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, at present the leading old woman at the "Varieties, " and the best artist in her line, perhaps, either in the
United States or Southern Confederacy, has "seceded," or will soon secede, from the latter establishment, to join the company now playing at the Lyceum on Broad street.
En passant, the company will soon move to Metropolitan Hall.
It having been satisfactorily ascertained by authority (vide yesterday's
Dispatch) that no soldiers were ever buried alive in the cemeteries near this city, it may be stated as a fact (which the Reporter trusts no interested party will cause to be contradicted) that the
Hospitals here are all full to overflowing and that a very extensive one is now in progress at
Danville, capable of accommodating 5,000 patients, and that those in power seem determined to let the country doctors have an equal chance with their town brethren in killing off (or curing) "our brave defenders." Judging from the way Oakwood cemetery is filling up, the former is the more fashionable amusement of the two.--
We have it from the very best authority that recently, on the
Peninsula, when
Gen. Magruder was retrograding in the direction of
Richmond,
Gen. McClellan was doing the same thing from
Yorktown for the purpose of making a demonstration at or near
Fredericksburg.
