| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| December 5, 1861 |
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| The Mississippi &Tennessee Railroad |
| Very few of the traveling community in the
Confederate States, and particularly those of this, the grand Secus of
the Confederacy, knew much up to this time of the Mississippi &
Tennessee railroad. This want of knowledge in the traveling community,
has arisen in a great measure from the fact, we presume, that the
managers of the road have refrained from giving its merits publicity,
through the press in this city, until its connections with the other
new-work of railroads of the Confederacy were complete. This road then,
we tell our readers, is almost an air line one, between Grenada,
Mississippi, and Memphis. It connecting with our Jackson and the
Mississippi Central railroad at Grenada, Mississippi and passengers
going to any northern point of the Southern Confederacy, by taking the
Mississippi & Tennessee railroad, at Grenada, to Memphis, will save, any
other route, not only much time but some fifty-three miles of travel.
This, to wearied travelers, is always an important item. We have
traveled over the road, and can say that in all its appliances there is
no better one in the Southern Confederacy. We can afford to praise or
blame railroads as we find them, as we are of those who do not travel on
the "dad head" system. The schedule's time of this road and all its
connections will be found in our advertising columns. |
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