crows at the top of his voice, and I learned that he and his man Friday, Foss, had a regular spree in consequence, and that the latter was noticed in Broadway drunk and boisterously huzzaing for F.O.J.

and cursing me and my telegraph.
"I read in my Bible: 'The triumph of the wicked is short.' This may have a practical application, in this case at any rate.

I have full confidence in that Power that, for wise purposes, allows wickedness temporarily to triumph that His own designs of bringing good out of evil may be the more apparent." Another of Morse's fixed principles in life is referred to in a letter to Judge E.Fitch Smith of February 4, 1858: "Yours of the 31st ulto.

is this moment received.

Your request has given me some trouble of spirit on this account, to wit: My father lost a large property, the earnings of his whole life of literary labor, by simply endorsing.