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The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five Dollars reward. (search)
the various Southern railways to pass the bearer to say point in the Confederacy, and charge his expenses to the Davis Government, a letter from the director of the Richmond Armory, containing grave matters not yet made public, and one from George B. Sloat, the precise nature of which is not yet explained, which the prisoner was detected chewing to pieces. He succeeded in swallowing half the missive. More than $1,000 in gold was likewise taken from his effects. He is a native of Massachusetts, and was educated in Philadelphia, manifesting from the beginning a wonderful aptitude for mechanics. Among his early applications was that of a sewing-machine, and Sloat & Co. employed him to improve sewing-machine needles, for which they received the patent and emoluments. He after wards went to the Crimea, in the employ of the Russian Government, and managed for some time the application of infernal machines of his own contrivance, very nearly blowing up a number of war vessels, and