NP, NODC 1/22/1861

From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
 
January 22, 1861
 
Handsomely Done
   The following correspondence will explain itself. In consequence of a break on the Mississippi Central Road, (now repaired) the mails from this city to the North were several days delayed. They were sent to Mobile and were promptly forwarded by Col. Fleming, the General Superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, which has recently made a connection with the Memphis & Charleston road at Corinth in Mississippi:
 
Postoffice, Mobile, Ala., Jan. 19, 1861
Sir,
   By boat from New Orleans today I am in receipt of nine mails, made up at that office for the North and West, which have been returned and sent by this route, owing to a break on the New Orleans & Jackson railroad.
   There are some 200 bags, of a bulk sufficient to fill a large size box car.
   The stages between this and Montgomery cannot possibly take them.
   I am not authorized to offer compensation for their carriage on your road.
   Can you, however, for the public convenience, make provision for their going forward, trusting to the justice of the Department for the proper pay.
Lloyd Bowess, P. M.
L. J. Fleming, Gen. Superintendent M. & O. R. R.
 
Office of the M. & O. R. R. Co.Mobile, Jan. 19, 1861
Lloyd Bowess, Esq. Postmaster, Mobile
Dear Sir,
   I am in receipt of your note of this date, and beg to say that I will have a sufficient number of cars attached to the train on Monday morning, to carry through any amount of mail matter you may desire. I will also make special arrangements for transferring it to the Memphis & Charleston road.
Very respectfully, etc.
L. J. Fleming
Chief Engineer and General Superintendent

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