, Count, Baron, from old Country. & : (Required. That ‘The ages Should not pass, forty, of a good morele, Pleacant manners, Good figure, and agrea ble address, and a Limited Fortune, enough to buy a dress when wanted, and twenty five conts for the poor when need requires. Now Handsome New yorkers and Amoricans par- ticulorly, There is a challence for you. Hurry yourself, do not Loose, The Belle, opportunity. Address. Broadway Post offico Mario La Gaity No. i. THE FORREST DIVORCE CASE. Superior Court, Before Chief Justice Oakley. CATHARINE N. FORKEST VO. EDWIN FORKEBT TWENTY SEVENTH DAY. ‘The Court room was not ro densely crowded this morn- ing as heretofore. The severity of tho weather kept of the curieus away. Mra. Forrest was, as usual, ompanied by Mra, N, P, Willis, Mc. Forrest was also Mr. Van Buren esjled Chauncey Smith, who, being swern, depored J reside in West Broadway; Tam in the salt fish trade—I know Wi. M. Dety, perhaps for four or five years; I cannot ray positively. Q.—Do you know the Reneral speech of people of him? A—I have heard people speak against him, and prople speak for him; the general speech of people about him is bad. Q.—From the general speech of people about him would you believe him under oath ! A.—Yea, rir, I would, Mr. Van Buren— You can cross-examine him. Mr. O'Conor—That will do, Thomas C. Battim, deposed—I am a butcher in Wash- ington Market; I have known Wm. M, Doty some years; I bave beard considerable said about the man, .--In re- ference to his character for truth and veracity, what do ATI know very little; but as faras his out-deer epecch is concerned, it is bad; [am not able to speak of his general character. Q.—As far as the general speech of people, what is his general character? A.—As far as that is concerned, I should say it is un- favorable. The witnees was not cross examined. Robert Forsythe, depored—I reside at 76 Warren atreet; Tam an oyster dealer, I have known William M. Doty between four or five years,1 believe, Q—Do you know the general speech of people about him? A.—Not altogether; I kave heard him spoken of lately in reference to this case; before that time I can’t say I have ever heard anything indifferent of him. Crorr-examired.—From all that you have heard of him, would you believe him on oath’ A.-- I would believe him. To Mr, Van Buren-~What I have heard of him in refe- rence te this case, I have heard some speak unfavorably and some favorably. Mrs Frances H. Jermaine, deposed—I reside in Troy; I am a widow; my late husbend’s name was John P.; am a sicter to Mrs, Demming; I was in thiscity in the fall of 48; Tetaid at my eister’s, Mrs, Demmings; my attention was called to something in Mr Ferrest’s one evening; I faw & gentleman in the room with Mrs. Forrest; who he was [ canrot say he was tall and light complexion; the ger tleman had his arm round Mrs. Forrest's shoulders; their backe were towards the window; they were about five minutes in that position; it was between 11 and 12 o’clock at night. Q —Hov did you ascertain who the lady wae? A.—She had been peinted out to me several times; I had ecen her in the garden wiih Mr. Forrest, andin the library with Mr. Forrest; Mrs Forrest, when fhe left the window, went towerds the table and laughed: the gen- tleman followed her; I could see her face by the gas light, which was near her face; they leit the room to, ther; the gentleman passed his arm tound Mrs, Forrest's waist as they left the room; I have seen Mr, Forrest; I never have spoker to him, Q=—Do you know Mr Forrest sulliciently to may whether the gentleman was he? A.—It wae not Mr, Forrest; he was notin town; he was playing an engogement; I do not know where; when they turned cound I could see the gentieman’s face; L called the attention of Mr. and Mrs, Demming to it; had not been more than a moment looking when I eailed them; Lealled them both; they were in an adjoining rocin; Mr. Demming told me who they were Dir O'Conor—You need not mention whet be said, Mr. Van Buren—We offer to show that Mr Demming | told the witmess at the time who the parties were. ‘The Chief Justice ssid Mr. Demming could prove that. Mr. Van Doren—He has; we merely offer this to cor- reborate him Crces examined—I was on a visit at Mr. Domming's for @ year; it Wee in the fall I saw this; I but seldom go tothe theatre; I had seen Mr, Forrest but once; I had seen him two cr three years before this; our usual hour for retring war about twelve o'clock, and this was a little after eleven o'clock; it was by the pupers Lknew Mr. Korrert had been playing an engagement; I cannot re- member where; [do not think | ever saw any other lady in that library. © —Did you ever see any other lady of Mra Forrest's fomily except herself? A.—I do not think Lhave, except a younger rister. ()—Mins Virginia? A. —Yer; that is the only member of her family, except herre’f. that I have reen, Elizabeth Deraming was then edtothestand. Mrs. Jermaine took ® seat near her. Mr. O'Conor spoke to Mr. Acker, the officer, whe removed the lady to the ed- joining room. Mr. Van Bure ked if there was any objection to Mrs Jermaine being sented near her sister? The Chief Justice said it was not usual, but he heard ne objection made, r. Van Buren—Then I wish the lady to remain. The Ubief Justice—it was not usual for gay person to be seated near the witp Mr. Van Buren—But if there is no objection. Mr. O'Conor made no reply. The Obief Justice—Well. | object, Withers was then exemincd by Mr. Van Buren, end depcred—My name is Flizabeth; iny husband’s name is Fyhert Demining; I resided in Zwency. tiret street in the {alt of “48, where i reside now; Mr. Vorrest’s house was in Twenty-second etreet; the two houses are on the one lot; bis garden fence joins the rear of our house; my attention was celied to @ circumstance in the fail of 45; it is the rame ae Mrs Jermaine iss stated; she called my Attention to some persons that wore standing in Mr. room; it was the library, I muppose; che gen- tleman was standing wilh his arm on or around the lady's shoulder; their backs were toward both went to the table afterwards, their faces directly towards us; th rectly over the table; I could when I first saw them t » toward 1 could then see their backs perfectly plain, but not faces; I could see their porition ady! me; they and that brought ui th AwIt wan N. P. Willis. Crosa examined—1 bad vever spoken to M i never spoken toN P, Wille; I bad of Willis; I have never been in the sum m; I have reen him ia @ you krow any other 4 en he lady that 1 © younges! French v t y wae throug) bave live 5 yore in May ne wor f 1 that was was in it waa e yeu you may |r r y Q —Did you hay | full view of th the entirely agreed with Mr, Forr Gifference between them on that, only «he the tone of his (Mr, Fern that was Jatter part of January, 40; at all events it wa ary previous to their separation; she eeid she di the tone of the card, end the language was str ages of a { me, my P. e255 weet; Mr, Demming’s house fence divides their houses; of the cellar stairs from the third ee; think there would be fourteen steps; there should think there are more than four steps bet turn and the top; I did not count the steps; I say, the most favorable position, you can nee all, unlers the last four; I think there might be three or four that "ne could not see; there is a cellar underneath; Mr. For- rest’s houre occuples the whole lot; the lot is not quite the same width im the rear; when it comes to Mr, Deme mings it jogs about eight feet. A Juror--What distance is it from Mr. Demming’s house to Mr. Forrest's’ A.—I should think the lot is 196 feet deep; I can’t tell the distance between them Without looking to the diagram (looks at the diagram) X should think it is about 100 feet between the twe Ores A Juror.--On which side is the hall of Mr, Demming’ house? A.--On the enst side. ‘Yo Mr. Van Buren.—From the centro of the rear or | Mr. Forrest's Louse to Mr, Demming’s house, I think there iv a difference of 25 feet deviation from the direct lin Gvorge Roberts was colied by Mr Van Baren but did not appear. He was then formally called by the officer of the Court. The Chief Justice--Proceed Mr, Van Buren. Mr, Von Buren—I think we are through, but I'll let your Honor know in « few minutes. Mr. Van Buren in afew minutes eaid—We rest here your honor, ‘The Chief Justice—We will consider this a final rest- ing, except on the conditions already mentioned. Mr. Van Buren—If the physician from Connecticut, Doctor Gregory, should come, Lehould like to examine him. Mr. O’Conor then, in pursuance to stipulation, read the following affidavit made im this case by Chas, 3. Freneb, The witness is now ill:— Catharine N. Forrest against Edwin Forrest.—City aud County of New York, ss —Chailes 8 French, of said city, clerk in the office of Henry [1, Leeds & Co., auctioneern, doing business at No 8 Wall street, in said city, being duly sworn, say# as follows:—On the second day of No- vember, 1849, the above named Edwin Forreat purchased, of Henry H. Leeds & Co., at their raid place of business, two covered sofus, for tho price or sum of one hundred and sixteen dollars, At the time of sald purchsee, Mc. Forrest gave directions to have the sofas sent over to the North river, to be transported up suid river, to known as Fonthill, in Westchester county, whic accordingly done. 0, 8. FRE Swern before me, this 20th day of December, D HOBAKS, Commissioner of Deeds. Li i: Hi i Mr. O'Conor then proposed to read the commission which was issued to Norwall, to examine Mrs, Dickin- son, the wife of Mr. Jol Dickinson, who had been ex- amined here Mr. Van Buren objected to it, and said that when this commission was ierued the defendant sent off to Nor- ik, but could not get track of where the commission There is @ differenco In the name of the party signing it and the party to whom it was addressed. The commision was issucd to one fHorace F, Ferry, and it was signed by one Orria 8 Terry; if it bad been an Eng- lithman he (Mr, Van Buren) could understand why the FH. had been dropped. He had looked over the com- mission, and was convinced that there is everything in rreconeilable as to time and circumstance, aad which renders it inndmiesable; it contradicts her husband and the of her witness Mr. 0'Conor said that would be in favor of the other side, He remarked tbat the gentleman in one or two places, did not cross his F. The Chief Justice said there was no diffloulty about that, it was more like an ¥ thanaT Mr. O°Conor, would show that there was but one Mr. Ferry, 2 lawyer, in Norwalk. He would send back the commission and have the name corrected,if the Court deemed it necessary. He would rather do so than have apy technical ©! on raised. the Chief Justice said that his present impression is that the commission could be read, und if there was any question as to ite being properly executed, that could be brought up subsequently. If you wish to read it you may do Fo. Mr. Van Buren sald if the Court admitted it, he would except. Ifthe Court thought it shouid be sent back, thin the defendant could have an opportunity of being present at the cxamivation Mr, O’Conor said he would read it in the courye of the morning. The Chief Justice—Gentlemen speak of not being pre- sent; I don’t understand any objection taken upon the ground of want of notice. Mr. O'Conor—Oh! no sit; there are interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, Mr, O'Vonor then said he would read four short letters. He would first read BS and BO letters of Mr, Forrest to Mrs. Forrest, {B 8.) Boaron, Oct, 14, 1848, Your letter, enclosing one from @udge Conrad, cameo hand last night—it bas remained all this time at the Tre- mont House, Last Baturday night was indeed beautiful and, inthe enjoyment of its beauty you were not forgotten. i Rave made no arrangement with the manager yet to shorten my engagement. I inust first learn if 1 open in Philadelphia at the early time proposed, Lawaon writes me that you have been suffering from tore throat, which I am exceedingly sorry to hear. Xou do not take svftictent care of yourself. How very nicely you packed the wardrobe. Thanks, wy dear Kate, and believe me, Yours ever and truly, EDWIN. David Whitney has gone to Europe, and his absence makes his mother very sad. {B 9] Bosrox, Thursday. I ehall leave for New York, my dear Kate, on Saturday afternoon next, by the Stonington line, so that you may rend « cart for the luggage at daylight on Bunday moi ning next, and @ carriage for me. ‘The dressee arrived to-day, and all is right. Hoping to find you well on my return, 1 am, you! Mr. O°Conor--I will now read we cuppore to be written about t [¢ 21} My Dearest Catranine:—1 have just received your welcome letter of 28th ultimo. J am rejoiced you have de- termined to go to Mr. Phalen's, for {ama sure you will be pleated, and no one Will be there whom he will be more roud togreet than yourself. I only regret 1 shall not five te happiness to accompany you. I should like vight weld to be with you, IN SPITE OF MY DISLIKE TO SET rantirs, How wondrously devout you have beoome of late--to go to church twice in one day. Instead of laughing at you, I sey amen to your sweet prayer Lam- bert hes prevailed upon me to remein here antil Mon- day, when I shall clore, and proceed om Tuesday to Bal- ‘ver, EDWIN. , O22, and C23, C21 28th August, 44, timore, Ward, I understand haa closed in Washington; if +0, 1 ebail be with you in New York on Thuradey night. The theatre is quite deserted. How comes on the garden ? Has John put up the arbors’~-and how do you like them? Remember me to Margaret, and believe ime, my dear Catharine, to be your devoted ~=EDWIN, Nonvonw, Baturday afternoon (022) Trumovt He October 23, 1839. My Draresr Carnanin this morning received cur welcome and affectionate letter of Tuesday. I am fast returned from the performance of “ Metamors,”? end, of couree, feel very much fatigued. I cannot, not- withstanding, reeist the pleasure of communing with my beloved Catharine, by tracing a few lines to repeat how much, bow very much, I love Ler, and to assure her how fondly } respond to all her endearing sentiments: Tam right glad you went to hear Mr. Dewey preach. He it, undoubtedly, a mau of very superior endowments, and I believe him to be a pure and unaffected Christian. Such men do honor to their calling, and incline the well at the understan ‘ing of their hearers, to- em, Heis none the worse for quoting in the ivit' the Bard of all time. ‘Allen hes promised to send you, to morrow, seme quinces fer preeerves, and some fine squashes, wh | says can be procured here ofa finer quality than any- where eleein the Usion, He will probably send you, seme came, Which, be says, is bere im great abua- There was, to-night, a very good house—eay from seven | tovight hundred dollars This, considering the pressure in the money market, is quite satisfactory. J bere will continue to pay specie , provided w York held out, eport in town to day that the St. Uharles street theatre, in New Orleans, was destroyed by I sincerely bope that it may not prove true. [tis really pain- jul to resd of the cirtress in Mobile, oceasioned by fire aud pestilence, The weather hore bas, for the last few duys, been very cold, but bright and beautiful. How I mire you in my walks about tho park, As I wandered through it alcne today a thousand pleasant reminis- cencee ercwded upon me, of our many pleasant walks there together. In foncy you were by my side again, and the orecing sir had called upon your much loved cheek ite roriest bue. Well,well’ Ina few daze more, aud fancy shall give place to the luxury of reality, and ben our joys shall be intencer by cur distance now Remember me kindly to Mra. Leggett, to Marg and accept, for yourrelf, the devotion cf a heart enuirely yours EDWIN How do you like thie psper? I bought a quarter of n Lregret to hear of the poor basi- en, Sunday, July 17. Pray wiite to me on the ree tof this, an urs, most devotediy EDWIN. pored—i am a det the Bx- om pperintend- thea purchased che it to 1848; I oy coeph Stapler was then enlled and ; iknow My, Rurhton, who kept change Wime; I bad it previoas to him; be took po Witsers--} em n