In the fall of 1850, Mr. Alfred Vail, of Morristown, N. J., gave the writer an account oi the receipts of the telegraph at the Washington oflace during the first four days of its operation ...

The wiring of America proceeded at an explosive pace, swelling from Morse's initial forty-mile line from Washington to Baltimore in 1846 to 12,000 miles of telegraph wire in 1850. But many of the ...