The Hickman courier., 1868-05-16
The Pronosed Chnnne.

IL. The shareholders in this organization
will be many times more numerous than
those Of any other telegraph company. and
viii be interested in its business aud 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
and better facilities of telegraphic commun-
ication.
The Prospect
1s. The business of telegraphing is in it's
infancy. II 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 will
soon be re-established Lines of telegraph
are projected and in process of construction
TO Europe, Asia, and South america, which
when completed, viii airce materially add
to the telegraph businesssof the country
The proposed routes of our range an
nually becoming more and more populous.
Cheaper rates and more rapid certain and
reliable facilities will greatly popularize
the telegraph and insure Substitution for
the mails for the purpose of current cont
mercial correspondence. All these consid-
erations point to our future as an import
ant one, and plainly show th'st this is the
golden opportunity for inaugurating tele-
graphic enterprise of the character and
magnitude of the one now proposed.
an Extraordinary .4dpaHtage
10 On the application of The National
Telegraph Company, Congress at its recent
seFlon enacted The National Telegraph
osepoiT opposed se p
4 age of this law with all the influence and
&,Swer II could command but the public in
IN est prevailed, and we have now nation
Sal recognition of the Importance of our en-
terprise with grant of the most valuable
franchises ever conferred upon Telegraph
company.
The National Telegraph Gsmpany fully
accepted the terms of the Law July 30th
1866, by filing their written acceptance with
the Postmaster General of the United States.
RSs Subscribers should in all cases trans
nit funds TO the Treasurer of this company,
Frederick Prentice, Esq, No % Pine street
who viii send by xeturn mail receipts for
the same. All other cdhmunieations should
be directed to George RnWalter, Secretary.
National Telegraph Conif$siy, "a Broadway,
New York.
Whenever subscribers desire so to do.
they can pay al once thirty-iy per cent on
the full amount of their subscriptions and
receive certificates of stock issued by the
company; and in all cases were thirty-fve
per cent has been paid in, and the Treas
urer : receipts returned, certificates viii be
issued to holders of the receipts, or their
order.
E4~ Your attention is called TO the papers
accompanying this, and prompt response
l. necessary To ensure a certain participa-
ton in the benefits of this organization.
Extract from the United States Statutes at
large, vol. TO- page 249, as follows:
An Act TO establish certain Post Roads and
for other purposes approved
March 3, 1853.
Page 255, see. 3-And be it further enact
ed, that all the Railroads and parts Of Rail-
ronhs which are now OR n1nv herenfter he h,