The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-18
responding with the South, and the following
Il the copy Of letter:
RICHMOND, VA, March Is 4
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Yussday. Noon. !
Nv Dear Fannie Your letters have just
been received, and the pleasure 1t gave us you
caunot imagine Harry was perfectly delight
cd with bis mnifovm The goods you spoke o1
in your last have been received, and were Z
perfect God-send. The quinine and liquors
were very much needed. Those prese nted
to our Government, as you desired, and the
other things were sold at cost. VIII you
please forward goods to the amount Of the On.
closed order immediately7 We have great
demands for several items in the list, a. they
are needed by our Government, and knowing
your promptness in filing all such orders, we
can rely on your dispatehiDg the goods as the
earliest possible moment. Kreceived the carte
de v.site OF -, whom you euspect 80 spy.
aud have given it to our authorities. There
They request me to tell you, Fanny, to keep
quiet, and don't let them have anything on
yoas, as you can do much more for us where
you are; and II they should find you out, why
take the Yankee oath three times day II they
wish it, just before evefy meal. You hare
taken many bitter dose of medicine, and j,
won't taste bit verse than the rest.
THB BETRAYAL OF RID SANDERS.
The New York Tribune has notice of the
"eminent services, of Arnold Harris, who
actsd - spy In Riehmond, and betrayed
Major Reid Sanders into the hands of the
enemy when he sailed with bis dispatche.
from Charleston. The Charleston Courie,
says that Harris, while in that city and before
his departure with Sanders, was suspected OF
being spy. The Tribune Gays:
The department proposed to send him to
Richmond to frustrate, If possible, the projects
of George N. Sanders, who had Just then &C.
cnred contracts for rebel navy to be built in
England. He accepted the perilous mission,
and soon made his way to the Confederate
capital. Without any disguise of name OF
person he succeeded in acquiring the conf
himself on intimate terms with several of tie
most important officials. His situation. low
ever, was dangerous in the extreme and no
was arrested and confined in Castle Innauer .
for seventeen days He was recognvsu oy
two Marylanders as the former comranaer OF
the Island Belle. Upon his trial 40 acAIow, L
lodged the Identification, clairsng ~ ns;,e nsHe
done the Confsderacy m9sa 9pseaeraI 1,v nav ~b than
he could have done By opaly, joining it's cause
OF an sari;sr date T4s audacity triumphed,
and ha nn. on,v obtai1ed an asquittal, but con-
t;nnaS to an;oy the confidence OF the rebel au.
thor,t;ss Or rsthf Of all but Benz njamin, who
was suspicioueo of him throughout:
Son efts nis discharge frcm Castle Thun-
dar ha hecsna participant of the enterprises
of Sandes, who recently returned from Eu.
-, zone Is soon as Sanders had perfected his
arranse ments with JEFF. e. Co. he YVES to re-
.ura to Europe with money and dOcum snts ne
cessary 10 the carrying out of his schemes
His son (R. Sanders) and Harris were to ac-
company him. The aim of the latter was to
secure Sanders's mail He succeeded in hav-
ing it arranged that George, with his friends,
should proceed by way of Matamoras to Hall
fax. while Reid Sanders and he, with the docu-
ments and dispatches to be taken, were to run
the blockade at Charleston, and get to Halifax
via Nassau. In accordance with this plan San
ders, Jr., and Harrison proceeded to Charles
ton and purchased yacht, which they loaded
with turpensine, and started gaily out in Janu-
ary last, TO slip through the blOckading fleet
and make for Nassau. Great interest was
taken in the enterprise, and before leaving the
yoyagers were entertained at dinner with
Beauregard and the leading celebrities OF tho
city.
Meantime Harris had succeeded In commu.
nicating with one of the vessels of the out
side fleet and putting its commander upon tho
watch. The yacht, as she rau out of the har.
Dor, was speedily detected, and subjected to a
cannonadc, which frightened Sanders out OF
his wits, and made him eagsr to surrender -
The mail bag, heavily freighted with iron, was
thrown overheard; but Harris had previously
aostracted from it a portmanteau containing
the important dispatches and documents, sub.
stitutinx in it's stead his own, which happened,
as a remarkable coincidence of course, to be
an exact counterpart.
The CAPTURE of Reid Sanders will be remem-
bered. II ,rris is at present in Buffalo on Q
visit to his friends. He ranks as Lieutenan
in the navy.