James Partrick resumed supervision of Chester Partrick and Company

The Afflicted W. U. Operators. - Gold and Stock

Telegraph Company. - Chester, Partrick and

Company, etc.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., Dec. 20th.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE TELEGRAPHER.

THERE are a few items of interest telegraphically here, which may as well be put in shape for the columns of THE TELEGRAPHER, and here they are at your service, if desired.

As the weather is comparatively cold, and snow instead of rain has fallen this week, the Western Union operators have been comparatively happy. The glass insulators, and in fact any kind of insulation may be relied upon to enable the wires to work reasonably well until a thaw, or a rain storm again provokes profanity on the part of all concerned in efforts to make good the defects attendant upon the Bates and Eckert glass insulators. There has been no improvement in the working of the Western Union wires, nor can there be until somebody possessed of a reasonable amount of intelligence and electrical knowledge supersedes the present incompetent incumbents above mentioned.

The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company are introducing their system of stock and commercial reporting in this city, and are putting in some thirty instruments for various parties here. Their interests in this city are under the charge of Mr. Henry Bentley, whose former connection with he original city line in New York will doubtless be recollected by the more ancient members of the fraternity in your city. Henry, with his plausible manner and quaker hat and coat, shows so thorough a Philadelphia naturalization, and has become so much of an established institution in this community, that he would no doubt feel unsphered in the more active and exceedingly wicked city which is alone saved from utter condemnation by the publication of THE TELEGRAPHER within its limits.

My old friend, Mr. Joseph W. Dyer, who was the last Superintendent of the Bankers and Brokers' Telegraph Company, may now be found at the Continental Hotel, where he is as energetically employed in advancing the interests of the Western Union as formerly of the B. and B. Company.

All telegraphers of the old school will remember Andy Wynne, who, as well as his brother Barney, were engaged in telegraph construction when the first lines were built, and who had retired from telegraphy to engage in commercial pursuits. He has returned to his first love, and is engaged with friend Bentley as line man.

The many friends of Mr. James Partrick are much pleased to welcome his return to Philadelphia after his prolonged absence at New York. He has resumed personal supervision of the business of the firm of Chester, Partrick & Co., whose increasing business rendered his return necessary. The popularity and ability of Mr. Partrick will have a very beneficial effect upon the fortunes of the firm of which he is the central partner. It may be mentioned in this connection that C., P. & Co. make a specialty of the Western Electric Gas Lighting Apparatus, and have already introduced it successfully into some of the principal public buildings in this city. They have just completed the introduction of this apparatus into the Representative Hall and Senate Chamber of the State House, at Trenton, N. J., preparatory to the pending session of the New Jersey legislature. They are also extensively engaged in the manufacture and sale of all descriptions of telegraphic and electrical apparatus, and believe in the efficacy of advertising as well as furnishing reliable and superior articles to their customers. They deserve success.

TELEGRAPHICOS.