Mayor's Court.
--Except the case mentioned elsewhere, the
Mayor's Court presented no case of interest on Saturday.
We mention them, such as they were:
Steven Hawley, charged with stealing horses from
Wm. S. Munson, was, after examination, remanded to the custody of the military authorities, by whom he is held as a deserter.
There was no evidence against him. Some low characters were brought into Court, who it was believed would criminate him; but they knew nothing in the world against him, or, if they did, they managed with admirable skill to keep it to themselves.
Solomon, slave of
John Sledd, and
John Whitlock, a free negro, were charged with stealing a box of butter from
Bartholomew Hill.
It appeared that
Mr. Hill was a market man, and on Saturday morning, while
Whitlock engaged him in conversation, Solomon caught up a small box of butter and ran off.
Officer Griffin, who witnessed the whole affair, ran after Solomon and arrested him. The negroes were ordered to be whipped.
William, slave of
Wm. Barrett, war ordered to be whipped for stealing chickens.
Wm. H. Harvey and
Wm. H. Reed were charged — the former with assaulting, the latter with threatening to assault,
Joseph H. Moore.
It appeared that
Moore, who holds some position of authority in the Second Auditor's Office of the Confederate Treasury Department, lodged with the head of the department some information against
Harvey and
Reed, which they considered slanderous.
On Friday morning
Harvey walked into the
Auditor's Office, where
Moore was at work, and, charging him with slandering him, pulled his ears and slapped him. Just as this performance was concluded,
Reed came in, and, exhibiting to
Moore the letter that the latter had written about him, made some menace towards him. The
Mayor discharged
Reed, but required
Harvey to give security to keep the peace.
