Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-05

THE POLICE CouRT.-In this court,
sixteen cases appear on the docket,
some of them go to the state, some are
postponed, the residue leave aye local 4"
with but a small residuum of notes, as
the product of his patient waiting on
law, judgment and justice. or the six
teen, seven are Americans, seven Irish
and three negroes. William Casey was
charged with being drunk. Williams ap-
pearance indicated his crime, and that
crime was not what was registered
against him on the police slate, but one
that meets a more certain and enduring
fundamentals education had been
neglected, and his sin was that "he did
not take his liquor like a gentleman"
If he had only known how TO balance
himself so that his deviations from the
perpendicular should nave had some
thing of the grace and polish of a draw
ing room bow, he would not ave found
a lodging on the pavement or a cell in
the stationhouse. Casey said he bad a
situation on q steamboat, and could re-
lieye the city Of his presence as his
room was esteemed preferable to his
company, he was allowed to go, that he
might start on his travels in search Of
better fortunes. May he be successful.
JOnQ =. hOOuSf CldIStu WIN a5Sauib-
ing the youth whose nose showed symp-
toms of an earthquake, as we ~chronicled
Yesterday, was charged five dsllars for
The punishment he had administered.
Pace ana ddEnes2 Kate-whO does
not love the name Of Kate? so pretty,
so roguish, so full Of fun, yet SO tender
a smile with a tear beside it; a mis-
chievous glance blending with q tender
thOught-Kate Bennett-how the Ben
nett lets the Kate down was at the
bar. Kate was round faced, bright eyed,
soft skinned, and had q kindly express
sion on lips, which seemed to smile
as naturally as an apple bushes
when the sun kisses its skin-but
she had that " hard look
tbatEis the mark of the fallen; the look
that dimmed the majesty of the traitor
archangel, and that tells of loss of self
respect and of scorn for all the world.
Kate, while walking the day before on
Main street, became abusive; no honied
words from loves sweet lexicon fell from
Katy's lips, but gall and bitterness, drawn
from a fount Of woeand hate. Kate vas
fined twenty-five dollars, she had
but twenty-five, and eagerly asked
credit for the three, that she
might be allowed to go free at once, with
out more delay. Poor Kate's credit did
not extend so far, and with a paler face,
eyes cast down, and a sob heaving her
bosom, she turned TO enter the prison
cell once more. oh, the hell that woman
wins when she parts from virtue!
William H. Van Vert, the witness in
the CosgrOve case, whe excited so much
attention by the strange marriage expe-
Renee he related under oath, was charged
with being drunk and disordeily, hav-
ing, by a strange spite, pitched into"
his own bar ixings, at the convent Of
the Southern cross, beneath the theater
on Washington street. The policeman
began 10 detail Vans feats of the night
before, but the victim Of his own decan-
ters evidently felt disgust toward the
particulars, and hastily asked permission
10 admit the charges and pay the hpe,
which was fifteen dollars.
Jack Clark, a negro, was charged with
cruelty whipping his mule. Jack pleaded
his case so e~loquently, asserting that the
mule would go up Poplar street when he
wanted it TO turn down an alley, and
that he had given it no more than the
lash Of his whip, that he was allowed to
90 with the assurance that the merciful
man is ever merciful TO his beast.
8 Patrick Kelley, a d~own-looking speei-
men OF ~cowardly inhumanity, was
charged with fe-whipping-tnstsin no
angel has a tear for. As IL so often ne
case with this o~ffense, the injured wife
was not there TO tell the story Of her
wrongs, and the matter was postponed.
G.. Wilkerson, a negro, helped him
self at q cigar stand on Main street to n
| cigar, and when asked for payment,
loosely promised to call with the money.
The owner did not believe in this way
Of opening credit accounts, and although
the offender assured him he had long
been a customer and would continue his
patronage he had to pay ten dollars
for his want Of business tact.
A negro, who was mentioned
IN ahis honor" by the interesting
designation Of "Godfrey's Cordial
was held over to another day
he mo- having yet awaked from the
deep repose, required after the exertions
1 Of the previous evening, when under the
| pressure Of q ten tumbler power, he had
delivered, in the form of an address to
the police force, an GRAFTON comprising
his evangel Of liberty. he proclaimed
his freedom from the honse-tops, and his
/ advocacy Of the rights OF his peo'
ple from the SUBMITS OF the
hills Where the suns raw
siided the purple morn, or his noontide
heat made the desert glow as 3 furnace
ar where the slanting rays of the setting
orb crimsoned the palace Of the great OF
fingered on the hut OF the iowly, there
4 he Godfrey's cordial, was ready to cry
alond and spare not, ia vindication o
the race whose blood he shared, anC
whose hue was his covering and hi
shadow.