Herald’s Dispatch

The president of the American Telegraph Company leaves Washington for New York to-morrow morning. Frequent satisfactory interviews with the Secretary of War, have convinced Mr. Sanford that the measures adopted by Government in relation to the transmission of telegraphic dispatches, are imperatively demanded by the public welfare, and interfere with neither the private rights of citizens, nor the interests of the Telegraph company.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 10, 1862, p. 1