Topics: Telegraph business correspondence: finances, office operations, materials and supplies, patents, western lines, transfer of lines, consolidation of lines; New York and Western Union Telegraph Company.; cholera; New York and Erie Railroad Company Personal names: Speed, J.J.; O'Reilly, Henry; Faxton, Theodore; Beebe, Jeremiah S.; Haviland, J.; Bristol, John S.; Gordon, D.P.; Loder, Benjamin. Geography: Chicago; St. Louis; Ithaca, N.Y.