The New York herald., 1869-06-13


Progress OF Cheap Ocsan TeIesraphy-A
Word ON MIR. Hoar's Letter Against tho
French Cable.
We have received from the Atlantic Cable
Telegraph Company a tabular report of the
statistics of traffic over the two cables between
valentia and Hearts Content. No stronger
argument for cheap telegraphy could possibly
be presented than the one that is offered by
this little table of results. The company
began by demanding EGO, then reduced the
toll to flO, then to f5 5s., and on the first OF
September last to f3 Is. Cd. We give against
each rate the daily average number Of mes
sages sent and the gross amount of receipts
per day. Here are the fgures:-
At f2O 30 messages daily produced. f50s
At fl0 "a messages daily produced. $40
At f5 S., I3l messages daily produced. ..... $40
At f3 7s. 3d., 2lS messages daily produced. 653
And the company has shown its wisdom in
making still further reduction, the rate OF
toll from the first of the present month being
reduced to E2 for ten words to any telegraph
station in Great Britain and Ireland. At the
foot of the tabular report are three lines of ex
PLANTATION to account for the great increase Of
tolls in particular months, each of which Is
volume of ITSELF These are as follows:-
''During this month the New YORK HERALD
transmitted an average Of over flO0 per day"
''During this month the United States gov
ernment messages averaged over 100 per day"
''During these months there was extraor
dinary excitement in cotton"
There we have the three great powers
which, when need be, use the Atlantic cable.
As one of those powers we cannot but ex
press the deep regret we feel at the unoalled
for and impertinent letter which the Attorney
General of the United States has recently ad-
dressed to private citizen, with the sole OBJ
ject of interfering with the laying of the
French cable and favoring an existing mo-
nopoly. This letter is an impudent interfe-
renee with great public enterprise. Mr.. Hoar
is the appointed law officer of the government,
whose duty it is to give to the other depart
ments legal opinion when asked to do
so but his opinion has no judicial effect in
any way, and when he travels beyond the
scope of his duty to favor a. private company
and do a wrong to another great public work
he prostitutes his high Office and makes him
self ridiculous. Should his action tend to en-
barrass or delay the laying of the French At
lantic cable General Grant should at once
remove him from his Cabinet and put in his
place some one who is less susceptible of pri-
vate influence. This cable letter is not the
| only instance we have of Mr.. Hoars susoepti-
bility in this regard. AS for the question Of
riparian jurisdiction, this has been brought up
| in q variety of shapes by the telegraph mo-
nopolists during the recent session of Con-
gress, and in every instance that body refused
to take action in the matter The speech Of
Senator Stockton on the subject was exhaus-
tive and conclusive in favor Of the right of the
States to grant the right of landing cables, and
the general policy Of the country favors in
every way the largest liberty of private enter
prise. As for Mr.. Hoar's uncalled for interfe-
renee, it is subject for Congress to look into
when IL meets