Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-12-03
LOCAL NEWS.

NAVY ! ARD AFFAIRs.-A day or two since
twelve Of the mechanics employed in the join
ers Department were discharged, work getting
sack.
This morning a number of the boiler makers
went on strike for higher wages, an the shop
has now but ten or twelve at work, most of
whom are drafted men detailed in the yard.
They have been receiving from So IS to SO IS
per day with time and half for extra work,
and they aIlege that they are offered from $3.50
to 81 per day with double time for extra work,
at Norfolk. The number who stopped work is
about as, and they this morning received their
time and left work
The flag ship Don arrived this morning from
the river. She reports that lately rebel caval-
ry have made their appearance on the Kappa.
hammock, and 1t is believed they are engaged
In conscripting everybody in that section.
Large numbers of contrabands and refugees
are coming off every day, to avoid being pressed
in t. e rebel service.
MILITARY COMMISSION TRIALS YESTERDAY
Benjamin Newman and his clerks, Isaac and
Simon Sickles, and L. Heilbrun, merchants on
TIN street, were yesterday tried before the NIL.
ltar Commission on F street. Of which MAJOR
General doubleday is President, and Colonel
John A. Foster Judge Advocate. The accused
were charged with selling goods to be conveyed
into the rebel lines. The principal witness who
testified against them was Pardon Worseley
The case of L. HeIlbrnn will be argued on
Monday next, to which time the commission
adjourned.
Col. Foster, Judge Advocate Of the Commits
sion, started to New York last evening, for the
& ~ u.
Sam Iel North.
CHARGE OF HoMICIDR.-About 10 o'clock
yesterday morning number of little bows
were playing in the street in the western part
of u - city, and In their sport they got on
truch wagon driven by a colored man named
Richard Cornell started his horses at a rapid
pace. and at the same time ordered the boys to
get of. All of them jumped Off except a little
fellow named John Lydon, child five years
of age, who fell off, and one of the wheels
cd hya hnAxy bill nIv
stantly. The coroner held an inc uest and the
jury returned q verdict that the child came to
his death through the careiessness and inditfer-
encr of the driver Cornell was arrested and
taken before Justice Drury, who dismisse the
case.
TIE DRAFTED MEN.-The following drafted
mer reported to the Board Of Enrolment to.
day:
FIRST Sub District.-George H. Ingersoll, fur
nished substitute.
Second Sud. District-W. Shorter, furnished
subs titute; Henry Mason, physical disability.
Fifth Sub Observation-Disclosures L. Wright, erro-
neOuS pnrollment John Berry, now in service
John Blenkerhorn, alien; John Mugel, physi-
cal disability; Noble Bassett, physical disa-
bility.
Eleventh Sub. District-Henry Sewer, fur.
nished substitute.
REAL ESTATE SALES BY GREEN Il WILL
LIAMs.-Part of lot 6, in square 70, on G, be-
tween 21st and 22d streets west, to Stephen
Kane, 20 cents per foot Lots and g. in SO uare
ODD, WIN Inc pTOVomeQu, consisting VI TWO
frame dwellings and a frame building, pur-
chased by the Washington and Georgetown
Railroad Company, for $1SO61. Part OF lot 2,
in square $40, on Sd street, between u and ID
south, with q small frame house, to Peter
Callroy, for $2d5.
BUILDING AssoCIATIoN.-At the meeting
second month"; Of the Excelsior Building As
sociation, Thursday night, the money on hand
sold as follows: Ten shares to M. L. NOerr, at
SO; four shares, do, at 81; three shares to N d.
Larner, at SO; five shares to j. T. Whitaker, at
so.
ASSISTANT JUDGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT M
H. Ellis, member of the Military Commission
on street, between 18th and 18th streets, has
been appointed Assistant Judge Advocate of
the Commission, and will act hereafter in the
absence OF Judge Advocate Colonel John A.
Foster.
QUIET PRECINCT, Last night the new Sth |
police precinct was unusually quiet there be- |
ing no arrests reported during the last twenty |
four hours.
On THE AVENUE, No. ABS, near AZ street, Is |
the Dollar Jewelry Store. See Special No. |
tees dec l.lW*
Affairs In Georgetown.
COECLUDED.-The series OF religious meet |
ings, which has been in progress at the Con. |
gress street Methodist Protestant Church du
ring these two months past, was concluded
last evening. The meetings resulted in the
conversion of about eighty persons, of whom
ahoOt siYtv united with that church Tho L