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NEW ORLEANS ILLUSTRATED.
(- Post Office.—In Customhouse Building, Decatur,.street, between Ganal and
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'\f	Neio Orleans Chamber of Commerce.—Room	Morgan Building, corner
m: '^^lagazine aud Natchez, streets.
^ew Orteans Cotton Exchange.—187 Gravier street.
jpiSp New Orleans School of Medicine.—Corner Common a^pVillete streets.
^ University BuiltUnyL—Corner Common and HaroiuifTstreetB.
. „ Mechanics' and Dealers' Exchange.—Corner St, Charles aud Gravier streets:
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CRESCENT CITY POLICE.
Central Department.— Davidson’s Court, Carondelet street, between Poydras.
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?S^*and Lafayette. Thomas N. Boy Ian, Chief.
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TTE first important railroad constructed from this point was the Chicauo, St. Loins and New Orleans, which has always been popularly known as the Great .Jackson Rottte, forming a dinict line from New Orleans to Cairo, Illinois, and thence to all of the great cities and rich gnnerns, orchards and manufactories of the West anrT NoYfch.
The road was buiit in 185!), and with its many connections and benches is of incalculable value to the commerce of our city. Now equipped with new and powerful locomotives, the latest improvements in freight cars, and elegant coaches for passenger travel, every effort is made to increase its popularity and extend its usefulness. The track has recently been almost entirely relaid—mostly with steel rails—and the new iron draw bridge at Pass Mancliac, will long stand an evidence of the enterprise and public spirit of the managers of the route.
The work shops at McComb City give employment to hundreds of hands, a.id make a Southern industry which keeps thousands of dollars at home that would otherwise be sent abroad. '
The road has been greatly improved in all particulars during the past year and is now inferior to none in the South. 35,000 tons of steel rails and 250,000 new ties have been put in the track, besides rebuilding bridges, and the entire equipment thoroughly overhauled and rebuilt. The passenger trains are fitted with all the modern inventions for safety and comfort. Faster time than ever is now made to all Northern points.
The lands along the road are adapted to cotton, sugar, fruit, grapes and vegetables. For the transportation of these to market, every facility is-- provided by the Great Jackson Route. In the culture of early and choice vegetables alone,