Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-03-01

this wonderful piece of mechanism, and no
place could rave been found more suitable
to pursue the curse of experiments neces-
sary to perfecting Tho detail Of machinery,
than the Speedwell Works. reple,e as they
are with every convenience. Prof. Mors
quietly pursed the great object, and has
finally suggested thu possibility of convey
ing intelligence by electricity, but this is the
FIRST instance of its actual transmission aud
permanent accord.
The telegraph consists of four parts
LIST. The Battery-A Cruickshanck's gall
vaaic trough of 60 pair of plates, seven by
eight and a half inches each.
n The Purtrule-An instrument which
regulates the motion Of the rule. The rale
answers to the stick Of the printers, and in
it the type representing the numbers 10 DO
transmitted ure passed beneath the lever
which closes and breaks the circuit.
Sd. The Register-An instrument which
receives Il accords the numbers sent by the
Portrule from any distant station.
4th. dictionary, containing acomplete
vocabulary of all the words in the English
regularly numbered.
The communication which we saw made
through b distance of two miles, was the
following cn,ence:-"RniI Road cars inst
arrired-345 passengers" These words
were put into numbers from the dictionary,
the numbers were set up in the telegraph
type in about the same time ordinarily occu-
pied in setting up the sario in a printing
office. They were then all passed complete
by the Portrule in about half a mintute,
each stroke of the Portrule al one extremity
marking on the register ut the other, a,
distance of two miles, instantaneously We
watched the spark ut one and the mark o
the pencil at the other, and they, were as
Simultaneous rs If the lever itself had struck
the mark. The marks or numbers were
easily legiblc and by means ofthe dictionary
were resolved again into words.
The superiority of this telegraph over ali
hitherto invented Is, that day or night. in
clear or i'll foggy weather, intelligence can
be sent simultaneously. The advantage to
the Government and the country Of such a
means Of communication are incalculable.
Morristo,On ~Jerseyman.
Tho cost per mile for constructing nn
electric telegraph is estimated at about S6OOl
Nv. York Com. ADV.
Correspondents Of tie Baltimore Com. Transcript.
EntVThaHINoroN, Feb. IA.
Mr.. Morse, the Inventor of the Electro
Magnetic Telegraph, exhibited his machine
in the Capitol to day, to the qualification Of
every one that saw the ingenuity of his in-
~vention. Nothing Gin DO more wonderful
than to witness the manner in which tho
most mysterious Of all agents, is made to
convey TO a distance the Information by
means of characters. The Machinery is too
complicated, for me to give you an idea of
the way this invention works, and yet a short
explanation from the inventor makes it ut
once simple and Ineligible to all.
Mr.. Morse exhibited two immense rolls
Of shcathed wire wound round a steel bar.
which ON being subjected to the s~alvanic
fluid, h we'd the bars to be highly magne-
tised, though the wire the fluid had passed
through TO them, was ten miles in length.
This fully proved the practicability of ap-
plying this powerful agent on a large scale.
The Invention has excited great interest
among the membors Of both Houses.
Ely's Neu Gigantic White Wheat.-This
is a new variety Of winter wheat imported
from England and raised near London
The size and weight Of the berry sLrpasses
any thing Of the ind which we have ever
, examined; tho straw is stout, and measures
from four to Eve feet in length. We would
5 i vi our agricultural friends to COLL at the
store Of Mr.. VIM. Bristol Of this city, and
look at it, and if they do not say it is a little
better than the best we will acknowledge that
we are no judse.-Oneida nv. ~ Uhig
; Distilled Spdrits.-Johm Cooper, inspcc-
, tor general of distilled spirits for the city of
, New-York, reports that he has inspected
, within the past year. 24.s45 bbls. 3O74 hhds.
i and s5O6 casks ofdistilled spirits, containing
i in the aggregates 9, 45l 900 gallons lst proof.
Courage.-lt is not the daringncss of
kicking a waiter at the tavern, i, is not tho
s%truting with n cockade, dressed in scarlet.
> it is not uttering oaths and imprccations a,
Z every word, which form the characteristic
y of true courage That man only is brave
u who fears nothing so much rs committing
% a mean action and undauntcdly fuiflls
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