C. H. Marshall to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-019-0149

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862

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MG5-246

Place of Creation

Blandville, Ballard County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

1861

Dates Mentioned

1859

1861

C. H. Marshall to Beriah Magoffin, 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862, MG5-246, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-019-0149, (accessed December 25, 2024).

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

No. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION.

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 Comapny 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 five 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.

A. STAGER, Gen. Sup't, Cleveland, O.

I. R. ELWOOD, Sec'y, Rochester, N. Y.

[ ]1859.
To His Excellency Gov Magoffin
By Telegraph from Blandsville 10 185961.

I have organized a company of home Guard in this Town according to law. We want arms when & where can we get them you will receive my ceCertificate by mail- answer

C H Marshall
Police Judge Ballard Co

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