| REVIEW OF HON. E. B. WASHBURNE’S PAPER ON THE UNION OF THE TELEGRAPH AND POSTAL SYSTEMS. |
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| A merited Compliment to Professor Morse | 1 |
| Congressional Aid | 2 |
| Erroneous Charges against the American Telegraph System | 3 |
| Brief Statement of Facts | 4 |
| Statistics of the Telegraph in Europe and America for the year 1866, from Official Reports | 5 |
| The Complaint of Indifference to Public Convenience without Foundation | 5 |
| Official Statistics of the Telegraphs in Europe for the year 1866 | 7 |
| Statistics of the Western Union Telegraph Company, of the United States, and of the Montreal Telegraph Company, Dominion of Canada, for the year ending June 30, 1867 | 7 |
| The asserted Union of the Postal and Telegraph Systems in Europe an Error | 8 |
| The Shortcomings of British Telegraphs | 9 |
| The Telegraph System of the United States Unparalleled for its Extent and Efficiency | 10 |
| Asserted Effect of Governmental Control on Belgian Telegraphs | 11 |
| Early Belgian Rates contrasted with American | 12 |
| Natural Increase in Telegraphy | 13 |
| Unfortunate Effects of Low Rates and Competition | 15 |
| American and European Rates compared | 15 |
| The Peculiarities of the Belgian Telegraph Service | 17 |
| Belgian Officials acknowledge the Imperfections of their System | 18 |
| Instructive History of Belgian Telegraphs | 19 |
| Singular Idea that a Small Telegraph System is more Difficult to Manage than a Large One | 20 |
| Necessity for the Unification of the Telegraph System | 22 |
| Estimate of the Cost of Building Telegraph Lines | 24 |
| Doubts regarding the Estimates of Telegraph Experts as to Cost of Constructing Lines | 27 |
| Incorrect Assertion that American Telegraphs are not constructed according to Specifications | 29 |
| Cost of American Telegraphs estimated by European Data | 30 |
| Value of Western Union Telegraph Property, based on European data | 32 |
| Erroneous Estimate of the Value of the Western Union Telegraph Company’s Property | 33 |
| The Organization of the Western Union Telegraph Company | 35 |
| Financial Statistics of the Western Union Telegraph Company | 36 |
| Stations, Lines, and Employees of the Western Union Telegraph Company | 39 |
| English and American Telegraphs compared | 40 |
| Acknowledged Superiority of the early American Service | 41 |
| Remarkably Low Tariffs of the early American Telegraphs | 42 |
| No Similarity between the Telegraph and Postal Systems | 43 |
| Collection and Delivery of Telegrams by Letter-Carriers Impracticable | 45 |
| Mr. Washburne’s proposed Experimental Line | 47 |
| London District Telegraph Company | 50 |
| Telegraphs under Government and Private Control compared | |
