| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| September 6, 1864 |
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| The mails and the {Virginia}
Central railroad |
| We are extremely gratified to be enabled
to state that the points of disagreement between the President of the
Central railroad and the Postmaster-General have been settled, and
that the transportation of the mails
over that route will be resumed to-day. We congratulate the people
along the line of the road upon the prospects of an early return to
the mail facilities which they have so long enjoyed, and which they
will now more than ever appreciate from having temporarily been
deprived of them. All will agree with us that the contracting parties
have done a very sensible thing in coming together in a spirit of
conciliation and compromise and reconciling differences which entailed
serious inconvenience upon a numerous class of one community. |
| With regard to the terms of the new
arrangement, we learn that the Postmaster-General agreed to modify the
contract so as to give the railroad company sufficient protection
against fines without notice, and also to admit the chief officers of
the company to the mail apartments for the purposes of police and
inspection to prevent anything improper being carried in them. The
president of the company therefore waived all further objection to
signing the contract on account of any remaining differences as to
fines or deductions which the Post-master-General may impose for not
carrying the mail when military authority prevents. |
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