Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
rejoicing in Lynchburg — confusion among the mail bags, &c.
New mail agents have been appointed on the Virginia and Tennessee Road. Two of them have entered on their official duties.--They reached this city on Sunday morning, totally worn out, and very tired of their undertaking. They got the cat in the bag, and are very tired of the office — acknowledge themselves totally incompetent to discharge the duties — have nobody to instruct them — the mails are all in confusion — along the line of the road everybody gives them the cold shoulder. They indicate their intention to get rid of the job. I am confident they cannot stand the odium attached to being "Lincoln's mail agents," as some of the appointees are known to the writer to be gentlemen.--Their only fault is that they have asked and received favor from a source that no Southern man should.
On yesterday evening the flag of the Confederate States was hoisted in front of the locomotive attached to the mail train on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, which carried the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter. Col. R. L. Owen, the President of that road, and E. H. Gill, the General Superintendent, are strong friends and staunch advocates of Southern rights, and so far as I am informed their road has been the first to raise the Southern flag. The first one thrown to the breeze in this city was from an upper window in the Republican office; the next, by the student at the Lynchburg College on the cupalo of that building. One was also raised on Thursday last, by Messrs. Boyd & Co., in front of their store, near the Tennessee Depot. O. K.
