Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-08-02
Interesting Correspondence.

HEARTS CONTENT, July 27, 1866.
To His Exeelency President Andrew johnson,
Washington, O.
lSir-The Atlantic cable was successfully
completed this morning. ! hope that it
will prove blessing to England and the
United States, and increase the interview
between our own country and the Eastern
hemisphere.
Yours respectfully,
(SIgned) CYRUS w. FIELD.
WAsHnoToN, July 20, 1866.
Cyrus w. Field, Hearts Content:
heartily congratulate you, and trust
your enterprise may prove as successful as
your efforts have been persevering. May
the cable under the sea tend to promote
harmony between the Republic ofthe West
and the Government of the East.
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 81, 1896.
Hon. W. II. Seward Washington:
The telegraphic cable has been success
fully laid between Ireland and Newfound-
land. | remember with gratitude your
services in the Senate Of the United States,
in the winter of 1857, and recollect with
pleasure the speech you then made in favor
Of the Telegraph bill. That you may
never have reason &c regret THAT you have
done to establish communication across
the Atlantic is the sincere wish of your
friend, CYRUS w. FIELD.
WASHINGTON, July go, 1866.
Cyrus W. Field, Hearts CONTEXT:
Acknowledgment Of congratulations. If
the Atlantic cable had not failed in 1858,
the European States would not have been
led in 1851 into the great error of sup
posing that the civil war in America
would either perpetuate African slavery
or divide the Republic. Your great
achievement constitutes, | trust, an effect
ual treaty of international material non
Intervention.
(Signed) W. H. SEWARD.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 27.-I6 tie Hon.
Directors @ the atlantic 7s1eg,a pA C0m-
pany. | congratul late you on the SUCCESS
full completion Of telegraphic communica-
ton between Ireland and Newfoundland,
and hope, within two weeks from this
time to inform you that the cable Of last
year has been recovered, and that the
second line is in operation across the At
Iantic. assure you that all on board the
telegraph feet will do oil they can to &C
com plish this object.
CYRUS W. FIELD.
HEARTS CONTENT, July 81, 1868.
To the Directors of the New York, Newfoundland,
and London Telegraph Company:
We arrived this day. The cable has
been laid across the Atlantic, and 10 in
perfect running order. AS soon as we
have taken in coal we shall proceed to the
spot where the cable was lost last year,
and when recovered, splice with the cable
on board Of the Great Eastern and return
to this place. Then the Midway will pro-
coed to lay the cable across the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. / cannot express to you how
thankful feel that you will now receive
some return tor the money that you have
spent and the time that you have devoted
during the last half year, to connect by
telegraph our own country with Great
Britain. CYRus w. FIELD.
The following is list of Directors of
the New York, Newfoundland and Lon
don Telegraph Company: Peter Cooper,
Cyrus W. Field, Moses Taylor, Marshall
0. Roberts, Wilson G. Hunt. The oftcers
of the company are Peter Cooper, Presi-
dent; Moses Taylor, Treasurer; Robert W.
Lawfee, Secretary.
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