The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-08-11
Notes I'm the Cars.

we ietI nOIne Oh cIluay Aor SWcaSOt verJ
reluctantly, for we have good deal to d.
these times, and we verify believe work mor'
hours in the twenty -four, and harder per
haps, than most of the denizens of our ia
nous and fourishing City of Ottumwa.-
But we must have paper and sundry ma
terials to enable us to get out the best paper
in iowa, and to do the neatest job Work Of
any Office in this part of creation-al o.
which we are ambitious to do-and SO we
had to tear ourselves away.
Well, the Western Stage Company con.
veycd us to Agency City in one of their new,
elegant and comfortable coaches. This Co.,
by the way, excel any Stage Company in
the world. We have known most Of the
Stage Companies in the west for the last
twentv-fi five years, Frink, Walker, & Co.; o.
Hinton, & Co, and other similar Institu-
tons famous in their day but the present
Company, in the way of accomplished and
accommodating Agents, such as Parks, Will
son and Withrow the most temperate, care.
full and accommodating drivers; coaches that
would do for the Queen of Spain to ride in
and the finest kind of teams-beats any
that the west has ever been furnished with.
To Burlington we rode on Mr. Conduc-
tor Lockc's Train, a Conductor deseryedly
popular for his vigilence, affability and good
looks. The B. & NJ. r. Railroad, under the
able Superintendence of J. G. Reid, Esq,
and skillful Engineering of H.. Thielson,
Esq, is now in perfect order. A good por-
ton, we noticed, has been ballastcd, and no
road is in better condition. The road win be
finished and the cars run to the Des Moincs
River, at Ottumwa, on Monday next, the 18th
inst. Close connections are made with the
c. B. & @. at Burlington.
The latter road, of course, is favorite
with the public; the track is in perfect Or
der; the Conductors and Agents are all good
men; the eagle eye of that ablest Of Superin-
tendents, c. G. Hammond, Esq, compre-
hends and provides for everything in gener-
al, while the interests of the road at Burling-
ton could not be in better hands than in
those of David Remick to whom they are en-
trusted. No road has more or better con-
nections than this.
They complain of hard times in Chicago
yet. Debt, that incubus of the West, is
weighing heavily upon her as upon other
Cities. Her palatial Hotels, most Of them,
are hardly paying expenses. This state of
things, however, can hardly last much longer.
The new crop will come forward soon, and
travel take a start, when her Is, railroads
will produce a speedy and wonderful change.
We are indebted to Messrs. D. B. Cooke
& Co., the great Book and Publishing house,
for copy of their City Directory FIR SO, in
which we find embodied Norris Chicago Di-
rectory for 1874, zoe being the said Norris.
Our book was considered some pumpkins in
its day, as was the city of which it was then
a faithful exposition; but the Directory and
City of "A are both mighty small affairs COM
pared with the metropolis and publication of
1859. We are obliged to the Messrs. Cooke
for their Ito us) interesting present, and en-
brace the occasion to commend their cstab-
lishmen: to public favor. '.'
Horse railroads and the closing Of the IL
quor shops on Sunday, are the matters of
principal interest at present in the Garden
City,, The former have just commenced
running through some of the principal streets
charging five cents for any distance within
the limits, the longest being some five miles.
They are violently opposed from variety
Of consi 'erations; but are immensely patron
lied, and must become popular The liquor
ordinance was quietly submitted to appa-
rently.
We went up on the night train and saw
very little of the country but we returned
in the day time, seeing Illinois in all its glo-
ry of waving fields of grain and corn stretch
ing away as far as the eye could reach,
glorious and encouraging prospect. We had
the good fortune to have for Conductor, Mr..
A. n. Town, long on this road and one of its
most competent, efficient and popular en-
ployees. We have received many fayors
from Mr.. T. for which we are grateful. We
left Chicago with a very light load, but re-
cieved numerous accessions at the several
beautiful towns on the way, circumstance
indicating an earlier increase of local than
through travel. sf ,snz2r .-... ..... 49,
The cars have been running to East Bur-
fington since the river fell, now some weeks,
and they always will run there hereafter, as
the track is to be raised Time on this
road was changed on Monday. They now
leave Burlington, the morning train, 9,25;
Evening, Z; Accommodation, 3,45, p NJ
Leave Chicago, Express, $50 a. M; 7,45 p.
M; Accommodation, 4,l5, p. m. A stock
train with passenger rights, leaves Burling-
ton at 3,45, p. ~, every day, Sundays ex-
cepted), running directly through to Chica-
60, ofwhich fact drovers will please take no.
tice, as vol as of the other fact that cattle will
be billed from this erd of the road through
to Chicago, without detention or expense at
Burlington, upon the most favorable terms.