NP, RD 11/4/1861

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
November 4, 1861
 
Norfolk, Oct. 31, 1861
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   Col. Mahone, the President of the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, states in the Norfolk Day Book, of to-day, that the existing delay in the mails for Richmond is a matter in which the said road has had no agency, and that the correction of the evil is beyond its control — that the Post-Office Department have created the break in the mail connection, which now causes the detention of the mails hence for Richmond, &c., a night in Petersburg. If the P. O. Department will change the time of departure of the train from Petersburg from 4 to 4.30, a connection can be made, and the mails will go through on the day of their departure from this place.
   A heavy business, by the way, is now done upon the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, it being difficult to accommodate all the demands for transportation thereon.
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