The Hickman courier., 1868-07-11
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II. The shareholders in this organization
will be many times more numerous than
those Of any other telegraph company, and
will be interested in it's business and suc-
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 20 compete sue
cessfully.~with the present consolidated
monopoly and 20 furnish the public cheaper
and hett facilities of telegraphic commun-
ication.
TIE Prospect.
1s 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-establshed. Lines of telegraph
are projected and IN process of construction
to Europe, Asia, and South America. which,
when completed, will ut 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 cur future as 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.
an Extraordinary Iaran,sSe.
70. On the application of The National
Telegraph Company, Congress at IT'S recent
session enacted The National Telegraph
Law, which is printed herewith. The exist
ing consolidated monopoly opposed the pas
sage Of this law with all The influence and
| 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 grant of the most valuable
franchises ever conferred upon a 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
/ BE- Subscribers should il all cases tran s.
nit funds TO the Treasurer of this company
Frederick Prentice, Esq No. 26 Pine street
| who viii send ey return mail receipts for
the same Ali ether Communications should
De directed 10 George B. Walter, Secretary
National Telegraph Company, "a Broadway
New York
| Whenever subscribers desire go to do
they can pay At once thirty-fvc per cent on
the full amount Of their subscriptions ant
receive certificates of stock issued by the
company and in al cases were thirty-6ve
per cen pas been paid in, and the Treas
urer's r''ipfs returned. certificates will be
issued to holders Of the receipts or their
order
s0S~ Your attention is called 10 the paper,
accompanying this, and a prompt resporse
is necessary to ensure certain participa.
tio1 in the benefits Of this organization.
Extract from the United States Statutes at
large, VOL 10, page 249, as follows;
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for other purposes, approved
March g. 1858
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 and the same are hereby de-
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