MONTGOMERY, a town in the United States of North America, capital of the state of Alabama, is built on an eminence on the left bank of the Alabama River, 197 miles N.E. of Mobile, and 331 miles above it by river. The town contains 7 churches, 2 academies, a state-house, a bank, and 6 newspaper offices. In the neighbourhood of Montgomery is one of the richest cotton-producing districts of Alabama, and 75,000 bales are annually shipped here. The river is navigable for steamers as far as Montgomery; and as it is never impeded by ice, large vessels ply between this town and Mobile at all seasons of the year. The town is also connected by railway with Atlanta in Georgia; and another line is in progress towards the west. Montgomery has several very pleasant suburbs; and is a very prosperous and enterprising town. Pop. (1850) 4935; (1853) estimated at 7000.