The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-19

Nal,oj's C0lrt The following business
was transacted by the Mayor yesterday
John j. Lindsey, charged with obtaining
by false Tr,tences forty enc tnsheis oi ltihn
potatoes and forty pounds OF butter, valued
at 81 2i1, from Deane n Brown, was dis
charged. The case, as reported on Satur-
day, repres ented that Lindsey obtained the
goods as an agent for Chimbora2D Hospital,
and afterwards sold the same Oh his own ac
count, there being NJ business connection
between himself and that institution. IL
was proven yesterday, however, mat Tue
iacts had been perverted, ahu mat ilust} 9
operatiops were perfectly fair ana honofa-
hie His authority to purchase was fully
shown, and all inf, rnalitiea IN the case in
yoly,si were satisfactorily cleared or.
Joseph tussrn, charged with 6teai:hS one
| aunpfior set of chamber tuTnit If2, valued AT
| ,0t0, the property oi smith Il HAYWOOD
1 was sent ou iJr examination before Inc
| Hustiugs Court. GusSen CLAIMS 10 nc
fourth partner in the furniture business or
| Smith, Harwood, and being unable to OBJ
| tain a settlement he consulted with counsel
| as to the best mode to purs ue lie was aa
| vised to take as much furniture as ne
| thoupht himself entitled to, which he did,
and was therefore arrested on the charge oil
stealing it. The Mayor reviewed tit1 mat
ter at some length, and gave II As nus oPih'
| ion that, as there had been no rnbllc an :
| n mucelnent of the existence oil partner.
| shin between Messrs Smith II HarWOod and
| j Gussen, but simply private arrange
ment, aud moreover, as Gn5sen hau taken
the furniture from the store at an unsea-
souable hour in the morning, thereby I'M
plyiug that he knew he was acting wrong,
he could not look upon 1t otherwise IMAM
| in the light of an offence against the laws Oh
| the Commonwealth. Hammond l.. Wigand
charged with buying the same, Knowing
the manner in which the goo ia were OBJ
, tanned. was also sent on TO the examining
Court of Magistrates. Both parties were
bailed in the sum Of - 900 each.
Mrs Mary stephens was charged WIZ
| steaiing one coiOred counterpane from ,Nirs
Susan Figic Witnesses for the Common
wealth proved that the article i'll question
| MAS taken from the house OF the complain
ant aud afterwards found III Mrs f's mousse
, The Transaction occurred on Saturday last
The accused expects to prove that she la
owned the counterpane claimed by Mr.
Stephens for the last four years, and IN or
der that she might have time to procure he
witnesses the case was continued MI thi
, . morning.
Elizabeth, slave of WIN + Taylor, Wer
charged with stealing a lreastpin, valued q
s. goo. from Mr5 John Johnson. The evi
dence not being sufficient to prove. then
' guilty of the theft, they were discharged.
) 'rhs following negroes were ordered to b
whipped: l.oudon, slave OF f IL Chaikiey
charged withireapassing upon the premise
|. of Samuel Iardy; Milton, slave OF Jch
Tabb, arrested on tue str ee's after hon, ~ u,
; with no pass, and acting in a SUSPICION
r, manner, and Frank, slave OF Thos fotten
:. charged with being afunaway ahd haVln
!, one bag Of beeis in his possession suppose
:, to have been stolen. The latter was ala
q | committed to Jail as u runaway.
Il Robert, slave OF Mary McCarthy. charge
with being runaway, and John, slave
gm w Jones, arrested as runaway anu IS
>, having a side Of pork, supposed To NAV
been stolen, were discharged.