Mayor's Court, Thursday, May 21st.
--Now that summer has come the day police are devoting themselves, with commendable assiduity, to the development of the stock of nuisances on hand in this city.
Everybody who has one on his premises, findable under the ordinances of the city, is summoned before his Honor, and if he does not promise an immediate removal of the grievance complained of he is mulatto pursuant to the terms of the ordinances "in such case made and provided." Hardly a day has passed this week but that his Honor has not been called upon to adjudicate and determine the value of a nuisance as affecting the general health.
Yesterday sundry cases of this nature were disposed of.
Joseph.
Thomas,
Wm. Irwin, and
George Rice, boys, were arraigned for acting in a suspicious manner in Exchange Alley on Wednesday night. The watchmen, suspecting something wrong from the character of the boys, carried them off to the cage, where they spent the night, doubtless like other sojourners there similarly located, in combats with the lilliputian inhabitants of the cells.
The
Mayor observed to the youngsters that they were bad boys, and had been often before him. He regretted that the Confederate Government had not complied with the request of the Council, and turned over to the use of the city the new aims house.--Wanting that, or some similar building, he was without the means of enforcing correction on such subjects as he saw before him, who, he could not doubt, for lack of some such appliance, would grow up to be rogues.
He alluded to the urgent need of the work house for the correction of juvenile offenders.
The boys were let off, the jail being already crowded with persons not calculated to improve morals already tainted with corruption.
Ann Kearns was arraigned on the charge of getting drunk on Main street, acting disorderly, and robbing a small girl.
The latter did not appear to prefer any complaint, and so
Ann Kearns failed to take up her residence at the city jail at the expense of the corporation.
