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The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Exchange of Navy prisoners. (search)
that the difficulty was one of common occurrence among the Irish, and nothing serious being likely to result from Mac's wound, the parties were discharged. David Ham, a free negro, charged with stealing a lot of cotton cloth and a water bucket from the Stuart Hospital, was ordered to be whipped. Subsequently, Mr. Wooten, counsel for Ham, made an appeal to the Mayor to reconsider his decision on the grounds of humanity, as he had already been unmercifully beaten by the steward at the hospital. The Mayor thereupon had the negro examined, when it turned out that said statement was correct his back and legs being lacerated in a most cruel manner. Ham waHam was then discharged, and the Mayor intimated an intention to have the steward who inflicted the whipping arrested and brought before him to answer the offence. Two white boys, named John Tate and George W. Rice, charged with stealing a jar of pickles and being persons of idle, dissolute habits, were committed in default of secur