Posted inEngineering Iron & Steam

Electro-Magnetic Telegraph

We understand that the business of the electro-magnetic telegraph between Washington and this city, since it became a branch of the Post Office Department, has far exceeded expectation. The correspondence between the merchants of the two cities, we are informed, is constantly carried on by means of this important invention; and we learn that it is frequently the case that orders, received here at 1 o’clock, P. M. from Washington, are filled and the goods placed in the freight train of cars at 3 o’-clock tho same afternoon, at which hour the reception of heavy goods ceases for the day. Orders for small packages, received at half-past 4, are attended to promptly, and the goods forwarded by the passengers train which leaves here at 5 o’clock, and reaches Washington at half past 7 o’clock.

Posted inMaritime & Naval History Shipwrecks & Nautical Disasters

Shipwreck of Two Vessels in Torres Straits

The steamer Thistle Brings account of H.M. cutter Prince George, Lieut. Aird, being at Twofold Bay, wind bound, and coming on to Sydney after taking in a supply of water, and that the Prince George reports the total wreck of the ship Hydrabad, 694 tons, Captain Robertson, and the barque Coringa Packet, 230 tons. Captain Chilicott, in Torres Straits. The former vessel left Sydney, for Calcutta, oil the 3rd of May last with horses and tile latter on the 14th April for Ceylon with sundries. No particulars have yet been received relative to link unfortunate occurrence, further than it was stated one man belonging to the Hydrabad had been drowned and that some of the passengers and crew had remained on an island, while others had left in boats for Port Essington where, it is stated, they had arrived.