MOUND CITY Is situated in Pulaski county, near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and between the two. Its climate is mild and genial. The city has been laid out but about two years since, at which time it contained only three houses, a depot and two store houses. It now contains an extensive foundry, a ship yard, marine railway, steam pottery, planing mill, furniture manufactory a steam mill, and other similar establishments, besides numerous private dwellings and business houses, all in successful operation. Its situation is peculiarly favorable to the building up of a large and flourishing city; on a high bank of the river, at a point from which the States of Missouri and Kentucky are in full view; surrounded on all sides by lands of unsurpassed fertility and forests of valuable timber with sand for glass works in its immediate vicinity, on Cache river, entering the Ohio just below, and sand-stone for building on the railroad thirty miles north in inexhaustible quarries. Mound city is no less fortunate in local advantages than in geographical position. A branch of the Illinois Central railroad terminates here and improvements of no inconsiderable amount are constantly being carried forward. This city is also to be the terminus of a line of road connecting it with Vincennes (Ind). Population, about 1,500. Moses M. Rawlinqs, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)