! CITY AFFAIRS.
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CIRCUIT CoURT.-The jury who retired
on Wednesday afternoon to consider Of
their verdict on the Georgetown libel case.
White vs. Nicholas and others, were dis
charged last Saturday morning by the
Court there being no probability that the
jury would ever agree upon verdict. The
jury were locked up during the Thanks
giving day and on the day following, and
were kept from their homes and families
three nights. 4


The Circuit Court will meet this morning
after the adjournment Of the Criminal Court
for the day, and take up the appeal docket.
We understand the Circuit Court will be ad-
Journed this afternoon to the next term in
course.-.Nat. Intel. H-a


CRIMINAL CoURT.-The December term
Of this Court commenced yesterday, when
the Hon. Judge CRAwFoRD took his seat
upon the bench for the first time as Judge
of our Criminal Court We are sorry to
learn that the criminal calendar is one of
unusual length, embracing four offences of
the highest grade known to the law, and a
great number Of other offences, punishable
by Imprisonment at labor in the penitentiary.
There are, we learn, ffty-four prisoners in
the county Jail; and it seems probable that
considerable proportion Of that number
will be convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary. Some of the principal witnesses
are already in attendance from distant States.
One. of these, Mr.. Mastcrton, from. Tennes-
see, under whose bed at Coleman's hotel,
Baker was found concealed with a felonious
intent, previous to his taking the Sam
Patch leap from the fourth story Of that lof-
ty building, arrived in this city last Satur-
day.--.Nat. Intel.