NP, RD 9/6/1864

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
September 6, 1864
 
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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