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rge and hire himself out, contrary to law. Nathaniel Drayton, a free negro, was tried for stealing on the 30th day of October, a watch, worth $30 and $15 in C. S. Treasury notes, from Herod, a negro slave, owned by Wm Tyree. Drayton was found guilty, and, instead of being put in the penitentiary, was ordered to be sold as a slave by the City Sergeant. Sydnor, a slave, the property of Miss Hartley Grahem, was tried for murdering Robert Napper, slave of Sarah Waddell, on the 23d of December, 1861. Mr. W. W. Crump was assigned counsel for the prisoner, who on a full hearing of the evidence, was found guilty by the Court of voluntary man slaughter, and ordered thirty-nine lashes. Sarah Edmondson, a free negro, was tried for stealing on the 17th day of November, a dress worth $25, the property of Mrs. James K. Caskie. The Court, (Recorder Caskie being absent,) after hearing the evidence, found the prisoner guilty of grand larceny, and instead of imprisoning her in the penit