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Threatening to assault.

--A free negro woman, named Mary Fern, for using abusive language towards, and threatening to assault, Miss Susan Watkins, a white woman, was yesterday brought before the Mayor for trial; but there being several important witnesses absent, the investigation was postponed till Thursday next.

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