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The prosecution of LoeJer and Price, indicted for perjury in connection with the Tilton-Beecher trial last year, lias been discontinued on the ground that their affidavits were not made to be u-ed in court, but s:mply to r fleet the public opinion. Little Jesso Pomeroy told his jail keeper that he had read oer filty dime novels. The pious waiden ruled tip his eyed in horror at the intelligence, and asked Jesse if he v.asVt afraid So die. "No, I ain't," said the by, doggedly, but I hope they won't l.aug me tiU Fvu read Bessie Turner's novel."' John Johnson, while returning home in Brooklyn, on the morning of Jau. 3d, was met by two men, one of whom shot him, and the other demanded $400. The latter had no sooner made the de mand than he exclaimed, "He is the wrong person," and both highwaymen made off. Charles R. Beckwith, former confi- dential clerk of Benjamin F. Babbit, the weil known soap manufacturer of New York, ha3 been committed to prison to answer to the charge oi em bezzlement. The amount of the defal cation now known is $ 300,000, and may reach $500,000. On the evening of Jan. 3d, while George Smith, of Yuukton, Dakota, was returning from the bank with f 1,400, which lit had just drawn, he was knocked down by a blow on the head with a heavy weapon and robbed of the whole amount. The robbers are un known. A St Louis special says the Supervis ing Architect of the United States Cus tom House, at St. Louis, has received orders from Washington directing the stoppage of all work on the building for three months. There has been ex pended on the construction so far $300, 000, and the walls have just reached the top of the first .story. There have been numerous charges of fraud in the con struction, and threats have been made to bring the matters belore the next Grand Jury for investigation. A cable dispatch anuouuees the death of the lit. Hon. Earl Stanhope, the Eng lish historian and essayist, at the aje of 70. He was the author of several his torical works, and had figured somewhat conspicuously in the world of letters and of art. He Was elected Lord Hector of the University of Aber deen in 1858, aud founded a prize for the study of modern history at Oxford. He was Chairman of the National Por trait Gallery, and in 1872 was elected one of the six foreign members of the Academy of Moral and Political Sci ences at Paris. PERSONAL. Dr. L. K. Lippincotr, the husband of "Grace Greenwood," has been appoiuted Chief Clerk of the Land Office in Wash ington A Florida Luxury. One of the luxuries of life in many Southern homes, notably so in the negro cabins, is that kind of fuel known as "light wood." Not light in weight, for The Prince of Wales has an income it U as dense r.nd heavy as solid oak or of only $575,000 per annum, and he hickory. It derives its name from its couldn't afford to pay hia own expenses great convenience for making a bright m Tn,j:, light. It is the fat wood of the pine President Luzenau, of the Republic of tree, -o full of rosin that u hot sun Venezuela, will be a visitor to the Cen tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and will also travel extensively in the Uni ted States. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has had a private car built for the exclusive use of himself. It is a richly furnished house on trucks, and cost $11,000. The descendants of Rebecca Nourse, who was hanged in Salem, Mass., in 1G92, on complaint of being a witch, have formed an association for the-pur-pose of erecting a monument to her memory. Bayard Taylor is making elaborate studies for a combined biography of Goethe and Schiller, which will occupy several volumes, and will not be ready for some years to come. It has been the custom in the Astor family for three generations to deposit $100,000 In a bank at the birth of a son or daughter, the money and interest to be given to the child when he or she became of age. Ralph Waldo Emerson says he has heard with admiring submission the ex perience of the lady who declared "that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow." "How it The Stars and Stripes. FOREIGN NEWS- A Vienna dispatch reports that a rich Duke, Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria, will be crowned King of Hun gary in July. A Paris correspondent of the Times reports that the condition of Queen Isa bella's health causes great anxiety. Her prostration was followed by an attach of the measles. A special from Vienna reports the resignation of Prince Von Auerehorg President of the Austrian Cabiuet, in consequence of differences with Hunga ry on the currency question. A special from Rome says: Reliable private intelligence received here con firms the reports of serious disagreements between the Khedive and Mr. Cane, British Special Commissioner to Egypt. A dispatch lrom Madrid says : Senor Castelar has issued a manifesto, agreeing to contest Barcelona and Valencia foi a seat in the Cortes. He declares himself in favor of universal suffrage, free uni versities, the separation of Church and State, and regrets any ailiance'with the Federalists. The Grand Vizier recently malted the Pope to use his good offices with Catho lic Insurgents in Herzegovinia, with a view to peace. The Pope has according ly instructed Cardinal Franchi to inquire L -into the condition of affairs there. The Vatican will take no action until the reports of the Catholic prelates of Her zegovinia are received. The Vatican and Spiin in relation to Concordat has been suspended until after the election of the Cortes. The Mark Lane (London) Erpre$s, Jan 3d, says 1875 has unfortunately proved a year of general deficiency and inferi ority. Barley has shown the best yield of the season, being only slightly below the average, but its color has been so generally affected that its value for malt inc purposes is greatly reduced, perhaps eight to ten shillings per quarter. Sales have been unusually dull. Oats and beans arc below the average, but better prices are paid for the latter, -which compensates for the defect. Peas are consi lerably below the average, having suffered greatly in size and quality. The wheat crop has tufft red most, only one eighth reaching the averago, while five sixths is telow It, Whatever dullness now prevails, and may for a period con Unue, our large deficiency will become Vmore evident as the season advances. Shouldwehaveabad spring an impor tant advance must ensue. A timely srticle in Appleton' for Janu ary 1st furnishes material for a sketch that it would have been difficult to get at elsewhere. The "Stars and Stripes," as wc know them now, did not make their appearance until very late in the year 177G, and weie not adopted by Congress as the National ensign until the 14th of June, 1777. "During the first months of the war each State had its own Hag. The ban ner of Connecticut contained the arms of the State and motto, in golden letters, Qui trantlulit xuitinet "God, who trans ported us hither, will support us." The motto of Massachusetts was. "An Ap peal to Heaven." Her flag was white, bearing the motto and a green pine tree. South Carolina had an ensign of blue, with a white crescent, made by order of Colonel Moultrie. In the fall of 1775 Congress appointed a committee to create a navy, but nothing seems to have been done about furnishing the new made navy with a suitable ensign. The captains accordingly followed their own devices, sailing, probably, under their State Hags. One favorite device was a rattlesnake lifting its head and shaking its rattles, with the motto, "Don't tread on me !" Some flags added a mailed Land clinching thirteen ar rows. The rattlesnake came very near being our National emblem instead of the eagle. It had often before been used on flags, and its appearance at this time on the ensign o the commander in chief of our navy caused much discus sion of its claims. Oae writer, thought by some to be Benjamin Franklin gave weighty reasons for adopting the rattle -snake. It is found only in America; was considered by the ancients as an emblem of wisdom ; its eye is exceeding bright, and without eye-lids, so it signi fies vigilance; it never begins an attack, nor surrenders when assailed; its deadly weapons are concealed in the mouth, so that it appears defenseless; and its wounds, though small, are fatal; while it never attacks without first giving warning. In addition to all this, its rattles are distinct from each other, yet so firmly united that they can not be separated, while they also increase in number. Bat the fact that the rattle snake is a serpent, and under the curse of God, probably caused its rejection." That the rattlesnake should have come so near being selected for our national emblem seems a little strange in view of the present use of the term "copperhead" though it really stands a belter examination on its merits than does tht "Eagle bird o' freedom." How Ben. Franklin came to be cured of his love for it does not "appear; but certain it is thai, late in 1775, he, together with two other gentlemen, met at the camp at Cambridge, authorised (by whom it is not quite clear to create a National Flag. They agreed upon thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, repre senting the Colonies, and fixed in the corner, which is now filled by our "Union" of stars, the crosses of St. George and St. Andrews to show that the Colonies, while fighting against England's tyranny, still acknowledged her sovereignty. This flag was first dis played from the Cambridge camp, on the second of January, 1776, the very day on which the King's address to his rebellious subjects was put into their hand. This was the first appearance of the "stripes." shininr upon a fat board causes tise pitch to How. Of course it burLS freely, so that a few sticks laid upou the lire dogs and touched with a candle or lighted match, burst at ones into a livid flame which warms the room in two minutes from the time it started. Pas sengers upon t' c Mi3.&s.ippi steamers have seen its value for torches. A few pieces, of the bulk ot a bushel basket, burnt in a framo work of iron, attached to the bow of the boat, illuminate a whole wood yard or whnrf, while the boat is taking in wood or putting out freight. A tingle stick, the size of my finger, lighted at one end, will burn sev eral minutes like a candle. There is nothing that has a greater charm for our Northern visitors than our open fire places and blaring fires, for be it under stood and remembered we have a good many days during the winter mouths, when sitting around such a hearth is most delightful. Light wood added much to the comfort of camp life. In deed, it seems to be the very thing that makes such a life so attractive to scores ol our winter visitors of both sexes. Soldiers often carry small parcel of it with their baggage, lest their camping place would be in some spot destitute of the luxury of their life. It was one of the greatest objections the Seminolcs made to leaving Florida, that they were going to a country destitute of light wood All pitch pine does not afford this kind of fuel. The best quality is only found here and there, perhaps one tree in ten, and always the best in dead trees. An "old deadening," that is, where the trees have been killed for cultivation of the land, affords the opportunity for procuring a supply of the article in its best condition. And that reminds me of an incident ol travel among the "piney woods people." The road for some miles had been particularly dreary and almost uninhabited, the land being almost barren unproductive of any thing but pine tiees pinus palustris the kind that furnishes our vast supply of lumber, the staple product of Florida. At length our road lay across one uf those bankless, bridgcless creeks, that is approached for twenty rods, perhaps, by a gradual decline, over black soil covered with a dense undergrowth, though not fairly called swamp, and then wc came to the stream , though it is hard to tell which way it streams, or its depth, for its color is dark and its course darker. Rising from "the creek" I heard the certain sign of an approach to a house, the barking of half a dozen starved dogs. "The house" soon opened to view, a dark, smoky log cabin of one room about sixteen or eighteen feet square; the root miac ot "shakes" held in place by weight poles; the fire place a wooden crib without any chimney to carry off the smoke except a few round pine poles piled up about four feet above the mantle, in the same form as the body of the cabin, and neither were even "daubed," that is, the cracks filled up with clay. There was a door upon the side partly toward the load, for the building stood corner ways to it, and a window on the other side; not a glass window, but a whole where you might have one. The shutters for door or win dow had never been hung, but when close were held in place by a fence rail. The floor was made of puncheons pine logs split into slabs and roughly hewed. Between the cabin and the road was a rail fence, and outside a dozen hogs, re cently fed a little corn and searching for more. Inside of the fence the dogs and tow headed children appeared about alike in number and noise. The chil dren, male and female, were dressed alike, each in a very dirty shirt. The mother sat in the doorway nursing the last addition to the family, while the monarch of all sat on the fence fixinjj an old flint lock rifle. Back of the house was a fenced field of perhaps twenty acres, which showed that it bad borne a meagre crop of corn, probably not over three bushels per acre. But I think I have never teen a field that would yield a letter crop of lightwood. Taking in the whole situation at a glance, I felt a strong desire to have a little conversa tion with this landed proprietor, and therefore drew up and Asked him for a drink of water. "Got none, old sow been in the sprig." "Any milk?" Not that I wanted it, but just thought I would ask, foreseeing the answer. "No, can't keep cows here; there ain't any range for cattle in these parts." "Any deer? I see you are preparing for a hunt." "Deer! no, some coon, going to try for one, to-night, asbacoa is getting mighty long have you lived here?" 'Bout three years come next corn planting time." "I see you don't get large ctops of corn?" "No, too dry, land ain't worth a durn." "How about health?'' "Well, we've had cbilte right smart. You see we'ro toi nigh that creek." "Ye?, it dues l.ok bilious. No fish in it, I supposes" "Wei", noDe but homed cat., and they ain't no account.'" "Now, my friend, I won't trouble you with but one moie question. You have located upon that laud so poor that you can't raise a crop, and so near the stag nant water that jour family are sickly; you have no range for cattle 'nor hogs; no fish nor game, no mill V" your family ; and you cinot even give a tiaveler a dritft ol water. I won't ask you why you located here in the first place, but I should like to know what inducement vou have, if there is a siusle one on earth, for remaining in this spot." I saw by the working of the man's face that my words had aroused him, and that he had answer ready. The young tow heads on the other side of the fence lifted up their cadaverous facc3 to sec what answer he would give, and his 'old woman" took the corn cob pipe from her mouth, and looked up for the dist time. The man stepped down from his pei ch on the fci.ee, which started the pigs and dogs; strtighlcning up his six feet, he turned slowly round and stretched out his arm toward the field of dead pines to attract my attention that way, and then spoke as though his dignity was offended : "You'll aliow, stranger, il other things ain't quite so fine as you pity folks like, that we have lightwood tolerably haiidy." I thought so, too, and as he was satis fied I thought I ought to be, thanked him and diove on. There are thousands of just such inhabitants throughout the South, contented t live in the same way if "lightwood is tolerably handy." They arc universally known as "crackers" piney woods people. .S''" Ilibinton : the Semi Tropical. A Pinch of Snuff. would take a pinch." And in the SAtue way Steele, in the Tattler, lectures a ccr tain Sagissa, who had hidden "a very pretty fellow in her closet," so that he might not be seen by a party of visitor.-. The Lat of the lloyal Stuart. Bcauseant, in the Ltdy of Lyons, disclaims snuff taking and such "small vices;" whereupon Chude M-.-lr.otte, disguised is the Prince ot Cotuo, pertly retorts that if it ha-1 betn a vice, M. ncauaeaui. wuiuu Suic. ..-..- r.-.:u j pI;lC(. tthL.rcup3a tlu. pliant availed it. The vice, if vice it be, hat almost ; MmscI (J :i,c m,nU ani, 9!mtchcil J". gone from u now; tobacco i consumed. a kh?; ..?mt heiii. Uimd o .1U?. H)iae but it is m other lorms; Hie snuu taKer j An Kuglbh paper of the Uth of Dr cetuber rejwrts: A historic.il figure has just passed away; Lady Loubt Stuart, the l3t descendant ol the royal family snddfMilr arrive I. Hut she had nresen! . " . . ,, i i : i i of Scotland, having died at Trauu.ilr lv occasion to ?eek something in Ins hid- ' " . " ttou.-ie, near reeuio, in tier one uunurcui Lidy Louis-' Sruait was the lat surviving representative of aonrcpow- SoiiH'lliing on the Nnsc. A latter day savant, writing on this branch ol science, gives preference to the aquiline, royal, or Roman, as being a sine indication of an energetic, reso uJe and luliug mind, and cites in proof the names of Julius Crcesar, Canute, Charlc3 .Y., Edward I., Robert Bruce, Wallace Columbus, Pizarro, Drake, William 111., Conde, Lovola, Elizabeth of England, Washington and Welling ton. He tells us that astuteness and craft, refinement of character, and love of art and literature, arc the character istics of Grecian nosed folk, but we arc not aware that Milton, Petrarch, Spen cer Boccaccio, Ilafia;lle, Claude, Rubens, Titian, Murillo, Canova, Addison, Shel ley, Erasmus, Voltaire, and Byron were remarkable fur craftiness, however truly set down m lovers of literature and art, Alexander the ("rest, Constan tino, Wolsey, Richelieu, Ximenes, Lo renzo de Medici, Raleigh, Philip, Sidney and Napoleon owned hybrid noses, neither Roman nor Grecian, but some thing'between the two. The wide nos trllled nose betokens strong powers of thought and a love for serious medita tions: Bacon, Shakspeare, Luther, Wy cliffe, Cromwell. Hogarth, Franklin, Johnson and Galileo being a few of the is now rarely seen, and when making his appearauce, avoids display of the box he was once so proud of, and by his furtive air confesses himself lather ashame l of the obsolete habit that ha? enslaved him. Even after the taking of snuff had ceased t) be a general practice there yet survive! a praeticc of presenting snuff boxes; royalty found this a convenient method of obliging and rewarding its favorites. The proceeding possessed a certain Napoleonic ihvor; it boasted imperial tradition, and so obtained the sanction of the Second Empir-. And certainly the snuffbox was a pretty t.y; the miniature painter the Coa.vay of the period lent his a'd to the embel lishmsnt ol the lid, the jeweler and the goldsmith lurnished valuable assistance: it might Ik: the most costly ol produc tions, yet it wai mted as a trifle a mere vessel to contain pulverize 1 tobacco; it was precious, aud prized the while it wa? of a friendly and domestic purp- rt. But the snutl box may be said to have fallen with the Second Empire; royalty now bi stows medals, and rings and pins, but never a snuff box. The Sir Plumes of to day know nothing of the conduet of clouded canes or of aml-cr boxes. Smoking, which hi.? .mtlivcd snuff- taking, was yet the elder vice. Shaks peare makes no mention of smoking aud it mti3t not be supposed that suuff was contained in the "pouncet box" held by Hotspur's lop, pcrrtr.ncd like a milliner, between his linger and his thumb. 'Which ever anil aiioa He gave lilf no-e. ana tojk't away aam Win, therewith am;ry. when It next came there. Took It in mull." But, to pipes and tobacco there is very abundant reference in the other Eliza bethan dramatists. Of snuff taking as a habit, however, there is as yet no record. Gradually it was discovered that the powder of tolncco possessed an agreeable odor. It was used as a per fume about the year 1702, the early snuff takers carrying wilh them a small gtater, with which they reduced Ihe to bacco to powder. But the first suufl boxes contained no reservoir; it was necessary to consume the powder as soon as it was made. Subsequently an improvement was devised, and a sspa rate place in the box was made for the powder, the implements iff manufacture bciDg incloseil in a special compart ment. By a further progress in the ci aft of snuff taking a sufficient quantity was manufactured t. be contained in a sepa rate box, which was carried in the pock et, while the manufactory itself was left at home. It must be confessed that snuff taking had its unpleasant side. The readers ot Martin Cnuzzlewit cannot but sympa thize with Mrs. Prig's reasonable ob jections to Mrs. Gamp's untidy dealings with her snuff, when she conjured that lady not to "go a dropping none of it" into the dish ol sliced cucumber, duly immersed in vinegar, which had been prepared for supper. "In gruel, barley water, apple tea, mutton broth, and that, it don't signify," added Mrs. Prig. "It stimulates a patient. But I don't grain from ofl hr upp;r lip made him snci: aloud," and thereby bit rayed his presence, rind at once abtrtn and inform the lady's visitor?. Io the eighteenth century snuff taking was a universal habit. No wonder that according to Burke the aye of chivalry had t'eparted, for how cou'd chivalry aud snuff subsist together? Did Marie Antoinette take snuff? Prabably, but it is reputed that she pre ferred bonbons. Queen Charlotte cer tainly ''snuffed " Captain Gronow, as an Eton boy, beheld Her Majesty walk ing with the King upon the terrace at Windsor, "her royal nose covered with snuff both within and without." The great Napoleon carried snuff in his waistcoat pocket, and to'ik prodigious quantities George the Fourth carried a bos, but inly made believe to apply the powder to his no-c. lie was an imposter, even in the matter of snuff- t.iking At the regiment il mes tables of the time snuff boxes were sent round with the decanters after dinner. Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Jordan, the tragic and the comic muse, were both persistent snuff takcis, even on the stage while employed in the representation of the must imp rUnt characters. Gentlemen of fashion formed collections of snutf boxes and "cellars" of snuff stored in canisters aud prized like wine. Lord Petershan ws supposed to possess a box for exery day In the year. Ol" alight blue levies box lie w;ia wont to say, "Yes, it's a nice one lor summer, but it would ml do for winter wear." His sitting-room was like n tobacconist's shop; j.irs with names in gilt letters of vaii)i;s kinds of snuff were ranged against the wall.-, with the necessary apparatus for ino-stening and mixing. "Lord IVterhatn s Mixture, long remained an esteemed snuff, and gieat favor was won by a scented snuff, "Prince's Mixtuie," called in honor of the Recent. A .-nuff known as "No. !."" long slgnaliz'.'d the popularity of Mr. Wilke's; "Hardraan's No. 117" was the snuff used by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who look it profusely, powdering his waistcoat with it, letting it fall in heaps upon the carpet and even upon his palette, so that it become mixed with his pigments and translerred to h"i3 pic. tures. But these were the palmy days of snuff-taking gone, never to return. The snuff taker has come pretty nearly to l:is last pinch. erful border clan. She w.n the daughter of the seventh tail, anil upon the death, in lSdl, ol her brother Charle. the eighth peer, the ancient title of the line lecame extinct. Uoru in 177 (J, she had almost completed her hundreth year; and, ret titling her faculties unimpaired, she was b!e to refer from pergonal kuowledge to eveuts which are matter of remote history to the present genera tion. Her venerable age made her an object of much tinier interest and attraction. The Stuart of Traquair bear a notable name, and trace connection through a long descent with the royal homes both of England and Scotlaud. The earliest, mention ot the family in Peeblesshire cecum in 147d. The Earl of Buclian, whose mother, Lndy Jane B.-aufort, was the widow of James I. and the K-cendittt of John of Gaunt then purcha ed the domain of Traquair tor his natural son, James Stuart. This James, who was subsequently legitimated was the loundei of the race of Stuart, and pcrishod at Flqdden, leaving several sons. The fortunes of the lamily seemed to have culminated in Sir John Stuart, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, nud Comnmsloucr to the General Assembly, who was elevated to the earldom inlli33 and, alter a checkered career, died in extreme peuury. The second earl, hia t-on, though nn elder of the Church of Scotlcnd, ultimately embraced the Ro man Catholic religion, which became lrom this time the hereditary faith ol the Stuart1. He was succeeded in turn by his sons, William and Chat lea, the Utter of whom married Lndy Mary Maxwell, sister of the Earl ol Nithmlale, whose escape from thy Tower of London through the intervention of his devoted wife is one of the most romantic and touching incidents in later history. By a further intermarriage in the generation the same families were .it ill more closely united, and now the names of Stuart and Maxwell are merged into one, the estates of Traquair having just passed, by the death of Lidy Louisa, into the hands of .he Hon, Henry Constable MmxacII. younger brother of Lord Herriea and descend. mt of the Nithsdales. A Japanese Funeral. One of the marines of the Japinene steamer Tsukulm having died on Mon day night, a Japanese military funeral took place yesterday morning. It wai the lirrft of the kind evur held hi the United State?, Htid is worthy of more than passing notice. At half past o'clock yesterday morning the body was conveyed to the Vallcjo street wharf in a cuttur which was towed by a steam afternoon at Etst Leavenworth, 3Io.: launch belonging to the laukuba. In "A young lady by the name of Missouri acoruancc with the national custom Lore Tragedy. Yesti-rd.iv evening a reporter of the Commercial learned the following par ticulars of a suicide that took place that famous "cogitative -nosed" ones, ves- J jelish it myeelf." And there had been pasicn, Correggio, and Adam Smith, odd mUch earlier satirizing of the female as the conjunction seems, were men of the same mental type, possessing deep insight into character, and a faculty for turning that insight to account, or the:r hawk-noses were false physiological beacons. Certainly it would be unsafe always to judge of a man by his nose. Suvaroff, for instance, scarcely comes within the category of weak-minded men, although he wore a3 veritable a snub as James the First, Richard Crom well and Kosciusko. Even if there be an art to find the minds construction in the nose there are so many mongrel or gans about that it must pirfcrce be one of but limited application, and. scarcely more helpful than the advice cf die wise men who. professing to furnish la dies with instructions as to choosing their husbands, says: "I would recom mend a nose neither too long nor too short, neither too low nor too high, neither too thick nor too thin, with nostrils neither too wide nor too nar row. scarce. The term "car load" is very generally used, but few people know how much it is. As a general rule, 20,000 pounds, or 70 barrels or salt, 70 of lime, 90 of flour. 60 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 5 cords of solt wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50 to 60 head of h6gs, SO to 100 head of 6heep, 9,OjOrteVt of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 1W ieet of flooring, 40.000 shingles, oneaU less of bard lumber, one iourth lesV green lumber, one-tenth of joists, iciptling,-and all other large timber, 340 bjshels of wheat, 300 of car corn and 360 of shelled corn, 630 of oatf, 400 of barley, 360 of flax seed, 360 ot apples, 340 ofJrun pota toes, or 1,000 bushels of braaumake a car load. snuff takers. A writer in the Spietator, 1712, alludes to :t as a custom the fine women had lately fallen into. "Thi3 silly trick is attended with such a co quette air in some ladies, and such a sedate masculine one in others, that I cannot tell which most to complain of; but they are to me equally disagreeable." Mrs. Saunter is described as so impa tient of being without snuff that she lakes it a3 often as she does salt at meals, while the pretty creature, her niece, imitates her aunt iu the practice, and if Ies.s offensive to the eye, is quite as much to the ear, "by a nauseous rattle of the aorc, when the snuff was delivered, and the fingers marked the stop3 and close on the nos trils." "As to those," the letter writer proceeds, "who take it for no other end but to give themselves occasion for pret ty action or to fill up little intervals ol discourse, I can bear wth them: but then they must not use it when another is sptaking, who ought to be heard with too much respect to admit of offering at that time from hand to hand the snuff box. Yet Flavilla is so far taken with her behavior in this kind that sbe pulls out her box, (which is indeed full of good Brazil) in th2 middle of the ser mon; and to show that she has the au dacity of a well-bred woman, she ofiers it to the men as well a3 the women who sit near her, but since by tins time all the world knows she has a fine hind, I am in hopes she may give herself to further trouble in the matter. Oa Sun day was seven-night, when they came about for the offering, she gave her Uttinger had been keeping house for some time for a baohelor by the name of James Burt. During her stay at his house she, for soma reison unknown, conceived a strong attachment for the man, and, it is siid, made her affection known to him, but it seems that it was not reciprocated by th: Bmedkt, and he refused all overtures. The girl be came desponden, but still lived beneath the root that sheltered all that was dear to her. That seemed to satisfy her until y.sterday, when she learned that he was going to Atchison to marry another lady, and, while he was stiading at the glas3 conibtng his hair, she approached him aud asked permission to comb it for him, and upon his turning around she confronted him with a razor, and at tempted to cut his throat. He wrenched the raz.ir from her grasp, and she then begged him to give her seme poison tint she might kill herself, as life was now a burden. He refused, she left the house and went to her grandmother's, not fardistint, and asked for a revolver, savin'? that Mr. Burt wished to shoot a ling. The pistol was given her, and upon repairing back to Mr. Burt's she passed into tke kitchen asking him at the time to accompany her. II -i replied that he would come in a moment, but almost in an instant the lond report of a pistol startled the household, and upon soing into the kitchen he found her stretched upon the floor vith a frightful pistol wound in the right temple, which caused almost immediate rfcath. Our informant fays that she was a very beau tiful girl, and no reason can be as singned for her insane passion for Mr. BurL larenrz'Mh Commercial. A Piris dispatch of Jan. 3d says: 31. Oiliver his issued an address to the eltctcri of the department of Var. He advises submission to President MaeMa hon and the republic, but he reserves the right of appeal to the people. The new press law has bien promulgated. Several the body rested in a box shaped coffin, aboti . two and a half feet high, covered with the national fltg and surrounded by sixteen marines, all in lull dma and armed. Four officers in full dresa uniform, were in the steam launch. On reaching the boat stair, the colli n wan placed In the undertaker's wagon, cqv ered with the flag. The officers were placed in a carriage,while th marines oc cupied one of the Central Riilroad can. On arriving at Cemetery avenue, the marines, a3 a guard, preceded the corpse, and on reaching the grave formed in double line through which the colli u was borne. The cofiin, which was cov ered with Japanese writing, wa. de posited in the grave, so that the c-rpie, which was in a silting position, faced toward the east. Three volleys of musketry were then fired and the crave filled up by the ususl attendants. Af ter this, an officer made an address to those present, and th'; marines taking the shovels smoothed the grave over and made the sanJ into a tqnare shaped pile resembling the coffin. On th's pilo each marine, with his sword, made sundry marks in the sand, which con cluded the ceremonies. After a tew minutes stay in the cemetery the mariners formed in marching order, and preceded by a band, composed of a drummer, filer and bugkr, marched to the cars and proceeded to their ship. The funeral cortege on Cemetery avenue at tracted the attention of many citizen, who accompanied It to the grave. The ceremonies were conducted wiih gret solemnity and eTery appearance of sin cere respect to the dead. San FraneUco Chronicle, IkermUr 21. Great Britain has now five iron-clada under constructiofi : The Inflexible, to carry four guns of the heaviest caliber; the Shannon, a nine-gun screw ship; the Nelson and Northampton, double-screw ships of twelve guns each, and ttoTesve raire, aa eigb-gun ship. At Little Rock, Arkaisu, Dec 3Mk a negro named Harkersaiith, shot his nrominent journal?, which were sup- 0v r j r - i w charity with a good air, but at the same pressed or forbidden to be tow in lam I wife and another negro wl Uorg time asked the church warden if he 1 streets, have resumed publication. I Scott, kilUng both. Cause, jwkHHy. i m m K . i 5 . 4 A - jJ 8