The whole labor and expense of moving at all devolve on me, and I have nothing in the world.

Completely crippled in means I have scarcely (indeed, I have not at all) the means even to pay the postage of letters on the subject.
I feel it most tantalizing to find that there is a movement in Washington on the subject; to know that telegraphs will be before Congress this session, and from the means possessed by Gonon and Wheatstone!! (yes, Wheatstone who successfully headed us off in England), one or the other of their two plans will probably be adopted.

Wheatstone, I suppose you know, has a patent here, and has expended $1000 to get everything prepared for a campaign to carry his project into operation, and more than that, his patent is dated _before mine!_ "My dear sir, to speak as I feel, I am sick at heart to perceive how easily others, _foreigners_, can manage our Congress, and can contrive to cheat our country out of the honor of a discovery of which the country boasts, and our countrymen out of the profits which are our due; to perceive how easily they can find men and means to help them in their plans, and how difficult, nay, impossible, for us to find either.

Is it really so, or am I deceived?
What can be done?
Do write immediately and propose something.

Will you not be in Washington this winter?
Will you not call on me as you pass through New York, if you do go?
"Gonon has his telegraph on the Capitol, and a committee of the Senate reported in favor of trying his for a short distance, and will pass a bill this session if we are not doing something.