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Mayor's Court.

--Yesterday William Powell, of Nashville, was carried before the Mayor on the charge of making himself eminently disagreeable, on Tuesday night, to the boarders at the Columbian Hotel. The defendant plead his own case and asked to be discharged, but in the absence of Mr. Luck, manager of hotel, the Mayor continued the case until this morning.

The examination of Jim Robinson, slave of B. B. Read, charged with stealing from Persons Walker a trunk and $200 in money, was continued until the 26th of February. The police are endeavoring to find out the hiding place of the money, those accused of taking it having thus far kept it safely from the hands of its legitimate owner.

Dan Ruffin, a free negro, was brought up for getting drunk, and turning Main street into a concert room. Mr. Dorflinger, one of the Night Watch, found Dan in the street singing ‘"My Maryland"’ at the top of his voice, and immediately proceeded to convey him to the lock-up. The guardian of the night added, that the amateur musician was making other noises besides those involved in the ‘"execution"’ of the popular ditty alluded to. The Mayor inquired whether Dan was from Maryland, adding that if so some palliation of his outrageous conduct might be found in the patriotism that suggested his vocal effort. The darkey denied the ‘"soft impeachment,"’ claiming Henrico county as his native place. His Honor ordered him 20 lashes.

The cases of John Green and John Wade, for severally shooting Wm. Jenkins on different occasions, was called, but continued, the witness being confined to his bed, and of course being unable to respond to the polite interrogatory of the officers, to ‘"step for ward"’ to the witness stand.

John Fritz Krelbel, the murderer of Philip Sautter, was, after an examination into the circumstances connected with the affair, committed for examination before the Hustings Court on the 10th of March. Kreibel committed the murder on the 10th of February; escaping from the city, he proceeded to a distant regiment, inquired for the Captain of the ‘"Dutch Fusileers,"’ and enlisted under the name of Nortin. Some of the men, on reading the Dispatch containing an account of the affair, imbibed the idea that the new recruit was the murderer, which he confessed on his arrest. They then brought him to Richmond.

Peter P. Cary was held to bail for his good behavior for threatening personal violence to Elizabeth Collier.

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