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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.
O. H. PALMER, Sec'y.  14 m  J. H. WADE, Pres't.

Dated, Tuscumbia Mar 7 1867
Received at Montgomery Mar 7
To Maj Genl Swayne 

Supplies landed at Tuscumbia lauding below High water mark & river rising rapidly cannot be transported here for less than twenty cents per each, am hiring every available team and need money to pay them 
they cannot be procured without immediate payment send at once to Huntsville at least eight hundred dollars is possible have remainder of supplies sent to Memphis answer at Huntsville
Jno B Callis
Bvt Col
64 my 1089 Col 
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