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Police Court. --Yesterday, Mrs. Elizabeth Totty, a resident of Jefferson street, (Ragland's Row.) was brought before the sitting magistrate, charged with being a fortune teller and proprietress of a domicil where miscellaneous crowds of uncertain people were in the habit of assembling, to the annoyance of her neighbors. The testimony went to show that Mrs. Totty made use of cards in reading the fates of her various customers; but she strenuously denied this, saying that the only agencies Mrs. Totty made use of cards in reading the fates of her various customers; but she strenuously denied this, saying that the only agencies employed were the palms of the hands and coffee grounds. Her occupation she said was the making of pills and other decoctions, which she sold for the benefit of suffering humanity. On promising to stop practising the black art, she was permitted to slope. --Alex Jackson, a free negro, arrested for his supposed knowledge of the party who killed Mrs. Schriever, was let off.--Daniel Murphy, the lad charged with shooting John Murphy, for applying an opprobrious epithet to him, was called; but the