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ct, dug his political grave. He went back to his district — the Richmond district, one of the strongest Whig constituencies — and stood for re-election. The democrats put up Bill Brown. Wallace and Brown stumped the district together, and wher- ever they spoke Brown would say : “What do you think, fellow citizens, Mr. Wallace did in congress? He voted $30,000 — yes, $30,000 of the people’s money — for a thing called the electro-magnetic telegraph. What Is that? What! It is a wire strung on poles stuck in the ground, they propose to send news over it. Here is Mr. Wallace. If you don’t believe he did that very thing ask him for yourselves.” And Wallace stood up like a man, said he voted for the money, and tried to explain why. Then the old Whigs shook their heads and said: “Wallace, we can’t vote for you if you ( 18 ) are guilty of such a piece of folly as that. You ought to be put in a strait-jacket.” The strong Whig district gave Bill Brown 15000 majority because Wallace voted the money which gave the world telegraphy. DOWN THE GILA Adventurous Trip of Two Men in a Boat Yuma Times. Two men arrived here last week who had accomplished the dangerous feat of navigating the Gila river from source to mouth.