The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-02-16
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CiTr rCovNcIL.--A called meeting of the
City Council was held yesterday afteruoos sMss.-.
Saunders. Allen, Roddey. Robinson. nsncs,, q -.
i ter, Glazebrook. Whitfield ana arsstan bsisr
4 present s75. o0s's
IfdeHsng Sidescalk--A petition for ,wt,..;,.
| the sidewalk Of 12th street. between Main ~
franklin, was presented aud referred to the Com.
nissionets OF streets generally
Dotk sHrssf.-Mr. Allen offered the fojIovinc -.
solution, which was sdopseds
i resolved. That the Commissioners Of Streets
genefatiy De, and they are hereby authorized to
| Sohicr and arrange With the james River and
hanaWna Company as 10 the cost 20 be paid by
said company for improving Dock street. urder the
agreement with the city of Richmond, on the 18th
Oh november, 1875, on record ia the Clerks ofIias
| OF the Hastings Court =
| fortrda ef Wdshia9toa.--A petition from, Alex
Duval, proprietor of the American Hotel. askiag
the use OF the portrait of Washington. now In the
CounciiCbamber, to decorate the room at the ain
ner given to celebrate the Inauguration Of the
| aud read
| On motion Of Mr.. Giazebrook, the PRAYER of ths
petitioner was granted, with the ndng that
.ne Portraits not TO be removed from the hall un-
| that day. = - ' "'''s oi
| ffTe Dsparfment-0n motion of Mr.. wbitnsld.
| tse chairman of the committee having charge Of
| sioo appropriated for expenses on the I'D, was
unecteo 70 apply aportion of that money not er-
| men. - '. ''''''ae "i~
| JOINING the Procsssior.--Ou mot;or II -. -.
.ol'eo, that the City Council meet at O'Clock on
| and inaugural ceremonies.
| VILE NEsr.-The notorious free negro
LINTON JAMES, the keeper of vile den in Fink
ailey, was before the Mayor yesterday, on iwo
| charges-one for keeping a cook sbon or aa,, ,
| mouse; and the other far permitting an unlawfui
assembly OF negroes in his house on Saturday NIGHT
ssa ma.cnman Mays proved that eight Degroes--
atavu
mouse, and that Clinton James and his brother
made thetr escape. Two of the negroes nroved
that they bought food of Clinton James, and thar
my were ERE nn the house for that purpose when
taken, thus establishing both charges. The Mayor
sentenced James to receive thirty nine lashes for
Keeping the cook shop but suspended the execu-
| uoh on MS Judgment: until this morning, to allow
WI uiimer 10 apply for writ OF prohibition.
Ir the year 1858, Clinton James was convicted
before the Mayor of keeping cook shop, and sen.
| fenced to the lash. From this decision an appeaI
was taken to Judge Meredith. who reversed il !:
I whereupsn the case was carried to the Court of
Appeals, where Judge Meredith's decision was re-
| versed and that of the Mayor confirmed What
| viii be the effect Of the present application to
Judge Meredith for a maRddmus remains to be
seen, but as the same questions which we're set.
tied by the Court of Appeals are involved, it
Is not at all improbable that the application will
| be rejected.
| 1t Is well known fact, that Clinton James has
been In regular correspondence with a certain
\ H"o"O III Aootoh several years, anu the MAYOR
is entirely satisfied that he is one of the agents of
the underground railroad, whose business Ii liz TO
aiu slaves in escaping from their masters to the
North III written evidence could be taken in a
erim'nsi prosecution, letters from slaves who have
left here and fed TO Canada, could be atdnced at
once to establish his guilt. so fully satisfied are
the police of Ciinton's connection with the abolj.
! tionists that they are continually watching his
mouse with the hope OF fixing the crime upon him.
but thus far have not succeeded. Is it TO be won
dered at that the Mayor is anxious to get rid Of
this fellow by some legal means, finding that he
cannot be reformeds Surely not-and no one need
DC surprised il the citizens themselves should take
| the matter In their own hands, and break up the
vile nest in which has been hatched vice and vii.
| lainy of almost every hue.
USLAwFUL.-No greater nuisance can
we'll be imagined than that erected on 9th and ed
streets, when snow is on the ground by the scores
| Of boys who assemble to enjoy sliding down the
hills On Saturday last two ladies' were Knocked
down by boys on sleighs, and one Of them had her
right wrist seriously sprained by her fall That
| same afternoon gentleman wa, tripped and thrown
W the same way; and on Sunday morning the east
sidewalk OF 9Th street was taken possession of by
| the boys, some of whom seemed highly gratified
when they could run against ahd iniure nm upof-
Tending person. lfthe members of the City Coun-s
Gil who are in favor of allowing boys the largest
liberty in the streets with their sleighs balls and
handy sticks, could have been compelled TO come
III contact with the miniature sIeichs on 9th street
| last saturday, they would have changed their tune
IN very little time. But the Council has no right
to legalize public nuisance and therefore hope
that the Mayor will enforce the common Law,
and thus make the streets free for persons to pg IS
along them without having their limbs OF lives en-
| dangered by reckless boys.
SUsPENsIoS.-Most if not all the bu-
siness honses ofthe city, will close their doors
| next Monday az the procession passes along the
line designated by Chief Marshal TalIaferro on Its
way 10 n Csp til Square. The Mayor has directed
the pol;e officers to have all boxes aud other OBJ
structions removed from the sidewalks on that
day, and directed them to report to him any per-
| son who may display froia his premises, over the
sidewalks, all flags other than State or NatioaaI.
All that the citizens 1ichniond can do to aid the
state Ia making the Inauguration ceremonies inn
posing, will he DONE and that the pageant will be
the grandest ever witnessed in Virginia, we have
no doubt.
PAID OUT.-William Ill. Coles, Zack
COPELAND, Tom Butcher, John Jordon and Alex Jack
son, all free negroes, we're before the Mayor yestrr