Get from the passengers in the cars from Baltimore, or elsewhere, all the news you can and transmit.

A good way of exciting wonder will be to tell the passengers to give you some short sentence to send me; let them note time and call at the Capitol to verify the time I received it.

Before transmitting notify me with (48).

Your message to-day that 'the passengers in the cars gave three cheers for Henry Clay,' excited the highest wonder in the passenger who gave it to you to send when he found it verified at the Capitol." In a letter to his friend, Dr.Aycrigg of New Jersey, written on May 8, and telling of these successful demonstrations, this interesting sentence occurs: "I find that the ground, in conformity with the results of experiments of Dr.Franklin, can be made a part of the circuit, and I have used one wire and the ground with better effect for one circuit than two wires." On the 11th of May he again cautions Vail about his writing: "Everything worked well yesterday, but there is one defect in your writing.

Make a _longer_ space between each letter and a still longer space between each word.