Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-26
TINES BRANCH OFFICE, New York;
NOYnmher d 1864


My Journey from Cairo to New York was cot
he most agreeable one / have taken over the
same route The Central Road, always be-
hind time, did not lose any of its ancient repu-
tation on the night I left. It took just one
hour to get out of sight Of the splendid depot
on Ohio Levee, and Notwithstanding we were
thus behind time in getting a start, the train
remained at Centralia as usual Tan hour or SOY
to give the hungry passengers an opportunity
to patronize the hotel there, owned by the
Railroad Company. The consequence was that
passengers for the east, except by way Of Chi
cago missed the trains at Odin and NATION,
and were obliged TO lay over whole day in
those delightful villages. 1t was my fortune to
rest at Odln, as my ticket was for the Ohio and
Mississippi line-the broad gauge route to New
York-and dull and disagreeable day had
of it, in one Of the dullest towns I have seen
along the line of the Illinois Central Road.
There was some encouragement in the thought
and not little of triumph and completed re-
| venge, that when the Illinois Southern Road is
| finished, as there is reason to suppose it soon
| will be, then one can take entire broad
SASSS SOAi-
nections at every point at which he is to change
cars, over roads where managers are more
anxious to conform to their published time
tables than to the dinner tables of their hotels.
The trip from Odin to New Y rk was accom-
pills he'd without any serious delay, except that
1 lay over a day in Cincinnati, because my
watch, which is one of the fastest kind, was
~.
Western Railway. From 8 An, to 10 p. H.,
on Wednesday, all excited and woful looking
pedestrian was perambulating the streets of the
"Queen City, bent on killing time as
rapidly as time would let him, and
at the latter hour entered the {" A.
& G. W. Ry." Depot with ;hasty strides,
on time, took whole seat in a luxurious rail
coach, which was pointed out to him by three
policeman and ragged newsboy, as the bright
particular one in Which he should enter, and
was soon rafting up the iron track at lightning
express speed, toward the Northern borders of
/ Ohio and the greasy borders of Pennsylvania
We reached Cory, the entrance to the oil re-
gions, and where the Oil Creek Railroad
branches off towards Oil City, at dark Thurs
day evening. Cory, since the discovery of
oil ID Pennsylvania, has emerged from dense
wood into thriving, busting city Of about
IT, 900 souls. 1t is full of oil-struck people and
people who have struck oil, and itls generally
supposed that they are aslippery set. They think
Of oil, talk of OIL sleep over Oil, dream Of oil,
bore for oil-in short they live, move and have
q being through and by oil. If, finally, they
don't slip out of the world into Heaven, then
there is no virtue in petroleum. We slipped
away from Cory in fifteen minutes after our
arrival there, and an hour or two later were at
Salamanca, where the Atlantic & Great West
ern connects with the Erie Railway, half
hour ahead Of time. Early the next evening,
| (Friday), I arrived at New Y ork safe and
sound, but little the worse for the wear and
tear of travel and three almost sieepless nights.
Yesterday a cold, easterly storm set in,
which promises to be of several days duration.
Away from Lehgh fire there is little
comfort for mortal man. But still the great
world of New Y ork moves on, with irresistible
will, nor brooks the war of the elements in its
onward march toward financial and CONNER.
cial empire. On visiting the stock exchange
yesterday, the bulls and bears and little cubs
were out on the open street in the raw cold air
vending their 'fances - in the market. /
seemed regular pand emonium of auctioneers
in which every one was auctioneer as well a.
bidder each striving to see if he could sell al
much as he bought, or buy as much as he sold
, and yet, to all appearance, no transactions il
=, buying or selling were made, but promises
yelled out amid general hub-bub, to buy o
sell at certain figures, were set down by thu
dnger-numbed reporters as the quotations a
. the public board. Gold started, at 10, A. NJ.
at 147 but at lOa, when 1 left, had fell TO 1859
with tendency toward further decline.
Gen. Grant and family have been in New
: York for several days past. and have been me
=, everywhere with that respect and admiration
u they so we'll deserve. The New Workers ar
getting as excited over the General as they wer
over the Japanese, and the papers are dali.
chronicling his movements with minutenes
y of detail really amusing if not impairment. !
he dimes with a friend, or attends circus
he stays late with the Century Club on Satur
; day evening, or attends DR.. Chapln church o.
> Sunday morning-the interchangeable reporter
:, are sure to find it out, so that the old and young
the male and female snobs may have the plea
: sure threading it over their morning coffee an
toast. 1t is matter of considerable moment t.
them to know ic General Grant really eats, an
ifso, whether he performs the operation wit
a spoon or a fork and how could they res
over Sunday and say their prayers in snythin
like Christian manner, without first knowing
> whether the General attended divine service
and at what church :? Really the metropolitan
dailies show great deal Of enterprise in afford
ing their readers all this valuable informa
ton. The formal reception of Gen. Grant too
{ place last evening, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
the entire building being thrown open for tn
{ reception and accommodation of the guests. !
was the spontaneous action of the people, tn
City Fathers having had nothing to do wit
it, nor were they among the invited guests. A
l. T. Stewart, the merchant prince, was chair
- | man of the general committee, which consisted
of so gentlemen each having the disposal O
r ten tickets, so that the total number present
e outside of few who had special invitations
y did not exceed 800. The affair was gotten VI
on q colossal scale, regardless Of expense, and
| said to have been the most elegant of all tn
It long list of receptions and levees for whicl
4 | New York has become famous. A large mum
- ! Der of one and two starred gentlemen wer
= present, among whom were some of the heroe
of the war-Hooker, Burnside, Slocum Park
t Meade, Farragut and others. The reception