| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| June 1, 1864 |
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| Enterprise in the Post-office Department |
| The Piedmont railroad, as the general
public is aware, has been completed for more than a week past, and the
great bulk of travel and Government stores find ready and expeditious
transportation over the line, by which from one to three days time are
saved from Richmond to the South. Not withstanding this, however, we
have the triweekly spectacle of an old "one horse concern,"
in the way of a small cart trudging along from Danville to
Greensboro', carrying Mr. Reagan's mail bags. If the total want of
enterprise and intelligent effort for the promotion of celerity and
efficiency in transporting the mails were not too serious a matter for
laughter, it would be difficult to restrain one's risibilities in
witnessing the mail-cart trudging alongside the railroad engine,
carrying the C S mails.-- Danville (Va) Appeal, May 28th. |
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