STARTLING!- THE LATEST GENERAL ORDER. - Commander Bert will march with his full force to-day and occupy Hayes' Park, or fail in the attempt. Bert's troupes are well drilled, and contain some of the staunchest veterans in the service. There is not one, we presume, in the whole command but what has been in action, and perhaps the hero of many a hot engagement. Ben Cotton has command of the left wing, A. J. Talbott, the right, while the centre is under the charge of that able and experienced old soldier, W. Bernard. These troupes are full of strategy, and as a general thing, keep pretty dark; but, judging from their well known ability, we shall be greatly disappointed if they do not render a good account of themselves.
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OBSCENE-PICTURE DEALERS - Three of these cattle were arrested yesterday: Jean Rosseau, John Doe and Joseph Isaacs. Isaacs imports this deviltry, wholesale, from Europe, and his establishment is located on the west side of Sansome street, near Washington. He was inclined to put on a vast number of airs yesterday when officer McCormick went to arrest him, and shook a bundle of green-backs in his face, (as evidence of his ability to purchase the favor of the law,) and even made a show of resisting him, but he grew very docile in Judge Shepheard's office, and was even anxious to "explain." The Judge warned him to expect nothing but the heaviest punishment the law could inflict, however; he said he had tried his hand at breaking up his kind of commerce once before, and his experience was that the only way to accomplish anything with obscene picture dealers, was to attach them through the pocket. There are three charges against Isaacs -- all of the same character -- and he has been admitted to bail in the sum of three hundred dollars on each of them. We allow "John Doe" to enjoy his fictitious name by special request, accompanied by solemn assurances from the leading spirit of the newly-inaugurated crusade against this class, that he is an angel. We do it under protest, though.
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THE "NINA TILDEN." - According to the public prints, this little steamer has been launched about once a day for the past fort-night, and each time under a name spelled with an ever-augmenting aggravation of inaccuracy. But at three o'clock yesterday afternoon she was finally, unquestionably and irrevocably launched into the bay at North Point, and a young Miss smashed a bottle of champagne over her nose and christened her with the name that heads this article. She is to run on the Colorado River, and a large number of enthusiastic citizens of that section of country were present to shout success to her as she slid from the ways. Although she has all her machinery and her cabins on board, she only draws ten inches of water, and if she ever gets aground they can lighten her off by throwing a keg of nails overboard. She will be commanded by Captain Gorman, who is an experienced officer, and was formerly a captain of one of the P.M.S.S. Company's boats. The Nina Tilden is intended to go clear up to El Dorado Canon, five hundred miles above the mouth of the river, and fifty miles above Fort Mohave, which has been the head of navigation up to the present time.
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POLICE COURT DOINGS. - The calendar of this tribunal presented yesterday morning a fair average in its "quotations" from the station-house. The eighteen cases composing the list were distributed as follows: Drunk, 6; misdemeanors, 6; carrying concealed weapons, 1; assault and battery, 1; petit larceny, 2; rape, 1. The drunks were mostly sent by his Honor to a place of confinement, for a period of time sufficient for sober reflection. Those against whom the offence of assault and battery was established are to endure "pains and penalties" variously, from twenty to one hundred dollars fine, or the usual, commutation of imprisonment, proportionate to the amount of fine to be served out. Several of the delinquents were ordered to appear for sentence on Monday, and the hearing of other charges passed, or continued until a fixed time.
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