Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-26
Information for Travellers.
BIZ RAILROAD DIRECT TO THE WEST
@W 60


Time between Washington and Wheeling
bat 11X hours!
Running Time between Washington and
Cincinnati 81 hours !"
THROUGH TICKETS AND BAGGAGE CHICKS TO bk
HAD IN WASHINGTON.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL
connections, now offers the fullest inducements to
Travellers between WASHINGTON, BALIl-
MORE, and all portions Of the WEST, NORTH
WEST, and the SOUTHWEST.
The connection betweeofhe Trains from Wash
ington and the Trains Bound West from Balti-
more Is always promptly made at the Washington
Junction (lately called the Relay House, miles
from Baltimore. This Is the only change OF cars
required between Washington and the Ohio river
Baggage is checked through TO Wheeling at the
Washington Station, and rechecked and trans
ferred there with the passengers without charge
for those holding Through Tickets for points be
yond. The connecting Trains leave Washington
daily at s a m. and IL p. IN. On Sundays al the
At WHEELING diree. connection is made
with the trains Of the CENTRAL OHIO RAIL
ROAD, running from Belare, on the Ohio, near
Wheeling, through Cambridge, GAINESVILLE, and
Newark, TO COLUMBUS. These trains connect
at Newark with the cars Of the Newark, Mansfield
and Sandusky Railroad for Sandusky, Toledo,
Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, etc
At COLUMBUS the c; o. Railroad trains con
meet with the fast trains of the Little Miami Rail
road to Xena, Cincinnati, Louisville, etc. A.
XENIA ION Little Miami Railroad) connection il
formed with the trains through Dayton, to Indian
aPolis, TerTe Hattie, Lafayette, Chicago, Rock
Island, st. Louis, etc.
ID Passengers holding Through Tickets for
Memphis, FiekSbaTg, Nateh.z, NeU Orleans,
etc, which also sold at Westinghouse trans
ferred at Cincinnati to the Mail Steamers on IL,
Ohio. Tickets for Evansville, Cairo, and 81
Louis are sold by this route.
HI For CLEVELAND, and via Cleveland to
Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, etc, tickets sold
when the Ohio is Ravi.sable between Wheelin:
| and Wellsville (forty miles, where a connection
with the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Is
made.
Travellers requested to notice that while thi>
Is the only route affording Through Tickets and
Checks In Washington, IL is also the shortest
most speedy, and direct to nearly all the leading
points in the great West. The distance from
Washington to Cincinnati is but 653 miles, bein.
about 100 miles shorter than by any other route.
FARE, BY THROUGH TICKET, FROM
WASHINGTON TO Wheeling, 50 50; Colum-
bus, Sl3 IS; Dayton, SIS 20; Cincinnati, eie "a
Louisville, BY railroad sis IS, by steamer from
Cincinnati. SIS 90; indianapolis, Sl7 50; Cleve-
land. SD 50; Toledo, SIS 50; Detroit, SIS 3.
Chicago, $50 IS and $40 81; st. Louis, So 50 and
S25; Memphis. &c, New Orleans, S3l; etc.
II FOR FREDERICK AND HARPER'S
FERRY, MARTINSBURG, CUMBERLAND,
PIEDMONT, OAKLAND, and PARAMOUNT.
passengers NAV leave Washington at a. IN. or
~ p. IN. For the minor way stations between
Baltimore and Wheeling, take Il. IN. train from,
Washington.
U-For trains to and from Baltimore, Annapolis
D-Fo further information, Through Tickets
&c, apply to THOMAS ii. PARSONS, Agent,
JOHN II. DONE,
Master of Transportation,
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