I shall have a great crowd to-day and wish all things to go off well.

Many M.C.s will be present, perhaps Mr.Clay.Give me news by the cars.

When the cars come along, try and get a newspaper from Philadelphia or New York and give items of intelligence.

The arrival of the cars at the Junction begins to excite here the greatest interest, and both morning and evening I have had my room thronged." And now at last the supreme moment had arrived.

The line from Washington to Baltimore was completed, and on the 24th day of May, 1844, the company invited by the inventor assembled in the chamber of the United States Supreme Court to witness his triumph.