Arises.
--The police yesterday arrested Alfred Hill, a free negro, and
Alpheus Grandison, a slave, for stealing $16 from a fellow darkey,
Messrs. R. H. Dickinson,
Ro. H. Styll and
N. Tinsley Pate arrested
Dr. George R. C. Todd, at the
St. Charles Hotel, and conveyed him to the cage, where he was delivered in custody of police
officer Bibb, and locked up for being a suspicious character, and using incendiary language.
Todd hails from
Lexington, Kentucky.
He was heard by sundry witnesses reviling prominent leaders of Confederate State forces as ‘"d — d traitors,"’ and indulging in other opprobrious epithets towards the
South and its defenders, when he was immediately seized.
Prisoner (who has an impediment in his speech) is a brother of
Lieutenant David H. Todd, an officer in the service of the
Confederate States--a gallant and meritorious gentleman.
He is also a brother of
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of
Abraham Lincoln,
President of the
Northern States.
He had on his person one or more letters franked to him at
Lexington, Kentucky, by ‘"
A. Lincoln, M. C.,"’ written no doubt when that notorious personage was a member of the lower House of Congress; also, a letter to ‘"
Gov. John Letcher"’ introducing ‘"
Dr. Todd;"’ also, a letter introducing the bearer to
Maj. Thos. Hardeman, 2d Battalion Georgia Volunteers, near
Norfolk.
He gave the officer a list of names of persons to summon to prove his character and standing, among whom were
Dr. R. A. Lewis, of this city;
Judge Cooper, of the Treasury Department;
Colonel Bledsoe and
Mr. Jones, of the War Department, and
Mr. M. S. Brooks, at the
St. Charles Hotel.
Todd will be before the
Mayor this morning.
After his arrest, we heard a gentleman declare that
Todd had often said to him that he regarded
Lincoln as one of the greatest scoundrels unhung.
an opinion which (whether really indulged by the
Doctor or not) is largely shared in by the people of this section of the country.
