At midnight the session would close.

Assured by his friends that there was no possibility of the bill being reached, he left the Capitol and retired to his room at the hotel, dispirited, and well-nigh broken-hearted.

As he came down to breakfast the next morning, a young lady entered, and, coming toward him with a smile, exclaimed: "I have come to congratulate you!" "For what, my dear friend ?" asked the professor, of the young lady, who was Miss Annie G.Ellsworth, daughter of his friend the Commissioner of Patents.
"On the passage of your bill." The professor assured her it was not possible, as he remained in the Senate-Chamber until nearly midnight, and it was not reached.

She then informed him that her father was present until the close, and, in the last moments of the session, the bill was passed without debate or revision.

Professor Morse was overcome by the intelligence, so joyful and unexpected, and gave at the moment to his young friend, the bearer of these good tidings, the promise that she should send the first message over the first line of telegraph that was opened.* *Prime, p.