The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23
THE DEAD LIVE,

THE DEAD LIVE. !,
| have seen one die: she w6s beautiful,
and beautiful we're the ministries O. life that
were given her to fulfil. Angelic loneliness
enrolled, and grace as fit were caught frohS|
Heaven, breathed in every tone, and fol-
lowed every affection; shone in every &C
iron, invested, as halo, her whole exis-
tence, and made it light and blessing. a
charm and vision of gladness, to all around
her; but she died! Friendship, and love,
and parental fondness, and infant weakness,
stretched out their hands to save her; but
they could not save her, and she died!-
What! did ali that loneliness die? Is there
no lane Of the blessed, and the lovely ones,
for such to live int Forbid it reason, reIi-
gion! bereaved affection und undyiug love,
forbid the thought! It.cannot he that such
die in Gods counsel; who live in frail hui
man memory for ever!
| have seen one die, in the maturity Of
every power. in the earthly perfection of
every faculty; when many temptations had
been overcome, and many hard lessons had
been learned; when many experiments had
made virtue easy, and had given facility
to action, and a success to eudeavor; when
| takes, and skill had been laboriousiy ac-
quired IN the use of many powers; ard the
being ! looked upon, had just comprised
that most useful, most practical Of all know
ledge-how 10 live, and to act we'll and wise.
ly; yet have seen such an one die! Was
all this treasure gained only to be lost?--I
We're all these faculties trained, only 10 he
thrown into utter disnse? Was this instr,-
ment--the intelligent soul, the noblest 10 the
universe-was it so laboriously fashioned,
and by the most varie1 and expensive apps-
ratus, that on the very moment Of being fin
lshed, it should be cast away for ever? No;
the dead, as we call them, do not so de-
They carry our thoughts to another and a
nobler existence. They teach US, and es-
pecially by all the strange and seemingly
| untoward circumstances of their departure
from this life, that they, and we, shall live
forever.-Derey.
THE LIGHTNING TELEGRAPH An asso
citation has been started in New York and
Philadelphia to establish line of the Elec-
tro Magnetic Telegraph, invented by Pro-
fessor Morse, between those two cities.-
The distance the wire is to be laid is 100
miles. The Association are to paw Profess
sor Morse $500 per mile, or $2O, 900 for the
exclusive right between the two cities, which
is to be surrendered to the United States, If
during the present session Congress shall
assume the exclusive RICH: OF, establishing
the Telegraph from Washington to New
York. i'he expense of laying the wires is
estimated at $500 per mile, amounting to
So, 1000, which with the purchase Of the
right, will make the whole cost ST., 900;
keeping the Telegraph in operation, winch
will require two managers at each end and
contingencies, is put down at $4,000 per
annum.
1 Professor Morse estimates the power of
the Telegraph equal to communicating As
letters per minute, 81 500 per day, which,
at one cent letter for postage, would yield
Sl30, 900 per annum, deducting one halt
the year or $4,000 if but one fourth the
capacity is employed. The average num-
Der of letters in the ordinary words of the
English language, is seven. Thus tele-
graphic communication of ten words would
cost seventy cents. A capital of $780, 900,
is to be raised in shares of $lOO-the work
to be commenced next June, and completed
Dv DeCeH1UeT 1000. Ac iOttc Hccu uos
be straight or level, and the wire may fol-
, low the course of Railroad, or diverge with
out affecting the communication.
The plan is to communicate Electric
shocks. in other words, to set lightning to
: running AN express along the wires which
, are TO be so contrived as that the instant the
shock is given at one end, the wires will in.
E dictate on a cord atthe other end; the letters
! corresponding to the desired intelligence
The application of the electric fluid to such
!, purpose is a highly scientific invention
and II may be destined to work great chan.
pes IN the despatch of intelligence. o.
n course il mus: be very much wanted, as the
go ahead propensities Oft the age are already
> weary of the slow progress Of Locomotive:
5 at only twenty or thirty miles an hour, bu
r the difficulty will be preserving the line o
? electric communication along the wires
= We opine that after all the Semaphoric Tel
: cgraphic despatch brouget TO such pertec
5 ton by our WORTHY townsman, Capt Parker
: will be found much more practicable ant
!: efficient, than riding post on streak Of ligh
n ming! Boston Post.
al MIDNIGHT REvELLERs.-The following
8 tartis le equally applicable to our own merid
/. ian, is from the Mobile Register:
el ais there on earth SO grand spectacl
4. to the discriminating eye, as q collection
( say of six or eight young men end boys-a
Respectable of coufse--reclng and scream
ling through streets in the quiet OF the eve
" ming. or at the hushed and solemn hour Q