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meer Gackvilie; ove wire; length 240 alles, Capital Joba tte. John to Woosrtoct, 180 miles. 000. Bullt ta 1860 ané 1561, one’ wire. New jo Brooklyn, via Hurl Gate, 10 miles. all Aap ety pany now o rDed or leased by the Awortoan Company: Te aati ofthe eneedy and guocessfal completion of abmarine tingof the Atiantio Telegraph Com, ype ané America. now being np anne ‘wires at ovce unioterru| trans and they are also makiog a ae toextend Losder ; w A new avd evperior Kinet from New Tox to Philadelphia ‘Weebivgtou and throughout the Bouth, and ihe priacipal West yg ‘The aph Company bave about 2.00 wiles of completed lines, most of which are compoied of tw> cr more wires. Tnev have 00 stations in oreration, and they ivanemit of ordpary business up rards of 600,000 per yaar, exolustve of all the daily reports for the press, which if reduced to m of ordinary length, Seoul Swalltae naudber te upwenle of ‘cae malllon pee year. ‘This company are the owners of the newly patented and extraordinary Invention of Prof. Hugbes, which ta fully desertbed In another columv, and which secis destined to muperecde all ober telegraphic contrivances. A largo number of these machines are now beiug made by J. B Riobard, Kxq , of this city, aud it 1s understood that they ‘will be iottogucs! upon all the lings of this company, and Qizo upon the lines of nearly a.! the other telegraph com- panies in the eo7ntry at the earliost practicable moment. NEW TORK AND NEW ENGLAND UNION TALEGRATH COMPANY, Tre Ars) Une between New York and Boston was bull by Mr. ¥. 0 J. Smith, one of the owners of the Morse pa teat, in 1846-7, Mr. Smith’s enfortunate attempt to mono police the telegraph buricers, and to coerce the New York Awoviaiod Press ant tbe morchants into his arbitrary measures, speedily resulted in the balidiog by another company of tbe“ Ratn’’ ling. Sabseqaontly,aboit 1853, the Smuith end Bain Ines were united, and have since boen known vnder the above pane, but the conirai {s etill vested inthe bands of Smbh. The pominal capita! invested is $2)6,000. Length of lines 000 miles, This line traneml's about 200,000 meseages pes annum, and has four wires in we ‘The above company connect at Boston with a ‘ Bain’’ lize, which was built tn 1548-9, by Professor Beno ¢ict, from Boston through Nashua and Voncord t> Bar- Yingtm, Vt, aud subsequently extended to Montreal; Gapade, and’ to Ogdensburg, Naw York. Lenzth of liad about 750 miles. Capital wbout $100 009, The lines aro now leasec to an individusl at the nominal rent of about two thousand dollars per annum. CAPS COD TELEGRAPH COMPANY, WITH THE LINBS OF THE AMERICAN COMPANY AT BOSTON. The Cape Cod Telegraph Company aod the B.ston and Cape Cod Marine Telegraph Company built rival lines from Bostoa to Provincetown in 1856, covering about 300 miles of wire, and reaching almozt overs town upon Cape Cod. ‘The capital invested by the several companies amounted to about $50,000. The business was fonnd wholly inade quate tosustala the Hnes whilst competing against each otber, aud they havo rocontly boen placod ta charge of F H. Valmer, who ts abovt to extend fo Ine to Nantucket by moaps Of a submarine cable, The present termini of the Cape Cod Line is at Provincetown, and at Himes’ Ho'e and Rdgertown, uoon the island of Dakes county, Mass. Busnes, about 60,000 messages per year. MONTEEAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY. THE CANADIAN TELRORAPN LINES, Number of milas, 2,220; 660 miles bailt in 1847; exten- sions made almest every year since. Caplisl, $223,000. Number of paid mearages tn 1556, 260,009. Grsad frenk Ratirond tine—700 miles long; business ts confaed soicly to matters connected with the railway. Great Western Rallway lne—280 miles ; confined to railway bosinees, Baffalo aud Lake Hurov Lino—180 miles; railway lino, Vermont aad Boston lico—60 miles, to voundary line. NEW YORK TO THE SOUTH AND WEST. The connection be!ween New York azd the Atlantic cable havin; been made, we turn towards the tbroo im rortant pointe to be toushed aext, which arc Washington for the government business, New Orleans for the cotton market, and the West for the grain end provision market. THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Magnetic Tekee'aph Company's New York and | Washiogton line was built in 1945, Capital $200,000; 200 | miles. comsrcrme “Bain”? line from New York to Washington was | Delit !a 1849. Capital $100,000; Ime 250 miles long. The company was prosecuted by the Mecnetic Company for (afrir cement of the Moree patent, and in 18628 desision ‘was obtained by tho plaintiiis in the District Court at Phi- tadeiphia, which induced the Bain Company to sell ont Upe to the Magnetic Company for $30,000; since which time the iwo lL: have been contcitdated and worked under the Macnetic Company's chsrter. : a Washir2ion and New Orleans Itne wat bullt in 1817. conductor first raed was of « cord of three | NEW, YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST. 2, York to Depkirs—about 500 willen Vory litte buslacas 0200 of « local character la trenenated over the line. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGEAPH COMPANY. (ONES Lm OM10, EENTUCEY, INDIANA, HLLNOW, MUSIOURI, MI CHIGAN AND WEOCONSIN, By construction, purchase, leases and business ar- Tengements, the Western Union Telegraph Company Four wires from Buffalo to Cloveland, two of which are along tho Budalo and Erle and Cleveland and Erie Rail- roada; the remaining two are now being removed to tho oppesite side of the seme roads—haying two sot of pelos. Disianee, wiles, PY | . 188 Thre wires from Ulevelsnd to Toled hich run elong the northern dlviston of the Clevéland and Toledo Ra:lroad—two rot of poles... Fane Tao wires from Toledo to Detrolt—two eet of poles Twn iret from Toledo to Chicago, on the Southora Michigan and Northern Indiana Rallroad—i wo seis of poles SAebbess sie. oe & prey from Detroit to Chicago, on the Michi 1 Railroad, on one set of po! R One wire from Chicago to Mil wanki and Milwaukio Railroad ........ .essseeee : Ove wire from Miobigan City to Lafayette, on the Now Albany and Salem Railroad... .......60 see sc0ee feville (formoriy =| fwo wires from Pittsburg to Low known @s the National line), recently caanged to Mie railroad between Pittsburg and Wheeling, thence slong the Natipoa! Road through Zanesville, Columbrs, Spr ngteid aud Daytoa, thence to Louls- ville by way of Uincianat!, Lawrencedarg and Mati. BOR. .0 0+ ones cease oct One wire from Louisville to St. Louls (!ormerly a link Of.Natiocal line), running ou the Obio aad Mississip- pi Railroad from Virconnes to 3. Louis... . One wire from Cineinnat! to St. Loute, on the vbio aad Miselesipp! Railroad. totes teen eseeeeeeree One wire from Cincinuati to [ndisvapolis, on bho Tad. papolis aud Cincinnati Ratlroad....... 6.66. ‘Two wires Crom Clevoiand fo Cinclanati, on the Uleve- land, Columbus and Cincinnati, the Xonia, and t Cincinneti, Hamilton aud Deyton Raimond: . 2 One wire from Cincinnati to Loawsyiile, by way of Lex- ton to Frankfort, thence on the railroad to Louis- 40 vill ery eon eee + 200 | One wire from Cincinnati to Maysvi + One wire from Cincinnati to Zanemyillo, on ‘the Cincia- hath, Wilmington and Zareevilie Ratiroad........... 187 One wire from Cieveland to Pittsburg and (ron Weils ville to Wheeling and Belleaire, on the Cievelaad and Pitisberg Rairoad. : 2 Tro wires from Pittsparg to thenee to Fort Wayne, oo tho Piste birg, Fort Wayno gad Chicago Rallroad...,....., sesteeeceeses O One wire from Sandasty to Uolam ce, on the Sandus ky, Mansfield and Nowark Rairo d, to Newark, thence op Nationa) mad to Columbus... ......0... One wire {row Crestline © lodianopolis, on the Bolie- foptalne Rallway..... se. cece ess Oxo wire from Dayton to Union, Ob! ville and Mism! Railrosd oe. eey cess vee . O06 wire from Columbus to Portsmouth, Ohio, by way of Clrolevile and Chillicothe ° One wire from Graftoa to Medina, Ohio One wire from Manefelt to Azhiacd Ohio, One wire from Tyledo W ths Litinols being put up oa she To oto, Wabas! Railroad, to be completed (ne’preseat eosson .. Making an aggregate of 4,600 milas of poles, aust wards of 6,100 miles of wire, There are now 209 offices, | with cons'ant demand for more. The company employ over 1,000 portone in operating its Hines and offices, A majority of the I'pcs inoimted in th» above list are pew, substantisliy construsted, using the “Wade” insu Intor, one of the best now ia nso, Tho other lines on the highways, rented by the company oa lease, haviag from three to five years to ron, heve bees thoroughly repaired, and are werked wilh great regularity. They are now con etruoting lines on their own account along the several rail- roads, caiculated to su poly the plass of tne old lines. ‘A supply departaroni ha: been o*tablished at Cicvelard, Ohio, fer the mapufactvre, repair and supply of all ma chinery, battery and repair matorial, stationery, &c , used inom the “Grooa- ! | for the iizes and cflices under the coatro! of this company. { i Capital $500,000; lire about 3,600 miles leng. Tae | ‘com posed tron wires, but the very rapid oxidation of the different — ‘with the occational breaking of each of diferent places, rendered the cord very de conductor, and erentonily it was found necas sary to remove itani put up @ large sincle sin Jine bas, owing to inefficient mana.ement and t inary exsctious of the Morse prtenteos, never paid its cash subscribers any considerable eum ta dividents, end the company in 1866 decided to eurrender itscsntrol to the Macoetic Company, by whom it is now worked under a feate. Tbe valted ate—Mernetic, Rein, and Washington aud New © leaus—use foar wivea between New York Waabinzon, avd two between Washinzton and Auvusta, Ge end trapemit over all the wiree 1,209,000 mossaces per annum. From Avgnata the line works w: and thence with one wire thr Beims and Mobile to ? 2 Apalachicola, Florida, and one to Atlanta, THE HOUSE PRINTING TELEGRAPH ComPANY. This company own a line of two wires from New York {to Philade'phia, Baltimore and Washlogton, 200 miler long. Th was ballt tm 1852, with a capital of $200,000. It \s be Leved to be the only Line in tae country that ix worket exciusiveiy with the House machines, which from their expensive and complicated mature have, like the Bain ma ebines, Deon superseded by the Hughes and Morse in ‘ventions. xtra dr PENNSYLVANIA, NEW SERSBY AND MARYLAND LINES. ‘The A\ianl.o and Ohio line, 560 miles log, from Phila doipbiato Pittebarg—uring the Morse instraments—was Dulit by H. OU Rellly and stocked at $314 600. A new line on the same roate was bullt by J. H. Wade {2 1865, with « view of using the House printing instru- meats. ‘These two lines have since been united and are now oe interest, with three wires the whole distance and «a capital stock of $646,000 The lines are managed by « board of contr: |, comaisting of J. H. Berryhill ant J A. Wade, and ave a largo acd prosperous busiso’s ‘The Penseyivants Reliroad Company bas als) a line of tis own on the eame route, which is used exclusively for PR. road business. ‘Tore aro neveral o'her jines ronning throngh t most considerable of wh eating and the i’biladelphia and 3 00 m lee of wire. Ip addition to the wires of the of which isthe line upon the Cam fen which is being extended from Am Y to New York will, € te anderetord, conmtitate the @ret Kok is the sew | ne between New York acd Washington The Baltimore and Wheellng Teiegraps about 1845, Mm abowt [00 miles. It was formerly a of the New Oricans Morse line, via Louieyilic, y., bab at extends only to Wheeling, and is derstood to have been leased to the Western Valen T Tals | pe ‘tkeabarre lines, and amount in the aggregate to aboat | | graph Company. it has scarcely more than pald its | working expenses PEW TORK AXD PUPFALO TELEORAPA COmrayr. NeW TORK State tine ‘The New York, Albany aud Balfalo Telegraph Oom- pany, under the Morse patent, extendiny (rom New York to Batlelo by two separate router, 1. ¢. on each ride of toe Hudson river to Albany, thence by the railroad and cana) to Byracuse, thence t Rochester by the old road throurh Auburn aod Genera, and also by the mew direct roed vis lyons, Newark, &c. From Rochester are two lines ome direct by way of Batavia, the other vis —" Sospension Bri¢ge and Niegara Fallt to ‘The or: 1846, whea the ginal Morse \ine was bi Ware oreanizes wi 000; since Soorkaett to bss one Ak m Capital of $153,000; ai Tae Covered by this company’s wires om the severe: routes exceeds 1.24) mies; number of miles of wire over 5,40. a= line was purchased by the company im The House line, heretofore working between the pon ff York and Bailey Dow working under a iense . if 4 ‘tines (rom to Ogdene owans by te arg ead from Troy main line a Troy aod 2yracuse. Valley line, under Try tale company oe a wan ane Onserd Hine @ Oooperstown line rie: the Canada Hines sf Buffsio, the Western lines at Bulla, and the Bos any bas ridenda tne Seoeptcn of sae yout ommpete one year 0: competition ertabliehed rival linet. It is now doin, a bey Po pearly haifa miiiion of mesnaces & year, obiel poinia on its route are New York, Troy A Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Lock. Niagars Faiis and Boffa.o. ‘umber 0! officers on the several routes ox ‘Coed seventy. A liberal Ln As money in the era] ay undry lie present abie superinienden’ J. Ae pal lines | the company in an exoe!lent condition ‘or doing a ares boeiname. The company civee employment to 180 young mon. at svlarten rap. ing (rom $200 to $2,000 8 your. Some o! taem have been in the service of the com muy since its forms tion in 1844, ‘The aflaire of the company are managed by a board of Dine directors, whore office in at Utica. Hon. ©. A. Mano le President, and E Ohapman Secre tary aud Treasurer THE RHIE RATLROAD COMPANY'S LINK. ‘The Hine cowlso led by this company is ballt for the most § Parl (poe the track of the railroad, aad extends from New | Dayton, Otccianst , Frankfort and lon, and these operations were suspended. A of | this line from Milwaakie to Janeevi'le, thea to Madison, now to the Wisconsin Slate Telegraph Company, and is allt on the raliroad. Thie company bas now This ti portent branch of tho busizess, and it is Da eved a saving of several thousacd dollars per annum is effected by this arrange “ent. ‘Tho Bafialo ang Erie Railroad Company, the Cieve) ind ard Frie Haslrogg Company tho Southern’ Michigan aad Northern Indiadd Railroad Ovmpany, acd the Mishi, Covtra! Railroad Company each control s wire aud work ttin ing their roxpective roads, on a syston similsr to that sdoxted by the New Yors and'Erio Railroad Com- ‘A permanent business connootion oxists with the texsoos of the New Orleans and Ohie Telegraph Company at Louis ville, forming the most reliable route for the speody trans. ission of despatches between Now Orleans and the esa board cities. A line is Dow being constructed along the Terre Haute Aiton ana & Louis Ratircad, which will eventuaily a‘ford to this company a third wire into Si. Louis. The Supertutendznt of the Western Union Telegra sa Company states the number of messages registered from Javary 1, 1867, to July 1, 1857, @ period of eix monibe, at 485,244, exclusive of’ press’ reports, railroad meetages, Ac , which swell tue number of messages pars ing over she Lines of this company to about 1,660,000 per year. a | THE WESTERN INCLUDING THE LINES OF ALL OTHELS WEST OF woRL The range of National l'une extending from Philadelphia to St. Louis was composed of three companies, organized by H O'Reilly and bie aerocintos. First, the Atlantic and Obio live, extending from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, via Harrisburg, commezced in 1946; length aboat 376 miles. Second, the Pittsburg, Cincionatt and Loatsville line, from P.ttaburg to Louisville, erected in 1847; length 400 miles; | Obio and Mirsiesippi line trom Loulsvilie to &. Louis, TELEGRAPH LINRS, HE WESTPRN UNION COMPANY, AND 440, PUILADRLPHIA AND BALTE 4 | erected in 1847; length 300 miles. The abovo I think © Reltly stocked to the companies at $500 per mile. This range of Ines, cocupying one of the betbroutes in the Weet, Rave always enioyed « pay iog business, and have made regular dividends ‘The Fris and Michigan line, extending from Buffalo to Milwaukie, via Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago, | erected tn 1547 apd 1545 by Cornell & Speed. Is te 800 miles long, an cost the company $125 per mile, exclarive tf the Moree patent. The Lake Erie tine, from Baffslo to Detroit, via Cleve- land and Toledo, with branch from Cleveland to Pitts- burg, built by H B Ely under suthority ef the O'Reilly contract for the ure of the Morse patent, 600 miles lorg, coat the company $300 per mile Toe Southern Michigan, | from Detroit to Chicago, with branch from Adv lam to & Toe, 300 milos long, built by Josiah Snow, under O'Reilly's | sothortty, cost the company $300. Tne Chicago and Mi) waukle ibe, extending from one oity to tho ober, ball in 1840 under O'Reilly's authority, 100 milios , Caat to the company $00 per mile The three last nam companies, Occupy ing tbe same routes of the fic and Michigan tine, melther of them succeeded ip making any money. Tails | ground between the Morse and O'Reilly — out of the @ O'Reilly contract. | 23, Colombust and Ciscinast! telrcraph con- necting the above cities, bait br JH. Wade ander | Cornell & Speed's patronage in 1849, 300 miles lung, cort f) mile. Cleveland, Warren aad Puss Cort $160 | | & Speed's | , in 1860, Warren and Newoastle line, eres ed | Pew, comnecticg wita Cleveland, Warren ead | j 1e Connecting thore cities, 160 miles Long, Dullt by T. Jackeow unter Cornell ines at Newcesgile, Pa, tence through Mead Warren, to connec: with the Erie and Micbican line at Fredonia, to New York, 300 miles long, cont $150 r mile, Clevelan? #n4 Zavetville line, 175 mes long, ull " ——, $160 per mile, ereoted in 1860. Tae three lattor Hines did not pay expenses, and have gone to the Sandusty and Cincinnati’ tine, 200 miles long tit Dy Mr. Case tn 1845; it ram along the railroad, and ow mostly owned by the railroad 7 and used both ax @ railvoad and commercial line Thq Odio, In 4 Miicols line, extending from Cincianal Indisnapois, and from Toledo Fort Wayne, lafayette and yocted by H O'Pailiy tn 1819 ies long, Coet the compaay $300 per 7 Moe — = expenses. The [ilinots and Mizsiseippt line, from Chicago to *. Louta, with branchos to moat of the ¢ towns ip I. from Kookack to Dabsqee, built by O Reilly, 1848, "49, cigat hundred miles long, cost per mile’ stockholders saseased once Or twice to sustain It, now managed b: Judge Caton, nection with lings erected en Li/inoly Oontral Rell ‘Chicago and Galena Reitroa’, and Ch! Railroad, tbo old tine having been rebuilt and Rock Island Railroad, road, &o., &, making line,’ ail ‘on raliroade: e Dow to suataln il A line of telegraph was batlt from Milwaukie to Green Ray, from bill wnakie to Madison, thence lo Galena, from Chicago w Galeva, with several branches te {liinots ant Wirconsin—all built by Hotchkise & Powers in 1849 and 1860 Five hendred miles were operated a fow years ate tome two bundred miles cn the Wisconsin raliroads. themecives uncor the management of é ° weak’. A line of yap was built in tho years 1851 to 1863 from | to Loaleville, via Cleveland and Olnctanat!, and from Cleveland to Cbicago—aboul six hundred miies—b; the New York and Misinsipp! Valley Printing Tologra Company. Capital, $242,000. There was & Morte line, built by Wade, from Pittsburg to Fort Wayne, via the Peoneylvania and Onio ‘also from Crestline to Tn I Oowjany, Ohio, Indiens and Lilnois Tologra, 0 h the Cleveland, Colambas and Cin- Cinnat! Telegraph ‘Cimpany, the Cincionat! and S& Lovie Telegraph Company, the Cincimnat! and Louls ville Telegraph Company: the And Mississ\pp! Tele Company, oy lonece the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne 0 And Beliefer'aine lines, by purchare. abont 6,000 miles of tseads about one million of morsages >| Woalaelppl telegraph Company, about 260,000 messages per an- 2 0 Mate Telegraph Company, a# above describe: is vcsinees 8 emall—eay 26,000 mee e* York and Min'selppl Valley Printitg ph Compar y—Organir«d April, 1861. Capital q This company have a rubstaotially coostracted line, equip: ped wih Honre pricting telegraph instraments, wth offices at Boffalo, Dunkirk, Erte, Oleveiant, Goumbua, Loutsy'tie. "tho line wad ‘The Weetern (rion Company hi wire at work. 9 per annum ov | Om the beat route to Texas, but | pany, audis used | Structed under the O' ite: to $1 jaly, 1849, ¢ cay 48, to the Ist of entire receipts and expenditures wore suiisient for 4 divi. decd of four per ceat among the stocikho! dors, and thal @movat was paid by tho then The dosay of tho line, with iho competition of rival lines, tended to embar-ass the alfa'rs of the comps ny. ‘The wire used for the ertire ine waa threo and four- twisted iron wire, which was believed to be superior tominglo wire at tho tima tha line wat constructed ~The line was lensed to the New, Yok and Mlsvisripot Valiey Priailog Telegraph Company in ‘april 1554, since whisb time over 200 miles of the twisted wire bai bera adan- ged, basing Become worthloss by decay Tho nes cf the followizg named companios, kuo wo as the “Wade Nines," were leared to the Now York aud Meals! Valley’ Prin ing folegrapa Company, !n Jaue Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, with two | wires on soparate routes from Cleve’ snd to Cinstanat! ‘Tne Onio Telegraph Company, +ith one # re from Pitts. borgh to Crostline, along the Pitsbargh, | ort Wayoe and Chicago Riilroad; one wire from Crestline to Fort Wayne, ‘along the samé road; one wire from (Gallon to Valen City, aad Oue wire from Sandusky to Sheiby, Tho Ciccinnat! and St, Louis Tolagraph Comnany. ‘The Obio, Indiana ead Llinols Telegraph Cor rany, or gauized February, 1843, ‘for the purpose of ovasteuc ung snd maraging a line of telegraph from Michigan City vit Lafayetie, Indianapolis and Kichmond to Dayton or Cincinnati, in the State of Obto, and from Michigan city, via Chicago, Peorla, Springicld and Alion to Si Lovie, with ac pneciing lve fom Vincennes, via Terre Gaute, to Tod!anapolis, and also from Miohigsn city, Indiana, to Teiedo or Detroit, Tho capital of maid association to bo $000,000, to be divi ed tuto 12,000 tharos.” Ln arezort dated Avgust 6, 1600, it is stated that tue line constructed apc ip operation embraces in ali 851 miles. The ine from Wichigau clly, via Chicago to Peoria, 3pringfold ani Alton 198% Lovis does not eppear to have been constructed, Tho eggrogete receipta of this Lue, from Apili, 1443, to July, 1360, were $17,854 66, The ‘expeniilures for ihe ta ne period, $17 786 O4. The Iae passed {nto the oontrei cf & Cornell son afier, and romatnod under bis manago ment till 1565, when’ it was leaced by the Westera Union Tsiegrapa Compasy. At tais time lees than 300 miles of foe was found to bo ta workiag order ou; of Sei miles originally conatructed. Tho latter Company are gradually removing poles and wize on to raliroad routes. The Erie avd Michigan Volegraph company, commencing with one wire at Buflalo and extending to rio, Civ sianc, Toledo, Detroit, Ohtcago ant Milwaukic, A third wire was shorwarda etreng Det wocn Buffaioand ‘leveland ta this cond tion it was iwared to the New York and Mirsiss!opi P.inting Telegrsgh Company la November, 1355. nag aloug the Mich gan Centval Railroad from Desrolt to Chicsgo, wad slong the Chicago and Mil waukle Rattroad to Milwa'ckie Tue Southern Michigan Telegraph Company.—This line “was ocnatrucied {0 1649 by Jovteh Snow, acting Instructions from, ent Asan agent of the Uske Erie gra,h Company.’ The same parles claim to have cou ttrvcted a Une from Coicagoto Miiwarkia, * * The Western Union Telegraph Company Rave eeocred the permaneat use of this line froa Toledo aad Monroa to Obicago {tis located along the Sozthorn Michigan Rail Toad, and urder an arrangement Lelween the Westera Union Telegraph and the Southern Michigan Railroad dom principally fr rallrcaa purposes. Tue Ovlo and Mie iesippl Tolecreph Compray.—Or gapizod February, 1848, Capital stack $2.0,000; con Reilly contiacta by Henry O'Reil* having a lize of teiegrap from Louisville, in ine State o Kentucky. throvich Vincennes, in the State of Indiana, to St. Louls, in the Sate of Mlssourt A portion of tha line has been rebuilt on tho Ohto and Wissizsi ppt Railroad from | St. Louis to Viuceaaes * This line formed tne western ink of tho Naticual lines, and was assed to the West- cen Union Telegraph Company in February, 1856; the latter company continuing to work it ip comnction with the National lines wnitl 1066. The Pitteburg, Cincinnatt and [.-uisville Telograpa Com. pany.—Organico4 suse, 1849, Constructed undo-the O'Riol. | ly Centracte, by Henry © Rieliy; capital atosk $112,000, Having two -i:es from Pittaburg to Louisville, Tae total caah receipts ci this tue for the twolve mouths ending December 31. 1849, were $75,934 92. Paid t> connec ing hpes. $25,250 15. Lependitures during the year, $25,- 825 16. Leaving @ cet balance of $21,609 59° Tho oni mates of tho Buperin:endent for the rear 1850 show that the number Of words transmittes wore 5,602,760, amd tha number of des atches recorded 364,669. These are ox clusive of free mutier, necessarily at all times. “Now Kino betit 151 miles, out down aud re set 85 miles.” Tuls | line was leased to the Westorn Union Telegraph Company n June, 1866, eince which ti xe it has been entirely rebuilt from Pitsborg to Wheeling with new wire and poles, on the route of the Cleveland and Pittsburg ¢a'lrosd, ant tne wires from Wheeling to Louisville aro now undergoing | thorough reyair and relnsulation NEW ORLEANS AND OBIO TELEGRAPH COMPANY. CIMWEETERN LINES, CONNECTING NEW YORK AND NEW Om: LEANS VIA PHILADWID TTSBURG AND LOUISVILLE, The New Orleans and Obio Tel graph Company was tn. corporated October, 1847, for the construction of a line from Wheeling, Va., via Maysville, Lextegton and Frank- fort to Louisville (about 160 mile); thence via Nashville, Cojumbia, Tenn., Waynesboro’, Eastport, Pontotoc, Grona. da, Yaroo City, Vicksburg and Neicher, Miss, Baton Rouge, Is, to New Orieans—adout 1,000 miles. This line ‘was completed in 1348. A separate com was ins0rpo- raved organired to bald a ine from phis to inter- soot the first named at Naabyille, Columbia or Tuscumbia, which was buit about the rame time, and did intersex the @ret at Waynesboro’, Tenn. The Memphis branch Hine has been rebei!t in 1867, on the Memphis and Charies- ton Railrord, and now intersects (he main line at fuscum. Dia. Length of brauch oa Brat route 130 miles; oa pre. | went route 155 miler. sod tocorpers'ea, culos the People's Telegraph Oomaptay, ncorpera'ed, calle: "8 Tologra} mpany, S24 constr: cted s lino wader O Reilly's pasoat from Louis: ville via Bardstown and faery, ; Gallatin, Nash ville and Columbia, Tean.; Florente, Tuscumbia and Mor. ; Loulsvillo, Kcoroiusco, Canton, Jack- son, Gailaiisand Liberty, Miss.; ‘Clinton, Balon Roago and Convent, La, to New Orleans; whole leagth 940 miles. ‘This Line was on iho samo route ss tbe New Orioans and Objo line as far as they pasted through Keetucky (south of Leu'sville) and Tennessee, and also on the same rocte from Baton 6 to New Orteans. ‘There was about the same time, or from 1847 to 1850, branch Ines copstructed from ‘Jackson to Vicksburg, about miles; from Fayette, on the Morse line, w poeta A t (ifteom miler ; from Woodvi oa tho Moree line, to Bayou Sara, about Uhirty miles, which are still fn operation. There was also a line constructed from Natchez, in Mississippi, across the river at that point, through Lovisians to Cog ig by Red river, which is new line from Jackson, Miss., to lo structed in 1256 by tho lessees oc tae fon end Great Northern Railroad. The lines from | oulsviile to New Orleans were at log- rheads in law for some years, on an eifort of Prot. loree to enjoin the O'Reilly patent as an infringemont, Io 1881 & compromise was cilected by constructing « union in business, which was forther and permanently ‘cousummated by contract of permaacnt union or couso- hidation fn April, 186 When this union was formed the fedt of the two com. Vow Orleans, Jack- Palen was catimated at $67,000, but was probaviy a | great deal more, neither having paid or declared & dividend, At the mookholders’ meoting, in April, 1554, the debt was ascertained to bo at’ loast $90,000 and the lint #9 embarrassed with executions and Atiachments as to be unable to fn susinons. A | commission was appointed to #e!! out or lease out the lines jor the payment of the debts. le June, 1864, ther wore Jeased for the term of fifteen years for the sam of $90,000, for the benefit of the er , and Ne, for the eater part, in the bonds of the company t the $99,090 failed to liquidate all the debts by tweiroto froon \bourand dollars. The average ing over the lines from Louisville to New Orleans is oati- mated at 1.000.000 per ano The above lines constitute one of the chief lake of the well known snd very popular “ Nations! Line” between Now York acd Ne# Orleans. This range of lines is Kept tn most excellent order, and they tranamit @ very larg avd rapidly tecreasiog proportion of the basiness bet woon this city aod New Orleans. Ta 1846 there was 4 line constructed from Tusoembia sccthward, on the Memphis and Charleston Raliroad, ‘about seventy-five miles to Hantevilie Als., and also from Toscumbia porihward, about fifty six miles to Rastp ort, Me crores line wee bui't from Oastw to Varro city. Neerly all of the old Moree line through Mississippt, east of Vicksburg, has been wount ap; dat all the prince! pal polnta will be reached by a new line, now being con- str_cted on the Missiseippt Centra! Railroad. There is & line from Nashville, #0. called the 4 Cbattanonge line, cornect'ng the Wasn- Now Orleans |\ne—provably at Ataiante—bet ington and ita length or the date of ite constraciion ix nol known ‘Thore it also a line from Nashvilie northward via Clarke. ville, Tenn, Hopkinevilis, Fady ville and gy Ky rom to Paducab, Ky.. about 250 miles long, which nant of the St. Louis and New Orieacs lin Bor in 1849 of 1860, rom %. Louis vin Us sourl, Cairo, Illinois, and Patucah, Kentucky, to Intersect the New Orleans and Unio line at Nasivrille. All north weet of Paducah has been abandoned There was contiructod in 1858 and 1486, aod now exists, 4 line from Memphis northward vis Jackena aad Trenton, Tennersee, Hickman and Colombur, Kentasky. to Oaire | Titnols (leegth about 150 miler), crossing the mouth of the Obio ¥ ih a cabie. There Is a line in coures of construction from New Or: Jeans thi the Attockapa country to Ualveston, exes. The New and Obio t propose working the united liner, touching poluls enumerated, which ox: hibits the following — Groas receipts, July 1, 1864, to July 1, 1866. ....$194,212 70 (row expenses . ‘ 107,064 66 Grom receipe 1886 1866. ..., 162,508 74 Grows expenses tt “aria 19 Grose receipe 1966 1st... 181,910 17 Grossexpensee a » 182,417 60 CALIFORNIA LINES, Arrangements aro now in progress for the eoariruction Of an underground fine from St. Lonis to San Francieo. By concert of aotion on the part of ihe Atlantic, American And the several Western toleg-aph com panies, there is go04 reason to antitipate a speedy telegraphic connection between London, Newfound land Now Vork and Sin Francieso, The distance to be ballt '¢ about 1,800 miles by the route pro Pe ite Coat (s eatimated at abont $1,500,000. Af use of the new telegraph machines of Prof. Hughes, it will doubtiers be practiosbie at ne distant period to com menicate between New } ork and San Franciecs @ith about the same facility as we now ccmmunicate with Wash tolegray ‘M pretort in operation tn Call- torsta ie boneted to be the one from fan Francisco to Marysville, ba, there are several others in course of oon’ strveti on. ‘Ordert have been wont to Australia for 910 milan of tele graph material, Wo cannot remember tno pisces Gon * unber of meseages pars- | 1857. Seay et oot tae: line from Gee Fraa RECAPITULATION, ‘The estimated namber of miles of tologravh line east and worth of New York is: — Of posts Of wire ‘Boulh and southwest of New York:.— or asetnceresseveees ‘Of wire strung epon posts ‘Went and northwest of Buffalo aad the Ohio: — Of wire atvurg upon posts, —making ® grand total in the whole country of about twenty five thousand wiles of posts, upon wiiish thore aro strong about thirty three thousand miles of telegraph wire. : ‘The nominal capital inves‘ed Ia the oxistiag lines is eat!- mated at $1,000,000, but the actual oost ¢f construction did not pro rably exceed $2,003,000, the balance having boon about equally divided between the contractors who built the lines and tho Morse patentecs. ‘The estimated namber of mestages passtog over all the lines is 4,000,000 per aanum, or about 15,00 each busluae day. TELEGRAPHS IN OTHER PARTS OF AME- RICA, LOWES DF CUBA. 1p 1363 the goverumen} tn Ouba bul.i a series of linos ex tending from Havana to a'l the priacipal points upon the island, sad introduced the House mwhinee. The lino were Eadly built ond have been badly managed. about two vears ago the Hovea machines were discardai and the Morte esiablished; but the lines ailll work irregularly, owing 0 roms cogroe to the preva'erce of a\mospher' electric'ty. All tho lines upon ‘be island are controlied the government. LINBS IN MEK(CO, Romo sigh! yoars cince a party of Americavs and Mor! eans built a large extent Of lines leading from the capital end from Vera Cr 2; but none of the lines yielded more thaa their current expenses, and a! the present time there is eniy @ poor apology for a line betwoen Vera Cruz and Mexico. LINES [DN NEW GRANADA, ‘The only line in actual use is the Ratiroad line, built for that company in 1856, It extends from Aspinwall to Pa- nama, and works very regularly, LINAS LN BOUTH AMERICA. One or two lines are in course of o,oatruction from the capitals of Chile and Pora, bu} there are nono in actual operation. TELEGRAPHS IN EUROPE AND ASIA, TRLBGKATHS IN GREAT BRITAIN, To Measrs, Cooke and Wheatatone olectric telegraphs owe their first practical application in Great Britain— ‘Their telegraph patented tn 1857 was based upon the principles of Oersted's discovery, that a magnetic or com- | pass needle may, through the agenoy of a voliaic current, be Invested with an arilficial polarity, The first electric | telegraph Line was laid down upon the London and Black- wall Railway, the second from London to West Drayton, and the third, in 1849, from London to Gosport. In 1846 was formod the Electric Telegraph Company, by whom ‘tho patent rights of Messrs, Cooke and Wheatstone, and some of the valuable inventions of Mr. Baia, were pur chased. By this compauy the great majority of the teie- graph Iines which have been constructed in Great Britain | have been Iaid. The extent of ite ope:ations may bo judged of from the fact that it possestes at tae present a - Me egaeh ongerd of line, an ae 25,600 jem wire. @ next company importance to itis the Englsm and Irian Magnetic Toiegraph berg ry which owns sbout 2,600 miles of line acd 14 000 miles of wire. Tho capital of tho former is Bearly £900,000, avd of the latter £300,000. The total emoant of Capital invested 1a the tolegraph lines of the Unite Kingdom ts ostimated at more thaa a millon and a balf af 4 In the commenssment of 1854 tho to'al extent | of Mees im actual cperation throughout Grea} Bri- | tain was 5,00 miles, om which about 40,000 miles of cndvcting wire were latd, giving an ave- ber of five condncting wires over the If, Wereiore, we esiimate the prevwat extent 0’ the Br.tish ‘elegraph fines at 10,000 miles, we abail be rather under than ever the mark Owtng tothe monopoly which the Fieciric Telegraph Com. pany epjosed for nearly a period of six years before it mot with apy eer unreaonab able to only ment of riva! companies Las, ho: corrected {bis monopoly, and t! = e | Tedaced toe point approximating to those of our own lines. ‘The rates ns last arranged by this company in 3555 aro as fellows —Vor mosesges of not more than twenty words transmitted to distances not exceeding 50 miles on» abilling, to alstances not exceeding 100 miles two shillings and si < bas gradually boen eater dimances five ehiltin.s #, or fraction of ten words, propor- Uonate cher « mace. In the case of a few of tho princt- pal manufacturing towns, however, the sbiliioy charge ls extended to much «reater distaaces (laa the flity miles. One admirable feaiure 1a the arracge:. trie Telegraph Cor of metropolitan tater. communication whicii It bas established. I} has seven- At ail the mos; active ceutres of L ladipy the eight railway siall Meesages of tweuty words can be transm tied between Any two of these mewopolitan stations for @ chillioz, the charge of dc livory being included, provided the piace | of addres Is with'n & radius of ball mile round (ue eta | tiom, ‘The gross anneal revenue of the Rlootrio Telegraph mpaxy 1s little short of £129,900, an {; papa a dividerd | Of7 per cemton ite capttal. | TRLAGRAPAS IN PRANOR. | pence, ard to al serial telegraphs France was slow to adopt the electro | magoetis principie. When the government at leng:h re. | solved to nuthorive an experiment of the new system it { { ‘coupled with its concessions the absurd stipuiation that the | | Sigua anoutd +) ® etl! be juced by small intraments, | | mimatures of thore employed tn Chagpe’s apparatua This Combination being found impracticable, machinery «imi lar to\bat ured ia this couairy waa ployed, 1 frat electric telegraph linea consiructe t in Fraare wore thors extonding from Paria to Urioens, Rovon, Lilie, and Calais They were commenced in 1546 and Anished and b: ought Into operaticn withio the two fo lowing years. A commis sion of inquiry was then appointed, a:d on its report the conatrupt‘on of five additional lines was recommended, ard by & vote of the Awembiy « su m Of 717,006f. was ap procriated for the necessary works. Once the resclts of the new system were satisfactorily demenstrated, tho government carried it out with great vigor, and the #hole country ia now lotorsectad with tels- ce lunes, the exteot of @ hich at the present Ume canaot abort of 5,000 miles, The F tologranh tines Commanicate with those of Fogiand at Calais by tho sub: marine cable; with those of Belgium at Lille sod Doo, | } with thore of Prussia and Northern Germany at Moly, with tho Rbenieh States, Wirtomburg, Bavaria and Austria at Strasboorg: with those of Switeerisad ai Malhonse and | Macon, the former com mantoating with Bale and the Ist tor with Geneva; with those of Savoy and Piedmont Grenoble, and ia fine with that of Madrid at . The Freech government has given to the aa miniat: allo « most efficient organization, apd it oozatitntan pow @ mort {m: ‘tment of State, placed under Owing to the perf. ction of ber oid established aystem of | it the super'ntonence of a director general, four inapo- lore joncral,twcire chief directors, and « hundred inspectors. telegraph Nees ere distributed Into twat aert.ons, | Over which the twelve cbief dircotors preside Ali the | prefectures of France are new in direct eloctric conne-tion ‘with the capital, In all chief piaces the bureaux are open and night Nhe ol sealo charges on the Fronch tolograpbs was in the ratio of St. oj¢d. for » message of twonly words for A distance of 62% miles, and of 128 for 620 miles. Two hundred words tor fame distances respectively | cont 16s Sd. and 68s. 9d. At tho Telegraehic Congress asrembiod at Paris in Septomber, 1528, convention was tigned by the representatives of France, Belginm, Prossia, Austria, and (be minor German States, fixing defoitively | & general tariff for all despatshos transmitted to sad from | the several States According to this convention France is | divided (nto etx velegraphic zones, the tariif in each for | single messages being s., 4s , Os., 68., 10. and Lua. TRUEGRAPHS [N BELGIUM. In consequence of ite peculiar gecgraphical position, Beigtam, though one of the least important of the conti ponte! “taton, is entitied te a foremost place in connection ‘with the electric telegraph. It constitutes the direct me | dtum of telegraphic communication with the northern | ‘Mates of Europe ‘the Dover and Usieni and Dover | 006 Colale ines, 0 igium telegraphs are constructed by tho govornmont. Tho Stato telegraph lines appropr: ohed to fh public service in 1864 had @ total length of | about £50 miles, spon which 16,000 miles of wire have been erected. ‘The total capital invested in thom was at | Wat ime about $116,000, and the gress annual roceipis Were, computed af $6,000, of Whioh the net profi ‘was $18,060, being nearly Lf) he CGT. and manage waa may by oy the ta a i, ry ‘ines of ereph ime at al miles, in- a of the raiwey tines caloviated thal aout 40 con Ee Coenen igium are interchanged foreign countries, and one third of ali that passes oa | Deigiom wires \e maker en route bet ween fo places. ee Cee ore Foorived for te ta derpa' produced by despatches transmitted ween ons, and onl; en route thi Belgiom. hind t-, he importance of the which Beigiam telegraphic relations of the continent. According to the Belgian tariff not ¢ 1 words are charged "tens for tuances not exosedng by the Ortend # abe two ature, for they will be transmitted to London tf requi ‘TRLEG RAPHE IX GERMANY, Under thie bead we will include Austria, (neemuch a9 she bat booome a member of the Aastro Germanic Tele. Union. This astociation of the Germaa respondence by the use of diferent telegraphic intra mente an is by the different States, The umton comprires all the States of Kurope cast of the Rhive and also the Avstrian provinces in Northern Italy, At the convention of the delegates from the different th wae agreed that a common system of tolegraphio instruments and symbols should be adopted, and that for the present Morec's Wolograph, wits itn reeelving. magnets, i | ‘Ww Hobart Town, chain of commanication. The extent of the whole li trom Ba) onne to Lisbon is nearly 600 ge ” TELEGRAPHS IN BOLLAND. ‘ ‘Tho sma’! oxtent of territory covered by the Dutch tele- graph lines scarcely entities them to @ piace in our Holiand , Amsterdam, Rot terdam, the Hague, Utrecht, Saarlom, Sreda, Dordrzcht and Arnhem. ‘Thoro aro connected at the Hague by seven submarine are connected by telegraph, wires, v wires with tho Mines, at antwerp with those of = and at Arnbeim with those the German inion. ‘The whole extent of tho Netherlands telegraph lines doas not extend 600 miles, TELEGRAPSS IN SWITZERLAND. Although Switzerland is deficiont tn railways she has a tolorably complete chain of telegrasbic communication. ‘Thus Borne is united with the French Lines by wires to Besancon, and with the German line at Bale. Lausanne 1s connected with Besancon by «2 indopsndent line, and also with Berne on one elde ant Geneva on the other, Geneva ts also connected with tho French 6; stem at Macon, end with that of Pavoy at Aix, from whence a line of wires {s carried across Mount Conisto Torin. From ne the wries are carried by Vovay and Sion through the Va- Jats to the foot of St. Gothard, acreas which thoy are con tnved by Bellipzone to Milan. Asother line passes from Ba'e by Lacerce, Glavis and Cotre to the Splagen, which It Crotses, ard is carried to meet the former lino at Bollinz9- ne, and thence to Milan Another line from Bale passes by Zurich and St. Gal to Innspruck, from whence It passes by Batzen and Tremte to Veroon, and by Salizburg and Ling to Vienza. The Swiss telegraphs are combined with the post office 4m! olstration, ph wenn azior in every village being at the sate time the tolegrapn operator. The advantages of (bis combination are very great, and small as its extent tho Setes telegraph eystem may be looked upon as one of the moet cenerally urefal in existence. We extr ct f-om the mT of the foderal Posts! Depart- ment for the fiscal year of 1856 the following statement of the number of miles af telegraph ¢ omploved and in Brogress vritbin the federation;— Ta tho Inst fisea! year (1858) there were constructed 32 leagues (96 miles) of now lines, and there were rebuilt 116 lorgues (£48 mliee) of old lines—so that oa the Sist of December, 1866, there wore in operation 601 leagues (1,593 m'los), of which 367 leagues were lines with single, 1113, with double, and 22 leagues with triple wires. The aggro- gate <f these lines represent a capital of 400,000 francs ($30,006), the adwoinistration taking as tho cost of a single Wire lise C0 frarcs, of a double wire {ine 3,000 francs, and of @ triple wire lire 1,900 franca 8, is 107, ghd Por loag ‘The uvmber of bureaus oa the Swiss lives the fiscal yeer of 1858 there were transmitted 169,376 ta ternal, 40,195 international, and 17,603 transit despatches, Yotal tecome of the administration, 304,000 francs: expen- diture, £67,000 francs. t ‘The impertance of the telegraph commualcations in Svi'zorland is strikingly exhibited by tho following sta‘e- ment extracted from the government report: — Switzerland with 2,600,000 inbabitanis, hes 1,500 miles of wire, with 107 etations, and transmits 160,376 internal, 40,165 faterzational and'17,603 transit dospatsbes, Bal: gicm, with ¢,600,000 tnhatitants, has 450 miles, with 42 stations, and transmits 17,219 internal, 34, in. terpaticpal ‘acd 9,139 transit dorpatchos. Ssrdinfa hae 4,600,000 inhabitants, 1,200 miles of , with 69 stations, and trapemits 79,181 interns! and ioternational and 8,86) transit Bavaria has 4,400,000 inha- ‘Ditanw and 1,060 miles of with 39 stations, and trapemite 27,143 intornational, 33,974 ‘aational and transit derpatches. Holland bas 8,000,000 inhabitants, 600 miles of telegraph with 28 stations, and transmits 66,106 tntorpa!, 47,000 international and 66,316 transit despatches. Wortemberg has 2,000 600 inhabitants and 195 miles of veg |, With 32 stations, and transmits 6,262 internal, 1,247 international and 28,495 tranelt despatches. Saxony bas 1,800,000 inbabliante aad £61 talles of tolograph wi ‘26 etations, 6.10% internal, 12,229 and 18,740 TELKORAPHS IN ITALY. transit despatches. Italy bas legrapaic connection with the more north ern countries of Europe at aix potnla—Nice, Mont Cenis, the St. Gothard, the Spiugen, the Tyrolese Alps, through Juneprock ead by Trieste. Tho Frenoh and Swiss lines are counocted with Turin by tho wires over Mont Conis already mentioned, the Swissand Rhenteb lines with Milan end the 8 the wires round the of ut . From Vi Ro Milan e tine is carried by Verona and Brescia, which |s coutinaed to Turin. From this line there are two branches 1g touthwards—one from Verona by Martua, Parma, Modena, Lucca, Leghorn, Florence, sien na to Viterbo, aud thence to Rome. The other branch goes from Alexandria to Genos. It ta calculated that the Italian telegraphs cover at pre- went an extent of 2,600 miles, TRLEORAPHS IN RUBSIA. Tt fs #0 difoult to arrive at reliable information (n con- nection with the tnterns! administration of Russia, that we ave unable to form any presiee estimate of the extent of ths telecrarh Ices now complete’ and in progress in that country. About five thousand miles will, however, we think, be found a telorably el ‘The principa! Russian lines are tered th Vienna, Borlia, Baluc and Black Soas. of the ext (ne (po anny ewe phere a exteni ee of rs avicg out of the calculation the submarine lines which arti SUMMARY OF EUROPEAN LAND TELEGRAPHS. Mites. Mis. 10,000 Tho Nethoriands...,, 200 TIT s[000 Switzerland 1,071 Beigtom. 1600 * Germany aad Austria 10,000 Russia Spain and Portugal... 690 —= TELEGRAPHS IN ASIA, Thero \s no country in the world whore the oleciric tel- graph in more essential to the interests of ctyilizetion than in [lindostan. The present formidable revolt of the Mabometan popuiation bas already afforded evidence of the great ulllity which thelr more general est«blishment would prove. In anempire where the rulers bear such 0 jnOnltestimai proportion to the governed, it ks obvious that it is only by the rapidity of thoir combinations, the pricrity of their information, and the decisive character of their meascres, that the former their sway. To all those the electric tategrag va fas Oty Dower, sow a Wen 0 ort ‘ae ‘Shaughnessy, of to Fast India oor ars tbe Indian govorn- It forthe ttroduct! nf to Bes enporforeta gontioman bad ten’ with in the violest storms of lightning frequent in that climate, the breaking down of the wires oy loary birds and animals lighting vpon thom, and the paseage ‘of loaded clepbante underneath These obstacles he surmounted by using galva: ized wires of greater thickness thas anual, by emeloriog Ngbtnlag conductors and elevating the wires toa height of fvurteco feet on posts nearly the cighth of a milo spart. To obtain the necessary strength to bear the strain the posts are fixed with rcrow piles, Some idea of the twengih of the wires thus extended may bbe formed from the fact that on a rope being hupz to the contre of the wire of larzest A goldier climbed ap to It, the weight of his body producing hat a eligbt curvatare. The plan adopted by Sir William O'Snanghnoesy of lay. ioe wires uncer zround where it |s de irabie, baa the mortt bo.b Of security and economy. Toe copper wires, coated th gutta percha instead of beiny inverted a tron tn!om, are nia: 1 in wooden sleo pore well eaturaved with argon'o, | to protect them from the white ants, and they are then laid in trench about two feet deop. An vntergroand fystem of two wires may be thas laid for £95 the mile. The first experimental tne commenced by Sir William t nessy from Ualout » Agra was completed in 7. ists. and it has sinos been continued to iombay, a diatance of 1,500 miles. Besides this live there are sove- ral otivera of similar mayattule in progress of construction If we caloulate the total extent of telegraph: lines comple ted or commence: the British territories im india at 4,000 miles, It will be a fair ee imate. AUBTRALIA LINES. The old lines in Austraila, working during the Inst two | years, are almost two handred miles long. The present | Hines, to be in operation in October, are as follows:—From Melbourne to Sydney, 600 miles; Mefbourne to Western Frontier, (Riyer Giensly,) whore the line from Adelaide, (South Aumralia,) of 230 miles 1s met; and from Launceston from Meibourne to Bendigo, | bourne to Ballarat, 105 miles, are jast opened. AFRICAN TELEGRAPHS, From this caicalation |t will be seen that it would re- quire 204 miles of submarine cadic, in throo lengths of 75, ‘T and 128 miles, and 361 miles of overland wires, to oon- nect the aguthern coast of Karope with the northern const of Afrion. ‘The cabies from Spezzia to Corsica, and from Oorsics to Sardinia, have been successfully laid; bat the remainder of the line, from Sardinia to Bona, has not en yot been pleted, owing to & variety of unfortunale carmaltion convceted ‘with cable. TYhreo several ® tempts have been to the ftate of the weather, The \Moulvies of the undertaking "Ay ‘estimated Crom the TELEGRAPHS PROPOSED. t A variety of achemes have been syggesied for poanedt. ing Great Britain by (elegraph with her Indies. \Wmpire. We shall briofiy notice two of them which appear &° us ofter the greatest probabilities of realization. " ‘The point of departure of both these lines te Alexas- | dria, and their joint terminus ‘s Kurraches, where thoy will Connect with the Indian telegraphs. Ono Mine passe” under water to Jaffa and Beloncia, sad then overland te then sub: down 52 i A 3f z : i H SEER HE Tt il H uf iil : ; i i F iy Granadian, Equadorian, Peruviw, Bolivian coasts from Buorayentura to Valparaiso, This line, the proposed Pacific line throngh the United States to Pacific, would place Europe in {inmediate communtsation. with the gold mines of California, the silver mines of Peru and the pear! aheries of Panama. From Bavava acress the Mexican Gulf the City of Moxtoo itself could easily be re ‘by the telegraph wires. ‘A project is spoken of to con est the Indian nes by of Penang, Singapore, Batavia and King Goorgo’s with the Australian colonics of Groat Gritaia. The mind loses ttwelf in the conempiation of such magaificem 4 THE FIRST MESSAGE FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW WORLD. I} has been agreed upon that the first message tranemit- ted by the Attantic Telegraph shall be sent by the Quees of England to the Pretident of the United States, Mr. Oyras W. Field euggests that the message shall be the Soripturs text— Those whem God baib joined let not man pul agum- der’’—&% yery sppropriate monsage for the occasion. Mr, Buchanan, when it was proposed that tho first message should pass between the rulers of the two mations at ones asrented, ard wrote the foliowing letter to Mr. Field:— ua ra en amare Tad le not detail our kin 1° 4 i bh tenner A I now hae 880, &t you proposed. Queen Victoria to the Presicent of the 1 need not asvure you he will ondeavor to answer it ta a irt and manner besoming a great occasion. Youre, war respectfully, si: JAMES BUCHANAN. GRAND SUMMARY OF RESULTS. The first fact that presents itself, in considering the ef- fects which must result from tho success of the great sabmarine enterprise, ts the annibiiat‘on of both spaces and time between the Old and the New Worlds. One of the principal objections urged sgainat its practica- ‘billty was the difficulty im procuring « battery eaf- fMolenty strong to tranam!! @ pulsation scrom the Atlantic through a mmple conductor, It has, Row. ever, been proved that it no! only could be dome, bat that @ strong electric current could transmit @ dot or character a distance of two thousand miles in half @ second. The statement of afew facts will show the won- derful effect which will be produced by the suscessfal laying of this cable, Phe London Exchange closes at Oiree o'clock, and as the difference am teme between that ovty and. Wow York is four hours and forty.five minutes, wa will receive the report of the price of consols at deem o'clock in the morning, in time for our operators in Walk street. ‘The movements in the London and New York money maykets will therefore appear in the evening editions of the Naw Yorx Hxraiy om the same day on which they may take place. The British Parliament may sometimes ols as late as one o'clock, and their sessions are occasionally prolonged til! two in the morning, but the result of their deliberations will reach us about tem o'clock of the pre. coding evening, time enough to be published in the Bu. RALD Of the ext day, cimulianeously with the report inthe Loxnos Trwms. Then, agein, our great mercaatile irme ean send thelr orders through it to different part: of Eu- rope aod counlermand them wilb theeame rapidity ehowld they Mind ittheir interest todose. It is hardly possible te ealoulate the effect of this stupentous undertaking, ama when accomplished there cannot be @ doubt of its suocess in a pecuniary point of view. . When itis considered thas it will De connected with the various land lines om both sides of the Atlautic, mow extending thirty eight thousand mile in Europe and Ohtrly three thousand in the Umited Slates, and soon (o be connected vith Hines stretching to Africa, Avia and Australia, tie immense value will be coon and ite wonderful results faily appreciate! With the Auaa- Uc Line tn operation we may sefely predict that in fire or ton years the daily ocourranees to Asia, Furope, Afrion ami Australia will bo published in the Haxazp with the game rogularity that news from Washington and New Or. loans now appears in our columns, Such is the optatem of ourselves and of those who have lad long experience im telegraphiog, and who predict that ina few years two submarine cables will bo require’ instead of one te perform the business offered for transmission betweea the Old and New Worlds. Fy avant Courtesy to the Rew York Press. Orme or su New Yous, Nawroownr arn AND Lowvow Taxeanarn Company, 10 Wail street, New York, Augast 20, 1867. To rire Mmamens oF Tk ASSOCIATED PRE Coxtiminc—In view of ihe nat'onal Importance of the great work Bow io progress, and abou\ to bp consummated by tho laying of the transatiantic cable, and the deep te- torost takon by the pebiic in the aucoons of the enterprise, Thavo the pleasure, as Prosident of the New York, New- | fowmdland and London Telegraph Company, and also a® President of the American Telegraph Company, of tendering to you the free use of our lines an the arrtvai of the steam, ors at Nowfoundiand, for aay commupications you may desire to tranamit having reference to the Ia) ing or land- ing of the cabie and the incidents connected thorewtth, | PETER COOPER, President. General Reoetying Office, 91 Wall stroet. OUy Potties, THE CITY NRPUALIOANS IN TROVSLA ‘Tho recent action of the Repubiican Central Commitiee im providing \hat the delegates to the State Conrenkon should be clectod by @ convention, instoad of direotly by their conatituents, e creat.ng considerable trouble im the republican ranks, as it is sapposed there is a “little joker” under the thimbie romewhere. wing reso. Jation of the Genoral Commitee” — aoe oa Ly ‘ae ‘Repad! le arrose. to Vd rr hy will vw Where toi oP Peel oe republican re of thetr Ld last {re enh of the Gone Gomes 6 ‘aro at ee” l-conyentoas meni b sisted BY toe Pore ‘rho ay The difficulty Nee in the a Corre ok wore, St So chouten Of ailermenens i i Recarra.—A rogatia ken, opposite Fifty third street, in which fom fonr-eered boats wore entered. A large number of people were cot. Jectod to witness the race, which it waa anticipated woald be quite spirited, bnt on the start one of the crow of the oat on which the hopes of a large nambar of tne specta- tors seemed to be contred broke aa oar, and was ‘Wohem Of all oharce for