Mayor's Court, Saturday.
--James F. McGee, charged with selling ardent spirits to be drank in his house, contrary to law, was held to security to answer the offence before the Grand Jury of the Hustings Court.--Officer Moore, who preferred the charge, stated that on Wednesday he observed through the window of the saloon kept by McGee, on Main street, opposite the Spotswood Hotel, a party of gentlemen standing at the bar, while behind it was a negro mixing up whiskey toddies or juleps. These were drunk by them, and afterwards a young man named Crouch gave the bar-keeper money to pay for them. Crouch was then sworn. He denied the charge that what the gentlemen alluded to were drinking was liquor, but said that it was soda water.--Since the passage of the anti-liquor law by the last Legislature he had never taken a drink of whiskey or other intoxicating liquor in McGee's house, nor had he seen any one else take any.John Ford was charged with stealing one hundred dollars from Patrick H. Seymour, on the 20th of last September. Mr. Seymour testified that about that time Ford came into his store and purchased a pack of playing cards for four dollars, presenting a hundred dollar note in payment. He (S.) went to the money drawer to get the change, which he threw upon the counter near F., and then started back to the drawer to get some small change. While he was doing to the prisoner raked the money off the counter, including the hundred dollar note, and walked out. He followed and overtook him a few doors from his store, walking with a lady. Upon approaching Ford about the money, he told him to hold on till he could get clear of the lady, but kept on down the street, and upon Seymour following he (F.) drew a pistol and threatened to shoot him if he did not go back. He had not seen the prisoner from that time till Friday, when he saw him arraigned before Judge Lyons's Court. The accused was remanded for examination before the Hustings Court.--[Ford was sentenced on Friday by Judge Lyons to six months imprisonment in the city jail, on the charge of petit larceny.]
Andrew slave of Mrs. Elizabeth Carver, was charged with stealing a horse, valued at $3,000, from Henry Debell. In order to procure the attendance of important witnesses, the case was continued till this morning.--The accused has been implicated in several robberies, for which he has been repeatedly whipped.
A fine of twenty dollars was imposed upon H. S. Pleasants, charged with obstructing the sidewalk in front of his store.
Security was required of Robert Calaran, to appear on Monday and answer the charge of selling liquor by the drink to be drank in his house.
The charges against Kimira Stack, of erecting an awning across the sidewalk in front of her store, on Marshall, between 4th and 5th streets, by sticking poles in the pavement, and Charles Fitzpatrick, charged with the same offence, were continued.
