AMERICAN TELEGKAPHIC LINES. 



*** The above rates are exclusive of the usual charge for Porterage for Delivery of the 

 Messages to any part of France. No charge to other places. N.B. The, 

 Minimum, length of a Message via Belgium is Twenty-five Words, any other 

 route Twenty Words. 



The Public are informed that, in order to provide against mistakes in the trans- 

 mission of MESSAGES by the SUBMARINE and EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH 

 COMPANIES, every Message of consequence ought to be REPEATED, by being 

 sent back from the Station at which it is to be received, to the Station from which 

 it is originally sent. Double the usual price for transmission will be charged for 

 repeating the Message to or from any part of France, and Half the usual charge 

 to or from any other part of Europe. The Company will not be responsible for 

 Mistakes in the transmission of um-epeated messages, from whatever cause they 

 may arise. Nor will they be responsible for Mistakes in the transmission of a 

 repeated Message, nor for delay in the transmission or delivery, nor for non- 

 transmission, or non-delivery of any Message, whether repeated or unrepeated. 

 No Message that is unintelligible can be transmitted to the Continent in conse- 

 quence of the regulations of the Foreign Governments. These Companies reserve 

 to themselves the right of refusing all those Despatches which in their opinion are 

 unintelligible. All persons sending more than one Message as a Single Despatch 

 will be held liable to pay such further sum, in addition to the amount paid on 

 transmission, as would have been charged by these Companies if each message 

 had been sent separately. 



TELEGKAPHIC LINES IN THE UNITED STATES. 



285. Owing to the rapid progress and unrestricted freedom of 

 enterprise in the United States, a great number of independent 

 companies have been formed, by which the vast territory, from 

 the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi, and from the Gulf of 

 Mexico to the frontiers of Canada, is overspread with a net- 

 Work of wires, upon which intelligence of every description, and 

 personal and commercial correspondence are flowing night and 

 day incessantly from year's end to year's end in a torrent of 

 which the old continents offer no similar example. It is almost 

 impossible to ascertain, even with a tolerable degree of approxi- 

 mation, the actual extent of wires which at any given time are 

 in operation. When we commence an investigation of the 

 statistics, with a view to the collection of facts necessary to 

 form the basis of a report, we are overwhelmed with statements 

 of lines commenced, lines half completed and nearly completed, 

 and many which undoubtedly must be completed before our report 

 can come under the eyes of our readers. All that can be done in 

 such a case is to give the nearest practicable estimate of the ex- 

 tent of these enterprises at a given epoch, indicating in a general 

 manner such as are in progress and likely sooner or later to be 

 completed and brought into practical operation. 



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