Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-06-24
THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,

BY the accounts reaching us from vari-
Gus sources, it seems that the Hon. AMo.
Kendall, as Agent for the Patentee, is
prosecuting the Magnetic Telegraph pro-
ject with all the energy for which he was
distinguished as Postmas:erGencral'
The satisfactory operations Of the Tele-
graph between Washington and Baltimore
are well known TO the community: And
the adoption of that experimental line by
Congress. in view Of whose members the
Magnetic Telegraph was daily operating,
a.iixas an important official stamp on the
project of electric commun icalion sin adj
vance of the MALI between different sec
tons of the Union.
|, is already well known that energetic
arrangements are in progress for compile
ting the seaboard line Of telegraphs, at va
rious points-between New-Orleans and
Mobile, between Baltimore and New-1 ork,
betw New Y ork and Boston, &c. Ii is
also. known generally in this quarter at leas,
that Messrs. Butterield, Faxon e. Co., OF
Utica, are arranging for the intersection
of line with the New-York and Boston
route, which will connect Albany, Buffalo
and the intervening cities, with the sea
board line at New-York and Boston.
1t is now added that the Main Contra
Telegraphic Line, from the seaboard te
'.the west" is also placed in train of com.
pleton. The "Atanlic and Mississippi
Telegraph Route as we believe it is nam.
ed, will commence at Philadelphia, ICON
Meeting with the lines from New-York and
Washington and run SO as TO touch all the
State Capitols and large towns tina, can
conveniently be reached on tho route to ST.
Louis. Branch lines will run southwardlv
from this main route to the capitols of Ken
lucky and Tennessee and to the cities below
Pirsburg on the Ohio River, so as to in.
clude Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louis
Vile; and other branch lines will run north
wardly from the main route, so as TO in
clude the principal places along the lakes,
between Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, Milwau.
kie, &c. The arrangements for complet-
ing this great central line are entrusted by
Mr. Kendall to Henry O'Relly; and it is
understood that enough Of the work will be
finished with despatch for transmitting 10
EIarrisburgh (if not 10 Wheeling via Pitts
burgh, or even to Columbus in Obioj an
abstract Of the Presidents Message at the
commencement Of the next session of Con-
gress.
The cheapness with which lines Of mag
ne,ic communication3may be constructed
and worked the lightning like velocity
with which intelligence may be communi-
Gated all on or the continent, with scarcely
any perceptible consumption Of time, en-
aiding tie traveller to communicate with
his distant home while stopping even few
minutes on his railroad progress--the avi-
dity with which the practical American
mind seizes on Improvements clearly de-
monstrated and cheaply ttainable-these,
and many other reasons readily suggesting
themselves to intelligent men, cannot leave
a shadow Of doubt that the Electric Tele-
graph Chat practical annihilator of time
and space, which partially endows man.
kind with a kind Of omnipresence) will
be extending speedily over the leading
thoroughlares of our whole land; so that
the passing events, in the extremit:es OF
Of the Union-the intelligence from New.
Orleans, Washington, ST. Louis, New York
and Boston-may be understood almost in.
simultaneously wherever the vast network
of this novel Telegraph System is proper.
ly extended,
AS sections Of these Telegraph lines can
be put in operation as fast as constructed
between towns of any importance. the work
on the Central Line. as on the other main
lines through the Union, can be made avail
able for business and intercourse, (as, fol
instance, the section between Washington
and Baltimore, without the delay Of wait
ing for the completion Of the whole route
thus obviating one great difficulty usually
encountered in consumating magnifcen
projects.
While on the subject, it may be addet
that the tnewly established "Naiional Mag
azine" for the current month contains ar
interesting article on the History and Pro
gress of Magnetic Telegraphs; in which
results in this country are fereshadowet
partly from what has already occurred
and is now occurring, in Europe, in th'
establishment of such means of inter-com
munca,ion. The cost of construction il
this country will not probably exceed, i
Indeed it reaches, $l30 per mile,-a COS
so tri1ing in comparison TO the advantages
that it interposes no serious barrier te
rapid extension Of this Telegraph sys
tenn over all the chief thorough(ares 0
the United States Albany Argus.
HIsToRY OF DOLLAR. -The PIcayunt