The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-04-25
The Proposed Change.

IT, The shareholders in this organization
will be many times more numerous than
those of any other telegraph company, ana
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, 10 be enabled to compete sue
cessfully with the present consolidated
monopoly, au<to furnish the public cheaper
and better glities of tslegraphic c0mmun-
ication.
The Prospect.
Is. The business of telegraphing is in its
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, 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 the
golden opportunity for inaugurating tele1
graphic enterprise of the character and
magnitude of the one now proposed.
IN Extraordinary Advantage.
10. On the application of The National
Telegraph Company, Congress at its recent
session enacted The National Telegraph
Law, which is printed herewith. The exist
ing consolidated monopoly opposed the pas
-
power it could command, but the public in
terest prevailed, and we have now a nation
al recognition of the importance of our en-
terprise with a~gran -<>as the most valuable
franchises ever Conferred upon u Telegraph
company.
The National Telegraph Company fully
accepted the terms of the Law, July Both,
1866 by fling their written acceptance with
the Postmaster General of the United States.
RkSS- Subscribers shohld in all cases trans
nit funds to the Treasurer of this company,
Frederick Prentice, Esq, No. 20 Pine street,
who will send by return mail receipts for
the same. All other communications should
be directed to George d. Walter, Secretary,
National Telegraph Company, GA Broadway,
New York.
Whenever subscribers desire so TO do
they can pay at once thirty-fve per cent on
the full amount of their subscriptions and
receive certificates of stock issued by the
company; and in all cases were thirty-ive
per cent has been paid in, and the Treas
urer's receipts returned, certificates will be
issued to holders of the receipts, or their
order.
BaS- Your attention is called TO the papers
accompanying this, and prompt response
is necessary to ensure certain participa-
ton in the benefits of this organization.
Extract from the United States Statutes at
large, vol. 10, page 249, as follows;
An Act TO establish certain Post Roads and
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 in
operation, be II the same are hereby de-
clared Post Ron