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Provost Court.--Brevet-Colonel McEntee presiding.

--The following cases were disposed of in this Court yesterday:

Jane Gibson, negro, was charged with an assault and battery on Elias Charles, another negro. He was found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for sixty days.

Joseph Barker was up on a charge of interfering with an officer in the discharge of his duty. He was released.

Jordan Winston, negro, was charged with carrying concealed weapons, found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for sixty days.

John C. Fry, negro, charged with assaulting Rebecca Jones, was found not guilty and discharged.

Frank Hall, negro, was arraigned on a charge of petit larceny, found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for thirty days.

James Washington, negro, was found guilty of resisting a policeman in the discharged of his duty, and sent to the Castle for fifteen days.

Jordan Winston, negro, was charged with carrying concealed weapons, and sent to Castle Thunder for sixty days.

George Washington was charged with being disorderly in the street, and was found not guilty and discharged.

John Lewis, negro, was charged with the same offence, found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for ten days.

Samuel Pleasants, negro, was charged with stealing groceries from M. F. Burton. There being no evidence against him, he was released.

Harrison Banks, negro, was charged with petit larceny, found guilty and sent to Castle Thunder for sixty days.

Charles Read, negro, was also before the Court on the charge of petit larceny. He plead guilty and was sentenced to the Castle for sixty days.

Henrietta Johnson and Jane Johnson, colored, vagrants, thirty days each in Castle Thunder.

Isabella Banks, colored, entering the house of Mr. Simons and attempting to steal, thirty days in Castle Thunder.

Henry Woodson, colored, assault and battery on Mary Cooper, three months in Castle Thunder.

John Wilson, colored, stealing iron, sixty days in Castle Thunder.

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