I am trying to have matters compromised, but do not know if it can be done, and we may have to contest it in _law_.

Our application was in court of equity.

A movement of Smith was the cause of all." Another sidelight is thrown on Morse's character by the following extract from a letter to one of his lieutenants, T.S.Faxton, written on March 15: "We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything.

You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle." Just about this time, to add to Morse's other perplexities, Doctor Charles T.Jackson began to renew his claims to the invention of the telegraph, while also disputing with Morton the discovery of ether as an anaesthetic, then called "Letheon," and claiming the invention of gun-cotton and the discovery of the circulation of the blood.

Morse found a willing and able champion in Edward Warren, Esq., of Boston, and many letters passed between them.