The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-11

OATH has 0ccas1oned the Department.. cheerny COM
ply with your request and hereby tender my resgna
ton to take effect as soon successor Is appointed
With my thanks for your expressions of sympathy
and courtesy Iremain very pectfuly your obedent
servant +. M. ROBERTSON, ID. u.
Secretary Of the Treasury, Washington, D. O.
PROVOST COURT, Saturday, June Ozark cloud Of
prisoners and witnesses oE,soures the Court Room.
Fortunate arrangement throws cloud to leeward Of
judges clerks, lawyers and reporters who are thus
| saved from overpowering incense. On looking over
Fridays proceedings notice that the negro who was
fined $40 for resisting the police had appealed on the
ground that the punishment was too severe This sur
prised US muchy smell sergeant attempts to arrest
disorderly negro. Negro resists; takes club away
from sergeant and beats him With It, and has the I'M,
pudence to appeal from $40 hue too severe pun
ishment. temporal aoresl The original sentence
of sixty days hard labor from which the orsivng SCR
geant begged him off was hardly enough for him.
The first case before The Court that of the United
States u.s. Asa Gray for stealing gold watch. Asa was
tall, black, dirty negro with bran now cap, but no.
thing else new or clean. gold watch would have been
Neutrality-suspicious. ornament. Aporfect mania seems to
have taken hold Of the colored population 80 possess
watches. They invest the first of their earnings in
watches, and If they can't buy them they ses them
another Of watch stealing before the COURT
but that was silver watoh or one Of the witnesses
more particularly described 1t, silver escape watch
The following of dog stealing elected more inter-
est than any other before the Court: =
United States os:Minus Roper and Bristol Roper
Larceny Of Dog FREDERICK B1soH ,PF sworn says
that he sawdefsndant, Minus Roper leading dog tied
by string. Witness inquired politely of Me- Mlnu
s.ia dog 10y In him the said Mr. Minus Roper, colored
individual; aso for what of money he would OK
change the said canine quadruped, and also to what
oognomen the said cauine trained to answer. The
said Mr. Minus Roper ooored indivdYa replied cate
gorcally to him, FaEDERroK BrsoHoFF, German, that
thecsnine was his that he would take s1o and that the
canine answered to the name Of Brutus Witness Offer
ed to- purchase half cash, half at expiration Of six
weeks Witness carried Mr. H. R., colored individual,
home. with him, and gave him Six dollars This morn
Ing while Witness coming from market, dog left
him and entered store of Mesara HuaEn HAsE1, we'll
known vendors of India rubber beling patent venti-
lators. TO-, So witness went into STORE after dog
aenemanih store said dog belonged to British friend
OF his II. p WALKER Consul Witness then carried
dog to Oonsups residence Dog therein seemed at
home and needed the name Of jeff whereby it appear.
and not the Roman hero. Witness left dog With Oon-
sus brothers son. who is present in Court to do his
own swearing .l.s55. 80 - -
IF. D.. WALKER, Oonsurs brothers. son, sworn: Says
that be knows the canine now under discussion Said
canine is the properly Of A. P. WALKER, Esq, Her
British Nsestys Consul in the Queen Olty. Canine as
was his CUSTOM accompanied Witness. some ten days
in tie past to durnal haunt ofwtness known ss the
o0se: Canine entered but departed quickly and was
10 more seen until this morning, when he brought
to residence Of wneas fathers BROTHER Her British
Meiestys Consul aforesaid, by Mr. FREDERICK B1aoH :
OFF, the German gentleman who has just retired from
the stand No particle of doubt Of the identity of
canine disturbs the mind Of Witness So
Mr. Minus Roper, colored individual, was foun
guilty and sentenced to $40 fine ton days. 1mprson
u,ent Mr. Bristol hopor was acquitted and discharged
Mary Conding oolored female for disordery conduct
In camp was sentenced to twenty days imprisonment,
subject to order Of Provost Marshal
By order Brevet Col. Il. B. OLrrz, o. 8. A., J. H.
MoB1A1R has been appointed Associate Provost judge
- MAYORS OouRT, Saturday Morning. June 9Th
light Of thefalar oountenanoe OF the Mayor was shed
upon his satellites some minutes before nine O'Clock.
While waiting for that hour his Honor, relaxing from
judicial dignity narrates aneedoe Of surprised orae
First Ca,e-A pet of LEVY. Flabby woman in
killing bonnet. Drunk. Blaokguardng her husband
loudly Destroying at oonnubal felicity and tn
public peace, .Turned over to q magistrate.
Second Case-prisoner siok. Doctor prescribed soup
dinner. and milk and bread breakfast and supper.
Artesian water and bread pills being the only sick diet
afforded by the Guard House. prisoner was sent to a
that he might fare more sumptuously
Third Case Elderly individual with gray hair and
very little OF 1t. Riding on this pavement. Defended
himself eloquently from prepared notes. Eloquenoe
not convincing. Fined S.. Declined to pay. Wonder
If 1t won't cost him $100!
Crops ON PEE DEE-A writer to the Marion Crescen
thus speaks of crops in the northeastern part Of the
State The letter Is dated June a. Within two weeks
have seen nearly all the crops the road from Gill
chrlsts Bridge to Brtton's Ferry. and several miles
beoy the ferry and many crops not said road. From
all that have seen and heard In scope of country
Little Pee Dee there are but two who have planted
average crop of cotton in four hundred square miles
those two have planted more than an average crop
got bad rise, and since the 18th of May tina
large part had been poughed up and heard that they
were continuing to plough and plaut But few, If any
Others have planted average crop of cotton
corn The looks better than expected to find 1t
under the disadvantage Of extreme wet and cold. The
cotton generally looks badly and not very good stand
Therefore am OF opinion that if the seasons ia
yorable the remainder of the year. and the crops ell
tended that we shall not realize than two.thirds
crop of corn aud half crop of cotton. The seasons
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