Arrests of Southern men — confiscation of their money.
New York, Aug. 23
--George Miles, of Petersburg, and John Garnett Guthrie, of Richmond, Va., collecting agents of tobacco houses, have been arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette Mr. Guthrie is a heavy dealer, and has large consignments here, and in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Mr. Guthrie raised $144,000 on shipments, which, through friends and agents, he invested in Confederate and Southern State bonds.
Mr. Miles was agent of James Thomas, of Richmond, and had collected $35,000, and had also made liberal investments in Confederate bonds.
About $175,000 was recovered from Guthrie and Miles, principally in bonds, sight drafts, Virginia paper money, and $1,000 in gold.
A number of letters addressed to persons in the Southern States were found in their possession.
[The telegraph blunders as to the localities of Messrs. Guthrie and Miles. Mr. Guthrie is from Petersburg. Mr. Miles from Richmond. All that is said about their making investment in Confederate bonds in New York is humbug.
There are none of those bonds in that Sodom, and we hope there never will be. This seizing of Southern men and their property will not help the Lincoln cause yet our Southern men ought to keep away from the Yankees.
Can't they play quits with them now and forever ! 