The Arkansas banner., 1845-12-10

ton, flour, aud other staple articles of Amefi- can produce; all which shall be posted up on bulletin for public infornalion
 The company GIad themselves to dis charge forthwith any agent, who shall i'll any way disregard the duties which the company owe to the citizens and the community, such as sending false and suppressing true inior- nation, or using the telegraph for purposes ol lavoritism or gain, &5e.
 The managers of tbetelesrapll bind tiH9iil- selves 10 give preference 10 officers of the States or of the United States, or police of hcers of cities aad boroagbs, when an im- mediate transmission is required by the en- ergencies of the public service, CT for the arrest of f1gitivcs from justice, or 10 pre- vent the commission or coHsummatioa of crime
 The Puble press is invited 10 fee inter change of views, in order to digest sound sxstem for the transmission, hY telegraph. of general news a9d Congressional aal LegisIa- tiEe proceedings. Gi course, the Northern press, Wilh thiee I4ax-eged vigilance fae tie earliest ne#s, has turned their attention ta this grand Rediam of information. Fhe Jour nal Of Commerce has made curious caieu- lation, which #e fepHbhsh entire for the amusement 0. our readers
 TELEGRAHHa PEsPA#eHss-Aee8g ta the rates established by ae Postmaster General en tic faate between Washington aad Baltimore aud proposed by the Iele- graphic Company on the line between Phil adelphia and New ! orA3 she transportation oi column of matter from Washington to this city, saying nothing ol the distance ha- tween Baltimore and Philadelphia, which must be accomplished in some other wav,9 woald cost upwards ol 50 dollars. This will be seen by the following calculation.
 ia a column of iheJoufnal oi Commerce there are aheat ll,0G0 letters. Between i Washington and Baltimore the charge is one cent for each f0af letters, or al the rate Of twenty seven doiIars and fifty cents per col Hma. Philadelphia and New ! ofk, lhe rates proposed are tweHty-ive cents for ten words, every figure Icing counted as wold. On aa average, there are five letters to word. Consequently filiy letters would cost twenty five cents, which is at tie rale of 6 dollars a column. Add this to 2 dollars and 50 cents above mentioned, and we have total ot 8 dollars and 50 cents as the price of l traaee.tti0g eofRma af matter from Wash iuEtaa to Baltimore, aed fsam P.iladep phia 10 t5is eily. A. Baltimore itmUst be copied from the teieggaqhio signs. and the copy he transmitted by maIt or otherwise to Phila- delPhia. 1'Eis would make some additional expense SO thal, including the original cost of writing lhe letter, the whole expense ef | column, delivered in New ! atk, would nof be less thaa So dollars. i ais is on t.le sup position, that between Baltimore and PRila- delpaia the despatch would be transmitted by 6sail. II. tHe session si1o5ii eonti ae SIX months, a. t probably will, column daily, except Sundays, daeiag lIle session, would cost ia the neabboGhosd ef 3,a99 dollars If any EiitoF is disposed to pay al that rate for Washington eoricspondece, he will, ol course. do so.
 fine time bccapicd n transmitting col nmn of matter. tfE099 fetars,1 from Wash iugtoa 10 Baltimore, would De about two heHrs and t!4e same between Philadelphia and New ] ogk; making faurtours consam- ed ia the transmission by telegraph, which added to the eoaYeyanee by mail between Baltimore and Philadelphia, where no iele- .aelic tine is esq. l.slied, woull make the whole time hctweea Washington and New York in a1oui ten hours. Prlce 90 dollars The only way in which the expense could ht made eYen tolefable, would be for the morn ing papers to mile, lhe evening papers can. aat by any possibility Pabl3sli the news ii the day aiier it is forwagded from Washing ] -lon.1 aLl-i alHLre lle plnnder, as well ns tlll expense, hetween them.o
 Tine N. I ork Correspondent of the Wash, ington Union coTects the estimate ot thf Journal, ia very important particular, as follows:
 We think the Journal of Commerce la bors under tie effoaeous imposition as 10 the probable costof communications by the mag nelic telegraph for the newspaper pfess.-- The te!egfaPhic postage rate5 or talis agreed to, and published by the company, il seems are intended to apply simply to iHe transmits sioa al private communications.
 i understa;i1 from .u, KeniM himself that t is proposed 10 adopt much lower ant more reasonable rates fer the press and the correspondents. In order to arrive at which the subject has been postponed for shor time, for consultation among themselves, il order to see how low communications .f9i publication can be transmitted.
 sE will certainly be to their interest to f, the rates as low as they can possibly aaore them fer tie Pfess-Hot, probably, over aae eighA of the charges assessed on private O confidential, commercial, or other commtai cations; because, when intended fer lh press. .he whole public have the benefit ofil.' 4 letter from AIr Kendall, in the last Jour nal of Commerce, confirms the statement that the above rates do net refer to the pubI press, it being left to future arrangement [, decide upon the proper rate to be established for it's regulation.
 Still, the cost 1f transmitting by the elec trlc wires the proceedings of Congress wll be immensc-and we doubt whether any o the Northern papers, however enormous il circulation, can afford to play with th ightningn on is own separate resources Al all events, il can afford no more than very brief sketch of Inc 2loiags ol Congress as column of ll,010 letters, telegfafhicall, transmitted, would almost break any Eilto rial c. ncern We, however, see one grea advantage of this heavy costol transmission IL may induce the members of Congress Il concentrate ther ideas and coadense tllei words Should they be anxious to see thei speeches transmitted by lightning, in thei F,TaaI l.