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Arrest of a negro thief.
--Last Sunday night the sleeping room of Gen. Jerome B. Robinson, over the Richmond Fire Insurance Company's office, was broken into and $75 in money, a number of articles of clothing, and a pair of boots, valued at $200, stolen.--Suspicion attaching to a negro fellow named Melton, slave of Miss Mary Fox, officer Davis yesterday evening hunted him up and arrested him in Screamersville.
In the house where the negro was arrested were round the boots and a portion of the stolen clothing.
He had in his pocket between twenty and thirty dollars of the stolen money.
He was locked up in the watch-house for examination this morning.
Mayor's Court.
--There were several cases before the Mayor yesterday in addition to those mentioned elsewhere in this column.
Milton, slave of Miss Mary Fox, was sent on to the Hustings Court for breaking into the room of Gen. Jerome B. Robinson and Capt. Tasitus T. Clay, last Sunday and stealing a pair of boots and some shirts belonging to the General and $75 in money belonging to the Captain.
The negro was suspected from the circumstance of his being the servant in attendance on the room, and knew its arrangements, and where the Captain kept his money; and when arrested by officer Davis a part of the money was found upon him, and the stolen boots and shirts were found in the house where he slept in Screamersville.
Abram, slave of Andrew Ellett, was ordered twenty lashes for striking a white boy named Henry C. Frazier.
It seems the negro was at work in the yard of the gas-house when the boy made a cross mark on his back with a piece of chalk, when the negro slapped