_My bill has passed by a vote of eighty-nine to eighty-three._ A close vote, you will say, but explained upon several grounds not affecting the disposition of many individual members, who voted against it, to the invention.

In this matter six votes are as good as a thousand, so far as the appropriation is concerned.
"The yeas and nays will tell you who were friendly and who adverse to the bill.

I shall now bend all my attention to the Senate.

There is a good disposition there and I am now strongly encouraged to think that my invention will be placed before the country in such a position as to be properly appreciated, and to yield to all its proprietors a proper compensation.
"I have no desire to vaunt my exertions, but I can truly say that I have never passed so trying a period as the last two months.

Professor Fisher (who has been of the greatest service to me) and I have been busy from morning till night every day since we have been here.