The Overland Mail Troubles

ST. LOUIS, April 29.

A gentleman of this city, just returned from Omaha, informs us that the recent troubles which the overland mail company have experienced were not occasioned by the Indians, but by the company’s own employees. It appears the drivers of the mail coaches and other persons in the employ of the company, have not been paid their wages for several months past. Being disgusted with the state of affairs; they determined to seize upon the company’s property, and thus obtain what belonged to them. Nearly all the available stock of the company has thus been taken away. Our informant says the Indians along the route are peaceably disposed, and thus far have done no injury to the mails or overland telegraph.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 30, 1862, p. 1