The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-12
From the Albany Argu,

From the Albany Argus.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHIc LINE BETWEEN THE
+ ATLANTIC AND THE MISSISSIPPI QNCLUDING
THE LAKE COUNTRY AND OHIO Valley
BY the accounts reaching US from various sources
it seems that the Hon. Amos Kendall, as agent for
the paentee, is prosecuting the magnetic telegraph
project with all the energy for which he was dis
tinguished as Postmaster General.
The satisfactory operations of the telegraph be-
tween Washington and Baltimore well known
to the community: and the adoption of that expert
mental line by Congress- in view of whose members
the magnetic telegraph daily operating, afHxes
an important official stamp the project of electric
communication Sin advance of the mailn between
different sections of the Union.
1t is already well known that energetic arrange
ments in progress for completing the seaboard
line of teegraphs, at various points, between New
Orleans and Mobile. between Baltimore and New
York, between New York and Boston, &c. 1t is
also known generally in this quarter at least, that
Messrs. Butterfeld, 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 seabord
line at New York and Boston,.
II is now added that the main central Geographic
line, from the seaboard the west" is also placed
in train of completion. The "Atlantic and Missis
sissippi telegraph route" we believe 1t is named
will commence at Philadelphia Connecting with the
lines from New York and Washington and run so
touch all the State capitals and large towns that
can conveniently be reached on the route to St
Louis. Branch lines will run south wardly from this
main route to the capitals of Kentucky and Tennes-
see, and to the cities below Pittsburgh on the Ohio
river, so as to include Wheeling, Cincinnati, and
Louisville; and other branch lines will run north
wardly from the main route, so to include the
principal places along the lakes, between Buffalo,
Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, DC. The arrange
ments for completing the great central line are en-
trusted by Mr.. Kendall to Henry ORely and it is
4 4 -. H., N.E ,,,h oI
with despatch for transmitting to Harrisburg (if
not to Wheeling via Pittsburgh, even to Coum-
bus in Ohio an abstract Of the Presidents message
at the commencement of the next session of Con
gross.
The cheapness with which lines of magnetic COM
munication may be constructed and worked-the
ightning-like velocity with which intelligence may
be communicated all over the continent, with scarce
y any perceptlble consumption of time, enabling
the traveller to communicate with his distant home
while stopping even few minutes on his railroad
progress--the avidty with which the practical
American mind seizes on improvements clearly de-
monsrated and cheaply attainable-these, and many
other readily suggesting themselves to intel
gent men, cannot leave shadow of doubt that the
electric telegraph (hat practical humiliation of time
and space which partially endows mankind with a
sort of omnipresence) will be extended speedily
the leading thoroughhres of our whole land so that
the passing events the extremi,ies Of the Union
the intelligence from New Orleans, Washington, st.
Louis New York, and Boston--may be understood
almost instantaneousy and simultaneously wherever
the network of this novel telegraph system is
properly extended
As sections Of these telegraph lines can be put in
operation as fast constructed between towns OF
any importance, the work on the central line, as on
the other main lines through the Union, can be made
available for business and intercourse Gas for in
stance the section between Washington and Balti-
more,) without the delay Of waiting for the compile
lion Of the whole route; thus obvating great diff
fculty usually encountered in concentrating magnif-
icent projects.
While on the subject, it may be added that the
newly established National Magazine" for the cur
rent month contains interesting article on the his
tory and progress Of magnetic telegraphs, in which
results in this country oreshadowed partly from
what has already occurred and is now occurring in
Europe, in the establishment Of such means of in
accommodation, The cost Reconstruction in this
country will probably exceed if indeed it reach
es, $3.50 per mile-a cost SO trifing in comparison
to the advantages that it nerposes no serious bar
rier to rapid extension Of this telegraph system
all the chief thoroughfares of the United States