Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-05-17

fdnd sfhe transmission 0f' II cost But 81
Such message over the Boston, Line, q
distance not so great as that between
Harrisburgh ani Pittsburgh, would have
cost $33O--the Eastern newspapers not
being allowed 70 combine FOR the purpose
Of receiving intelligence and thus dimin-
ishing tho expense upon each. We do
not fail once in three months in getting
our dispatches through from Philadelphi.
awhile at almost every Foreign arrival
at Boston, the wire on that line sbreak'
before the Intelligence can be transmit.
ted to New York These are modes OF
comparison which are suggested by our
own experience, as we have always ex.
perienced greater difficulty in getting dc,
spatches from Boston to New York than
from, New York to Pittsburgh :, AZ
" This reference 10 charges is rende red
expedient by the fact that the rates thus
arranged by me in establishing the lines
have proved SO satisfactory to the public
that the Legislatures of Tennessee and
Kentucky have by law rendered our lines
the standards by which all Telegraphie
Companies must regulate their charges
in those States, as will be seen by the fol
lowing sections ofthe laws recently pass
ed in both States: %g-...>t'
'''Be it enacted (by the Legislature Of
Tennessee( That the act to Incorporate
"the New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph
ic Company, passed on the 18th Of Octo
be-, 1847, shall be SO amended tina! said
Company shall not charge higher rates:
SIN proportion to distance, than are now
''charged or the Telegraphic Lines from
"Philadelphia to st, Louis, constructed by
"Henry O'Rielly.p q 4 Il D. VIZ i
"Be 1t further enacted (by the Legisla-
"ture Of Keptucky,) That the rates Of
"chargingfor Telegraphing on the Lines
:'of theetwo Companies hereby incorpora-
"ted, wiz: the Companies of Professor
"Morse and his associates and Of Henry
"O'Rie!ly and his associates] shall not OK
''ceed the rates charged by the Western
"UReilly Lines .- 80, :I&s
In reference to the threats frequently
uttered against me by .Morse's agents Cor
alleged Infringement of his patent, it is
merely necessary to remind intelligent
men, that, were my adversaries able to
substantlate their assertions, would
scarcely have been sustained by the A.
me rican people in constructing already
four thousand miles Of Telegraph, with
the certainty Of increasing the line to an
aggregate Of five or six thousand miles
during the current year. The Patent
Laws are known to be the most stringent
of Anne rlcan sta,utes-the Courts are the
proper places to determine Patent con-
troversies-and any Patertee, whose pre-
tensions are not invalid and fraudulent,
can always enforce his claims. ..-
Respecting the invitations from the N.
York Journal Of Commerce, and other
newspapers Of New York and New Eng
land, (the Journal Of Commerce express
ing the hope that I ",viU establish a Tele.
graph Line along side Of every principal
Line o,cned by other parties throughout the
country" as the editors think it would
"reduce the Telegraphic fees to reasona-
BILE rates, and correct most Of the other
abuses now prevaiIing')--it may not be
considered irrelevant now to say, that, if
the proscriptive course Of the celebrated
"Boston Line" is not speedily corrected
by the penal legislation of New York
if the controllers Of Morse's Telegraph
(F 0. J. Smith and Kendall) continue
much longer the course Of conduct which
has extorted such strong censures from
Western business men, as we'll as from
Eastern Journalistic will not much,
longer delay compliance with those invi-
tations, but will ssextend line alongside
of the Boston Telegraph particularly,
if not "aIongside Of every principa line
owned by other parties throughout the
United States"--and, indeed, the lines
am now constructing will soon connect,
on equal and reasonable terms, nearly
every important town in the Union,
between the Eastern Seaboard and the
Mississippi, and between the Canadian
Frontier and the Gulf Of Mexico.
Having been connected with the Tele-
graph enterprize from the commence
ment Of that enterprise by individual ef-
fort in Misunderstanding constructed
more Telegraph than any and all other
persons combined in the United States
and claiming no credit as an INVENTOR
trust know how to appreciate the sew
eral ingenious citizens whose Geographic
apparatus reflect credit on Anne rican ge-
Mus; and every proper effort in my pow
er will be made 10 defend the rights OF
those inventors against the assaults OF
monopo!!sts, who attempt 10 brand others
with the name Of "Patent Prates,"-
epithet which the Courts will probably
stamp upon their own brows, whenever
they dare again meet, the issue before
the Judicial Tribunals Of the Union
wherein they have been already, met and
repulsed, and whore am ready at any
and all times to repel their aggressions
~. ~. 49,. ~. -. ,- HENRY O'RlELLY.
New Orleans, April II, l848.s ~
,*Of which structures the following extract
from the Philade lphia North American and
United States Gazette (repubsshed approx
lnrly by many other new spapers) may be Ia