Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-11-16
From the Charleston Mercury.
A FACT WORTH \ THOUSAND
THEORIES

o those Nho CONJECTURE lhAt NaNuhIl DdHN
would or could have prevented or ii established
hereafter, might be remedy iof the evils under
/ which the county suffers, we commend the fol-
lowing short extract. winch, with three lines OF
! comment, We cut from the las, Richmond Enqul.
rer:
From the National Iuteligcncer, Sept -, 1878 !
Stocks are down, down, While the rates OF
exchange are advanced al rapid and unpfeceden-
ted rate, The currency is IN conusjun--run
AID bankruptcy meets rs on every hand. The
domestic exchanges never were worse, and scarce
ever can be. The Southern bills arc almost
worthless at the North, aud The West is IN nearly
as bad q situation. What IS to be done. we know
not.-The United States Bank can afford Va no
following l. quoted as the rates Of exchange in
New York ,or las, Monday.
"New York City par, II country. 3a7:
| Pennsylvania, 3 aG; Ohio, 3 a II; New Hamp.
| shire, 5 Connecticut, i a 8; Vermont, 3
9;2 10; Delaware, sac; Maryland, 10 a
IL; Virginia, 10; Kentucky, 20 a %;
Georgia, "a 25 Tennessee 20; Rhode
Island, a - New Jersey, 3a7"
And whoru las tie last ire broke out? Ia
lhis same Bank, under it, now form Of the Penn.
sylysnn Btut Of the United States.
GALvASic TGrEGRAPus--W1 observe that
the managers Of the Great Western RAILWAY.
have already adopted the new galyanlc mode Of
communicating intelligence upon their road. Tn
following description Is from London paper
and the Liverpool Mercury, in Introducing il,
states that the rate at which the electric nud ira
yels, has been discovered by accurate experiment,
10 be not less than 100000 mles IN a single Sc
cond Of time 4" The space occupied by The
case containing the machinery (Which simply
stands upon table, and can be removed at plea.
sure to any part Of the rom j. liule more than
that required for genicman's hat box
The telegraph is worked by merely pressing
small brass keys, similar to those on keyed TN.
gle, which acting (by means Of gayanic pow.
er) upon various hands placed upon q dial.patc,
at the other end Of the to egtaphic line, az iar as
nov opened, point not only to each letter Of the
alphabet, as each key may be struck or pressed,
but the numerical by the same means, a. well a.
The various points, from comma to colon, with
notes Of admiration and nie1ection. There is
likewise a cross q upon the dial, which nd
Gates that when this key is struck, mistake has
been made in some part Of the sentence tele.
graphed, and that an erasure is intended.
A qae,lion--sUch FOR instance, as the follow.
ing How many passengers started from Day
ton by the ten O'Clock irain l'--and the answer
could be transmitted from the terminus 10 Dray.
ton and back in less nan Two mirutes--This
was proved on Saturday. This mode Of com
munlcatlon is only completed as far az West
dayton, which Is about thirteen miles end half
from Paddngion. There arc wires las may be
imagined) communicating with each end, thus FIR
completed, passing through hollow IRON tube,
not more than an inch and half in diameter,
which is fixed about six inches above the ground,
running parallel with the railway, aud about two
or three feet distant rom il. il IS the intention Of
the Great Western Railway Company, tocauy the |
tube along the llnc as fast as The completion Of The
rails tlkes piece, and ultimately throughout the
whole dls'pneo to Bristol. The machinery, and
The mode Of working it, are so exceedingly sim.
pie, that a child who could read, would, after AZ
hour OF twos instruction., be enabled to lransmi
and receive information.