Telegraphing Without Wires

There is something peculiarly facsinating in tho idea of girdling tho eárth with a vocal electric current without the intervention of wires 011 the lands or cables bencath the sea, af ter tho lashion in which Mr. Mahlon Loouiis proposos to girdle it. This gentleman, says the New York Advertiner, who has suddenly sprung into notice as the originator of an experiment Wder than any ever undertaken by jlovse or Furad;iy or Tyndall, asking nothing more than an altitudinous elevotiou luid a. kito, and being thus provided he proposes to ive a new impression to thóse wonderful forces of nature which, if wc may beiieve his theory, stand ready to obey his signal, and are, in point of fnct impatiently awaiting the ïnagnetic touch of his hand. Franklin. fluw his kite and solved a problem in science. Loomis goes up into a high raountuin, Iets loose his kitc among the currents of the upper air, and, we suppose, utters obalistic words to unlock the secrets of the olher. Exactly how he is to do it, und where it is to be done, he does not teil u.s ; but it is dimly hinted that with one loot upon the summit of the higliust Rock y Mountain peak and another upon Monte K:ise, or, suy, tho Matterhorn, if ho eau cliinb that dreadful height, he will instantly span tho sea with an olectrio current, and ask neither for wires nor poles. ïho Atlantic is no bar to the project hc contemplates ; nor, probably would the broad Pacific alarm him. There is a broad intiination concerning grettt tower3 that might be nceded uj)on tho lower lovels of tho earth, from tho summits of which Loomis' l;ite could fly - but the mountainsi hiee miles in height is evidgntly the key to tho general ti on. Mr. Loomis professe3 such a degrce of faith in the success that awaits him that ho has magnetizod Congrcss and the President, ïhü bilí for the inoorporation of lus company shrewdly drawn so as to requiro no appropriation. and thereforo a simple thing to dispose of, receivpd the Executive signature yosterday ; bot it is evident, froin the tenor of the debate in the Señalo on the day of its passage that not ono of the members of that body liad the slightest notion of the meanirig of the project which the bilí was intended to cover. Some were inclined to mako jest of the wholo business ; but Mr. Anthony and a majovity with hiin deoided that Mr. Loomis was entitled to fair treatnient, in asmuch as he did not ask formoney - anc therein Hes tho contrast betwecn the shabby treatment bestowed upon Profes sor Morse thirty years ago and tha1 which Mr. Loomis now receivos. Morse in the Kossion of 1842-3 left Washington heart-sick, and it was only after he hac actually fiashed his first messasrethrougl the wires that Congress gave Iiiin, at th last hour of the session, a pitiful appro priation. Thirty years later Loomia get prompt courtesy from Congress, with n appropriations at all, and essays to per forin a feat which Morse never dreamec of. So tho world goes. Now wo sha] seo what Mr. Loomis can do.