Proceedings in the Courts.
Hustings Court Wednesday, Nov. 12th, 1862.
--Recorder Jas. K. Cankis, presiding.--Messrs. John W. Beveridge, Samuel T. Pulliam, and Wm. O. Taylor, qualified before the Court as Notaries Public, by giving the required bond and taking the oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
Mrs. Mary H. Smith was fined $10 for allowing her slave David to go at large and hire himself out contrary to law.
Thomas Collier and Richard Morris were examined for stealing two thousand two hundred dollars from John McPherson, the keeper of a restaurant on 17th street, opposite the 1st Vegetable Market.
The proof being deemed sufficient, they were committed for final trial before Judge Lyons.
Thomas Samanni and Cilmer A Lumpkin were arraigned for examination on the charge of having forged and attempted to employ as true and genuine a check for $6,000, payable at the Traders' Bank to the order of West & Johnston, and purporting to be signed by S. M. Owens & Son. They were sent before Judge Lyons for final trial.
Thomas Turpin a lad, was examined for having, on the 27th of October, picked the pocket of Thos. T. Emmot of $180, in the 1st Market-House.--While there was no doubt that Turpin had something to do with the abstraction of the money, and shared the plunder, yet the fact could not legally be established, and he was acquitted by the Court.
The Grand Jury sits to-day at 11 o'clock, at which time witnesses would do well to be on hand.
Mayor's Court--Wednesday, Nov. 19th. --Within the last few days there has been a perceptible falling off in the number and variety of cases brought before the Mayor for adjudication.
This desirable state of affairs may have been brought about by the increased efficiency of the police, both civil and military.
The following cases were disposed of to day:
John Haley, of the 1st South Carolina regiment, having been picked up in the Second Market while corned, was dispatched to Castle Thunder, to be sent back to his regiment.
John Norman, a free negro, and Molly, slave of Mrs Mary Muse, were brought up for fighting and disturbing the peace on 2d street, near the new Alms-House.
The testimony showed Norman to be in fault, and he therefore received an order entitling him to receive a thrashing.
Charles Russell, charged with stealing a horse worth $40 from Michael Moon, was acquitted honorably, there not being the smallest particle of of adduced to show that he did anything of the kind.
un Purcell, a non-resident, was summoned before the Mayor to answer the charge of huckstering in the Second Market.
He was fined ten dollars, and the chickens bought by him to be sold again in market were ordered to be sold for the benefit of the city.
Samuel W. Wyvill, charged with forging discharge from the army and pay roils for money due officers and soldiers, was examined and discharged by the Mayor, the latter giving it as his opinion that the crime charged against Wyvill, though susceptible of proof was not cognizable by law. 