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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk (search)
t yet ascertained anything definitely about the firing on Tuesday and Wednesday in the direction of Newport News.--There are various reports about a fight on the Peninsula, and it is said by a reliable person that one hundred guns were distinctly heard yesterday on the Bay shore, the sound coming apparently across the Roads. From the direction of Magruder's batteries much has been said too, of a probable attack on Pig Point; but I regard these rumors as entirely with-out foundation. Col. Mahone, the President of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, states in the Norfolk Day Book, of to-day, that the existing delay in the mails for Richmond is a matter in which the said road has had no agency, and that the correction of the evil is beyond its control — that the Post-Office Department have created the break in the mail connection, which now causes the detention of the mails hence for Richmond, &c., a night in Petersburg. If the P. O. Department will change the time of departure o