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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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practice, and has four times been taken into custody for exceeding the rules of professional decorum, by reeling to and fro like a drunken man in the thoroughfares of the Southern capital. The Mayor's patience having become exhausted by these repeated violations of moral and civil law, could no more extend the hand of clemency, and on yesterday the unfortunate Barnes was committed to jail for want of a friend to become his surety in the sum of $100. Three free negro women, named Eliza A. Smithers, Louisa Jenkins, and Mary Thomas, who, it seems, are in the habit of carrying dirk knives and cowhides about their persons, were up yesterday for threatening to "kill and beat" Rebecca Williams. If the charge is sustained, it will develop a most atrocious disposition on the part of the prisoners, inasmuch as even a Cannibal would be satisfied with beating first and killing afterwards. The case was continued until to-day. Edward Sullivan, a small boy, arrested for drunkenness, wa