q. STRANGE CASE.
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A very singular transaction took place

 last week. which terminated yesterday aD follows. On Saturday last. D. Bur hansc, Iandlurd ut YOunss' Tavern, fi'e

 miles Nom this city, miss'd from his trunk six hundred dollars in specie md bank nutcs. He immediately conmen> oed sea ch, and on S';urdav evening, from soule. hircunislaDcee, supposed he had good reason to suspec' his OS;ler, and an adjoining neighbor "nd his w'f-, to he concerneS. in the thef'. He had them arrested and put inj 'il Saturday night.

 On Sunday night, his own wife ac- knowlrdged ahai she purlomed the TnoO> ey-when the husband immediately had two of the prisoners released On haii.- Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the case came up for legal investigation, and the wife was brought on to the stand as wiint Ss, when she swore that she herself took the nnn- ey without the knowledge of ''chick or chiId," and now had il N safe keeping.- Tn answer 10 the question wherethe mo1 ey wsa She sloutly refused to tell. The Court decided she mus s'-she diciied she spxsn'k The Court hin,ed at a commit men, for contempt. She told them to go ahead-said she would go 10 jaiI-woild lay there ss long as they could support her in those quar.ers-would die there. but never, never would she tell where the money was.

 She claimed that the money was her own, and took it as such, and meant to kcep it -ifany body could help them. selves. let them do it. A dispute arose among the counsel as to the relevancy" of several nice poin,s-whe,her h "nt- oun,ed to a theft, i. being her husbands money, and whether she was obliged to tell where it was. &c. She had ulIy ex. eulpaied the three accused, by shoulder ing it herself-aud now who was on trial ? or was there any body! She said she was something of a lawyer," aud she didn't think ii very good law that . per- son should be obliged to tell every body where their money was, for they might said she, swanr 10 steal ii.' Lawyers looked blank-ihe Court wasn't sure he was right-!be woman was perfectly re- signed to her fate. whether it was the jail or ottserwise-reitera:ing that she should keep the money any bow-and the Court was obliged to dismiss the whole case and all concerned.-[Detroit Advertiser.