The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-21

lsls. Ososrucsd undsr de "O'Rsuy contract" vita
Nass tine nom BunAlo 70 Detroit and from Cleveland %
(sia. sotJ Va. reserved for he Morse psisn!ess In
January 1851 the directors decided recognise the
ne territory belonging 70 and occupied by sad
which m,asare reduced tho Cal l!a stock 70 slss 200
entire receipts and endtures were suoen for div
dead OF four per cen! among tho stockho ia and thai
The decay Of The ne tosotSor With the competition Of
rival lines tended 10 embar the Affairs OF tns co npa
ny Tbs wire used Tor the erre hro three ana onr
ply twisted iron wire which believed TO be superior
to snz gle @re at tho tme ,hs line coustrucsot rae
lima was leased 70 the New Yo,k aud mississippi Valley
n,c over ACC mile. Of the twisod wire bss besa aoau
daned, having become worthless by de'ay
tie "waie haes," ieased TO the New York AID
Mississippi Valley Prin ing Telegraph Company, In jane
Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, With two
wires on separate roaies from Cieve md to Cnt nns
the Ohio Telegraph Company, With wire from Pitts
bprgh Cres,line along the Pittsburgh Wayne and
Chicago Railroad; one wire from Crestns to Fort Wayne
along the same road one wire nom Gallon 10 Unon City
and one wire from 5Sndusky 10 Shelby.
Tho CinennAt: and 81. Lou!s Telegraph COMPANY.
garized February is4s "for the Of ooafacng
snd managing line of telegraph from Michigan City
VI. Lafayette IndAnspols and Richmond TO Dayton or
Cincinnati, IN the State Of Ohio, and from Michigan
city via Chicago, Peoria Springfield and Alton TO ST Lo1s
with meeting line fom vincsnnss via Terre a.a!e,
10 udsnapos and slso FROM Michigan city Indiana 10
Toledo Detroit The CAP i OF ssid association to bs
s5Socoo 70 be dvi cd Into H. 900 shares" Inareqer
and In operation embraces in eli ssl miles. The line from
Michigan city, via Chicago to Peoris sprngasd ani Alton
rho sgg,egee receips Of tus Lac, nom Ap, is4s to
july 1850 were sl7,s5i &C. The expenditures for The
Ct Cornell after, and remained under hs nasasgo
| ment till 1858, when Il was lea.ed by the Western
Ies Of Joe was rouDd to be ia working order ou Of Ss
miles Originally constructed. The latter Company
ms Erie and Mchssn rsesraps compsay, csmmancIps
with one wire ct Buffalo and extending to E-e Glow auc
serwsrea ssr1og Ds seen Basa soa lsvesud IA tbs
eood ton eafed 10 the Ne York and hsss.i OPT
y VI. Is rs ass; ,s Com Ia ss
peIo 70 Caiesso sad along the Chicago ana MI EAuks
Tie soaihe'n Achigan Telegraph uompauv.-rhls line
instructed 10 1915 by J3sish SNOW, acting urdcr
Instructions FROM End IS an agent OF 'he Lake Erie Tee
s.rrcted ire from Cs.cAso to Mlxaass
The Western Union Telegraph Company have secured
the permanent Use Of thi. line Toledo Monroe to
Chicago q Is located along the 50 ,hOTn Michigan Raj
road and urder an arrangement between the Western
| psny, aud IS used principally fu rAlrcaa purposes
The oaio and MIS- issippl Ieleg Compiny.-or-
s'ructed under the Reilly contracts by Henry 0RAI,
having line Of telegraph from louisville in Tie State OF
Kentucky through gincennes, in the State Of udaua to
hes beea rebuilt tho Ohio aud pp Railroad from
81. Louis 70 Yncernes tn, line FORMED the western
Union Telegraph Company ia February, 1856; the
latter company Continuing to work 10 connection With
Tue Pishurg, Cincinnati and uisvue Telegraph Cau-
pangoeanl3ei. ure, 1912 Constructed undo the oRol
nsvtDs from p'uburg 70 louisville TIE total
cash receipts CT this hne fos the t~ave mouhs ending
INES SIS $50 Is Expenditures during tbs year SIS.
sz5 16 Inavins ret balance OF $2t 500 go The es
mates Ct Tbs for the ysAt 1850 show thai
rumber Of das atches recorded 1854 $50. These
elu.iye Of free m,sr nscessariy large y 4. times "Ne~
line leas.d to the Western Union Telegraph Company
In June, 1885, since which ne II hiss been entirely rebuilt
the route Of the Cleveland and Pe'burg saosd, AMI the
wires from Wheeling TO Louisville are now undergoing
thorough 70 fs.r aud rensulAtton.
NEW ORLEANS AND OHIO TELEGRAPH cohpAsY.
sograws.7rRs Ilsrs, coSsrcrSc YORK Asp WV on.
ITAss PHILADELPHIA, rIIrsBURG LOUISVILLE.
The New Orleans and Ohio Tel, graph Company war In
corporated October, ls4I, for the construction OF line
from Wheeling, Va, via haysvllle, Lexington and Frank
fort TO Louisville (sbou, 100 mss) thence via Nashville
Columbia, Tenn ynesboro PASSPORT, Ponioioc GrenA
da, Yszoo City y!cksburg and Nstchez, Aiss, Baton
Rouge Ia TO New oreans-aoout 900 miles This line
was completed In ls4s separate company WAS in,orpo
rsed and organized 70 build line from Memphis to inter
rect the rst named at Nashville Columbia or Tuscumos,
which Was bui1 about the samo time and DID inisrseH
the ars, u way nesos.o Tenn Tho aemphIs br.n'h
ton Rxrord. and nicrss os the main line ai ruscum.
biA Length Of branch On nrsl route $50 miles; pre-
About the same me Qsii-sl company was organized
AID incorpcrscd esci The Peoples Telegraph Conpsny
e1d consSt cteo uno ucncr neuy pssent from LOUIE
vble VIA Bardstown and Glngoy, Ky aaiAun, Mash
vile and Columbia, Tenn; Forcnee Iucu mba and MOI
COW Ala Colun bus Louisville, kosousco, Canton Jack
son, GAsils and Liberty, MIL Clinton Baton Rouge and
Convent, La, 10 New Orleans; whole length $40 mlles
This line Tho same route ~ The New Orleans aud
OHIO Inc as lar they passed th-oush Kentucky (souih
OF Leusviue) and Tennessee and aso the route
from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
mere wn about The same ume or from ls4i 10 $780,
branch lines constructed from Jscksoa TO V!eksburg,
ABOUT sixty mlcs from tAyelie, on the Morse line, 70
Rooney, about bimen mllcs rom Woodvto, on tho
Morse lne, 70 Bayou sara about thirty miles, which are
sti In Operation There was also limo constructed from
Natshez, In Mss@pp, across the river at that point,
through Dousana 10 Alexandria, on Red river, which IL
on the best route 70 Texas but has been abandoned
new Inc from Jackson. hiss, Kew Orleans WAS con
srrcted IN ls5 by tho osces on sae So~ Orleans jack
son end Great Northern Railroad
The lines from lousvine 70 New Orleans were at leg
gtrheacs In law FOR come years, on an ed,r OF Prof.
Morse TO en- DIN the oke'iy patent ~ inirinremont