Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-05-08

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opposing factions.
But let those beware who attempt to oppose
the policy Of President johnson. Mr.. Lin
coin has been credited with frmness but in
his successors little finger there will be more
of the JackSonian firmness than there was in
Mr.. Lincoln's whole hand.
MAMMOTH TELEGRAPH CoRP0RATIoN.-We
understand, on what we esteem 10 be reliable
authority, that the Western Union Telegraph
Company, with capital of twenty-five mil
lions of dollars, and the American Telegraph
Company with capital Of about two millions
of dollars, have agreed on terms consolidating
the two companies under one management at
the rate of two and half of the consolidated
stock for every share of the American Com
pany's stock. A half share more OF consoll-
dated stock for every share Of the American
we understand, is contingent on the recovery
and possession of the Morris line from Wash
in gton city southwark. Under these arrange
ments, the wires of the consolidated company
will extend not only to every quarter OF the
country, California and Oregon included, but
by connections now being prosecuted, with al
most every habitable quarter of the globe.
The united capitals of the several companies,
as contemplated-namely, twenty-five millions
of the Western Union, ten millions OF the
Russian Extension, six millions OF the Amer
lean, a million, probably, for the Washington
and New Orleans, and an additional million
for some two or three other minor local lines
will aggregate a capital of this one combina-
ton of about forty millions of dollars. Few
people outside of the companies, though per-
haps profiting from the advantages of the use
of the lines, have any Just idea of their ex-
tent, or of the magnitude of the business done
over them. Combinations of this character,
with capitals so large as TO make them mo-
nopolies, are powerful engines for good or
evil, and their progress to consummation
should not pass unnoticed by the press and the
public.-Phila. Ledger.
LETTER FROM "PARsoN" BRowNLOw.-The
following rotice from Gov Brownlow expresses
the sentiments ofmany others similarly stu
ated:
To Whom il Nay Concern:
| take this occasion to say to all concerned,
through the city papers, what am weary OF
saving in the Executive Department OF the
State aud at my private lodgings, twenty or
thirty times in each day | have nothing to
do with the rents, or possession Of houses and
lots, unpaid rents, hire of laborers in and
around Nashville-and a thousand and one
other private and personal claims set up by
cOntending parties, and daily and hourly
crowded upon me for adjustment.
Nor am / here to furnish the destitute with
ratons, or the unemployed with labor.
Nor am here to procure papers for per-
sons, by endorsing their loyalty, when have
never seen or heard of them before. can
not, and will not, sign petitions to release
rebel prisoners from confinement, setting
forth who they are, what they have done, and
what the ir future purposes are, when know
nothing of the prisoners, or the alleged facts
in their cases.
| will hank men and women who are
crowdng me, at the rate of twenty or thirty
per day, with their ridiculous, not to say alb
surd, applications, to take them before the
courts Of the country, or other parties who
may have license or inclinati on to look into
them. ioM not be annoyed In this lody.
WILLIAM q. BR0wNLOw,
April &c. Governor oil tennessee.