Mayor's Court.
--The following is a brief
from the trunk of
John Bryan one uniform, five linen shirts, one pair of pants, four pairs of drawers, one hat, and divers other articles, valued at $800, were called.
After a tedious examination of the evidence the
Mayor held Springgs to security for his appearance before the Hustings Court to answer for keeping an Ill governed tippling shop, and selling liquor without a license.--Against
Carter Winston the evidence was quite strong, whereupon he was remanded for indictment on the charge of stealing the articles above enumerated.
The other parties were discharged.
For want of security to be of good behavior for twelve months,
John P. Smith, a person of evil fame and dissolute habits, was locked up in the city jail.
Smith has recently been pardoned out of the Penitentiary.
Charles Langford, white, charged with being a deserter from company D,
Capt. L. Hawley, 10th Va. cavalry, was sent to the
Provost Marshal.
William, slave of
Peter Webster, and Nal, slave of
Maria Bohannon, charged with stealing sixteen bags from the
Confederate States, two of which were full of corn, were sent on before the Hustings Court for further examination.
George Engle, a white man, charged with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen, was also sent to the Hustings Court, and bailed for his appearance.
Mrs. Mary Riley was required to give security for her appearance before the Court of Hustings, to give some account of a lot of sewing thread, writing paper, set of
surgical instruments, &c., which were found by the police in her house under suspicious circumstances.
