The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-05-02
The Pronosed Change.

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II. The shareholders in this organization
will be many times more numerous thaIi
those of any other telegraph company, ana
will be interested in its business ana sue
cess We shall establish only direct trunk
routes required by the business OF the couh-
try. We shall incur no liabilities beyond
our means in the treasury; and we hope oy
energy, economy, dispatch, and carefni
management, to be enabled to compete sue
cessfully with the present consolidated
monopoly and to furnish the public cheaper
and better facilities of telegraphic commun-
ication. n
Is The busyess of telegraphing is in its
infancy. 1t must rapidly increase in the I'M
mediate future and yield still greater re-
turns. The business of the Southern States
having been suspended during the war VIII
soon be re-established Lines of telegraph
are projected aud in process of construction
to Europe, Asia,~and South America, which,
when completed, will at once materially add
TO the telegraph business of the country
The proposed routes of our range are an
nually becoming more and more populous.
Cheaper rates and more rapid, certain and
reliable facilities viii greatly popularize
the telegraph and insure its substitution for
the mails for the purpose of current com-
mercial correspondence. All these consid-
erations point to future an import
ant one, and plainly show that this is the
golden opportunity for inaugurating tele-
graphic enterprise of the character and
magnitude of the one now proposed.
IN Extraordinary Adratage
TO- On the application of The National
Telegraph Company, Congress ut its recent
session enacted The National Telegraph
Law, which is printed herewith. The exist
ing consolidated monopoly opposed the pas
nf - 10 ,-st oil ha ,pG nd
power it s@aala .-as-s~nd, bnt the public n
terest prevailed, and we have now a nation
al recognition of the Importance of our en-
terprise with grant of the most valuable
franchises ever conferred upon Telegraph
company.
The National Telegraph Company fully
accepted the terms of the Law, July Both.
1866, by filing their written acceptance with
the Postmaster General of the United States.
BsS~ Subscribers should in all cases trans
nit funds to the Treasurer of this company,
Frederick Prentice, Esq, No. 26 Pine street,
who will send by return mail receipts for
/ the same. All other communications should
be directed to George B. Walter, Secretary,
National Telegraph Company, 81 Broadway,
/ New York.
/ Whenever subscribers desire so to do
they can pay at once thirty-hye per cent ON
/ the full amount of their subscriptions and
receive certificates of stock issued by the
/ companyi and IN all cases were thirty-hve
per cent has been paid in, and the Treas
urer's receipts returned, certificates win be
issued to holders of the receipts, or theiI
order.
BSS~ Your attention is called to the papers
accompanying this, and prompt response
is necessary to ensure certain participa-
ton in the ben &ts Of this organization.
Extract from Inited States Statutes at
large, vol. ~ page 249, as follows:
A 20, - Itch
for other purposes approved
March g. 1853
Page 255, sec. 3-And be il further enact
ed, that all the Railroads and parts of Rail
roads which are now or may hereafter be il
operation, be and the same are hereby de-