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Treason.
--Yesterday Officers Morris and Chalkley took into custody and carried before the Mayor for examination a man named Francis S. Childress, for using treasonable language towards the State.
The Mayor's Court being at the time on the point of adjournment, his Honor refused to investigate the case, and ordered the accused to be deposited in the cage for safe-keeping.
Childress, we are informed, has been foreman of the hands employed at the City Water Works for the last eight or using treasonable language towards the State.
The Mayor's Court being at the time on the point of adjournment, his Honor refused to investigate the case, and ordered the accused to be deposited in the cage for safe-keeping.
Childress, we are informed, has been foreman of the hands employed at the City Water Works for the last eight or ten years, and has drawn his support by his exertions in that capacity.
People will be anxious to know the kind of treason such a man could be guilty of.
Mayor's Court.
--Yesterday the following cases were disposed of:
An old toper, named Henrich Myer, recently let out of jail, having been found helplessly drunk on the pavement, was re-committed.--Walter Koch, arrested for using incendiary language, was sent down for further examination.--Case of Francis S. Childress, arrested for using seditions language, was continued until the 20th, and defendant admitted to bail in $200-- It., S. Glazebrook surely — Vincent, slave of Alvis Rock, taken up for using insolent and seditions language, was delivered to his master, with an injunction to curb his vaulting ambition. --A. V. Vannison, one of the extra watchmen, was rendered a surplus one by the act of the Mayor, who directed his discharge from the employment of the city, for using language unbecoming a good citizen.
The person had been out (with others) to watch the Tredegar Foundry, and to them he expressed the hope that it might blow up, and said that if a catastrophe of the kin