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Mayor's Court.
--According to custom, Monday morning the Mayor's Court was thronged with an assortment of miscellaneous humanity of both sexes and colors.
The following cases were disposed of: Joe, slave of Jefferson Powers, ordered 25 lashes, for stealing a lot of clothing from Martha, slave of R. A. Glazebrook; Hudson, slave of D. P. Lewis, received the same punishment, for receiving the stolen raiments from Joe; Wm. McMillan was committed for examination, for uttering treasonable language against the Government of the Confederacy; Henry Scott was acquitted of the charge of deserting from the fortifications and stealing a pick and shovel; John Temple, arrested for setting fire to and burning the steamer Glen Cove, (arrested in Norfolk,) had his case continued to the 24th inst. Several negroes were whipped for going about without passes; Frank Foster's case continued, charge stealing a watch from Harrison, slave of James Thomas; Beverley, slave of J. R. Anderson, no pass, and p
[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch]discharge of Union prisoners, &c. Salem, Roanoke Co., Va., Oct. 4, 1861.
The Union prisoners, who have been confined in our jail for some time, and who were arrested in the Kanawha Valley upon suspicion of disloyalty, appeared before Judge Hudson to-day, upon a writ of habeas corpus. and, under instructions of the Secretary of War, and of the Executive of Virginia, twenty-three of them were discharged on taking the oath of fidelity to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, and the oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
The other three were released also.
Bowyer Miller.
Esq., District Attorney for the Confederate States.
was present, and consented to the discharge.
The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Contributions. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Grantley Berkeley and the Times . (search)