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CAPT. SWIVEL'S STATION. HOUSE.- This station-house, at No. 60 Adams street is being rapidly filled up. Capt. Swivel hoped to have the Courts for the Northern Police Districts held in it by next Monday.  In the third story, two or three rooms will be prepared for the better behaved class of male and female prisoners.  In the cellar, which has been made as airy as possible, there will be three cells and a dungeon.  It will be a great improvement on the old station-house.
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CORRECTION.-A special dispatch appeared in the St. Louis Democrat of the 17th inst., in relation to certain alleged cotton frauds in Memphis. We trust the guilty parties in these transactions will be exposed and punished, but the introduction of Mr. Parkman's name was evidently a mistake, as that gentleman never held a Government office in Memphis, and was not even present in the city when the transactions referred to took place.  Of course the dispatch refers to the gentleman who did occupy the positions mentioned, and we regret the article was transferred to our columns without our noticing the error in the name.
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BENEFICIAEY ENTERTAINMENT AT MASON'S DE-POT.-A fair and concert were given at Mason's Depot on Wednesday evening to assist in building an Episcopal Church at that place. Col. Sam. Jones, the Superintendent of the Memphis & Ohio R.R., with his wonted courtsey, ran an extra evening train over his road, to accommodate the Memphians who wished to be present. The exercises took place in the roomy depot building, which was tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens. The programme was a concert, several tableaux and a supper. Everything was passed off delightfully, and a handsome sum was realized for the Church enterprise.
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Sudden Deaths.--Mr. Charles Hackle, of the wholesale grocery house of D. & C. Heckle, 354. Shelby street, died last evening very suddenly. He had been riding out in an uncovered buggy, and sitting down in a chair fell forward as though prostrate with faintness of congestion. He was taken to the Green Tree House, and though every assistance in the power of the medical art was rendered by Dr. Irwin, he died in about half and hour. Mr. Heckle was an honorable merchant, and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends.
Another death of similar character occurred yesterday in the Southern part of the town. Joseph Elchevarne, a Frenchman, so long known in our markets and on our streets as French Joe, the gardener, was in town as usual yesterday, but on reaching home complained of difficulty in his head, and growing rapidly worse, died in a few minutes. The circumstances were such that an inquest was thought best, and was held by Coroner Erickson: 
/State of Tennessee, Shelby country, ss.:/
At an inquest held on the Horn Lake road, one mile from the city of Memphis, State and county aforesaid, on this, the 27th of July 1866, before F. Erickson, coroner of said county, upon the body of Joseph Elchevarne, then lying dead, aged about fifty years, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribes, who, upon their oaths do say that the said Joseph Elchevarne came to his death on the 26th inst. from natural causes.
OWEN SMITH,
CASTAY ANDRE.,
SEP. UBNEO,
VINCENT MONGE,
PH. GOURGONG,
CHARLES CLAVERIE,
FRIEDERICH SCHUVEACH.

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After the whites had left a colored man untied them and they escaped to the city. Their affidavits agree on every material point as given above. 
While such defiance of the law is tolerated, and even applauded, is it strange that negroes are timid about going into the country?
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Almost a Fight.
It is stated that a gentleman in business here, who was an officer of rank in the Federal army, had occasion to visit the office of one of our reconstructed cotemporaries for the purpose of having some advertising done. While there he got into a controversy with one of the attaches of the office, himself formerly an officer of similar rank in the rebel army. In the course of the conversation it is stated that the rebel gentleman said he had fought three years to whip the Yankees, and was willing to fight three years more for the same cause. This, of course, roused the ire of the Federal officer, who declared that the next war would be one of extermination, which would result in the rebels being driven into the Gulf. The indignation of the ex-rebel became so great at this point that he drew a pistol, and would probably have made short work of his opponent if a third party had not intervened. The naughty Yankee, being unarmed, withdrew in good order, and thus was lost a good customer. This is the story as told to us, and is probably substantially true. 
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Legal Intelligence.
Criminal Court.--The cases set for trial tomorrow are
The State vs. Louis Lowry--larceny
The State vs. C. McDonald--larceny
The case of Church Saunders, (colored,) charged with forgery, was this morning called up for trial. The defendant not being able to employ counsel, Messrs. Delaney and Peters were appointed by the Court for that purpose.
Law Court.--To-day being motion day, the roll was called over as usual. There will be no court to-morrow.
Chancery Court.--The court this morning decided the case of the State in relation of Davis vs. Harrington et al., and ordered the injunction to be dissolved, and the motion to appoint a receiver to be dismissed.
The court submitted as a question of practice that injunction cases the better plan would be not to grant and injunction when prayed for, but to let the respondent answer, and let the case come up on motion to show cause why an injunction should not issue. To-morrow will be motion day.
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Decision in the Street Railway Case.--Judge Smith rendered a decision in this case this morning, dissolving the injunction and refusing the petition for the appointment of a Receiver. 
We understand twelve additional cars are on their way from Troy for the use of the road. 
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The Post Job Department.--The Job Department of the "Daily Post" is the most complete in the city, and is capable of turning out every class of work, from a poster to a wedding card. We have four fast presses, operated by steam, and a great variety of plain and ornamental type, suitable for every variety of printing. Merchants and others are invited to call and examine specimens. We do work as low as the lowest, and in a style not surpassed in this or any other city of the Union.