| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| May 11, 1861 |
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| Mail Communication With Texas |
| We received this morning a
letter dated Galveston, May 7, from a well informed gentleman, in which,
referring to the probability that the steamships between this port and
Berwick's Bay and Galveston, will stop running, he says the mail will,
nevertheless, pass through, adding: "Mr. Gentry, President of the
Railroad from Houston to Sabine Pass {Texas & New
Orleans RR}, in company with Mr. Sawyer, the great Texas mail
contractor, (by orders from Montgomery.) left on Sunday afternoon to
place horses and stages between Sabine Pass and Berwick's Bay
immediately. They have 400 horses and will put up tents every ten miles
on the route of 120 miles. So you see all communication will not be cut
off. They calculate to be ready in ten days -- three days from New
Orleans to Galveston." |
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