New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-17
TIE TELEGRAPH QUESTION.
Telegraph Profits The New Line through
Sew-Engiand-Morse's Patent Ia Court
CONGRESS and the Patent Dfuce-BRin.

Patent Of doubtful value, and TIE term Of which
hss aearly expired, and when competition ia
Teegrsphing, not only on the NcW-Yorh and Bos
ton but also on the other great commercial routes
ia the Union, is confidently expected % be-
begun for the general good, II may be worth while
Tor nsny persons carefully 10 peruse the following
statement, which shows how easily those VINO 90 moth
ing SECURE fortunes by head work while modest in
genuty ials 10 its due reward and talent and
sbility are kept in the background Of the picture.
10 pateniees and all othors interested In securing for
skill and talent their meet rcward-and by politicians.
VINO labor to remove from public Offices the s,g
ma oi partially and injustice i be At
,scbed 10 the proceedings Of those in auihortythe
nsrrstive given below will be found 20 possess
interest
The Kentucky lawsuit in equity, throws a food Of
light upon the motive. Of Mr. OReilys opponents IN
Teleraphing Mr Amos Kendall cz Postmaster Gen
.rsl swesrs
That the line from New. York to Buffalo has pro
dueed 10 Morse Vail smith and Gale f0y the Hst Of me-
taisni oaty ~i,hout any expenditure their part la
building it, 10000 in the stock q company which
divided per cent Of clear gain, last year and much
81 the stock OF which has sold for cash 20.
2 Taat the New-York and Washington Line has
brought the pAtthtffH upward bl C0V'VN u rii'n t'
rate OF net income on which 10 per cent per
That the Washington and New Orleans Line Of
only one wire. will give the pstentees upward OF
100000 Ia stock with income thereon likely to eS
ceed largely per cent per From Washing
ron 20 Petersburg Va has already yielded per cent
4 That In his (KendaIls) opinion the New York and
Boston Line, for its length Is TIH NosT VALUABLE N
I'm UNION next to the New.York and Washington
which yields 10 per cent or say 20 the actual outlay
3 That the patentees have sold for $4,000 in cash the
privilege OF working telegraph $50 miles Of line
have got - 900 in cash for liberty TO the inven
ton on another 900 miles and that 800 miles OF
liberty to build about to be .odmore than half OF
n At $50 mile.
G Th.t O'Reilly has checked this money making
speculation. by raising doubts about Morse a Co
claim 10 be the only rghtul vendors Of liberty 70 tee
graph that he has used look g. barness telegraph on
line between Nashville and Louisville and that IL
an infringement of MOrses discovery which Ia en-
trely aud like nothing else in the globe, except
telceraphs pirsted from him.
That on this Louisville line, Morse Co were to
have allowed "A company to build telegraph upon con
diton of their paying the pateutees half the property
and Welding half the control Of such line for permits
sion TO embark their money in H.
Kendall testiues that the following lines have been
built by separate companies under Morses patent viz
l. Washington TO New.foTk 2 Washington 10 Nc~
Orleans. 3 NewNork To Buffalo, 4 New York 10 Bos
ton 5 Buffalo 20 Milwaukee via Chicago, q Buffalo
10 Quebec via Toronto, 7. Syracuse 10 Oswcgo =
Auburn to Utica and Elmra 9 Utica 10 Binghsm'on
10 Troy TO Saratoga; IL. Troy 10 Montreal T. Bos
ton to Portland Me; 10 Boston 10 NowburypOn IA
Boston % Providence Is Worcester 10 Norwich, 10
Philadelphia 10 Pottsviile, II. Wilmington 10 Lewis
ton. Del ~ Baltimore 10 Lancaster, Pa, ~ Colum-
bus TO Chilicothe 20 Columbia Tenn TO Memphis
Other lines which he cnunerates are rapidly progress
Kendall is attorney. general for the monopoly and
controls three iourhs of Morses patent he evidently
looked forward 10 combination OF the above lines TO
fleece the community when he wrote O'Reily--Aug
Is. ls45
Even when the Patents expire, ouR coMfaNrs lshould
not the sph become public properly
Sos of rRs LINES, can readily KEEP or ALI COMPETE
ZION"
Morse being In Court that self and partners
Vail. smith and Gale of the rsient Office had sold
pr,sis1s on certain lines for $4,000 in cash and
many such under cnntract-that OF sco0OOl
OF capital stock invested in lines using the Telegraph
said 10 be his (eNoasve of course OF those made by
OReiy) the of the pstcn, have received 500
900 their share. and OF course, wthouta cent OF
outlay. This only whets their appetite for more gain
the puslic are never to have cheap telegraphng
hey oas Ae'pa. Balm, House and others however,
stand in then way.
The easa OF Balm /. exceedingly d.orcditsble TO the
Patent Oaico. As AS can, will now state H.
Mr. Balm made the Telegraph writing BY means OF
single circuit of conductors said circuit being composed
the long Telegraph wire and the Intervening ground
between the points lie took out Euglsh patent
IN isi2 and scotch French aud Belgian patents la "A
In as he modified his Telegraph SIN using the second
circuit this he patented in ENGLAND N %. and IN Ire
and u a
pstcn al Washington, but hie sgcnt Or. Jones died,
aud this trought him g. America
In company with bis agcat Mr.. SerreA. Balm called
a, the Patent Ofice last Sprng put his specification
into the hands OF the examiners Page and Gale, per
cons who wee or aad been moro or less connected
vita Morse. They examined the pagers and models
carefully. IN presence of Scrrcu and Balm, aud iagc
made some slight alterations In the specification guG
amendment in the claim
Messrs Page and Gale next went privately into q
ofhciai examination OF the caveats then ia the office
II hsH a.'.
where. and aft, three hours OF inquiry, pro
noGnced Bains application satisfactory deciSred thsi
Their, interference, ana assured him that p
tent would issue forthwith.
Balm then invited toe chief clerk with Page and Gale
10 spend the evening al his hotel they according
~, and leh abruptly bat the clerk stayed
Next morning SerIell aud BAN visited the Patent O
nee 10 zee how long II would take Col hosne 90 copy
the documents. Page replied that there inter
icrcneeihst Morse had entered a csvest for iuytn
ton similar % that OF Balm dated January 20 ISL
that the cavcsi had ran out-bu that ca the dSy i
January - lS4,) aud shortly before the arrival
Of bsiu and serreh Morsc had applied Tor psient tor
the LoaaO4 MecAssics Nssa,iaf snA - y1.y.,l
bat mixed up with crude ideas hastily put together
aud in the opinion OF Professors brsnde ana Cooper OF
London lmprsctcahlel
Was IL not singular that the examiner and ss..,s,,
examiner entirely ignorant Of al this even sfer
slons and careful examination made on the previous
dsy
Worse and worse when Scrrel sppled tor A oouv
OF Morsss specification, and sent 70 Balm In Europe
IL protested o. he dated January 70 leiS and o. Bsns
asionishment Page and Gale proved to DC the only vii
nesscs TO attest the gcnalnencss Of document OF
which themselves hsd declared % him ard Serre their
perfect ignorance OF its existence copy OF Norses
csvest refused
Balm returned from Europc--Psoceeied again 20
Washing ton-hut did not get .igh, OF the
md out who had witnessed u Page and Gale e.ec
uoehemists Comments shall not oder. TIE
whole Sfisir is before the Commissioner
when our eouutrymsa. C0rcorsn went % Loaion =
few weeks 70 sell and nypothecs;o the promises
o. pay Of the United States what the that
found sale for three millions while other three were
taken As security for loan o British gold Was It
our wealth Not altogether ior France great aud
powerful nstion, Only - miles from England YET her
public eredi, u low
IL WAS the belief thSt country ! the abode OF
Jasuee-Equry- Honorable Ocalins that our people.
and adopted. citizen and alien, have confidence
in the tribunals snd thsi moaey ent 70 oar nation Is
safer for its owaers than IL would have been IN the
hands of any other Government
This confidence IN the justice Of the GOvernment-
the judiciary and the Legislature snd la the native
msnlness aud good sense Of the whole people contrib
aies Of The most powerful tulwarks Of national
strength. WA DOT OF fraud Gad inqsity Ike the
following seriously lmpSir such confidence II not
promptly checked
4 hsve shown. on tic oath Of the attorney t,r Mr.