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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1860., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Jesse Perkins or search for Jesse Perkins in all documents.
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Russia pays up.
--During the Crimean war the Russian Government, through its agents, made a contract with Capt. Perkins, of Worcester, Mass., for a supply of powder, revolvers, and breach- loading rifles, to be smuggled into Russia by way of the German ports, in concealed cotton- bales and casks of rice.
The scheme was discovered, and peace having been declared, the Russian broke the contract.
Capt. Perkins laid his claim before the State Department and a diplomatic correspondence ensue, in concealed cotton- bales and casks of rice.
The scheme was discovered, and peace having been declared, the Russian broke the contract.
Capt. Perkins laid his claim before the State Department and a diplomatic correspondence ensued, during which Attorney General Black sustained the claimant. --His agent, Mr. Stewart, it is said, went to St. Petersburg last summer, and that, with the aid of Mr. Appleton, our Minister at St. Petersburg, he has obtained $385,000.-- Washington Correspondent.
$20 reward
--Ran away on Saturday, the 3d inst, from the employment of Dr. John B. Eastham, of Louisa county, a Negro man, named Ralph, belonging to the estate of Jesse Perkins, dec'd.
Ralph is about twenty-two years of age, black, about five feet five inches high; one of his front teeth is out, and the rest are very broad and white.
No peculiar mark about him is remembered, but we think he has a scar between his forefinger and thumb on one of his hands — can't say which.
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