66 On the Electric Telegraph of Prof. Morse. 
T'o those interested in the subject of telegraphs, the conflicting 
claims of the Morse and House patents are at present discussed 
with some warmth. An accurate description of the latter is at 
present impossible, from the fact that the existing instruments are 
in pieces with a view to the construction of new ones for the use 
of western lines, and from the justifiable unwillingness of the pro- 
prietor at preseut to expose his devices. The relative complication 
of the instruments may be judged from the fact, that the House 
machine costs in construction more than ten times the amount of 
the other. The object of House’s machinery is to make at one end 
of a wire, the revolution of a disc, upon whose edge the Roman 
letters are raised, synchronous with the operations of a lettered 
finger-board at the other end of the wire. So that at the touch- 
ing of A on the finger-board, the wheel presents and impresses 
A on aslip of paper. ‘The paper is moved so that the letters 
most important question at issue is, whether the House patent is 
available without this combination. If it prove to be, competi- 
tion will doubtless place it throughout the country in opposition 
to Morse’s. Meanwhile the advocates of Prof. Morse’s claims, 
stoutly deny the possibility of its operation ‘per se,” and anx-_ 
jously await a fair, open and impartial trial of its practicability. 
Lines Complete and in Operation, Nov. 1, 1847. 
From New York to Carmel, We 4 
+ ¢ Poughkeepsie, “* 
+“ La Hudson, 5 
73 66 Troy, “6 
6“ 6 Albany, “cs 
r * Schenectady, wd 
= . Little Falls, . 
“ . 509 miles. 
