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HOME JOURNAL GREENESBORO, i GEORGIA. PROF. MORSE’S SUCCESS. ■Hfllccttw ml a Remarkable uU Hlaterie Bmm la tha Capital. “What is new to-day will be old to morrow,” remarked ex-Governor James Pollock, Naval Officer of this part, dur ing a recent conversation. “No future discovery will be received with the same stubborn incredulity that greeted the . electric telegraph. Speaking of the tele graph, I have always thought that Pro fessor Joseph Henry laid the foundation for Morse's wonderful triumph as early as 1832. Hemy had stretched three or four miles of wire, through which he ac tually sent signals. However, after Morse had completed his experiments, and had demonstrated the practicability of his invention, he applied to the Twenty-eighth Congress, of which I was a member, for an appropriation of $30,- 000 to assist in the erection of a line be tween Baltimore and Washington. “The bill was referred to the Ways and Means committee, I think, but when reported back to the House it was ridi culed by many members, especially by some gentlemen from the West. To in dicate the absurdity with which he re garded the invention, one member moved to increase the appropriation to SIOO,OOO, in order to extend the wires to the moon, emphasizing a bad pun by saying that no one but a luna-tic would want to use such a medium of communi cation. Another gentleman suggested $150,000, in order to extend the lines to the North Pole and into Simm’s Hole so that the people at the center of the earth could be communicated with. The bill passed House and Senate. The money was appropriated. All of this is well known, and is only prefatory to what I bow say. “In May, 1844, it was announced in Congress that on the opening of the Democratic National Convention at Balti more the new telegraph lines would be ready for business. The Washington terminus was in one of the rooms of the Capitol. When the day arrived a few of the members of Congress assembled in that room, I among the number. After waiting a considerable time, amid expres sions of hope or doubt from the friends or critics of the inventor, all talk was suddenly checked by the clicking of the machine. An impressive silence of seventeen minutes followed. The ma chine worked ! Finally the operator read with considerable solemnity the first message ever received: ‘What hath God wrought ?’ All were awe-stricken fora moment. It has always been a pleasant memory that I was present Silence was followed by expressions of admiration. “Then a few gentlemen boldly de nounced the message as a trick. 'Some warm words were spoken. But in the course of an hour the proceedings from the National Convention began to arrive. The unbelievers continued to doubt No decision could be reached until the morn ing papers were received. It is needless to say that the telegraphic messages were fully substantiated. This wonder ful scene continued each day during the session of the convention at Baltimore, closing with the nomination of James K. Polk. The result was so unexpected as to carry conviction. Then there were only forty miles of telegraph; to-day there we over 800,000 miles in operation. I saw tiui beginning—it was only thirty iiico years Philadelphia Times. Lift. The son of a leading lawyer in New York, some years ago, was attracted by the innocent face and qnick wit of a Welsh chambermaid in his father's house, And declared that he preferred her to all the fashionable beauties who had courted his notice. His family protested, but to no pur pose. The only concession he would make was to consent to go to Europe for three years before marrying the girl. In the meantime, having an independent fortune, the lover placed her at one of the best schools in New York. The girl was ambitious and devoted in her affection to the man who had chosen her. He returned, found her more lovely than ever. They were married, and the lady is now one of the leaders of society in file city where they live—a noble, re fined, charming woman. An eminent jurist, well known in Penn * sylvania in the early part of this century, was “making the circuit” on horseback, and stopped for dinner at the house of a farmer. The daughter of the farmer waited on them, and the judge—who had been a cynic about women—observed the peculiar gentleness of her voice and a certain sweet candor in her faoe. After dinner the farmer said— “ Mary, bring the judge’s horse.” Mary started to tlie field, which was inclosed by a barred fence. Laying her hand on the topmost rail, she vaulted lightly over. “I saw,” said the judge afterward, "‘for the first time, a woman with the mind and body I should require in my wife. I called again and again at Farmer C-'s. At last I sent Mary to school for a couple of years, and here she is,” nod ding to the stately matron who presided at his table. The sons of the judge and this real Maude Muller all attained distinction; me, like his father at the bar; another was an eminent divine, and a third was a Southern candidate for the Presidency. All were noted for their fiery eloquence, their high sense of honor and a certain appetite for fighting which was well sus tained by strong physical health. The judge had not been mistaken in Mary’s qualities of mind or body. Really in Love. Some years ago a rich man's son in New York fell in love with the chamber maid, but, unlike many rich meu’s sons under similar circumstances, wanted to marry her. His family thought this was going a little too far ; so he compromised the matter by agreeing to go a good deal farther—that is, to Europe—for two or three years. Having a fortune of his own he placed the girl in one of the l<est schools, and she, being ambi tious anfl devoted, improved her oppor tunities so well that on his return, find ing her more attractive than ever, he married her and she is now a noble, re fined, charming woman. As elder of the kirk having found a little bov and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form .—not a judicious one for a child: “Boy, do you know where children go to who play marbles on the Sabbath day ?” “Ay,” said the boy, “they gang down to the*field by the water below the brig.” “No!” roared out the elder, "they go to hell and are burned.” The little fellow, really shocked, called to liis sister “Come awa. Jt-auie; here’s a man sweat ing awfully. ” —Dr an R.oiset. BETTER DATS. Better to smell the violet mol, than Rp the glowing wine; Better to hark a hidden brook, than watch • diamond shine. Better the love of a gentle heart*thn beauty's favors proud; Better file roee's living seed, than rotes in s crowd. Better to live in loneliness, than to bask in km all day; Better the fountain in the heart, than the fountain by the way. Better be fed by mother'* hand, than eat alone at will; Better to trust in good than my: “My good* my storehouse fill" Better to be a little wlae, than in knowledge to Better to teach a child, than toil to fill perfec tion’s round. Better to sit at a matter's feet, than thrill a listening state; Better to suspect that then art proud, than be sure that thou art great. Better to walk the real unseen, than watch the hour's event; Better the “Well done r* at the last, than the air with shouting rent. Better to have a quiet grief, than a hurrying delight; Better the twilight of the dawn, than the noon day burn mg bright. Better a death when work is done, than earth's most favored birth; Better a child in God's great house, than the king of all the earth. George MacDokald. THE WAY HE PROPOSED. Major Glinton was one of the most courageous fellows in the world, accord ing to the men who knew him; but when the ladies of his acquaintance heard this opinion, they laughed it to scorn, for they considered him the most timid creature they had ever seen. He was very fond of ladies’ society, they said, or he would not spend all his even ings at parties or making calls; yet not one lady, old or young, single or mar ried, hod ever known him to express his regard in any way that was not extreme ly decorous and formal. Flirt? They would as soon think of a tombstone or a telegraph pole attempting to flirt. Most of the Major's male acquaintances car ried scam on their hearts, as results either of attacks more honorable than judicious, or of sudden'surprises by fair skirmishers; but no one could imagine the Major to have suffered any such mis hap, for he not only made no recor.nois sance, but he always retired precipitately within himself at the first'flash of a pair of eyes leveled directly at him. The truth was that the brave Major was not only as modest as a model maiden, but he was painfullv bashful lieside. The one desire of liis life was to marry, which he was financially able to do, but the important preliminary stoc of proposing was one he had never'dared to take. Until he reached adult yearn lie had met scarcely any women but his two orphaned sisters, to whom he had tried to be a father, and upon whose rare purity and sweetness he had based his ideas of womanhood. Both married and wont far from their old home, so they could not help him to gain a wife by disabusing him of his impression that all women were too good for him. To Glinton nearly every woman appeared a saint. He worshiped one after another, although only one at a time, and his tastes were so correct that he was obliged to change his divinity about once in in three months, to avoid worshiping another man’s wife. Whenevor on old Bear healed and a delicious throbbing.of the heart told of anew dart that had found its way to his heart, he vowed solemnly to propose at once, and vary the dreadful monotony of having another man step in before him. And each time he delayed, just for a day, or a week, or because he feared too much, or hoped too wildly, and every time he waited a little too long—every time bnf one, For when the Major met Alice Waller son he felt that, tb lose her, too, would be more than his life could endure. She was pretty, as all women seemed to the Major. She was good and she was sweet, the Major was sure, else why were all other women unusually fond of her ? Best of all, she seemed the most modest and bashful maiden iu his whole circle of acquaintance, and through these qual ities would be able to offer him sympathy with feelings that all other people regarded with provoking smiles. But how should he propose ? Being n woman, her bashful nature must be far more sensitive than his own, so, even If he were to nerve himself to the ordeal, how could he be enough of a brute to inflict greater trepidation upon her, if he loved her ? Even were she favorably disposed toward him, he was sure that listening to a proposal would put her heart in a terrible tumult; how much more dreadful would it be. then, for her to listen to him should she not be favor ably disposed. He knew that she alwnvs looked at him pleasantly; he felt that, she had even been grateful to him one even ing, when both, at a party and both through timidity, retired to the same half-hidden corner of a drawing-room, each innocent of the approach of the other, and each anxious, on meeting, to show tliut the affair was a mere accident. This was the only basis of Clinton’s hope, and yet—he had been disappoint ed so many times that he could not bear to think of failure now. He made several calls, with the inten tion of proposing, but every time his courage failed him, ta>sides Mrs. Waller son or Alice's sister Nell, were always in the parlor; of course he could not say before two what he dreaded to *ay even with a single hearer. Worse still, Miss Nell, who was a brilliant brunette of the irrepressible species, could not avoid teasing him slyly at every possible ojv portunity, and he alwsvs lost his tongue under her onslaughts. Then he tried to propose in writing, and for a week of evenings he wrote steadily with no more satisfactory result than a note to Mrs. Walleraon, in which he intended to inclose his proposal. Chance finally came in pity to his aid. Miss Nell, as one of a trio of girls who had devised a surprise party for a recent ly married friend, wrote to the Major about the project and begged that he would call and give her some assistance among their mutual acquaintances among gentlemen. As the Major read her note a brilliant thought occurred to him. While talking business Miss Nell certainly would not endeavor to tease him; his bashfulness never troubled him while talking with ladies on any snbject requiring common sense, opinion and executive ability; he should therefore be able to feel at ease with Miss Nell, and while in that unusual condition he would make a confidant of her and ask her ad tied and assistance. He would try to talk to her as if she were a man; it might l>e a rash experiment, but he felt equal to almost any degree of rasliness when he thought of how many times before he had resolved and failed. So the Major went to the Wallerson home on the evening appointed Pvbhk chievoue Miss Nell, with aetnwtcr tewrt than he had felt, outside of iwn i with the yoang lady to hrinpsiteiMiude friends into the surprise party, wd she, rather confused hy*ne.iin w view of the thanks, and being onlv * twentv-thr.• years of age and no older than her wears signified, was completely astounded bv the Major s coolness. Hhe could not Kpifi hpifftTilKT hp* II ■* fiKn al# Jvti wf taVT- van itiniv y 4 wllll" xtRVeA,t at the Major inquiringly, she dropped into reveries, and she said to her mother, who came to the door of the parlor a mo ment abont some afbursticttyof atamilr nature, that Mr. Glinton wm cutereiv different to what she had imagined him to be. But the Major did not know all this, and after the hnshteaa of the eewning ended he began to feel the old familiar cold sweat that had heen his torment in the swamps of the Chicahommev, fif teen years before. Conversation had dropped to the dead level of the National Academy, the last new novel, and Brown’s last volume of poems, all of which were very bad. Miss Nell looked interested, pretty and sentimental until the Major half wished she would be her natural self, for he had at last reused himself to the combative •tate r -and he wanted to talk with her in the most serums manner about her sister. At test he made a desperate effort and said: “Miss WalleTson, 1 called this evening only on basinesn, but I have for a long time wanted to say something to you about a matter”— “Excuse me, just for an instant. il*- jor,” interrupted Miss Nell, “the gas is hissing dreadfully. Won’t you be good enough to see which burner it is; I’m just too short to reach any of ihem, I’m sorry to say.” The Major hastened to the rescue. He heard a hissing noise, as of the escape of too much gas, he could not besnre which of the oix burners was at fault, su he turned down one after another until the noise stopped and the parlor was almost dark. “You are very kind,” murmured Miss Nell, a tshe Major resumed his seat near her, “the blowing of gas is dreadfully annoying to the ear. Bv the way, you were saving thsff- The 'Major resisted a temptation to say, “Oh, nothing of any consequent'. , ” and said: “I have been long the most reverent adorer of a certain young ladv who”— “Oh, Major 1” exclaimed ‘Miss Nell; “the idea of vou being in love. Did .you”— “Excuse me, Miss WaUcrson," -said the Major hastily, “hut no one is compe tent to pass an opinion on my condition of mind but myself. I fully knowroy own feelings, and merely wish an oppor tunity to explain them in such maimer as may be most respectful, ” “I beg your pardon, Major,”said Miss Nell, now entirely on her guard. “Please continue, and believe no one here can doubt vonr sincerity.” The Major’s heart gave a mighty bound; evidently this mischievous girl suspected something and was willing to suppress herself. “I have long been worshiping a lady j whom I would have been glad to make my wife,” continued the Major, “if I ! had not feared that my love and what I else I had to offer her would not seem i compensation for what the would lie I obliged to give up.” “Your thoughtfulness does you honor, Major,” aaid Miss Nell, in the kindest way in the world. “Thank you—thank you,” void the 1 Major, hastily. “Perhaps, -than, yon will understand why I speak with more than my customary freedom. Miss Wal teraon, I was trained in my youthful days to such unquestioning reverence j for woman as woman that I feel-almost j like a thief when I think of asking anv i woman for her hand and l^jart.” “Again, JTajor, I must say that your thoughtfulness and delicacy do you honor,” said Miss Nell, as demurely as if she had never teased anv one in her life. “Thank you—thank you,” said -the , Major again. “I would like first to ex plain myself, if I may trouble yon for a moment. I am, I believe, an hanvrable man; I have a good business and a good bank account. 1 want to devote hotli, and my life, beside, to the service of the sweetest woman that ever lived. I .can not. expect her to love me as I love her, for she is an angel and l am only—well, only a man.” “A man,” said Miss Nell, still as demure as a parson, “is as good ns any thing else in the world—even oa good as a true woman. ” “Do yon really think so?” asked the Major. “I must lielieve yon against my will, but entirely according to my incli- j nation. Well, the woman whom I love you know very well; no one can know her better; she is pure, good, sweet, noble, tender”— “Major ! Major 1” exclaimed -Miss Nell “Please don’t contradict me on this particular point,” said the Major; “I really think I know—l am snre I do." “Then,” said Miss Nell, “it would be very impolite in me to contradict, but really”— “Really,” said the Major. “I -am weighing my words most carefully and mean all I say. I want to offer heir all I am and have, nnder any conditions she may impose. Don’t imagine me impul sive or rash in this matter," continued the Major, extending both -hands in ms earnestness, "i menu What the Major meant teas never explained, for Miss Nell, entirely in accordance with her own lie* of what the excited man was trying to say. mur mured, “Enough !” fell upon the Major's breast and threw her arms around -the Major’s neck. What could the sstontehed man do * What would any gentleman do in anc.h circumstances ? - Miss Ahoe tripped into the parlor, found it dark, "turned up-the gas, saw the couple and exclaimed: “Oh, my!” Her sister looked up into the Major's face for a second, then dropped her brow on his shoulder, and aaid; “Oh, my 1” And the Major, looking down at the face before him, now entirely empty of roguishness and everything else hnt ten derness, forgot all the past, placed his arms about the graceful figure that rest ed on him. and said: “Oh, my 1” And although he has been married ten years he never has had reason to regret ins mistake. —New York Dour. A Orators Story.— lt has been dis covered that a very large amount ot gold coin recently minted in New Orleans is deficient in weight, aud will have tn be recoined. 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