Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John Conner or search for John Conner in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
to-day, the money for that purpose not having yet arrived from New York. The intelligence of a marked improvement in affairs in Maryland in a peaceful aspect imparts general satisfaction. Says the Washington Star, of Thursday: John Conner, the Government messenger who recently tampered with confidential dispatches entrusted to him for conveyance between Washington and Philadelphia, is a Baltimorean. On the delivery of his dispatches in Philadelphia, Capt. Sanders discovered that they had all been opened and read somewhere on the road between Washington and that city. Conner is believed by the Government to have sold the information they contained at a round price. He is now in the custody of Col. Butler, at Annapolis, who, it is understood, will probably hang him. There are now some 3,000 troops at Annapolis from New York and Pennsylvania. The 71st (New York) Regiment are quartered inside the Navy-Yard. The 12th (New York) Regiment are to be quartere