Thursday, February 9, 2012

California Mails

(Herald’s Dispatch.)

WASHINGTON, May 28 – The Overland Mail Company will resume the transportation of letters in fifteen days.  Papers and documents will go Via Panama under an arrangement of the Company with Vanderbilt, who is to receive $150,000 a year for the services.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3

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