Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS
MORs l:'s MAGNETIC TELEG NAPM.

From the Baltimore American
The perfect success of Morse's Electro Magnet
ic Telegraph has excited the astonishment and ad-
miration of the community. The most incredulous
have been convinced, and occurring at the time
they have done the experiments have satisfied the
public that the Magnetic Telegraph is not merely
beautiful illustration of philosophical p, incipe,
but agent that may be made of practical and ev
cry day utility In the business transactions of the
country. The long list of officers of the Locofoco
Convention was published in the Capitol at Wash
ington as soon as it was announced in Baltimore,
the only time lost beng that occupied in the pas.
sage OF the messenger from the room of the Con-
venton 10 the office OF the Telegraph in the Pratt
street Depot The ballotings were communicated
with the same rapidity and the expectant throng
of politicians, who surrounded the Professors room
in the Capitol, were made aware of the result of
each, as soon us it was known at the door of the
Odd Fellows Hall in Gay-street in this City. Then
again the nomination of Mr.. Wright was declined
by him within fifteen minutes after it made,
and the reiterated solicitations made known, and
again declined and had Mr. Wright been III New
Orleans, instead Of Washington, the intervals Of
intercourse between him and the Convention would
have been quite as brief
All this is calculated to put us upon the inquiry
into the future agency of the wonderful continuance
which thus, without metaphor annihilaes time and
space. 1t has been said that the railroad system
has given perpetuity to our Union, which it would
our country bound together. Bat the day of iror
bars must yield to that ofcopper wires. VIVA
difficulty does extent OF territory present to perma
nency of government but the delay and inconve
nience of transmitting intelligence from one por
ton OF 1t to Observation-Disclosures between men il
business and between the Executive and its Off
GERS? Suppose the line of wires to extend to Or
egon, and that a squadron lay off the mouth of thu
Columbia which 1t was desired to send home, or t
send to HonoUu: the Secretary Of the Navy coult
receive the answer that all hands were plped t.
weigh anchor before the ink with which he signe
his name to the order, if he wrote heavy hand
had dried upon the paper If vessel bound 70
an Atlantic port had backed her topsail in the mids
of the squadron, the Commodore might ask tror
the Department. and receive, permission for Il
officer to return in her before her yards could b
braced round and her sails sheeted home for III
rate of electricity is 10000 miles in second, an
at this speed would the correspondence betwee
Washington and Oregon be carried on. Startlln
as such statements may appear, no one can galnsa
them who will see what has been doing daily for
week past at the Pratt street depot Instance
might be multiplied without end of the ayaabllit
of the Magnetic Telegraph Of Professor Morse.
Of such an Invention as that in question our rel
ders must of course desire to know something, an
we believe that the following account of its orgi
and mode of action will be found correct:
There are few persons who have not seen q
Electrical machine, and Witnessed the spark whio
passes from it, when in action, to any blunt obje
which is presented to it The accumulation
electricity in the machine caused by turning Ii
cylinder Of plate has the same tendency TO pass
an object which has less electricity, that air has
rush INTO vacuum, or water to seek level-ele
trlciy like air or water seeking to establish alwa
an equilibrium. Besides te mode of produciI
electricity by friction, as in the common electric
machine, it is also produced by the action OF an
cid upon the plates of different metals properly a
tached together--a fact discovered by The perst
whose name is perpctuaed in the term Gaivanis,
The mode in common use of producing palyan
action is TO immerse the plates in a trough wi
separate dvislons-at one end OF which the supp
of electric fluid generated by the action of the ac
is in excess. This end of the trough or battery
called the positive, and the other end the negat
pole of the battery. Now, ifa wire attached to Oh