New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16
From Our travelling Correspondent
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS.

OuLuMBuS, IA.J june o, 1000.
The distance between this city and New Orleans
can now be made nifty hours. The trains generally
connect wthregularity, and in good running order.
The stream of travel acrsss secessa - is not so
large as it should be, considering the shortness of
this line; but every day the companies are i'm
proving in their capabilities for rapid and cheap
transportation, and perhaps will soon be able to
hold superior inducements to the great mass of
travellers going North. You leave Mobile at IL NJ.
and cross the bay in a steamboat going out and
coming in by some of those innumerable rivers or
outlets whose complicated course despair of ever
comprehending; now sailing down stream, now up
stream. The people who travelled over the route
were not so numerous as they should have been,
ard appeared to be mostly Of persons residing in
the interior of Alabama and Georgia. 1t may in
terest your readers to know who are about start
ing of upon some summer expedition and feel
doubtful about the quantity of baggage they ought
to carry, that one gentleman in charge Of several
ladies had in his pocket twenty-seven checks for
trunks, bandbOXes, etc. At place called Blake
ley, about fourteen miles from Mobile, you take
the Mobile and Great Northern railroad, and from
there to Montgomery the connection is complete.
The part that is under control of Superintendent
Jordan Gas far as Polard,) is in excellent order,
and after leaving the city, the dense swamps, pine
forests fields cabins and small villages regarded
with curiosity. The country appeared to be thiny
settled, and the houses were mostly of logs. But
after leaving Pollard, we travelled all night to
Montgomery, over the toughest road that | have
yet met with in my travels. The lamps burned
dimly, but even by daylight the most devoted
students of yellow covered literature had, In de-
SPAR, turned down leaf until the next railroad.
remembered travelling over the same road during
the winter, all of bitter cold night with no wood
to put in the stove, although the country produced
nothing but pine knots. II did not, therefore, sur
prise me to discover that in the passengers
were notprovided with water. Before it grew too
dark, there was one man on board who seemed to
dread the fate of Tantalus. At every station he
AID go to the branch if there to be found,
g. bending down upon his knees would drink
more than one would have thought he could have
lifted up. One time he climbed up to the water
reservoir itself, and liked to have drowned himself
by falling in. His style of procedure contributed
not little to the amusement of the other passen.
gers, and at each hating place some one would
be certain to call out watering station" How
the poor women and children made out, or whether
they were better supplied have never learned
but it does seem to me that the superintendent
might do little more for the accommodation of
the public. We passed through Montgomery at
day-break, aud were not kept by the cars waiting
a longer time than was necessary to put on the
the twenty-seYen trunks and seat the passengers.
The road from Montgomery here was just com.
pleted, and the track is now reduced to the broad
gauge standard, so that a voyager can now travel
through the whole South without change of cars
Everywhere along the road the effects Of the