The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-02
Letter from Charlottesville,
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. March l, 1870.

Correspondence Of the Richmond pispatch.1
CHARLOTTESVILLE, March l, 1915.
In the Circuit Court the case OF William
Swami, for stealing W heat, came upfor rehear-
Ing, when another year was aCded to The
previous verdict, ulskirg three years.
Commonwealth Us. Susan White, for the
murder of her fither. Convicted OF man.
slaughter, and sentenced TO two years in the
pcniten,iary. On motion of her counsel
new trial was granted, and the accused ad-
mitted to bail.
Commonwealth U.s. Benjamin Franklin. Con-
yicted OF burglary and theft, and sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary. A new trial
was granted.
The criminal docket ended on Wednesday,
including those carried over to the May
term.
The ladies' Of the town. assisted by the
gentlemen, gave some tableauX at the Town
Hall last night for the benefit Of the poor.
They were successful.
PIT. Scaslon, who shot young Scribner
on Monday last, has been arrested and lodged
in jaiI. lie claims that he vas justified IN
the shooting.
A season OF prayer for the colleges of the
PRESBYTERIAN denomination WAS held IN the
Presbyterian church on Thursday.
Protractcd meetings are contemplated by
the Baptists here early in the month OF
March. Rev. j. William Jones preached in
the Baptist church yesterday morning and
lectured in the Afternoon before the leunS
Mems Christian Association at the Univer-
sity. Rev. l.. A. Cutler, ef the Disciples
church, occupied the pulpit OF the Baptist
church at night.
| | am glad 10 be able to say, on the author.
| ty of one of the best farmers Of the county,
that the wheat has not been icjured as badly
as was feared. lie thinks if we have no
more freezes that the wheat will come out,
though It will be backward. In some places
it is looking very well indeed.
A negro politician named Fisher, an igno.
rant, impatient creature, having no doubt
heard rumors of the passage of the civil
rights bill, In the morning marched up TO
the Baptist church and deliberately seated
himself in the gallery appropriated to the
use of the whites. The sexton, who Is also a
colored man, dislodged him instanter. He
went without making anything to do about
| il, and plead ignorance of the place appointed
| for the colored people, which is, to say the
! least, unlikely, seeing that he had been there
many times before. The character of the
| man precludcs any other idea than that he
came there TO try the temper Of the whites.
| 1t would be as well to say to tue negroes,
once for all, that we do not intend to grant
them social equality, civil rights or no civil
rights, and if they desire the good of their
race they had better stick as closely as posi-
BILE to those rights and privileges which the
law guarantees them.
A singular case of legal right came before
Judge Shackellord Thursday. 1t appears
that colored prostitute had beer. hanging
around the courthouse for some days, dis
gushing every one by her very presence,
mixing up with the men in the lower ball
Of the courthouse, and Captain Walstrum,
who is town sergeant, and also deputy She
riff for the county, ordered her to leave the
room or go into the gallery. She gave bin
some impudence, when he drove her from
the house. Instigated probably by some OF
her white friends she complained to the
Judge on Thursday, who fined the officer
tive dollars. The matter was discussed by
the bar, the majority taking sides with the
sergeant.
For the past two days we have thought
spring bad come; the frogs 10 their marshes
were singing the deatb requiem of winter
when 10 be arises in all bis strength with
mantle of snow about his loins. Bad for
tha frops OUIP,