The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-29
GREAT NORTHERN MAIL,

The Great Northern Mail which has
heretofore been carried by way of the
Mississippi river has been given for the
next four years to the railroad leading
from Columbus, to New Orleans, by the
way of Jackson Tenn, and jackson, Miss.
1t is one of the most important mails in
the United States. The Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company will receive the mail
at Cairo, deliver it to the Mississippi Cen
trail and Tennessee road at jackson,
Tennessee; it to the Jackson, Miss, road;
then to the New Orleans road. The con-
tract with the Government at present is
to carry it through in sixty hours from
Cairo to n. Orleans. When the several
gaps in the road are filled up it is to be.
carried through in shorter time The
longest gap in the road is between here
and Columbus of about forty eight miles.
Jackson ( 7enn.J Wig.
This will be gratifying intelligence to
those interested in the prosperity of Co.
lumbus or Kentucky City. Probably as
early as the middle of next September,
the railroad trains will be making the
trip from that place through to New Or
leans in eighteen Or twenty hours, and
the great mail southwark and passengers
can pass from Louisville and st. Louis
by the way of Cairo and Kentucky City
to New Orleans in about thirty six hours,
the whole distance by railroad except the
ferry between Cairo and Kentucky City.
There are now two companies of track
layers between Kentucky City and Jack
son, Tenn, one at each end of the gap,
and each company can lay ten miles per
month. OF course this will soon be a
most important route of travel between
the whole West and New Orleans and
the South.
We thank the Louisville Journal for
the above notice of only small portion
of the railroad facilities of Kentucky City,
and hope that paper will notice the 9TH
ers. For instance:
From here to Mobile, AGO miles, requir-
ing fourteen to sixteen hours to make the
trip. Also, from here by lTuscumbia,
Huntsville, Chattanooga, &C., to Atlanta,
GA, there branching to Charleston, S. G.,
and by Macon to Savannah-distance to
Charleston $50 miles, in SO TO 40 hours.
Also, our connection through Chatta-
nooga by Knoxville, Abingdon, Lynch
burg, &C., to Washington City, New
York, &c. 1t is about the same distance
from Kentucky City to Knoxville as from
Memphis. The routes from here and
from Memphis intersect at Corinth, which |
is 1877 miles from here, and 103 miles
from Memphis.
Our railroad connection from here by |
Trenton and Brownsville TO Memphis,
will be complete in September, 100 miles,
in about six hours. The cars are now |
running on mere than half of the road
from st. Louis by the Iron Mountain to
Kentucky City, and we are assured of its
speedy completion. Then travellers will
pass from ST. Louis by the Iron Mountain
and Kentucky City to Memphis, in about
ten hours, and it will give direct con
tinuous railroad from st. Louis to the fol-
lowing places, viz: To Mobile, and thro'
Georgia and the Carolnas, to Nashville,
Knoxville, Virginia, and the East, &c.
In about two years we will have COM
pleted our railroad connection via Paris
and GAINESVILLE to Nashville-160 miles.
In addition to the above, we have the
.sIllinois Central road, starting out from
the opposite side of the Ohio river, from
Cairo, which connects us with all the
railroads ramifying throughout the north
western and northeastern states and lakes.
Also, our railroad via Little Rock to I
Fulton, Texas, &C., is now progressing
With ample-means for its speedy compile
ion.
We also have, Thy the confluence of
he Ohio and the mighty Mississippi at
his, the centre of the Union). the advan'
cas Of Al 400 milesof navigable rivers.