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last, when he caught her in the act of fitting a duplicate key to his store door. Patrick, slave of Maria Gooch, was charged with stealing corn and offering it for sale. Watchman Weeks detected Pat, at an early hour yesterday morning, in the act of taking corn from his wagon into a store on Cary street; and when he accosted him about it, the accused run his hand into his pocket, and pulling out a roll of notes offered it to the officer to release him and say nothing more about it. The Mayor ordered him to be whipped. A charge of assaulting and beating Sarah Ann Schwartz was preferred against John Lawson; but when the case was called the complainant failed to appear, and the matter was therefore dismissed. Joseph Kempner, an Israelite clothing merchant, was charged with receiving a lot of grey cloth belonging to the Government; but it having been proved that other parties than the Confederate Clothing Bureau had the same kind of goods on hand, the case was dismissed.