Mayor's Court
--The
Court room of His Honor was crowded yesterday.
The police, during Saturday and Sunday nights, had made seizures of several unlawful assemblies of the colored population.
One, taken at the house of Cæzar
Mosley, yielded about sixty subjects comprising an assortment of the
eliteof the colored population, bond and free, and another one, fished out of the kitchen of an opulent citizen, yielded a dozen more.
In addition to these some dozen white subjects were brought up for various petty offences.
The negroes were mostly discharged, after admonition, without punishment.
E. M. Clough war fined $1 for getting drunk and lying down in the 2d Market house.
Tem, slave of
Samuel Kyland, was ordered 25 lashes for stealing a pair of buggy shafts from
J. H. Shields.
Edward, Slave of
Geo. W. Pollard, was ordered 30 lashes for stealing 20 bushels of corn.
and
Margaret Griffin, arrested for receiving the same, also underwent an examination, resulting in
Mr. Griffin's discharge.
The case against Mis G. was continued.
The case against
Jesse White.
for shooting at and wounding
John Andrews, on Main street opposite the Spotswood.
Hotel, on Sunday morning, was called upon it being announced that the wounded man would be unable to appear for several days, the
Mayor determined to continue the case until Thursday.
Judge Crump appeared for
White.
None of the circumstances attending the affair were related in Court.
Mike Sullivan and James Hope.
boys were required to answer for being engaged, on Sunday night about 8 o'clock, in making a great noise and disturbance in front of the
Mount Vernon Hotel, near the
Petersburg Depots. of insurgent that could produce discord was in use by the crowd, who were encouraged in their efforts by a number of full-grown rowdies, who showed a disposition to resist the arrest effected by
officer Morris.
The boys said they were serenading a noway.
married couple.
The
Mayor discharged the juvenile delinquents and issued a warrant for the party who tried to rescue them from
Officer Morris.
