Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-06-09
NEW TELEGRAPH.
THE GREATEST WONDER YET.

world. We should be inclined to doubt the
ruth of the statement. if, in these days of
inventive and scientific miracIes,we had not
adopted the conuenient rule of believing al
most anything Chicago Tribune.
We have this week seen specimen of
writing by the Copying Telegraph, inven-
ted by Mr.. +. G. Bakewell, wherein words
traced from the original were legiby copied
ON paper by an instrument that had no CON
nccton with the one to which the transmit
ted message was applied, excepting by the
voltaic battery. The letters traced on the
/ paper appear Of pale color, on dark
ground formed by numerous lines drawn
close together. The communications thus
traced we understand may be transmitted
at the rate Of 800 letters OF the alphabet per
minute of ordinary writing and were short
hand employed the rapidty of the transmits
sion would be quadrupled. When this
means OF correspondence is in operation,
instead Of dropping letter into the post Of
fee and waiting days for an answer, we
may apply it directly to the Copying Tel
graph, have it copied at the distant town in a
minnie or less, aud receive a supply in our
correspondents handwriting almost as soon
rs the ink is dry with which il was penncd.
There are various mems, too, for preserving
the secrecy of correspondence the most
curious of which is, that the writing may
be rendered nearly invisible in all parts but
the direction until its delivery to the person
| for Whoa it is designed.
The operations olthe Copying Telegraph
are not limited to the tracing of written char
acters. Letterpress printing may be copied
with even greater facility tlan writing, and
fac-simile copies ofthe morning papers may
thus be transmitted to Liverpool and Nan
chester long before the papers themselves
are delivered 10 taeir readers in london.
! The means BY which these astonishing eff
ccts are produced we are rot ROW permit
ted to state, as the invention is not vet pro-
tected; but we are assured that the method
Is simple, and that the mechanism is neither
costly nor likely to get out of order. 1t is,
indeed, one of the peculiar features Of the
| Copying Telegraph that il cannot commit
errors, because the communications it trans
mlls are fac-simles Of the original wiring.
! Horse aealu1g and shooting ihe Rob-
! ber.-Thcre was an attempt AT horse steal
ing in the town of Magnolia, few miles
west of this on Thursday night fast in
| which the thieves got the worst OF the bar
gam. Norwegian, whose name We have
not been able to obtain, suspected from va
rous circumstances, that there was de
| sign on the part of a gang of thieves, to
steal his horses. He therefore concluded
TO keep them in his stable aud watch them.
On the night above mentioned having arm
ed himself with gun and pltchiork, he dis
covered two men approaching the stable,
and as the foremost opened the door he hit
him ir tie face with the tine of the pitch
fork, one tine entering his cheek and the
ether piercing the door. While he was
trying to discngagc the fork from this one,
the other individual had retrcatcd some dis
lance, but he seized his gun, and discharg-
ed 1t At him and brought MIN to the ground.
He then went to raise help, and returned,
and found the one whom lie had shot lying
upon the ground, but the other had made
his escape. He was afterwards pursued
and taken, the name of the one shot is
Mathews,and doubts arc cnctainedas to his
recovery. If he survives, the amputatiou
of one of his legs will be necessary. as the
bone is badly broken. The other, whose
name is MorelI, was but slightly wouad
ed GAINESVILLE Taz.
Collection. A new preparation has been dis
covered by young physician, DE-. BigeIow,
recently of this city which has the wonder
fiji property, when applied in a liquid state
to the skin, Of hardening Immediately, and
rendering it impervlous to water or air. Ia
all cas,s where the flesh has been wounded,
an application olthe article will form a coat
ING rs adhesive as the natural skin, and great
ly facilitate cure, as the discovery is vet
in It's infancy, it is not known to what 9TH
er uses it may be applied; we should think
however it would be good for thin.skiuncd
people in general. Amcng conscientious
salvo holders, no d0ubt, there world be
and thin coat neatly laid upon the con-
science before setting down TO read the cilu-
sions of contemplate Yankee Editors" i'll
regard tie the "Patriarchal institution, might
save some Ct them from the serious consc-
quenccs of ''conniPten E,s,'
4 RemarkaHc FacL-.t is a remarkable
fact, and one which must strike every read
er of the proceedings in the Baltimore con-
tenton, that while the champions of the
soutst. IS Aancey, Strange, BaylcH, Eof Va
h end2tt (of La etc, N'crc continually GA
fne floor, the delegates from the north had
but little to say. The truth is, kGweger, rs
we know from personal observation, paatit
was almost impossible for any gentleman
who w'as supposed to stand by the rights Of
the northern democracy to obtain the floor.
Many delegates from tie north, Of the high
est ability and position in the party, made
repeated attempts TO catch the speakers eve,
but without avail. The artis indisputabe. /.
Every reader will draw his own inferencc.
: Globe.
EAST $. WEsT.-Thcrc arc no less than
three trials for murder Row in progress RI
Boston. In the first case giH OF four
teen, is charged with having pesotsed her
mother. In the second, = man is charged
with having murdered his wife; and in the
laird, Slri charged with tue murder of an
ether, by dlschargiHg the conte i:of a PTS
tol into her neck.
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