The Weekly register., 1844-07-06
EForse's Magnetic Telegraph.
From the Baltimore American

The perfect success Of Professor
MoRss Electro-Magnetic Telegraph has
excited The as.onishment and admiration
Of the community. The most incredu-
lous have been convinced, and occur
ring at The time they have done, the ex
'g iments have satisfied the public that
The Magnetic Telegraph is not merely a
beautlulillustration Of a philosophical
principle, but an agent that may be
made Of practical and every day utility
| in the business transactions ofthe coun-
try. The long list of officers of the
Loco Foco Convention was published in
the Capital at Washington as soon as il
was announced IN Baltimore, the time on
iy lost being that occupied in the passage
of the messenger from the room Of the
Convention to the Office Of the Tele-
graph in the Pratt-street Depot. The
ballotings were communicated with the
same rapidity; and the expectant throng
Of politicians, who surrounded the Pro-
lessor's room in the Capital, were made
aware Of the result Of each, as soon as
it was known at the door Of the Odd
Fellows Hall, in Gay-slreet in this
+ City. Then again the nomination Of
Mr.. WRIGHT was declined by him with
in fifteen minutes after it was made,
and the reiterated solicitations made
known, and again declined; and had
/ Mr., WRIGHT been in New Orleans, in
/ stead of Washington, the intervals ofin-
tercourse between him and the Con-
vention would have been quite as brief.
All this is calculated to put US upon
i the inquiry into the future agency Of
the wonderful ccntrivance which thus,
withoutmetaphor, annihiates both time
and space. 1t has been said that the
railroad system has given perpetuity
! TO our Union, which il would not ether
wise Possess-and that with iron bonds
is our country bound together. But
the day Of iron bars must now yield to
that of copper wires. What difficulty
does extent Of territory present TO per-
manency Of government, but the delay
and Inconvenience of transmitting in
telIigence from one portion Of it to an
other-intelligenc between men in
I business and between the Executive and
its officers? Suppose the line of wires
to extend to Oregon, and that a squad
ron lay off the mouth Of the Columbia
which it was desired to order home, or
! to send to Honolulu: the Secretary Of
| the Navy could receive the answer
that all hands were piped to weigh an
chor before the ink with which he sign
ed his name to the order, if he wro:e q
heavy hand had dried upon the paper.
/ If vessel hound fer an Atlantic port
| had backed her Top sail in the midst of
/ the squadron, the Commodore might ask
from the Department, and receive, a
permission for an officer to return in
her before her yards could be braced
round and her sails sheeted home; for
the rate of electricity is 10000 miles
in a 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 will see what
has been doing daily for week past at
the Pratt-street depot. Instances might
be multiplied without end of the availa-
bility ofthe Magnetic Telegraph of Pro
fessor Morse.
ofsuch an invention as that in ques-
ton our readers must Of course desire
to know something, and we believe that
the following account of its origin and
mode Of action will be found correct:
There are few persons who have not
seen an Electrical machine, and wit
messed the spark which passes from it,
when in action, TO any blunt objectwhi
is presented TO it. The accumulation
ofelectricity in the machine caused by
turning the cylinder or plate has the
same tendency TO pass to an object which
has Tess electricity, that air has to rush
into vacuum, or water to seek a level
electricity like air or water seeking
to establish always an equilibrium
] Besides the mode Of nroducino electric