| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| March 27, 1862 |
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| A Smart Operation Defeated |
| On Tuesday a party who has a
store at Wythe station, on the Ohio railroad, applied for a permit to
take home for his store a couple of hogsheads of sugar and two or three
barrels of molasses. To the granting of this there was no objection, and
the permit was made out. The gentleman who attends to the permit
department of the Provost Marshal's office, not being at his desk at the
moment, the document was made out by another clerk, who omitted to
mention the quantity of merchandise for which the permit was given. The
party made an arrangement with an individual in this city to take
advantage of the open permit, and a hundred hogsheads of sugar were
bought and being shipped at the {Memphis &}
Ohio railroad depot. When the Provost Marshal became acquainted with the
proceeding he sent down and had the permit taken from the original
applicant, who had so grossly abused his privilege. Sixty of the one
hundred hogsheads had been put on the cars at the time. The purchase of
the sugar applied yesterday morning to the Provost Marshal for authority
to force the merchant of whom the sugar was purchased -- and purchased
by and in the name of the second party, not by the holder of the permit
-- to take the sugar back and return the money. The request was of
course refused and the purchaser is consequently pretty heavily punished
for his attempted evasion of the Provost Marshal's orders. Those who try
schemes of this kind will require more than ordinary cunning to succeed;
they have a man to deal with who is not easily hoodwinked. |
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