We were ushered into the house through eight liveried servants, who afterward waited on us at table.
"I go to-morrow evening to Mr.Wickliffe's, Postmaster General, and, probably, on Wednesday evening next to the President's.

The new President, Polk, arrived this evening amid the roar of cannon.

He will be inaugurated on the 4th of March, and I presume I shall be there.
"I am most anxiously waiting the action of Congress on the Telegraph.

It is exceedingly tantalizing to suffer so much loss of precious time that cannot be recalled." This time there was no eleventh-hour passage of the bill, for Congress adjourned without reaching it, and while this, in the light of future events, was undoubtedly a tactical error on the part of the Government, it inured to the financial benefit of the inventor himself.

The question now arose of the best means of extending the business of the telegraph through private companies, and Morse keenly felt the need of a better business head than he possessed to guide the enterprise through the shoals and quicksands of commerce.