JULY 16.

1842--MARCH 26, 1843 Continued discouragements .-- Working on improvements .-- First submarine cable from Battery to Governor's Island .-- The Vails refuse to give financial assistance .-- Goes to Washington .-- Experiments conducted at the Capitol .-- First to discover duplex and wireless telegraphy .-- Dr.Fisher.
-- Friends in Congress .-- Finds his statuette of Dying Hercules in basement of Capitol .-- Alternately hopes and despairs of bill passing Congress .-- Bill favorably reported from committee .-- Clouds breaking .-- Ridicule in Congress .-- Bill passes House by narrow majority .-- Long delay in Senate .-- Last day of session .-- Despair .-- Bill passes .-- Victory at last.
Slowly the mills of the gods had been grinding, so slowly that one marvels at their leaden pace, and wonders why the dream of the man so eager to benefit his fellowmen could not have been realized sooner.

We are forced to echo the words of the inventor himself in a previously quoted letter: "I am perfectly satisfied that, mysterious as it may seem to me, it has all been ordered in its minutest particulars in infinite wisdom." He enlarges on this point in the letter to Smith of July 16, 1842.

Referring to the difficulties he has encountered through lack of means, he says:-- "I have oftentimes risen in the morning not knowing where the means were to come from for the common expenses of the day.

Reflect one moment on my situation in regard to the invention.