The Hickman courier., 1868-07-18
The Proposed Change.


II. The shareholders in this organization
win be many times more numerous than
those of any other telegraph company, and
will be interested in its business and sue
cess. We shall establish only direct trunk
routes required by the business of the coun-
try. We shall incur no liabilities beyond
our means in the treasury; and we hope by
energy, economy, dispatch, and careful
management to be enabled to compete sue
cessfully with the present consolidated
monopoly, and to furnish the public cheaper
facilities III. s'.,.', .' ,,',sf''''' ''"-''
IS. The business of telegraphing is in its
infancy. II must rapidly increas. in the i'm
mediate future and yield still greater re-
turns. The business of the Southern States
having been suspended during the war will
soon be re-established. Lines of telegraph
are projected and 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 will 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 our future as an import
ant one, and plainly show that this is-<he
golden opportunity for inaugurating a tele-
graphic enterprise of the character and
magnitude of the one now proposed.
An Extraordinary .4dsaniqge
10. On the application of The National
Telegraph Company, Congress at its recent
session enacted The, National sTelvs'..t'n =,
ing consolidated monopoly opposed the pas
sage of this law with all the influence and
power IL could command, but the public in
terest prevailed, and we have now nation
al recognition Of the importance Of our en-
terprise with grant of the most valtl1ple
franchises ever conferred upon Telegraph
company.
The National Telegraph Company fully
accepted the terms Of the Law, july 3Oth,
1866, by filing theii rritten ep'ance with
the Postmaster General of the United States
Bkl@ Subscribers should ia 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 fo-
the same. All other commuu ications shoe
be directed to George B. walter So. .slv
Nationsl Telegraph Company, 81 Bs5sla ~
New York.
Whenever subscribers desire so 90 10
they can pay ct once thirty-fve per cent OF
the full amount Of their subscriptions and
receive certificates OF stock issued b a..
company; and In all cases were thlrtT-nvs
per Snt has been paid in, and the Treas
urs receipts returned certificates will bC
issuW to holders of the receipts, or THEN
order.
ESs- Your attention is called 10 the paper,
accompanying this, and a prompt resporst
is necessary to ensure a certain participa-
tion in the benefits of this organization.
Extract from the United States Statutes al
large, vol. 10, page 249. as follows:
An Act 10 establish certain Post Roads ane
for other purposes, approved
March 3, 1853
Page 255. sec. 3-And be it 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.