The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-07-23

and large and interesting company Of la
dies retired greatly pleased at what they
had heard, seen, and enjoyed. The adj
dresses were thought to have been more
than excellent.
The following items appear in the re-
port of the proceedings of our Criminal
Court, the place of dispensing justice %:
The Criminal Court, at its session yes
terday, took up the case of the United
States u.s. Thomas @. Kirkley, charged
with assault, with intent to kill, upon ne
gro lad in his employ, named Dent 1t
appeared in evidence that the boy was tied
by the neck so that his toes just touched
the floor, and in that condition fogged and
left until his cries alarmed the neighbors,
who released him. The jury found the
prisoner guilty of assault and battery, but
not with intent to kill Judge Crawford,
in delivering sentence, said that while he
agreed with the jury that it had not been
the intention of the prisoner to kill the
boy, vet he had seldom known case of
greater cruelty upon dependent, helpless
child. A worse, if possible, feature than
even this cruelty, had exhibited itself in
the course of the trial when one of the
witnesses testified that he heard the pris-
oner endeavoring to make the negro say
that another person had tied him. This
was a most aggravated case. He SEN
fenced the prisoner TO be imprisoned in the
county jail for six months, and to pay a
fine of twenty dollars.
VIM. Parker (colored) was tried for
stealing pair of shoes from Mr.. Lewis
Payne, in Georgetown, and was found
guilty aad sentenced to six months impris-
onment in jail.
Frank Grant (colored) was tried and
convicted ona charge of stealing pistol,
He was sent to Jail four months.
Jane Brown (colored) was convicted of
stealing watch worth SIS. She was sent
to the penitentiary twelve months.
To-day, Charles Stewart (colored) was
tried for an assault and battery with intent
to kill Greenbury Hurley, under whose
charge he was employed by Mr.. Gibson,
restaurant keeper in Seventh street. 1t
was in evidence that Stewart, by his inso-
lent conduct, had compelled Hurley to dis
charge him, and after ordering him to
leave, Hurley followed him into the kitch-
en- to see that he left the place, and Stew
art picked up knife from table, which
Hurley ordered him to put down. He re-
piled insolently that he would put it down
when he got ready. Hurley then struck
him across the shoulders with an iron wire
or poker. such as is used about a coal
CRATE. The negro then stepped to the
door, and out into the yard, and opened
the gate as if to leave, and caught up an
axe, with which he struck Hurley over the
head, inhicting serious wound. The de-
fence set up was that Stewart was acting
in selfdefence, and that Hurley had no
legal right to punish him, he being free
negro. The Court ruled that a man has a
right to punish his colored servant for in
science or willful disobedience. The jury
returned verdict of guilty as indicted.
Leanah Mccoy and Winty King, (col-
ored } arrested on suspicion of being fugi-
tives from labor Leanah proved her free
dom. Winty was committed, to be
claimed by her master.
Jno. Plover, VIM. Barnes, Henry Mar
shall, Samuel Chase, Henry Brown, John
Darlington, Samuel Colby, all colored, un-
lawful assembly; fine and costs, $6.15
each.
What they call here unlawful assem-
bly," is more than three persons of color
being found together at night shall say
more on this subject in my next.
BOX
OUR HARRISBURG LETTER.
HARRISBURG, Penn, July IA, 1859.