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The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spirit of the Southern people. (search)
A Sweet set. --Six domestic traitors were brought up to Richmond on Friday night from Mathews county, and lodged in Castle Godwin. They were captured near Urbana, in Middlesex county, by Messrs. Philip Cashmere, Logan McCoull, and John Carter, of the Provost Marshal's force, aided by several dragoons. One of the party, named B. F. Robinson, had a son on board the Federal steamer Mystic, and was caught by the detectives in the act of penning a letter to him, describing his detestation of the rebels, expressing his hope that the "old flag" would soon ficat over Virginia, and showing the arts he used to make his neighbors believe him a respectable man. In the letter he cautious his son not to approach Urbana, or come on shore without a strong guard, as the people there were strongly incensed against him for joining the Abolitionists. When the officers from this place came upon him he attempted to conceal the treasonable correspondence by thrusting it in a pot of lard, but it wa