| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| November 4, 1861 |
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| 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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