The proprietors of the Defiance Fast Line are making the necessary arrangements to stock the Sandusky and Cleveland Routes also from Springfield to Dayton—which will be done during the month of July.
All baggage and parcels only received at the risk of the owners thereof.
Jno. W. Weaver & Co.,
Geo. W. Manypenny,
Jno. Yontz,
From Wheeling to Columbus, Ohio.
James H. Bacon,
William Rianhard,
F. M. Wright,
William H. Fife,
From Columbus to Cincinnati.
The Cumberland Road became instantly a great mail-route to Cincinnati and St. Louis; from these points mails were forwarded by packets to Louisville, Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, and all Mississippi points. Mails from Washington reached the West in 1837 as follows:
| Washington to Wheeling | 30 hours |
| Washington to Columbus | 45½ hours |
| Washington to Indianapolis | 65½ hours |
| Washington to Vandalia | 85½ hours |
| Washington to St. Louis | 94 hours |
Nashville was reached from Louisville by packet in twenty-one hours, Mobile in eighty hours, and New Orleans in one hundred and sixty-five hours.
Some of the larger appropriations for the Cumberland Road were:
| 1813 | $140,000 |
| 1816 | 300,000 |
| 1819 | 535,000 |
| 1830 | 215,000 |
| 1833 | 459,000 |
| 1834 | 750,000 |
| 1835 | 646,186 |
| 1836 | 600,000 |
| 1838 | 459,000 |