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Bad Serape.
--A slave named Macklin, the property of Dr. Jennings, was before the Mayor yesterday, charged with aiding and carrying free negroes to the enemy's lines, and trading with the enemy.
Owing to the absence of witnesses the accused was locked up for a future hearing.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Important to farmers. (search)
The Mayor
held his Court in the sweat room yesterday, and came nigh melting before he could complete his docket of the cases before him. We note the following:
Solomon Parker, insolent to John D. Hicks, discharged.
Macklin, slave to Dr. Jennings, of James City, aiding negroes to escape from their owners.
Continued.
Jim Butler, a Petersburg free negro, penitentiary convict, and graduate of the chain gang, for remaining here contrary to law, was flogged, and then sent to the chain gang.
Martha A. Hobson, leaving the city as a servant, visiting the North, and returning here in violation of law, she being free.
Continued.
Lawrence, a slave, whipped for breaking a gas lamp.
Margaret Polin, aiding Pat Coleman, a free negro, in stealing $1,200 from Martin Quinlan.
Continued.
Mary S. Hill, killing Jim Hodson, a free negro.
No proof against her. Discharged.
Spencer and Susan Norvell, free negroes, insolent to Martha Cilty.
Not proved satisfactorily,
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Order from Gen. Lee
Aiding runaways.
--A negro named Macklin, slave to Dr. Jennings, of James City, was before the Mayor yesterday to answer the charge of aiding a runaway slave to escape from this city.
The prisoner proved a good character, and showed his fidelity to his master by establishing the fact that he had frequently been within the enemy's lines and had always returned.
It was proved, however, that he had carried a runaway from this city to New Kent for the sum of $10, the runaway having a forged pass, with which he passed the pickets on the road.--There was no proof that the prisoner knew the pass was forged, or that he intended to aid the runaway to escape into the Yankee lines.
The Mayor reviewed the evidence.
and then stated as a fact that many servants whose characters were unexceptionable in other respects were most prompt to aid runaways in getting off. He took until Friday morning to give his decision.
News of the War.
A Dismal account of the Libby.
Two sutlers — McCarty and Jennings — who were captured by Mosby near Alexandria a few weeks since, were recently exchanged as soldiers through mistake, and have arrived in New York with the usual cheerful batch of lies about the Libby prison.
The account is paraded under a four line heading, and we extract the following precious morsels from it:
From Staunton we were taken to Richmond, arriving about sundown, and were marched past Jeff. Davis's mansion to the Provost Marshal's, who committed us at once to the Libby prison, and placed us on the second floor, among up wards of hundred Union prisoners, comprising and classes — lawyers, Quakers, butlers, farmers, and deserters from our ranks, many of them as marked as when they came into this world.
The sight we beheld here was shocking.
The dimensions of the room in which they were confined was forty feet by seventy, with an eight foot ceiling.
It fronted on Cary street,<
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Two hundred and fifty Dollars reward. (search)
Twenty Dollars reward
--Ranaway from my house, in Sidney, on the 23d of this month, my negro girl Betay.
She is about 18 years old and of a gingerbread color.
I think she is lurking about the Old Market.
The above reward will be paid when delivered to me. Elizabeth Jennings. no 27--6t*
Twenty dollars reward
--Ranaway from my house, in Sidney; on the 23d of this month, my negro girl Betsy.
She is about 18 years old and of a gingerbread color.
I think she is lurking about the Old Market.
The above reward will be paid when delivered to me. Elizabeth Jennings. no 27--6t*
The Daily Dispatch: May 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movement on Richmond --two more Repulses of the enemy by Gen Lee Southside — feint at Drewry's Bluff — fight expected near Petersburg Today — the Central Railroad Tapped, &c, &c. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The soldiers giving to the poor of the City . (search)