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ATTENTION, HACKMEN. -- Chief Burke gives notice that on and after to-day, all runners, hackmen, etc., must wear upon their hats a badge denoting their licenses, in compliance with an Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors to that effect. Disobedience of this order will entail heavy penalties upon the offender.

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POLICE DRILL. -- A large number of the San Francisco Police, armed with Minie muskets and dressed in their military toggery, marched through the streets yesterday, under command of Chief Burke, to the commodious armory of the San Francisco Guard, in Commercial street, below Sansome, and were exercised in the manual of the drill for an hour and a half. They were a superb, soldierly-looking set of men, and men of shrewd intellect, and full of nervous energy and activity. And well they might be, since they are the pick of ten thousand; there were five hundred and eighty applicants for the twelve new places lately created on the regular Police force. They are drilled regularly once a week and so practised have they finally become that they execute their military evolutions with the promptness and precision of old soldiers. Among the company were the new members, but these had previously been so thoroughly drilled by Sergeant Brodt, that a stranger could not detect them by any marked unproficiency in the exercises. There were fifty-three men on parade, including the three officers, Chief Burke, an Captains Douglas and Baker. In the event of an outbreak here, our Police, organized, armed and drilled as they are now, would b able to cope with a mob comprising ten times their number. The Chief is not overrating the importance of keeping the force on a thorough military footing.

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JUDICIAL STRATEGY. -- Judge Shepheard is a good tonic. He spurns red tape when it interposes simply to delay justice. A rogue who endeavors to play a sharp game sometimes finds himself convicted and ordered for sentence before he is even aware that his villany is detected. Yesterday, a rascally hackman named Ambrose Kelly, who was testifying very glibly, with the purpose, clearly apparent, of swearing off H. Crooks Stevenson, one of the same tribe, on trial for a misdemeanor, was taken aback by a sudden change in the aspect of affairs, not signified in his subpoena. While the chap was impressing the Court with the hugeness of his sagacity, his Honor sniffed the odor of a mice, and in a very quiet manner put one or two significant questions, which the astute witness did n't at once see the drift of. He did very soon after, though. The Judge was only paying out rope for the fellow to hang himself with, and he did it most effectively; for, before leaving the witness stand, he found himself charged with, and convicted by his own confession of a violation of the city ordinance concerning licenses, and ordered into custody until he should give bail in the sum of twenty dollars for his appearance this morning for sentence. The fellow was amazed, and accepted the invitation of an officer to go below. That is doing business with neatness and dispatch, somewhat after the summary style of the old Caliphs.

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ARRESTED FOR THEFT. -- Detective Blitz arrested Charles Manuel Dubois, yesterday, for stealing a lady's watch, which may be worth six bits, perhaps, if they succeed in making the gold plating stay on it and find out how to start her up and make her go.

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