Telegraphic Communication Opened

LOUISVILLE, March 14.  The telegraph line is now open for business between here and Nashville, Clarksville and Gallatin, Tennessee.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 4

Important From Tennessee

Returning Reason and Loyalty.

WASHINGTON, March 20.

The citizens of Gallatin, Tenn., which has been decidedly disloyal, met in a town meeting recently and were addressed by Baillie Poyton, voted a petition for a Post Office there, and expressed their willingness to return to their allegiance.  A post office is to be established there in a few days.

John Lellyett has been appointed Postmaster at Nashville.  He wrote some of the best articles against secession during the agitation of that subject in Tennessee.

A Special agent of the Post Office Department, acting on the Tennessee and Kentucky borders, reports as follows:

“It is gratifying wherever I have been to find that there is a strong desire for re-establishing the mails, and a willingness among the people to return to their allegiance.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1