A good move--military telegraphy.
--The Richmond correspondent of the New Orleans Delta says:
‘
While the
Lincoln Administration is assiduously studying military æromantics under
Prof. Lowe, and the
Professor in conducing to his own amusement and preciosity by humbugging
Lincoln,
Seward and
Scott with his ærial romances, the Confederate Government is engaged to much more practical purpose in organizing a system of military telegraphy, with the assistance of an experienced and energetic telegraphist,
Mr. J. T. Colwell, late of
Washington, and now
Telegraphic Superintendent for
Eastern Virginia and
North Carolina,
Mr Colwell is now having the wire made for this purpose in
Richmond, and when this is flushed it is purposed to furnish a portion of it to every important division of the army, together with a field apparatus and operators to work them.--This kind of telegraph requires no posts.
The wire, which is insulated, can be unwound from a sort of reel, and taken, as fast as a horse can trot, trailing on the ground, through bushes or through water, to any part along his lines with which a General may wish to communicate.
The apparatus is placed on small tables, which can be readily conveyed by hand.
The advantages of this system are as obvious as they are great.
Should a great battle take place, for instance, between
Manassas Junction and
Washington, it would rage along an extent of perhaps eight or ten miles. The power of instant communication of orders, or instant receipt of intelligence, over such a field, when the day was perhaps hanging on one word, and that promptly given, is beyond all estimation.
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