Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 17, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 September 1875 — Page 3

WEEKLYCOURIEIt C. DOANE, rbilhr. JASI'EW. - - - INDIANA ITEMS OF INTEREST. I'traoual antl Literary, Bret Jlartc is down in Maim, hunting, it issaid, 'ulcus for a play. Miss Mary K. lVi-hey ha been vT.H-t"i house surgeon in tln Birmitigli.nu (F.ng.) Hospital fur Women. MiH MmI.m Ii (Mis. Craik) is Irish, and folf cducatnl. Mm taught Imt brotlier ns fat as idio learned. Her father was a furious literary hara ter. Bayard Taylor is on a t tir through

tlit'linti-h I nn inccs. He will make u 1". ,k of what ! s and hears in those portions of Noith America. Bulwcr, the novelist, left a voluminous diary, front which his Miii, the present Lord I.ytton, of the diplomatic corps, is making a selection fur qieedy jiu!)lia!iooii . -lYof. James BllsscM Ixwell is How jit work II I the collection of F.llgli-h plav and poems, from Marlowe to I Myth u, which was announced for publication hi years ago, when the first volume was partly put in type. Win. Coulter, tin oldest railway conductor in the I'nited States, having refused to wear the uniform and tickctsachcl recently ordered hy the Pennsylvania Bailway Company, has hern temporarily retired, although not dis. harmed from tin' road. -l.adv Franklin sat for a bust a short time before her lat illness, ami this will doubtless 1m- finished. She never liad a portrait r photograph taken, lut an old friend of her, a niece of I.adv Mor gan, is to paint her from memory. We learn from the Chicago Tim a that Mr. John Swinton, formerly managing editor f the New York Tout s, is tin New York eorrespondent of the Ciueinnati Cmninr rriil , and makes in the newspaper field a week. He is a bachelor. Alas! -Lnuia Ah'ott lias any iiuinlT of admirers in Holland, who have ex pressed their enjoyment of her hooks in l letters to her. One of them writes to Iit-r : 4 We want to know whether you are old or young, rich or poor, alone or the center of a family circle." Mthool and harrh. --The girN at Mount Ilolyoke Seminary are to le regularly instructed in . ininiing. IJowdoin College alumni are rndcavnring t raise sl(l,lioii, wherewith to en. low a Ijoiigfcllow professorship. The money appropriated for pitMie instruction in Fram e iloes not reach the lelel of Massachusetts' hlldget for the ainc purpos)-. Tho Schod Cominissiom-rs of Memphi, Tcnn., hae u-ceel.-d in placing all the colored schools under the charge i f colored teachers. One of the largest diwest- in the world is that of lirishane, in Western . 1- f. . 1 ustrali.i. It rovers y.H.dm) .iiuare i miles of area . The Uev. Dr. Matlu w - I H. Hale, now Dishop of l'erth, Vrst- i rn Australia, will, it is expected, he appointed to it . A correspondent of the I.uthcrin 0',.,rrrr announces as nearly ready fr puMicatioti HiMiotheca Lutheran:!, or a Comjdi te I.it of all the Writings of Lutheran Ministers 111 the I intcd Mates." It w ill appear nlut Christ-j mas of this y ar. A novehv in the exercises at tin Ohio Metho.it Conference Camp-Meet- I ing, near Carroll, was the narration of ) religious eieiieiice hy a deaf mute. J H was expressed in sign language, in the presence of the rotigregatimi , and then explained hy one of the ministers. L-C,ov. Ilnglish, of Conn., has presented the liluary of Yale College with fl, xm, to he used for the purchase of a collection of the l'ai liainentary pajiersof (ueat Itritain for a eetl.iin nuriilier of years, ending in 1M7;J. I here are 74i' x ohimes in the collet tion, hound in half parchment, mostly ot folio size. fcrlntr anil Inrfnatry. New I'. dfoi d is proud of a rope it Ins jiist made, :i, '" feet long. The fish and oil crop of Newfonndl uid is valued this vearat a million of dollars. I'iy the llcMincr process of making "t's l not less than 4 , -, (mi tons of coal areviw-d annually in F.ngland. The long closed mines of Chihuahua are ahout to reopened hv a New York "liipaiiv with a. capital of" .t;,MM,UN'. Hour from the new crop of wheat, "''I'le in Charleston, has ln-en shiipei totli.. Ndrth a new enterprise for that ity. 1 he Imdoii Latin t gies the details of t. ;1i,. transmission of whoop-mH-iMigh finin a child to a rat, and of siiial-p., from human victims to th'gs. ;

-Ih. re were TI.,,tNHi ,-igars and Mi,s l aniiy Oakes, of Batchogue, '-s,'K.iiof,.l:nett-ssiokediii France 1 A,u,r .l:il, had been troubled theadast Mar mi , ig;s and 1:1 cigarettes . fuY wi,, ,,. teeth, hut dreadcl to l' '""I. ho'e tbem onlle.l nut. S. tii,.-illv

Meinphi iiropose to build an t ie- ! "or at ti. nvcr, with the view of "lil'ling up a trade with Ceorgia, Ala1 i-i,t lie l M olina , etc. , for grain in I 1 If Ait mi 1 ' 1 ires ( iimi'in v out. 1 Plow x(oot ,t jt.H) horse, audi 1 a'hvay cai s, and their special, 'l.tV . ill" subject of double f "" '"iisideraldv rein-wed its interest to asfi'iin, !.. - I- 1 t Hi. - ie is. ,ttl . ,1 . it . mil 1111,1111. '"'g", ti'Pg a telescope of cnl v

six inches npcrturr, lias within the !iit three jcais added fccwral hundred to our li-ls. It has Wen discovered by farmers in Wisconsin that tin rose-breasted grosbeak is a deadly enemy of the potatobug. Muh (on. id, -ration, therefore, has liet-n shown these bird, and it is a ci1'd that tin- abundance nf thrill last spring cfl'eetually rhrrkcd the ravages of tin? hi ( lie, and saved tin; crop, Fortlgn .otra. Tin! Chilian (lovernmcnt ontcnplatc tin' introduction of salmon into tin rivers of Chili . French emigrant complain of the treatment they receive in Vcneucla. Nobody is so wi II oil' as at home. Three Scotc h herd hoys who worked together iu the I'arMi 'of Bankfoot.

! ' , -n w up to be hobcrt N.coll, tin poet, Dr. I mil, the missionary, and Mr. Mackenzie, the present l'lt-micr of Canada. The ex-(irand I hike of Tuenny has finally given up all hope of ever returning to his former dominions, ami has I just ordered all his property in Tusca ny, amounting to 1 , litU.OW in value, to le -.old. Ac-cording to late ndv'n cs the outhreak nf cholera in Syria showed no sign of abatement. In the ccond week of July there were at Damascus 1,1H rases with .Vh" deaths, and ut Antioeh 11.') cases w ith '.('. deaths. Some interesting facts have hern riven relating to thg JVahody Fund for the por in Ixmlon, which show tin Advancement f that institution . Some ?., (n,(Hk has hern fpent, and nearly $s!,tKKJ,OU;) U tili left hi tl.e tieuMiry . i A lare nuiulM-r of tenement houses have lren 'rected in the dim-rent tow ns which will accommodate ahout 1,4ml poor families . 'I'hi' weavers of Spitaltlelds, I'njrland, iin hymns and jt-ahns while at their looms . This practice came with their forefathers from the Iow Countries, who, with other I'rotestants , eame over t Kuland from Handers. It is to this U'toni FaltatV alli)les in Hetirv IV., act 'J, scene 1 : I would I . ... ; were a weaver. I would sin psalms ! and all inaur.vr f ihil"." A queer civil funeral, that of Cloris I'ontomiel, the littlif'soti of a wine inerhant , took place in 1'aris the other day. Two persons eairi'd the cnllin and alnnit twrntv friends followed. At' the grae tin-lioC.s father deli cred the following address; Adieu, my son, adieu, citicn, forvmi were a cincn of I the future not haptied! Now, thoit I hast returned to nothingness, for there tisnoMUil. Decoine manure; there is need of it for gool wine." One Sunday evening not long since a man w as w alking up and dow n in an ni'ilateM nianiier uinler tin iirt arch 01 the l'oiit Neiif in l'aris. He was jut ahont to make the irrevocahle plunge into the Seine when suddenly he per--eied a woman only a few feet from him rush forward and throw herself into the water. He jumped in after her and su ceecl in rescuing the would-lx i-llll I'll- , II liril lllirM'".liri ?ll nil- . . ... ,.7 .1.1 1 1.1.. 11 I... in I ... . I . , . .. 1 1- 'ii-ii. hi -I- in- .in 111 1 1 1 1 -i i 11,11 111- 11 ai 1 1 01 in to tin- spot intending to drown himself. It js now suggested that the two lives thus saved inut lie designed for one another. ! Itapa antl MUhapa. A child of W. L. Smith, of KalaniaiHi, Mich., choked to death with a kernel of corn . Kitty Fox, of Milwaukee, was liuriu-d to death ley her clothes taking lire from a stove. Iiireles handling of a shot-gun lv one Snttle, resulted in fatally shooting (leoigc II.iik k, at I'liiena Vista, Ind. Daniel W'cichert , of Fast Saginaw, Mich., ht his life hythe careless handling of u shot-gun while iu a limit. Mrs. Adelaide Dorsheimer, a l'hilndelphia lady , got a hottle of caiholie acid mixed up w it li her medicine Imttles, tiMik a w ine glassful, and in less than an hour was a corps,.. Jessie York, a servant-girl in a rittsliiiigli family , attempted to kindle the tire with kerosene. he was l.urned to death ami the house w as htmied to the ground. Knima Myers, of Indianapolis, a lieautifnl young woman, J2 years of age, while attempting t draw some water from the cistern, was seized with Iiincss and fell in und was drowned. I-wis Macintosh, a youth almut 10 years of age, son of Judge Macintosh, of the Creek Nation, while out hunting turkeys near Honey Springs, had his head Id own of' 1 the accidental discharge of a lu avily loaded pin. A farmer named Thos. W itte, living in-ar Lafayette , Ind., took a gun and w cut out to lMik after some hogs. The next day he was found m ar a fence, dead, with a charge of shot in his head. It is supposed that, in getting over the fence, the gun struck oit the rail ami xvas discharged . nulled out. nuistered up coiiiag-e and ...... ... ...... - . ......... went to the x illage dentist to get relief , and , after administering ether, he pullel several ! teeth . I he operation over, he made Ian rtfort to rouse her, hut could not. and hour after hour passed and she still remained insensible. Doctors were railed in and every thing done to revive her, but all to no purpose. She lingered in a state of total niicon-cioui:-;ss for five divs and then died. .Fames K. McNeal, a well known planter, liv ing 1 miles below Memphis, mi t he A i ka u sh side, w a assas.imfrd

on the '.'7th nit. He had just left the lield w here Lis hand were ut w oi k , und fodeout into the road, where they heard

a shot fired, and aw his horse, rider less, njniiin up the road und following :i man mi hoi'sehaek. When they reached the road, they found McNeal linr dead . the w hole charge of Inickthot having entered hishieast. There wn.s no clew to the assassiii. Following is a partial list of the micides reported fr tin week ending Aug. 'JH ; At Marion, Ohio, aCieriiiau, named Ziniim-r, poisoned liim-t-lf , on account if iloinrtie difliculties. At Deshler, Ohio, Frank Itarnhart, aged l:J, hanged liiinself, it is Mippost-d on account of the ill treatment of his stepfather. Near Crestline , Ohio, 'Jeorgr Waltcrs, a wealthy farmer, aged 7U, threw himself under a locomotive and was instantly killed. Domestic difficulties. In the tow n of Franklin, Wis., August Uauinan, a saloon-keeper, killed himself, after having, us is supposed, killed a farmer named McCaity, whose dead hody was found in ISaiiman s .saloon. At Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Theresa Chcsscll, while temporarily insane, cut her throat. At Dcs Moines, Iowa, Joseph Kldridge, aged iM , poisoned himself. At Meinthis, Trim., F. A. Schreiger poisoned himself m account of a quarrel with his wife. At Monroe. ille, Ind., (ieorge M' H IS, .1 1,11 1 1 II-1 , MI'll III llisill II a- . - i . v xI , .. .i... I.:... . ...i.:i. J "1 Ind.,Alhert Campliell, aged ;0, shot himself. Near L'nioii City, Ind., Jackson lloyes, a farmer, hanged himself. At Indianapolis, John Decker drowned himself. At I-ouisville, Ky., W. II. Morrii, liiwliii-r of the KcV . J. C. Mollis, it prominent Methodist clergyman, poisoned himself. At Denver", Cnl., Major John II. White, a prominent citizen of l.oonville, Mo.,hhot himself. The deceased left home ome time diice for the Dlack Hills; hut was turned hack hythe military. And in the same city", I'.Im-u Magall, a hankrupt merchant, also .shot himself. In l!cl hertown, Mass., Miss Nettie Harrett , utnl Miss Frances S. I'ridgman, each ahout 10 years old, took morphine. The former died, hut the latter was likely to recover. Oild and raiti. ITriitn Hi lH-lroit Krs Irra. 1 There is no such word as liar" in the Chinese language, and the Chinese get along ahout as well as any other nation. A Texan who goes into Mexico with two revolvers in his helt is respected just as niiich again as a Texan with one revolver in his helt . SchKl vacation is almost over, and the good hoy may he seen seated on the feme ruhhing rosin 011 his hands to toughen them against the ferrule. Treasurer N. w can't write half so much like 11 Chiin e schoolmaster as Spinner iiseil to, and it is a question if ; t he greenti.icks won t depreciate. The old lleglesses w ho nursed Antl re w Johns. ,11 and the men that encouraged him are now coining forward and making their hows to the admiring puhlie. The Tall Mall Cuvttr defends tile practice of men kissing each other's wives, it inav Uo tor l-nglaint , Imt the practice has fallen into decay on this hide of the ocean. Would you think that (Jideori Welles, when Vim stand and look at him, ever carried candy mottoes in hi pocket or ever sat on the htile with Lis girl at twilight and chewed gun? The woman who can sit 011 the fence ami read a dime novel while a saw-log s chasing her husband down hill live in this Mate and doesn't care a copper cent for new spaper criticism. A professional hank burglar living in l'hiladclphia is said to contribute to the support of two orphan asylum. When lie makes a failure the orphans; 1 ...... nave 10 iaii iiack on water ami turnips. That' the checker! Ia' all unite and advise Sergeant Bates to get married. If his wife can't keep him at home she'll travel with him, and if she goes along he won't carry many Hags. (trocers and butchers shouldn't push a man to the wall Im-chusc he owes them ."iO cents. The failure of Duncan , Sherman A: Co. has sort o' knocked oo-criit piere over t he ridge w here they can't he got at . Since the King of the Sandwich Island returned home a great improvement i seen ill most of his subjects. They now cut their ping tobaero instead of biting it off, and suspender are -timing into general use . Suntl-Taper. One of the od l industries, the nature and extent of which are comparatively little known, is the manufacture of sand-paper, the amount ttf which a Hide annually produced in the I'nited States is estimated at not h's than two hundred thousand ream, including the various grades and hiialities. Formerly it xvas made of ordinary brown paper, glue and sand. At present, for the most part, the paper is made of old rope, the best ijuality of glue is used, and , instead of sand, pulverized ipiartz or tlint. By this means a superior fabric is produced, of ;i constantly uniform grade, and .it so low a juice that the use of it has become greatly extended, large quantities being exported to F-n-rope. South America, the Pacille s. lands, and elsewhere. For ciiiny paper and eiiicry clot h , a huge demand lias been created by the linished i'MIl work in steam engine shi'iis, the sewing machine factories, and other similar industries which require tln ni for p. dislii ng purposes .

How the Declaration Wan Saved. The Declaration of Independence hung for many year in a frame in the State Depart incut , ill the room im-cii-pied hy t lie late 1 Ion . Stephen 1'leasouton, who moved to Washington in 1vki w ith the (eivi-rniiieiit . lh- was ut that time in the Slate Department . Mr. Monroe, while l'resident, created a new ollice, w hich was conferred upon Mr. l'leasanton that of Chief of the l.ight-Hoiise Kstahlisfiuient , to which was added the auditing of the ministerial and consular accounts. This office he retained under all Administration until his death, in ls.",,". In August, 111, when the licit ish were daily expected in Washington, Mr. Monroe, then Secietary of Mate, ordered that all tin- papers In-longing to the Department should he parked ui ami carried to a place of safety. Mr. rieasautou had them all put into linen hags, and was just leaving Lis room, when, turning hack suddenlv to

see whether any thing had hern left hela 1 ti I , he espied the Declaration of Inde pendence, which had heen overlooked 111 the hurry, hanging upon the wall. Vs quick as thought he cut it out of the frame, and carried it away with the other valuable papers. IJut we. will let It 1 1 it relate the story 111 his own w ay, as contained in an appendix to a small work written hv the lion. Kdvvard D. I " . in -i II i Ingraliaiii, of Philadelphia. Io Mr. William II. Winder, of l'hiladclphia, Mr. rleasanton writes : Washington City, Aug. 7,1 Ms. "Silt: I have had the honor to receive your letter of the .rth instant, requesting to he informed of the reason for, ami the tareunistaiu-es attending. the removal of the books and papers of the Department of State to a place of security in August, 1MI, while a British fleet and army, then in the Chesapeake Hay, were menacing an attack on this city. After a lapse of thirty-four year I may not lie perfectly accurate in my recollection of all the arcunistanee attending the transaction referred to, hut 1 will, w ith great pleasure, state them as they now occur to my memory. I have no knowledge of information having hern rccrivnl hy the (hiverninent from Messrs. p.ayard and CJallatin (lin n ministers in lluiopc f r adjusting a peace with Cleat Britain) of a proIioscd attark on Washington City hythe Jritish forces, hut I reiiu-mher to Lave seen in some of the Driti-h newspaper

received firm Mr. Ih-aselev (the coin- cago Triuuc give- the following intermissary wf prisoners of war'in London, ( eting sketch of the late l'resident t film who was in the hahit of forwarding to j suspended Bank of California: the Department Ioiidon newsjiajiers hy T he new of IIalton' M-lf-tlc-true-the cartels) a statement that the fleet j tion spread like w ildfire throughout the and traiispoitsvvere receiving trooiison j city, and was the occasion of universal hoard at Bordeaux, in France, w it la the i comment. Bal-ton, personally and so-

view of operating against Washington i and Baltimore, and that it was their in-

tciition to retaliate the outrages alleged 1 man, his suicide has creiited general to have hern eniiiinitted by our 'sorrow. He was lavish of hi mouey, forces under Cem-ral lVarhorn at a liWral patron of talent of whatever York, in I'pper Canada, some time J sort , and entertained like a Kuropean previously. 'I his allegation xvas denied j potentate. ,Yxt to the Bank of Caliand refuted by (General Dcarlorn, as forni.i, the City of Sari F'rancisco wa will a'jicar I'V reference to Niles's , his dearest pri.fe, atnl the pains he took Kcgister." vol. i., jiage 1 .":. I to do tin honors to visitors from the, "s.M.n after learning that the British : Kastcrn Mates will not mnui lie ."orgotflect were in the Chesapeake, we learn- ten, either hy the recipient of hi rd, also, that they were ascending the Splendid hospitality r the city t.f his 1'atuxeiit , cv iib ntly with the v iew of at- J residence. tacking this city. t'pnn receiving this 1 B iNton's cek-lirated countrv-seat.

information, x hich was about a week before the riiciny rntrred Washington,

Colonel Monroe, then Secretary of w as about 2- miles smith t if San FranState, mounted his horse and proceed-! ci-co, in the San Mateo region. The? ed to Benedict , a small village on the 1 husc has the ;qiearance of a great l'atuxent , w here the lb itish forces were j baronial hall. It stands back in the. lieing landed. From an eminence with- j small valley called "Belmont," within in a quarter of a mile from the x illage : a few minutes walk of the San Jose. Colonel Monroe could distinctly see the I Kailway. A gmxc f live oaks surnumber and kind of troops of which ' rounds it, and the rccers and hill thrir arniv was composed ; and, rend-1 hide it from the winds. The grass and Jecting the threats held out iu the neighboring meadows are irrigated by British Ii.iikts, and l-lieving that we 1 means of well, windmills, ami force-

j hail 110 force which could successfully ( pumps . In the stables are stalls for I . . 1 1 .. .. . r.iii.'. t. . . .

resist tliein, lie sent a lime ritin-r t Mr. .lohn (iraham, the chief tlerk of the office, or inyclf (I tlo not renicinlu r which) hv a idette. adviing Us to take tin brt care of the Iwioks and papers of the olfn e w hich

might be in our ' t. Whereupon I 1 w it li pictures, marbles, and furniture proceeded to purchase coarse linen and from California wood, and it contains cause it to be made into bags of o.nvcn-1 about forty bed-t hanil r . lent siz.e, in which the gentlemen of the Balstoti's leisure xvas chiefly given t office, assisted by me, jd u e. the lwioks J impi es.ing strangers vrith the reand other papers, after which I obtairlcd 1 sources, rotnforU, and climate of Calicart and had tliein eonveved to a grit- j fornia, and he nex t r npeaied to le st mill, then unoccupied, belonging to Mr. t hqpy a wln-n showing foreigner or L'dgar Fattersoii, situated a short dis- j Fastrrn nn-n of influence the road and tancciittthc Virgini t side of the I'oto-! the scenery . His hand wa in every mac, beyond the Chain Bridge, so ' improv cnu-nl and institution of the uncalled, two mile abov e ( leorgi tow 11 . I tmpoli, and yet lie had a dislike of "While engaged in the pas. age-way general publicity, and could iu noway of the building with the paper, the lie-. . .IMiner offended than by newspaper partment of State being on one side and adulation,. 1'eople who lived for themthe War Depailuieiit on the other side selves looked with astonishment upon of the pasnge, d-neral Armstrong, j the sjNetm le of hi- thing team, carrythen Secretary of War, on hi wav lo J n., to h is private h-iitality traveler hi own room , stopjed a slmi-t time, I from all nations; 1 nit as to himself , hi and observed to nie that he thought we j possessions, or his reminiscences, ho were under unnoccssaiv alarm,:! he 1 wa uniformly reticent. did not think the British were serious in their intentions ,f coming to Wah- A Mr. Isaac William- , of Shadeington. I replied that w e were uinler a v ille, Ohio, was returning home from different belief ; and, let their intention ("ohm lbu in a carriage, accompanied be what tiny might, it w a the part of j l,v hi wife and young child, his horse prudence to preserve the v aluable pa- 1 became frightened while crossing a pers of the Uovohitioiiarv (ioveniMieiit . ! bridge, and plunged down 1111 embankThee comprised the Declaration of In-, nieut to the river, :i distance of l.'i feet, ilciieiidein e, t he law , the secret jour- j '-. w ater swe t the child from it nals of I'ongres tln-n imt published , ' mother's arm do n the stream smne the t orrespoiideiice of Ceiu ral Wash-' distance, w here.it was found dead sevhigton, his comniissioti rt-sigm-d at ' eial hours afterwards, dg'-d in the

the rhe of the war, the rcpondciiee of Ccneral l.reein cofaud other general, a well a treaties, and correpoin! ill the laws, lice of the Drpartinent of state, since the adoption of the Ci!i-titiiti"U doWii to (hit time . "Considering the papers unsafe at the mil), :is, if ihe 111 itisli force. g..t to ';ishingtoii , thex would prob.iblv -t.O ll a force for the juirpo.e of ilct!-ov-ing a foundry for cannon and .hot hi its liei-'llhol'liood , :iiil Wollld be e. b

souni evil-disjHisetl person to des.rov the mill and paper also, I proeeedet'l to soul farm-house in Virginia and procure. wagons, in w hicli the hook and paper were deposited, and I proceeded with t Item to the town of I-r.s-hurg, a distance of thirty -five mile, at which place an empty house was procured, in which the naper were safely placed, the door lockial, and the key given to the Uev. Mr. Littl.-john, who was then, or had Lei-n, 0110 of the collector of internal revenue. "Being fat iguetl with the ride, and securing the papers, I retired early to h d, and was informed next morning hy the people of the hotel where I staved that they hid seen, the preceding night being the 21th of August, a large tire in the direction of Washington, which proved to he a light from the public luuidings uheh the

rnrmy hail set on lire and burned to the gr mud. 4Oi. the 2Ctli of August I returned to Washington, and found the President' house and puhlie oflirrs still burning, ami learned that the British army had evacuated the city the preceding evening, in the belief" that our force were again assembling in their rear for the. purjM.se of cutting off their retreat. However thi may he, they made a forced march, ami left, it was reported, a considerable nu.nher of their men on the road, who were raptured hv a troop of hors fiom Frederick, in Maryland. "A a part of the. British fleet soon afterwards ascended the Potomac and plundered Alexandria of a large ijuantity; of flour and tobacco, threatening; Washington ut the same time with .1 eecjr.'l invasion, it v;zs nc;t considered safe to bring the papers of the Statu Department back for some week; not, indeed, until the llritish fleet generally had left the waters of the Chesapeake. In the meantime it was found necessary for me to proceed to Ieesburg tn-ca-sionaliy for particular paper to which the Secretary of State had occasion to refer in the fours; of LL correspondence. 'I have the honor lo be, very respectfullty, sir, Your obedient serv ant , S. PLKASONTON." Srribmr' fur Sejtlantjtr. The Late "III lam C. IUlston. A San Fraiuic dispatch to the Chi- ! ciallv, was extremely popular, and. although the act i characteristic of tin; 1 w here several thousand guests have leeii j entertained during the past ten years. lorn nurses, ami ;tinui twenty unving vehicles. It was the habit 0 the proprietor to drive to the city and back, a matter of ,".2 miles, ncirlv evcrv day in ! the year, holding the reins hini'elf. Hi mansion is tastefully ornamented limbs of a fallen tree I SICVOW MlMJllKTTI, the irr-'niier of ! Italy, i. su h a good talker that during i one'of the introiexwith I ti-ni in k the ! latter lapped him n tin- s,oi,.b r, aying : Mop ta'king. ig'!r; ou 'peak j Herman so prettily that I am afi id von XV ill he able t i pt l-!l lde me to do nlj liio.t any t hing." I Mr. I'.eeeber a llln mi; ' T positively that le' "ill not lecture m-xt winter.