Raftsman's Journal

THE LOCOMOTIVE TELEGRAPH.—The Florence correspondent of the Newark Advertiser says: A second successful trial of Bonnelli's Locomotive Electric Telegraph has been made on the Turin Railway, with the concurrence of the Ministers of State and the diplomatic Representatives of France and England. Two trains traversing a five mile track exchanged communications until all parties were fully satisfied. The correspondence with the stations was equally satisfactory; and orders to "stop" and to "proceed," were obeyed as by volition. Morse's apparatus, reduced to the dimensions of a coat pocket, including paper, &c., was used on this occasion. The simplicity of the invention is amusing. Two wires running from the little pocket machine thro' the bottom of the car, trail on parallel insulated iron rods, which are the mediums. Strange that the notion never occurred to the Yankee nation! The inventor, who is the Director of the Sardinian Telegraphs has submitted to the government an expensive project for working them, and also for continuing the submarine line now in use between Genoa and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, (200 miles.) by way of Malta and other intermediate points, to Constantinople, and the long Black Sea line; and which will also be propounded to the electricians of the thousand leagued Atlantic.