The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Mayor's court

--Recorder James K Caskie presiding--Jim, slave of Thomas Owings, was charged with obtaining, under false pretences, $20 from Robert, slave of Virginia Mosby, and $30 from Henry, slave of George Timberlake. Jim forged orders for the money he received. The Recorder ordered him to receive thirty-nine lashes on Saturday and thirty-nine more this morning.

Samuel Laidy, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct in the street, was fined five dollars and then escorted by one of the police to the Provost marshal's office.

John Maxwell, charged with trespassing upon the premises of Jesse Hutcheson and breaking the window blinds from his house, was held to security in the sum of $300 for his future good behavior.

Brown and White were charged with giving Ethiopian performances at the Varieties without obtaining do so. Brown proved that he was in was altogether under the management of Mr. White. He was therefore discharged, and White was fined $20.

A fine of $50 was imposed upon Augustus Staples, a free negro huckster, for buying Irish potatoes in the First Market to sell again in the Second Market. The potatoes were also confiscated.