Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-02-26

'y WI sAttAst W pJoptI VII no
compelled TO abandon it; the 'sball's in
notion" and no human power can stop its
progress. These cheap cash stores at once
surprise md cheer people; but there will be
plenty Of them soon; for all our merchants
will be driven into that system ns the only
''Iand of refuge from starvation. This
10 an inevitable result of the revolution
now operating ; and those who take the
earliest advantage Of the cxigency Of the
times, will manifest a share Of disccrnmcnt
which will "put money in their pockets"
A small, active capital, that is "turned
over" every two, three or four months in
the year, at n profit Of four or six per cent,
per "turn," will be found far more valuable
than n large, sluggish capital, which mer.
chants strain themselves to turn over once
0 year, at II profit Of thirty to fifty per cent.
Tho latter is never accomplished but
through large credits, and cannot now be
accomplished at all. Money is daily dc.
creaslng in abundance, and, as a natural
consequence, people daily become more
careful what they do with IL. Every biz il
counted, andits dcsiinyjndiciously weighed
and determined. long before it escapes the
tenacious gfnsp Of ihs holder. We rejoice
Mt such evidences Of sanity-soupenirs Of
the times that "hse'd to was" they prove
conclusiyeIy That the days of bnbblcs, swcIls
and paper. fortunes arc numbered; that
speculation is wound up, and that MI who
are too proud 10 beg, or too honest to steal,
must hcnceforth work or rAnvE Three
cheers for those grand instruments Of ere.
trenchmcnt and REFORM" the Temperance
Cause, and the Cieap-stose Cause
GoSoN's TELEsRArH.--A gentleman at
Washington, writing to the Elevator Of
Cincinnati, thus speaks Of Gopon's ieIc.
graph.
"As you are somewhat given TO mechan.
ical speculations, | think an account of
Monsieur Gonon's telegraph system, which
has excited some attention IN Congress,
would interest you. take an abstract of
this System from a late NUMBER ofihe Globe.
M. Gonon, the writer says, has made this
subject his pnrticlar study; and after TWEEN.
ty years Of assidious labor has succeeded in
perfecting n system Of his own invention
which cannot but prove to the nation that
becomes possessor Of it, invaluable. The
French Telegraph, continues tho writer,
although constantly on the wing, is used
for little more than transmitting short dcs.
patches, which it does at the rate Of five or
six words per minute, and between three
and four hundred signals are required to
translate one hundred words, whilst that Of
Monsieur Gonon, but one hundred signals,
and very frequently many less, are neces.
saTy to translate as many words; and
twenty-five words Gun be transmitted from
the place whence the despatch is sent, to
its final destination, in the same spacc Of
time, no matter what may DO the distance;
and this with a correctness equal to the
best copyist, no matter what may be the
subject OF the despatch --Sot the Presidents
last message could have been sent, scrba.
tim ct 1iteratim, from the Capitol to New
Orleans in three hours and . hall, o r four
1otfs, and with transiators at different
stations might have been distributed
through the intermediate space.
The system of Tclegraphs, if purchased
by tho Government will undoubtedly be
of inestimable benefit to the country. Mr..
Barrow, from Louisiana, recommended the
system to the attention of the Senate, in a
short speech delivered a week or two ago
did not think the exhausted state of
tho Treasury would at present justify the
purchase Of such an expensive instrument
Of G COMMUNICATION"