South-Western Telegraph Company.

THE PUBLIC are notified, that in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance 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. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message, and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repeated messages, beyond an amount exceeding two hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages, from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination.

All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

N. GREEN, Pres't, Louisville, Ky.

[...]1861
By Telegraph from N. Orleans May 1st 1861
To Gov. Beriah Magoffin

S,

Telegram of this date received fifteen hundred guns shipped to Hunt costing about fourteen thousand dollars & I will forward today to Hunt fifteen hundred dollars worth percussion caps no more guns and no powder here shall I order from Cuba Blackburn cant be found I shall draw on you or favor agent of Bank Kentucky

M. O. H. Morton

$5⁰⁸ (Received above and answered as follows —

Governor absent thirty thousand dollars remitted you by express of Monday Governor will advise you as to further purchases, Blackburn advised two thousand muskets six hundred Kegs powder two pieces heavy ordnance latter very important

Ben J, Adams

Copy B

$2¹⁷