Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-06-22
From the Baltimore American, June 3.
Morse Magnetic Telegraph.

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Electro Magnetic Telegraph has excited
The establishment and admiration Of the
community. The most iacwduloas have
been convinced, and occurring NJ the time
they have done, the ey apartments have sat-
isfed the public that the Magnetic Tclc.
graph Is not merely a beautiful illustration
Of a philosophical principle, but an agent
that may be made Of pracical and every
day utility in the business transactions Of
the country. The long ofhst cf1it crs cfthe
Democratic Convention was published in
the Capitol at Washington rs suon as Il
was announced In Baltim,re, the only time
lost being that coupled in the pas sage Of
the messenger from the room 81 the Com
vention 10 lie office Of the Telegraph in
the Pratt street Depo. The ballotmgs
were communicated with the same rapidity;
and the eNpectant throng OF politicians,
who surrounded the Professors room in
the Capitol, were made aware Of the result
of each, as soon as il was known at the
door OF tie Odd Fellow > Hall in Gay
street in this city. Then again the nuini-
nation ofMr. Wright was declined by him
within fifteen minutes afer it was made;
and the reiterated solicitation made known,
and again declined; and h, Mr.. Wright
been in New Orleans, instead Of Wash
ington, the intervals Of intercourse be-
tween him and the Convention would ha, G
deem quite as priei.
All this is calculated to put Us Upon the
enquiry into the future .ency oftle won
deriul continuance which thus, without
metaphor, annihilates beth time and space.
1t has been 81; that the rail road system
has given perpetuity to our Union, which
it would not otherwise possess, --and that
with iron bonds is our country bound to-
gether. But the day Of iron bars must now
yield to that ofcopper wires. What diff
Guilty does extent Of territory present to
permanency Of government, but the delay
and Inconvenience Of transmitting intelli-
gence from one portion Of it to another,-
intelligence between men in business, and
between the Executive and its officers.
Suppose the line of wires to extend to
Oregon, and that Squadron lay Off the
mouth Of the Columbia, which it was de-
sired to order home, or to send to Honololu.
The Secretary Of the Navy could receive
the answer that all hands were pipcd
to weigh anchor before the ink with which
he signed his name to the order, il he wrote
heavy hand, had dried upon the paper
If a vessel bound for an Atlantic port had
backed her topsail in the midst Of the
Squadron, the Commodore might ask from
the Department, and receive. permits SIGN
for an officer to return in her Def re her
yards oouM be braccd round, and her sails
sheeted home; for the rate of electricity is
10000 miles in second, and at this
speed would the correspondence between
Washington and Oregon be carried on.---
Startling as such statements may appear,
no one can gainsay them who viii see
what has been doing daily for week past
at the Pratt street depot. Instances m;xf,
be multiplied without end Of tie avaiia.
bility Of lie Magnetic Telegraph Of Pro-
fessor Mons ~
Of such an Invention as that in ques-
ton our Tc.icrs must Of course dc.
sire 70 xnow something, and We believe
v
that the following sctpuht 81 its origin
and mode Of action will be found correct
There are few persons who have moi
seen m Electrical machine, and witnessed
the spark which passes from Il, when !,
seton, to any blunt object which Is pre-
scented to il. Tie accumulation It cleo
tricity in the machine caused BY tarn)nl
thu rx,lsUI>r - v>l.<n haa tha q. a. fkv.21ss
cy to pass 70 IN object which has lsss cleo
TRICKY, tint sir hss % rush into sicunIu
! Or w11sr % seek : level, -clectricity Tx
air evstef seeking 70 establish slwsys 4
equilibrium. Besides The mode Of produ
cin9 electricity ~ fiiction, = n III CON
mon electrical machine, ills also produce
81 no action Of n Sc3d upon plltes IL diner
snt metals properly aftschsd tosether-
iact discovered ~ the person whose nam