The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-15

Tho Magnetic Telegraph I'm America.
One OF the lsadiag L9adon newsPapers, lt-
1lora.ag Chronicle, recently contained an article
on the subject of electric printing telegraph
represented to be in use in the United States
which is calculated 10 do serious injury 10 the
inventor Of the magnetic telegraph, Il il be allow
! ed to remain uncontradicted
We give few extracts from the article -:
Hitherto the telegraph has only been used for the
! trsnsnissop OF oral messages, communicated by one
manipulation to another. and read by either from
! symbols Indicating dial. An Invention has
now been matured, and waa witnessed ON Saturday
operation the Offices in Parct street which
combines the Of printing message snulta noonsy
with its trsnsmssion and processes to throw or ut the
rate 81 lottsrs in minute 80 that tho hitherto i'm
pspable communication Is indely printed without The
necessity OF the manipulation being constantly "a has
hitherto hcen the case, at his post.
The invention we believe, ia OF American origin, and
!. hold nn'edly by MIR Brett and Mr.. X. E. House
Licenses understand, have been already granted
10y the patentees to the enterprsing house OF Messrs
ton OF lines Of Geographic communication in North
America to the extent Of upwards OF 1000 miles These
y 10 actual operation (rcasng the sanguine ex-
pectations Of the patentees and the public 1t is
from Halifax, through Lower and Upper Canada and
crossing Niagara will reach New York, and extend to
wsshin gop and New Orleans 50 that the moment
conveys can be printed simultaneously throughout that
vast continent at the rate Of 81 letters per minute with
out limit OF distance line has been completed
the Allegheny mountains and it has worked admirably
between Philadelphia and Ptsburg-a distance of 800
miles The Journals of Pittsburgh have published the
proceedings Of Congress of afternoon the follow
Ing morning; and this is the with all the from
the great cities of the Atlantic coast The message of
the Governor to the Legislature Of New York deliver
ed at Albany on the 7th ut and consisting Of two
luns and half Of solid nonparel published in the
city Of New York hours after its delivery having
been transmitted sentence by sentence by tho electric
| telegraph.
We doubt not that all who read these ex-
tracts, will be as much surprised as were,
when them thus embodied in the article
in the London Chronicle We happen to know
little about the transmission of the Governors
Message, alluded to in the above; for it appeared
in an Extra Herald, in two hours after it was
delivered in Albany city one hundred and
| fifty rniles distant from New York Notwth-
standing this, however, the system of Mr..
House, as far as it has been tried, has
been found to work we'll but it has not
vet appeared in public on the great highway
of news. The fact is that Mr.. Morse's is
the only system at present in in the United
States 1t is true that Messrs. Livingston s.
Wells are constructing lines OF great length,
but they are Of Morse's inve ntion.
While we arc on this subject we may as well
give table of the several lines of telegraph in
fessor Morse's system.
TELEaRArHIc Liwrs is NORTH AMERICA
Completed and ia Operation. miles.
New York, Albany, and Buffalo. ............ $40
Washington 10 fredericksburg, Va 80
ESw Irk ana 9Ss,oh. 2 oo
D buffalo, Lockport, ana Toronto in Canada 800. $50
Auburn, Ithaca. and Elm,ra. ................ ~
syracuse ana oswego ............,..... 50
1878