THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
MORSE LINE,
NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST,
Connecting with all the Southern, Western Eastern and Northern Lines of Telegraph.
DIRECT SOUTHERN LINE, NEW YORK TO NEW ORLEANS,
AND ALL INTERMEDIATE PLACES.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE - Telegraph Building, 21 Wall Street, New York.
BRANCH OFFICES. - Astor House, Metropolitan Hotel, New York Hotel, Everett House, Madison
Square Post Office, [cor. Broadway and 22nd St.,] 5th Avenue Hotel, and Harlem Railroad Depot, cor. 4th Avenue
and 26th., also at 91 South 7th Street, Williamsburg, and 269 Washington Washington Street, Brooklyn.

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 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 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 the 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.
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Dated Washington Feb 25 1860
Rec'd, New York, 25 1860 oclock______min.___M.
To Hon Abraham Lincoln
Care David Dudley Field
How long do you remain in 
New York & which way do you 
go next
Horace White
Washington House
14/70
w 
[*2445*]

[*1013*]
American Telegraph Company.
PRINTING AND MORSE LINES
DIRECT TO ALL STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES,
OFFICE, 31 STATE STREET, TRAVELLER BUILDINGS.

If an error occurs in the transmission of any despatch over the lines of this Company, or if any one is, unreasonably delayed, 
the tolls thereon will be refunded ; but the Company will not be responsible beyond the exercise of the good faith and the
amount of tolls received ;  nor will it be responsible in any way for errors or faults of lines over which it has no control.


Washington
Hon A - - Linclon
Call David Dudley Field
86 Grammercy Pls

13¢ Charge
[*Horace White*]
[*Feb 23/60*]
[*2446*]

M.C. Partridge. Maker and General Envelope Broker. 102 Remsen st., Brooklyn.

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