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I TELEaRAPHs.-The Paris correspondent of The


New York Star, gives the following curious in


formation respecting telegraphs it seems that the
two elements, fire and water, have both been pu
in requisition, to furnish the means of communi.
eating intelligence with extraordinary rapidity:-


Electric telegraphs are beginning 10 be the
rage. The other day at Munich, Professor Stien-
heat had the honor of receiving the King at Bo-
genhausser, from which spot galvanic wires were
conducted over the houses and streets of the city,
and the Professor at one end, conversed with his
Majesty at the other A French paper notices
with great triumph, that Arthur Lee in his travels
through France, speaks of French machinist
who had constructed an electrical apparatus, with
the power of transmitting words. Probably the
attention once turned to it, various indications of
such an invention will be discovered, but the
real inventor, is he who applies principle to
purposes of general utility, and has sagacity
enough to perceive the great Importance of its
practical application, and talent enough to over
come the difficulties that obstruct it, It is in this
sense that Fulton was the inventor of steamboats,,
and that as such he is entitled to the applause and
gratitude Of the world. And in this sense. more
over, electrical telegraphs not yet invented
In the meantime, water, which just at this moment
is most aspiring element, threatens to supply
the place of electricity letercarrer.


"A. NJ Wishaw has formed an hydraulic tele-
graph, founded on the principle of the incompres-
sibility of water, and its tendency to find its own
level. He employs for this purpose an open
tube, bent at right angles at either end, and this
being filled with water, every change of level at
one end, will be observable at the other. That
these changes may be more sensible, the tube is
terminated by one of smaller termination, which
being placed near graduated scale, the nuctua-
tions of the column are appreciated. AS these
scales may be of considerable extent, great
number of words may be expressed. M. Wshaw
has succeeded in expressing 1900. The change
of level is effected either by the pressure of a
piston at one extremity, or the application of a
forcing pump, or even by carefully pouring in
measured quantities Of water This account, not
very intelligent one, give as find it.