The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-04
EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH.

EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH.
ELECTIIC TELEGRAPH In CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA
TELEGRAPH coMPANY's
OFFICE.
Nos. 23 and % NASSAU Street.
ORGANIZED UNDER SPECIAL CHARTER FROM
THE STATE OF NEW YoEK.
CAPITAL. $5,Ooo,oOO
$4,000 SHARES, 500 EACH.
DIRECTORS.
Hon. ANDREW @. CURTIN, PhIladelphia.
PAUL Z, FORBES, of Russell & Co.. China.
FRED BUTTRRFIELD, OF r. Butterheld & Co. New
York.
ISAAC L1vERMoRE, Treas. Mich. q. r. r., Boston.
ALEXANDRIA HOLLAND, Treas. Am. Ex, Co., New
York.
Hon. JAMES NoxoN, Syracuse, NY.
&. H. PALMER, Treas. West U. Tel. Co.. New York.
FLETCHER WEsTRAY, of Westray Gibbs & Hardcas
tie, N. Y.
NICHOLAS MIcKLEs, New York.
OFFICERS.
A. G. CURTIN, President,
N. MICKLks, Vice. Pre,ident
CEoRsE CONANT, Secretary,
GEoLGE ELLIS Cashier National Bank Common.
wealthy. Treasurer,
Hon. a. K. McI LURE Philadelphia, Solicitor
1he Chinese Gortrament hdrin0 Through the Hon,
AnSon BuTngome) conccdcd TO This Conpuuy The privt
teDe OF connecting the great Sedports Of Tie Empire 6
submarine electric ieoroDh coJte propose conaenc
ing operations in China, and ioyin0 doUn line OF 600
miles at once, 6e0eea The jotIo,0in0 ports, Uts;-
Population
Canton 900 OJO
Macon e0 OOO
Hong 2500OO
200 O10
Annoy 2500O1
Foo .........."l, ,250 900
300 00
100000
HangChean. 300 coo
SbaDghai."..... 00U 0OO
9lO COO
These ports have foreign commerce OF 5000 600 LCO
and enormous domestic trade. besides which we
have the immense Internal commerce of the e nplre,
iadatlpg from these points, through its canals and
Envigable rivers
The cable being aid tGls company propo 20 erecting
land lines and establishing speedy Gnd Trustworthy
means of communication, which must command
there, everywhere else the communications of he
GoveInn ent, OF BUSH ess. and OF social lie especially
In China, she has 10 postal system, and her only
means now OF communicating information Is bv
courier Oh land and by steamers water,
The Western World kn that China Is e very
large country, in the main densey peoped; bat iew
yet ;eElze that she contains than third of thu
hum an race. 1he latest made to her central
suthorites for taxing purposes, by the local mags
tratts make her population -Four Hundred ami E5,tr
teen AonS, ana ills 10 IN: re likely be under than
over the actucl aggregate. Nearly all OF these who
Ten ears old not only can but do read and
write. Her civilization peculiar, her literature
is as extensive that of Europe China is land of
teachers and traders; and the latter are exeadinsl
quick to avsl Il emselves CT tvery profered facility
for procuring early information. 1t Is observed IN
California that The Chine,e make great use of tho
telegraph, though there trar sms messages in I'm
glisb alone Ho.cay great numbers OF fleet steamera
are owned by Chinese merchants, and used by then,
exclusively for the transmission Of early intelligence
If The telegraph epropGse neclng all their great
seaports, now in existence 1t Is believed that
It's business would pay its cost within th frst two
years of Its successful operation and would steadv
Increase thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as In greater de-
gree reuuneIative 20 capitalists, and 10 our whole
people. IL B Of vast national Importance CONNER
cially politically and evangelicalIy.
Shares of this company 10 limited number, may
be obtained at $50 each. $40 payable down. Sis on the
1st of November, and s25 payable In monthly install.
ments of $3.50 each, commencing Dec mber l, 1868
on application to