The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-14

~ fes1ease G1suxtsds Listener W,
tsrday pasdonsd and released from ths pSnil
tentis1 aql1pn Of Petersburg named Tkoa
u. bba VENT thither about two week.
| sg4 the putt Court Of that city for man
! sIs1 lsr. zone year. Ksrsbaw, p, black
sm'e bad puss with one Laniefj bis en-
Epioysfs; whi6g tsing only temporarily adjusted
| tustad IN Ksrshaw's shooting LsDier in ~
head with pistol builAt. The bali prove(
70 10 horse.shvs nail, and WAS not sxtlssted
Lanisr got 90 far well ~ to b able 70 wall
about for . few days. whsn sudden Pei,
fseissd Mu, ana ~ retired 70 bed, whsnes b
| was only conveyed ~ dead man: On exam
| ination, it was found that the head OF tn
horseshoe nail had not, a. In the case Of I
| lsadsn bullet, presented any surface for hssl
10 adhere to, but had moved aud produced irri
tation and subsequent death. The death o
| Lanier, under the circumst auces, renewed thu
matter, and the civil authorities laying hold o
Kershaw az murderer, his trial and convic
ton, after several months, resulted. His re
lease was asked for by number of respect
able residents of the Cockads City.
Tho Cove rnor also parAoued yesterday {
young mai, named Charles Smith, native o
Richmond, cent to the Penitensiary abon
twelve months since for Eve years on severa
convictions Of forgery by the Hastings Court
Judge Lyons presiding. The testimony OF
the trial of. this prisoner seemed to indicate
that his offence was committed for the pur
pose NOT Of supplying his own wants, but those
of parties vicious by nature and association
with whom he had unfortunately contracted
habits of familiar intercourse.
Police Court.-Ths august individual who
dispenses decisions In preliminary way, (but
he sometimes gives them the final touch, ! at
the bar Of tho Court of little and big offences
IN vaataria mon DAD IN hnnr
or go in disposing Of the following recheychs
cases:
Robert Grant, poor devil, who had been
running the blockade" TO excess. aud was
found in state of mental alteration, Soma
times termed mansa'a porfu, WAS committed
fora quiet course of sObsration.
Two negroes. caught in the act Of eluci1at.
ing, between themselves, the mysteries Of q
game called "seven up in the house OF q
white woman named Betty Valentine, were
ordered ten lashes and dismissed. Miss Val.
eutine was arraigned for permitting the amuse.
ment alluded to, but was discharged for aundry
extenuating reasons.
James Skinner, who had been resstng the
authority of the law, as inipersonated by Ger.
tain officers of the police, was sent to the Pro-
vost Marshal, as he happened to be a soldier.
James, q slave OfPeter Moran, charged with
stealing sundry little articles Of wearing ap.
apparel, wss ordered to condign.
And then ths Court adjourned.
Ne aoere shoacu yesterday, by Detective j.
? Washington Goodrich, specimen of bogus
Confederate States Treasury notes in the shape
Of i've dollar bill. 1t bears some resemblance
to the original, but not enough 70 impose on
anybody, even casually in the habit of hand.
ling money. The signatures were evidently
put on by somebody not very well skilled 10
chirography. The note was recently passed
ON Broad street shopkeeper, bat the officer
was unable to trace up the party. The affair
may have been gotten up in the North, as it ID
known that interruptions persons there have
not been deferred by any idea of propristy
from entering into the ceunterfei,ing business
Important to HealtA-We would call the
attention of the proper authorities to the fact
that the carcasses of several dead horses
lie purifying on the principal roads to the
camps, and are emitting Odors highly offensive
and injurious to the general health of the
suburbs. We know not whose duty it may
DO, but call attention to the fact as the present
sultriness of the weather may produce losth-
some disease from such causes, trivial as they
may appear.