The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-04

AMERICAN SCIENCE vISpIcArrSo ITS CLAIMS
ABRoAD-TnE HuoHEs' TErEoPArH IN Austria
Mr.. Kennedy, of Washington, lie now in
Vienna, engaged in prorecuting claims for
patent for the Hughes telegraph, and In urg
ing its adoption by the Austrian government
Through Col. Jackson, the American Minister,
he lately obtained an interview with the Minis
ter of Finance, who manifested the greatest
interest in the discovery, admitting that IL the
representations made Of its value were sus-
tanned by experiment, it would be Of the ut
most Importance to the government to obtain
the control Of it in Austria, and therefore re
commended Mr.. Kennedy 10 see Baron Corn
ing, the Director of Telegraphs, Railroads aud
Statistics, and through him to confer with the
Minister of Commerce, to whose department
all such interests pertain.
Count Toggenbrug and the Minister of Com
merce directed Mr.. Kennedy to present writ.
ten statement of the points to which he wished
attention to be directed and the conditions
upon which this proposition was to be accepted,
if acquiesced in by the government. Mr.. Ken
nedy offered to furnish the Austrian authori-
ties with a printing telegraph instrument
which should combine all the advantages ap-
pertaining to this telegraph, as represented 10
the NEW YORK HERALD OF the 18th ult, with
the promise that if the experiments to be made
in Vienna justified the account given Of IL
claims, it was to be offered for sale to the gov
eminent; but if the purchase was not made, in
that case the Austrian government should pay
ba Of ho trio Of hio
return to and from Vienna, and also
those of his attendant, with the cost Of
Instruments, DC, &c. This proposition having
been made, Mr.. Kennedy had another in
terview with the Minister, by whom he
was most promptly and in the kindest
manner informed that whenever he was pre-
pared to carry the experiments into execution,
every facility should be afforded him for SO
doing, and that his propositions were accepted
without reserve. Besides this, Count Toggen.
brug desired him to let the government have
timely notice Of his return to Vienna,
when he should be furnished with authority to
visn he Austrian dominions with such travel
ling companions and effects as he desired to
bring, anfettered by police control. Every
facility has been assured to Mr.. Kennedy FOR
the speedy granting Of the patent; and as the
Austrian government desires to avail itself of
the invention, and the novelty Of its merits
entities it to patent, one will doubtless be
Immediately issued. Arrangements have ell
ready been made to test this important Ame-
Ican discovery in conjunction with the autao-
rites of France and England. Propositions
have likewise been invited on behalf of Res
sia, by its Minister at Berlin, so that, with tie
sale which has already been made in America
and the prospects open ia Europe, a snug COM
petencynay be safely anticipated for its young
and euterprisng inventn. Mr.. Kennedy, We
understand, expresses in the most grateful
terms his sense Of the services rendered him
by the American Minister, who has manifested
the greatest interest in his success, whilst he
bears similar testimony to tie conduct of the
Austrian authorities, whose intercourse with
hm has been marked by kindness and decision,
and whose purposes have beer declared with a
pronptitsiae generally looked for in vain from
persons in high official positions.
Thus, in the telegraph, as IL steam naviga-
ton, American genius has led the way to all
the most important and usefua discoveries.
However much foreigners may affect to de-
spise our institutions, they mast ct least own
that they are favorable to the dcvelopement
of scien tifc knowledge.