| From the Wilmington Journal |
| March 17, 1864 |
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| We are perfectly at sea in
reference to the mails. We do not know what arrangement to make so as to
suite them, as we do not know what change may be made from day to day.
This morning we are literally without mails, nor do we know when we will
have any. We are, as we have often been before, thrown upon our own
resources. |
| The telegraph brings us
interesting but not very important news. The recognition rumors have
failed to attract much attention. The only thing that appears to give
them any appearance of corroboration is the recent advance in
Confederate bonds in London. |
| The stoppage of the mail and
passenger trains on the Wilmington & Manchester and Wilmington & Weldon
Rail Roads, by orders from Richmond, is, to say the least of it, a very
strange if not foolish proceeding. If we are correctly informed, there
was no earthly necessity for any such course by the department, and
nothing to be gained by it. All the government freights here, we learn,
have been forwarded over the Weldon Road, and now to stop the mail train
on both roads seems ridiculous. |
| We have no time to go into
details today, more than to state that, notwithstanding the
advertisement of the Superintendent of the W. & M. Railroad, in today's
paper, there will be no mail train leave here tomorrow morning, for the
South. We also hear that the same programme, so far as the stoppage of
trains is concerned, applies to the Weldon Road. This is the report,
which we know to be reliable. |
| Daily Journal, 15th |
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