Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-17
[BY REQUEST ]


The Great Northern Mail which has heretofore
been carried by way Of the s-ssIppIri bas bseu
given the nex fsur years to the railroad leading
from Coiuubus, to NeH Orleans, by The way Of Jasz
sJn, Tennessee, and JacksOl, Mississippi lis ore
Uf the most Important mails IN the United States
The Mobile and OliJ .iiroad Company will receive
the nail CaIr1, deliver IJ o tEe Mississippi Cen
IrsI and Tennessee road az Ja,kson, Tennessee; it
to the Jackson Miss road; then 10 the New Orleans
read he contract with the Government az present
is carry 1t through Ia SIXTY hours from Cairo TO
New Orleans. Nhen the several gaps In the road
are filed up it is 70 be carried through shorter
time. The longest gap IN he road Is bstWc here
and Columbus q about iOrty-eighJ miles -Jackson
&C. TtuessssJ Hhlg.
This win be gratifying intelligence to hose interest
ed IN the prosperity Of Columbus X, ntuCky City
Probably as earyss b. middle ct next sep embtrice
railroad ira will be making the "trip from that place
through 10 New Orleans in e1gnteen twenty hours.
and the great mail south ward and cGa pass
iron Louisville and 81 Louis by lie way Ul Cairo and
kentucky Guy to New Orleans in acou. thiriy-six
hours, the whole distance hy railroad excep; the
ferry between Cairo and Kentucky City. There are
nov Two companies Of track layers between Ken
lucky Ciiy aud Jackson, Tennessee, enc at each end
Of The gap, and each company lay ten miles per
month. OF course this will soon be most impor
tant route Of travel between the whole West and New
Orleans aud the SOuth.-LoUyghLe Journal
We thank the L0uisyIlle journal Tor the above
BoGee OF only small portion Of me railroad iacl-
ties Of Kentucky City, a d hope that paper will
notice the others. For instance:
From here to Mobile, 4G0 miles, requiring four
teen 10 sixteen hours make the trip. Also from
here to Tus0Hmbia, Huntsville, Chattanooga, &c 10
Atlantis, Ga, there branching 10 Charlestun s. C..
and by Macon 10 oayanuaE-distauce 10 Charleston
ESQ miles, IN 56 10 40 hours.
Also, our connection through Chattanooga by
Knoxville, Abingdon, LynChburg, &C 10 Washing
ton City, New York, sc. IL Is about the same dis
tsnce iron Kentucky City 10 Knoxville as from
Memphis. The routes from here aud from Mem
phis intersect a. COrinth, which is l37 miles from
here and l03 from Memphis.
Our railroad connection from here By Trenton and
Brownsville to Memphis, will be complete in Sep
tember, 100 miles, in about six hours. The cars
are no running on more than half Of the road
from st. Louis by the Iron Mo8ntaiL TO Kentucky
City, and are assured Of its speedy completion.
Then travellers. will pass from ST. Louis by the
Ircn Mountain and Kentucky CRY TO Nemphis, in
about ten hours, and it will give a direct coatiuU
Gus railroad from ST. Louis 10 the following places
viz: To Mobile, and through Georgia and the Caro-
lnas to Nashville, Knoxville, Virginia, and the
East, SC.
In about two years We win have completed our
railroad connection via Paris and ClaIks7iIle TO
Nashville-lGO miles.
In addition to the above, we have the "Illiuois
Central road, starting cut from The opposite side
Of the Ohio river, (from Cairo,) which nnecis Us
with all tie railroads ramiiylBg throughout the
Northwestern and Northeastern States anu Lakes.
AIso our railroad via LilIle Rotk TO Fulton, lex
as, sc is nov progressing with ample means for
its speedy completion.
We also have p the confluence of the Ohio and
the mighty Mississippi sc this, the centre Of the
Uniou,j the advantages Of 40 OUO nj es Of nayiga-
BE rivers.
sippi st the nearest high landing to the mouth Of
the Ohio river) az the northern terminus Of the
Great Mobile ana OhiO R@Ilrosd, and contain 100
acress laid outIR lots, streets and alleys. We in
vile manufacturers, mechanics, capt tausts specua
tors and business men 10 attend tne public sale Of
Iots which will commence here on the 9th day Of
Ssplember next when the trus ee5 will sell out ALL
n tlaut reserve and upon long eredHs.
An ample guaranty will be gwen by the trustees,
that Keniucky City cCnnot be Inundated or incon-
vepienced by the highest floods Of these great rivers
by obligating themse.yes never TO collect the pur
chase money for the lots until a committee Of com
peteut engineers investigate aud report the city to
be beyond the reach OF high wafer This guaranty
will be given because the opinion has gone forth that
all the towns near ths mouth Of the Ohio subject
to uundatiOn.
We invite al The world to come, and before the
sale of lots investigate the qualled and cort"o
ing advanvaI tages secured TO Kentucky City BY the
completion Of 8l those railroads and rivers, and by
its being elevated from two to two hundred and
ten feet above the highest floods
The Hon. Postmas.e er General has just established
daily line Of four horse post coaches from here By
Hopkinsville, ElkloH, &c. 70 Bowling Green Al
the latter place, connecting with the Louisville
and Nashville " Railroad. This line Of coaches will
afford great mail and travelling facilities The ne-
rior counties until the railroad ia completed from
here By Hopkinsville to Bowling Green. Then the /
most central and shortest railroad route from the I
Mississippi river 70 New York will be from Kentucky
City, oy Bowling Green, Louisville, Lexington,
Mouth Of Big Sandy, and themes through Virginia.
by Washington, &e.-KsHtBeky CIty CrsseeG1