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Arrested as spies.
--The evening trains which arrived in this city on Thursday night brought down two men, charged with being spies, who were committed to Castle Thunder.
Their names are Dr. H. P. Ritter, a citizen of Edenton, North Carolina, who was forwarded, under escort of a guard, by Colonel P. C. Gaillard, provost marshal of Weldon, and Sterling King, an Englishman, sent here from Abingdon.
The circumstances which led to their arrest have not been made known.
Serious charge upon Trivial Evidence.
To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch:
In your paper recently, the reporter noticed the arrest of H. P. Ritter, of North Carolina, upon the suspicion of being a spy.
The arrest was made upon an anonymous communication to Colonel Gallaird, at Weldon, stating that "H. P. Ritter H. P. Ritter was a Yankee spy, and had been paid ten thousand dollars to go to Salisbury and mark out the different fortifications and ascertain the force there." It was written in pencil upon a dirty piece of paper, and badly spelled, and signed "A Confed officer, Capt. in Lee's army."
It appears that Dr. Ritter is and old and well-knownDr. Ritter is and old and well-known resident of Eastern North Carolina, and had been to Salisbury for a servant he had hired there, and also to transact other business.
Upon his return to Weldon, with his servant, he was arrested, as stated.
Upon his examination, he showed, by the testimony of Colonel James W. Hinton, Sixty-eighth regiment North Carolina troops,