As to the Telegraph, I know not what to say.

The delay in finishing the apparatus on the part of Prosch is exceedingly tantalizing and vexatious.

He was to have finished them more than six months ago, and I have borne with his procrastination until I utterly despair of their being completed....

I suppose something might be done in Washington next session if I, or some of you, could go on, but I have expended so much time in vain, there and in Europe, that I feel almost discouraged from pressing it any further; only, however, from want of funds.

I have none myself, and I dislike to ask it of the rest of you.