The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-05
For the Union.



dency of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, have
separated myself from the telegraph enterprise altogether
On the contrary one OF my objects was TO push the enter
prise elsewhere with more vgor MY interest as the
agent of Professor Morse and otherwise remains unal
tered; it is only the active management of the line from
Washington to New York that have renqushed
which am engaged, the concerns of the telegraph
will apprehend, afford my chief employment through
| the residue of my life.
1t seemed necessary correct this error of the public
mnd to explain why take the liberty and the trouble
| to ndite these numbers.
Before proceed to my, man object, wish 10 expose
the efforts making, especially in England TO rob PROBES
sor Morse as well OF the honor of the profit of his
great invention. Bear in mind you read the following
article from London Morning Chronicle of February
last that none of the telegraph wires in this country
'lad IN the ground sunk in the ocean that sprint
ing telegraph is in operation, or ever has been any
line in America; that Livingston Wess contracts are
all for building Morses telegraph that Morses telegraph
is in the lines built by them in Canada; that
every line built and building in the United States is
used on the line from Philadelphia TO Pittsbug and that
It was Morses telegraph, and no other which transmit
the city of New York, in January last.
From the London Morning Chronicle
ELECTRIC PRINTING Observation-Disclosures the telegraph
has only been used for the transmission OF oral messages
| communicated by one manpulator to anotler and read
by either from symbols on indicating dial An mven
ton has now been mared and was witnessed Saturday
in successful operation at the office in Parliament street.
which combines the power of printing message simulta
neousy with its ansmssion, processes throw of at
the rate of eghyseven letters in minute; that the hit
erto impalpabe communication is indebIy printed with
has hitherto been the his post Tie advantages of
the electric printing telegraph for making rapid commun
cation between distant places for government railway and
commercial purposes appear to be its great simplicity
certainty of action, and economy The fact that by this
telegraph any TWO parties themselves nego
tiaon or correspondence, and that the same would be
eg pfan ea Il m e rate OF EN- Letters per
must convey some idea Of its amazing capabilities 1t
al s pu gna isy pt n o
indicators The wire being laid IN the ground sunk in
the is secured from the influences of the atmosphere
and from accidental or other injuries, and the OF
protective police is avoided by it the orders of secretary
ton, ut every station along the line simultaneously
the letters printed at end must correspond with
Arrangements having been made with the patcntce for the
purchase of the English patent it is proposed form
company
There very attendance of vsiters on Sat
urday, to whom the principle of operation expounded
had their transmitted and printed with accuracy in
astonishingy short period In describing apparatus
state that at extremity OF line egraph
fixed small box, like musical box containing of
keys, (simar to those Of pano-iore) and marked with
wire printing machine at the other extremity con
s.ht Electric ~ mo ,S e
motion OF the whole and the instant that key represent
the corresponding letter of the type wheel prints and the
aarrimbe rings at the other The communications are
printed scroll paper ofunimited length from which
The Oceanic line (of which Mr. j. Brett tile gina
cation made London would be Instantly printed in Dublin
Paris, Berlin Ne Licenses Toe understood, hare al
sa s % Hf he eae ,. s
sass1s snyselaiiG.s IF he pasaes rnSiso IFS
n a ssa L Sss S Sd ans , csna qsa
is Me that the a t'a Se 81 Eop
arrirss at either point the ne,cs coaveys be printed
eighiysevn letters PEI minute nclo limit Of dist@n ea'
line has been Completed across me Aeghamy monntains and
iS5 %s a tas 1s seess. . r rsss.. 81
s@gs Of i sopessr ss.ate e Ma, s'q YORK. dc
Of Neno York hours after deiiuery haping been trans
In memorial submitted to the government July 1885,
is stated that by means OF this telegraph any communca
other place. and delivered, in printed form, almost the
instant IL Ct s at s % parts of the United
teed to tile government by this invenon render of the
own control and arrange and conduct this plan Of general
Geographic communication The following are few OF
the advantages offered by this patent:
Ist The immediate communication of government Or
ders and dispatches to all parts of the empire and the
slant return Of answers to the same from the seat of local
FORM I'd general Geographic post Office SYSTEM uniting
the chief and branch offices in London in connexion with
all the offices throughout the kingdom For transmitting
messages of business, &e from merchants brokers' trades
o Be on 3, snd al
closed sealed envelopes, and addressed by confidential
clerks and issued by special messengers the usual post
office delivery. 3. The advantages of this plan applied
police arrangements throughout the United Kingdom, and
vous the government by il, instructions might
veycd nstananeousy, and the Of the
regulated, that any available number of may be
brought together given point in the shortest possible
time necessary for their conveyance These some of
the advantages others readily suggest themselves namely
general communications between stations on the coast such
as light houses, channel islands, Nc So that a general
supervision of the might be obtained the use of
the navy, Loyds and for the prevention smuggling
The invention believe is of American origin, and is
held untedly by Mr.. Brett and Mr. r. e. House, Ameri
can"
Was there movement more dulaciots than this
wholesale appropriation of all the wonders performed by
M0rSes telegraph, to the benefit of another invention,
which is altogether unknown, except in newspaper
puffs'
But this is not ALL. i was not enough to rob Morse
in the estimation of the British public of the actual
performances of his telegraph The admission that the
invention was of american origin" seems to have
been too much for the honorable Messrs. Brett for
the British public they were attempting to deceive and
plumber. Accordingly, in the month of May last, this
invention of "Mr r. f. House, an American" appro.
prating TO itself all the performances of Morse's inven
lion, is converted into purely British mention Not
only but il is represented that this purely British in
the identical which transmitted the New York gov
emors message from Albany to the city of New York
last January!
The proof OF all this is found in article in the Lon
don illustrated News of the Sh MAY last now before me
1t Uerbat,m as follows, emitting the engravings, Wis
BRETrs SuBrERRANEAN OCEANIC ELECTRIC PRINTING
TEIEGRAPH-We have attended private view of this
successful invenon at the Office of the patenee, in Para
street, and have there witnessed specimens of
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