Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-03-28

nelehbOrhOOd. On Friday night between eleven and
twelve o'clock, on complaint Of several citizens, the
Mayor sent his police down to break up one Of these
balls then going on. Some how, knowledge ct The
approach Of the police vas conveyed to some OF the
company who began to dispense Immediately. When
the police arrived, crowds we're pouring out Of the
building, and hacks we're in great request. The music
and dancing we're STILL however, going on. The police
caught in the building eighteen white women, one ne
gro woman and about thirty men-as many more es-
capped By jumpiRg from the WindoWs The glyer Of the
ball one Mary Davis, they caught behind bar In the
front part Of the house, dealing out whiskey The men
we're permitted to depart The women, by order Of
TIE Mayor were carried TO the cage, and kept there till
Saturday, morning, when they were brought up to the
Mayors Court.
The Mayor Garned them against attempting any
more balls in respectable portion of the town, and
required them all to give security in $500 to keep the
peace except Mary Davis whom be naed$l00 for CELL
log whsksy without license, and required to give
$500 security to keep the peace and be Of good eeha
viOr.
The court room was crowded by thrcng OF the ad-
mirsrs Of the women, and horrid looking SGT they
were-aAt-headed big jawedgreAsy and hAahy dressed
HOaRIBIE AccIDENT.-On Saturday evening, about
one o'clock, while empty cars on the Fredercks-
burg railroad we're being backed down the track on
Broad street. bstWeen 6h aud ID street, youth named
Joseph Rowe, fifteen ysArs of age, attempted to jump
o&the foremost car by catching hold Of tie coupling
iron. The coupling iron slipping aside as he laid his
weight upon L. he thrown across the track, when
the WDes Of the passed directly across his neck
ceaving his head from the body. Death was OF course,
instantaneous. The boy was the soon OF poor widow
Of Fredericksburg, who had been adopted by Mr. Tho;
Jones, Of that place but at prescnl rts.dng here.
handsome ooa was provided and the body was decent
" inferred at the expense of the Fredericksburg Rail
read Company. This 10 not by many tbs frs accident
We have had to record as happening on the railroad on
Broad street, nor will 1t be the last unless some action
i taken in the matter by the City Council The rail-
road company do all they can but are unable to pre-
vent crowds Of boys from riding and playing about
their trains The Council should make it penal Of
fence and direct the police to arrest every boy caught
in or upon or in the aot OF getting upon any railroad
car without permission from the proper authorities
looked forward to throughout the South as holiday
for school children and servants. With some denOmi-
nAtoAs-the Catholics and EpiscOpaliAns-t marks the
conclusion Of Lent It Is ecclesiastical festival, COM
memoIaivs Of the resurrection Of Christ Iorginated
10 the circumstance that Christ was typl6ed by the
pascha lamb ordained by Moses to be slain at the Feast
Of the Passover the feast being considered as con-
tnuat6n, in lie fudlment of the Jewish festival The
EnVl.h name Easter, aud the German Ostsrn, de-
rived from the name Of the Teutonc goddess Osera,
(AngloSs xon Eostre whose festival celebrated by
the ancient SA1Ons with peculiar sOlemnities in the
month Of April, and for which, as in many other in
Stances the first Catholic missionaries substituted the
pa ehAl feast.
As early the second century there were keen dis
pues respecting the day on which the feast should be
kspi the Eastern church persisting IN observing it on
the same day with the Jews; while the Western eee-
brated il on Sunday the day of 0hrsfs resurrection
The dispute was finally settled at the Council of Nice,
In s25 which ordained that Il should always be kept
on Sunday; only as it movable feast no small
difficulty long continued to be felt to its adjustment.
THIEy CAueHr-ws mentioned, on Friday, that Mr..
James Bottoms shoe stOre had been entered by thieves
the previous day and four pairs Of ladies shoes stOes
0ns Of the thieves arrested yesterday and three
pairs Of the shoes recovered under the following cir
eumstAncss On Friday three negroes carried the shoes
to the shop Of MrS Sehonfeber Broad street, above
I'd street. and offered to sell than to that lady. Mfs
sOhonsbsr took the shoes and told the negroes that she
would buy them when they brought her note from their
master authorizing them to sell them. The negroes
thsreupOn went Of and did no. return. Yesterday
morning Ms schOnfebsFs son, youth, whilst walking
out saw lessee and recognized him Of the negroes
who had brought the shoes to his mothers and with the
assistance Of agenemsn who passing arrested him
and carried him 10 the upper watch house Mr. Bolton
hearing Of the circumstance, went up to hrL Schon!e
ber identified the shoes left there by the negroes the
same that had been stolen from his store. II all white
persons would act just as Mrs. Sohonteber did in this
ease should have less thievng going on In our midst
ROBBNs A grave YARD.-The Assistant Keeper Of
the Hollywood Cemetery, yesterday morning, about II
o'clock, detected man named r. L. Saunders in the
act Of breaking of and stealing the locks om the en-
closures In the cemstery. He had broke1scf and
pscketed eight locks, mostly brAss when discovered,
and Wss 10 the act Of Wrenehing OF another. He
operating with long screw driver. When arrested,
be said be Was getting the brass to make cannon
Saunders is well but not faVOraby known blacksmith,
Who for many years bad shop I'd street, between
Clay aud Leigh streets. He has been once tried for
stealing and for forgery and in the latter
escaped conviction BY AdrOiy slipping the forged pa
per into hls mouth and swallowing it whilst bis trial
going on. It Was, no doubt bis intention to fix these
10 ks and sell them. he Is believed to have been en-
gagged in stealing locks from the cemetery for some
time past as great numbers hAv9been missed from tae
different enclosures
FIAEs.-Ths alarm Of FIRE on Saturday morning was
caused by the accidental burning of bed in house
On Bvrd stree mar the olnal bank TheR.e WAS soon