Arrest of Suspicious characters.
--On last Sunday morning, says the Tazewell county Democrat, of the 5th, two carriages drove rapidly through our village. They contained three men, two women, a small child, and a large amount of baggage. On inquiry it was ascertained that they spent the previous night about a mile and a half from town, where they represented themselves as fleeing from the Northern soldiery, and seeking for their families a place of safety. Their host recommended them to Grayson county, where they talked of going, but after leaving the house they decided differently, and made tracks for Kentucky. Some of our citizens started in pursuit, arrested and brought them to town on Monday. They say they are Pennsylvanians; have been in this State two years; had a contract on the Virginia Central Railroad; were detained to finish this contract until the limit expired for the removal of aliens from the Southern Confederacy, and have a pass to Nashville purporting to be from our Secretary of War. If this pass is gennine, why all this haste to escape into Kentucky? Or why did not our Secretary give them a pass direct for Pennsylvania, if they are proper persons to go North? It seems they were permitted by the authorities here to leave this place for Richmond, in charge of Mr. Robert Smith, of this county, who, we learn, has, unaided and alone, ascumed the responsibility of the delivery of these five prisoners at the capital.
