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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sundries. (search)
Sundries. --A man was recently arrested in Richmond, by the Provost Marshal, for engaging in a disturbance. On investigation it appeared that he had belonged to some kind of a Zouave company on the Peninsula, and having got his discharge and transportation papers for home on the 15th of April, had sold himself as a substitute in Capt. M. Johnson's artillery company. After pocketing the amount, a considerable sum, by the way, as $600 was found on his person, he had absented himself from his company and intended to travel home on the transportation ticket which he had saved for the purpose.--His intention was nipped in the bud. There have been hundreds of similar cases, and the Confederacy and private citizens have been swindled out of thousands of dollars by designing knaves. Erasmus Kaskin, a free negro, who was lately apprehended in Richmond, after levanting from the Penitentiary, was yesterday returned thither by order of the Mayor. It is understood that Mrs. De Bar