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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written 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.   0   J. H. WADE, Pres't.

Dated, Huntsville Mar 16 1867
Received at Montgomery Mar 16
To Maj Genl Wager Swayne

One fourth of Corn spoiled half of remainder damp, and is liable to spoil Bulges gone can't ship what is saved. If possible send to Cherokee from some other point only half of corn arrived Expect balance on eighteenth inst Bacon damaged but not spoiled saved all I could
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