Commencing Christmas in Advance.—A white wom_h, named Frances Smith, who ! i was brought into the lower statiou-hoifse on . Wednesday evening in a perfectly helpless i condition, was arraigned before Mayor Satin • dera yesterday for drunkenness. She admit- ! \ ted that she had taken a dram, but was not in- ; j toxicated. She made a piteous appeal for a i release, stating that she would never be . | brought before him again if excused this time.