All, I trust, will yet be well, but I have great difficulties to encounter and overcome, with the details of which I need not now trouble you.

I think I see light ahead, and the great result of these difficulties, I am persuaded, will be a great economy in laying the telegraphic conductors....

I am well in health but have sleepless nights from the great anxieties and cares which weigh me down." "_January 13._ I am working to retrieve myself under every disadvantage and amidst accumulated and most diversified trials, but I have strength from the source of strength, and courage to go forward.

Fisher I have dismissed for unfaithfulness; Dr.Gale has resigned from ill-health; Smith has become a malignant enemy, and Vail only remains true at his post.

All my pipe is useless as the wires are all injured by the _hot process_ of manufacture.