Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-30
s Travellers Guide.
Departure of Cars and Steamboats, from Washing.

Il I
The cars leave the station, at the intersection
of New Jersey avenue and C and streets, for
| Ba timore and intermediate places, at six and
eight o'clock A. M and halfpast three and five p
M. On Sundays at six A. M. and five p M. only.
The second and fourth are express trains stopping
| only at the Relay House and Annapolis junction.
| The cars leaving Washington at six A. M. and
| FIVE p. M. meet the cars from Baltimore at the
Washington junction Tor Relay House, for
| Wheeling.
The train leaving Washington on Saturday af.
| ternoon goes no further than Philadelphia; the
one on Sunday morning only to Baltimore.
The cars leave the Alexandra (Va.) station, cor
ner of Duke and Henry streets, for Warrenton and
the intermediate points, at eight o'clock A. M ex-
| cept Sunday, and at quarter before two o'clock
P. M. a daily stage runs between Gordonsve
and Culpepper in connection with the cars on this
and the Virginia central roads.
The steamboats, leave the wharf for the South
at fifteen minutes past six A. M. and nine o'clock
p M. or Immediately after the arrival of the first
| and the last trains of cars from Baltimore.
The steamer George Washington or the Thomas
Collyer makes three trips week to Mount Yer
non and Fort Washington, leaving the wharf at
halfpast nine o'clock.
The steamboats, George Washington, Thomas
Coliyer, and Union leave for Alexandra every
hour during the day.
Arrangement Of The Mails at the Washington Post
Office July /, 1853
The great Eastern Mail from Baltimore, Phila-
depha, New York. Boston, &C., and Buffalo, &C.,
arrives at A. M. and p. M, daily; and the mail
sent from the Office, to and by those places closes
| at and P. M, daily.
The Southern Mail closes daily at and 0 O'Clock
P. M, and is received daily by 6o'clock A. M,
The second,Eastern and great Western mails are
received by A. M; the latter closes at p. M,
the former at P. M, daily. The mail trains north
of Philadelphia arrive there intime to connect with
the train for Baltimore, which brings the Great
mail TO arrive here by 6 A. M. No eastern mail is
received at the Office on Sunday night and east
ern mail, TO be sent beyond Baltimore, is made up
on Saturday night.
The mail for Annapolis, Md, and Norfolk N and
adjacent places in Virginia, is closed every night,
except Saturday, at 8 P. NJ. and is received six
times q week, with mail from Baltimore, Md,
by 10 M.
twice daily, byS A. NJ, and S p. NJ, and it is
closed for that place at the same hours.
The mail from Rockville, &C., Nd, is received
by P. NJ, and it is closed for those places at P.
NJ, daily.
The mail from Brookviae, &C., Md, is received by
5 p. M. Of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, each
week and closes same days at p. M.
Papers and pamphlets can be sent, without be-
Ing prepaid to any part OF the United States; but
double postage is charged on delivery. The post
age on foreign printed matte, must BE- prepaid:
The Office is open at @ A. M for delivery of let
tiers and papers received by previous mails, and at
s A. NJ for general delivery, and at s o'clock p.
M. daily, ereept Sunday and on that day il is open
from s TO 10 A. M, and from to o'clock p. M.
*Norfolk, &C., three times by Baltimore; four
| times by Richmond.
| SuB-PosT OFFrcEs.-The following places have
been designated dcpots for the reception of let
| tiers:
]. Shillington, al street and Penn. avenue.
| DR.. J. b. Gardner, druggist, Capitol Hill.
| DIR. Walsh, Garrison ST., Navy Yard.
w. b. Sotheron, grocer L and P ST., Navy Yard.
DR.. Boswell, druggist, Virginia av, and 18th 81.
| south.
J. w. Nairn druggist, New York av. and 18th
street.
J. B. Moore, druggist, Penn ay., Is. Ward
J. r. Barr, grocer, M and 11tI 81. north.
]. II. Stone, druggist, It'll and M II. north.
L. +. Hardness, Penn av., bet 1 7th and 18th ST.
The letter carriers are furnished with keys, and
are instructed to visit each depot in time 10 receive
any letters lef on deposit, TO be mailed at o'clock
7. M. daily. They are required to be prepaid
onecent labels being sold for that purpose by the
carriers, or at the sub-post Offices.