The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-14

Mayors CouRT-MAYoR MAYO pREsI-
DING.-The following cases were before
this court yesterday:
Henry Bell, diminutiYc coppcr-colored
darkey, was charged with stealing money
from Royal Todd. The case was continued.
Billy Wise, kiah Macklin, Billy Hender-
son, and Jordan Morris, negro stevedores,
were charged with threatening to mob
Harrison Williams, "brother chip"
Williams stated that Captain Lampkin
wanted him to stow barque. The boys
said if he " Slowed dc bark aginst dc Con-
stitution dcyl whip him. OATS all, sab !"
Mayor.-You belong to the constitu-
tion
Williams.-Ycs, sab; an I'll stan up to
it or die tust. Dose who violate de con-
stitution hab to be whipped.
Another witness said that Harrison was
present when the constitution was framed,
and was the first to sign it. He himself
proposed that any one who broke it should
he fined, imprisoned, or whipped. The
whipping was not in the constitution, but
the filming and Imprisonment was.
We should here explain that the steve
dores have society, bound together by n
constitution, which most Of them have
signed.
Captain Lampkin said lie hired Harrison
to stow the barquc. He went of TO get
his men, and in about an hour came back
and said he could not do the work, for il
he did the boys would beat him. He had
agreed with Harrison at certain price,
and thought it very strange so he told
Harrison he would have them arrested, and
see if the Mayor would allow any such pro-
cecding.
Harrison went on to say that he admit
ted the boys threatened to beat him; but
he could not "violate dc constitushun,' y
whether they had threatened to beat him
or not.
The Mayor said that he would inform
them that this thing must he stopped. 1t
appeared to him that negroes must be fond
OF whipping.
Harrison.-No, sab. is not, sab.
Mayor.-Wcll, shall fine each Of you,
except Jordan Morris (who was not pre-
sent), five dollars. So now walk up and
settle, and 60.
Two of them paid the fine one did not,
and was detained in default.
The constitushun," which Harrison is
such stickler for, appears to require
certain price for labor; and as near us the
reporter could understand the case, this
ancient stevedore violated it in his con-
tract with Captain Lampkin. This COM
ing to the ears of his fellow -laborers, they
threatened him with the pains and penal
ties of the law, which so agitated him that
he determined not to "stow de bark un-
der any circumstances.
Joe Jackson, negro, was up for stealing
a piece of iron. A policeman caught him
early in the morning in Bakers alley with
the iron on his shoulder. He could give
no account of it, and was thcrcupon taken
to the station-housc. He was "Sct back" ="
Collin Jones, negro, was charged with
fighting with a white man in the street.
The matter was continued for witnesses.
The negro is rider Of leading horse OF
an omnibus, and the white man struck his
horse. Hence the difficulty.
Joseph Brown was fined ten dollars for
striking negro in the market-place.
Rebecca Craft, q tall white woman in
black, who said she hailed from Frede-
ricksburg and knew no one in Richmond,
was brought in by Captain Seal ona charge
Of stealing a lot of clothing from Hannah
Adams. The Captain said he had just ar
rested her, and there had been no time to
summon witnesses. The case was there
fore continued.
Civil warrants occupied the attention OF
the Mayor during the remainder the ses-
sion.