C. B. & Q. R. R.

Mr. Hosford, the agent of this Road in this city, is making such arrangements for the accommodation of trade and travel as will give the least delay and trouble. The Ferry Boats now run to the cars near Oquawka Junction, where passengers get out of the boat and in to the cars without the intervention of hacks or carriages and without delay. – This seven miles boat ride is rather pleasant. Cattle and other stock are sent forward in the same with without an hour’s delay or any additional expense. A boat has been put upon the river to [ply] between this city and Quincy, making tri-weekly trips. All freights will be received and forwarded in this way, with only one day’s delay each way, and no additional expense. This is all it is in the power of the Road now to do. In the meantime whenever the suit now pending is determined, if in favor of the [C. B. & Q.] we are told that the track will be raised above the floods so as to prevent further interruptions.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862