Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-06
GREAT WESTERN MAIL ROUTE.
JIXTY MIL ES DISTANCE SAVED

SIATn MILES DiSIANSsa .atEo -
~ CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS. ne nicnl
gan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad
Line, carrying the Great Western United States
Through Mail, have the following staunch first
class steamers running on Lake Erie in connec
ton with the New York and Erie railroad from
Dunkifk, touching at Cleveland, aud CONNECTING
with their road at Toledo and connecting directly
with the Chicago and Rock Island railroads at
! Chicago, in the same depot, thus forming daily
| line for passengers and freight from New York TO
the Mississippi river. Niagara, Captain Miller
Empire, Captain Mitchell; Keystone State, Capt.
| Richards; Louisiana, Captain Davenport Also,
Daily Line from Buffalo direct TO Monroe by
| those welLknown magnificent Floating Palaces,
Empire State, ]. Wilson, Commander leaves
Buffalo Mondays and Thursdays; Southern Mich
gan, A. ID. Perkins, Commander leaves Buffalo
| TUESDAYS and Fridays; Northern Indiana, |. I.
Pheatt Commander, leaves Buffalo Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
| One of the above splendid steamers will cave
the Michigan Southern Railroad Line Dock al
| O'clock D. m every day, (excepi Sundays and
/ run direct through TO Monroe, without landing, IN
| Ia hours, where the lightning Express Train wit
| be in waiting 10 take passengers direct 10 Chicago
| in hours, and arriving next evening after eav
| ing Buffalo.
Running time from New York 10 Buffalo, iou,
teen hours.
Running time from Buffalo 10 Monroe iouri-e,,
| hours.
Running time from Monroe 10 Chicago, eight
| hours. Total ihrty-six hours.
| Connecting at Chicago with line line OF loW
pressure steamboats, 10 all places north of Chic,eo
TO Green Bay; also with Chicago and Rock Island
| Railroad 10 La Sale, and there connect with Hi
| nois River Line of Steamboats,, or Express Train
of Illinois Central and Chicago and Mississippi
Railroads, or connecting al Rock Island with reg
| ular line OF steamers for all points above and be
ow, making the cheapest and most direct route 10
| ST. Louis Rock Island, Minnesota a, and The Great
West.
| The American Lake Shore Railroads from Euf
4 falo and Dunkrk connect with this line al Toledo
/ forming the only direct and continuous line OF
| railroads from the Atlantic Seaboard 10 the Valley
fthe Mississippi. Running time to Chicago, SO
| hours; To ST. Louis, So hours.
| Four Daily Trains, by railroad all the way
| Two Daily Lines by steamers, on Lake Erie.
| Thus the traveller and shipper al
glance that no other line enter the lists com
| pettors.
| Passengers tcketed through from New York
with privilege of stopping over al any point on the
route and resuming seats at leisure, either by the
| New York and Erie Railroad, via Darkirk, New
| York and Erie and Buffalo and New York Ciiy
Railroad via Buffalo; Peoples Line OF STEAMBOATS,,
| Hudson River or Harlem and New York Ceatrai
Railroads via Albany and Buffalo.
For any further information, through tickets, Or
freight, apply at the Company's Office, No. 1913
| Broadway corner OF Dey street, New York, 10
JOHN F. PORTER, General Agent,
| L. P. DUNTON, Ticket Agent