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Fortune Tellers,

like grogshops, are generally supported by negroes, and are equally destructive to their morals. An old negress, called Silvery, appeared before the Mayor yesterday to answer the charge of stealing a coat left in possession of a neighboring servant. As soon as the garment was lost the negress of whom it was taken applied to some sorceress to discover the thief, and receiving a description of Silvey as the guilty party, had her arrested. There being no evidence, she was discharged. Had the May or gone a little farther, and ordered the punishment of the fortune teller and her dupe, he would have performed a kindness to negroes generally, and perhaps dissolved the spell that has heretofore induced them to believe in foreseers and tricksters.

The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 16, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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