Smyrna times., 1855-02-28
A Sublime Bridal. Two Oceans Wed.

! Sublime Bridal Two Oceans Wed. !
fro
Invitations are out for the most sublime and six
magnificent nuptia!s ever celebrated upon our the
wedding of the rough Atlantic to ha,
he fair Pacific ocean. An iron necklace mas
thrown across the Isthmus; the banns
are already published; and the bridal party ly
will leave this city on Monday next, February OF
9Th, to perform the august ceremony. Some on
seven millions Of dollars have been spent IN ha
achieving this union but, the fruits thereof WI
will soon show, it has been money we'll lnves-
ted. Across the bosom of the lsthmus the go-
den products Of our Pacific borders and the IN ~
calculabe treasures Of the Orient, are destln- l.
ed to flow in unremltting streams. "
The stupendous enterprise of uniting the
two oceans which embrace the great portion u
of the globe we are proud to say, was IN 'he #
frowning face of obstacles that none but Anerl-
cans could overcome. The swamp, the noun
tans, the miasmas of the lsthmus drove all the
engineers of Europe home i'll despair who con-
tempated the gigantic undertaking, and the )
Herculean work was left to the hands and hearts
of men in whose vocabulary there is no such
as fall The engineers of Eng land and France
pronounced the project utterly lmpractlcable.
To the late amented John J.. Stevens and his
associates, Aspinwall, Chauncy, Colt. White
right and others, the world is indebted Tor the
completion of this great bond-thls commercial
! linking of the hemlspheres. An enterprise so
" full of poetic snblimity, and so traught with !
interest co-extensve with the whole earth,
NAV well command the admiration ofthe world
and deserves to be fitly inaugurated by such a
: bridal party are now preparing to embark
= as witness of the grand consumption. 1t Is
= theme for such as Epithalanum as was never
sung in Greece, and occasion fer wOrld-rng-
ing burst of elOquance that makes one deplore
afresh that the tongue of Webster is mute IN
- death.-N York Mirror.
ne TIE EXPECTED GREAT CoMET-The emil
lc nent astronomer NJ. Badinet, member of the
Academy of Sciences, gives some very inter-
esting details relative to the return Of the great
d u comet whose periodical course is computed by
II ,,,, most celebrated observers at three hundred
On wears. Our cyu..ical records show that 1T was
lg observed in the year 101, ov2e, @~?. 9Io-agaIh
~ IN I26l, and the next time III l0JG-alway'
Nv described as shining with the utmost cXtfaUi'
~ dlnary trlllancy. Most OF the European as
'u trunomrrs haycagrccd IN announcing the return
ch of this comet in l-l6; but it has hitherto fail
III ed to appear. In fact, it is not so easy or M
. s' pie matter TO compute thoseIvast cycllea Pc
lu' riods as some superficial persons-Who l!o mol
III look beyond the day or the year Iii which they
u" lllc-uIay giuc. We are, however, aSsur
III I'd by NJ. Bldinet thai, up to this moment, th
Eve beautiful star is living in its brilliant fepIta
o"e tlon:" SD that Sir John Herschrl himself VA
III wrong when he dcspaired OF is rcappearancc
ny and put Grape on hIs telescope! We are nov
informed that a celebrated and accurate com
5 of puter-M, Bommc, OF Mlddcburgh-with a pa
tience and devOtcdness trnely German, ha
zone over all the previous calculat. ON, and mad
pe- il new estimate of seperatc and combined actIo
duo of all the planets upon this comet, OF three hun
.uU dred wears; and lie has discovered that II
lcre not lost to uS, but only retarded In Its motol
Brit The result OF this severe labor gives the arr
.yo- val OF THIS rare ard renowned visitor in AuguS
the l-je. with an uncertainty OF two years, mol
1t or less: so that between YSjG and 1850, tho'
cca- who then living may hope to see the gre
the umnary which, in 1856, caused Charles V.
eral aUdlcate.
Elk
hur METHODIST CHURCu SETTLEMENT-Ihe Con
hey niSSonerS of the TWO branches of the Meth
thai dist Church met at Cincinnati on the 18th inst
SEN to divide the property known as the Westel
ln~, Book Concern between two churches, under Il
rous decree of the Supreme Court of the Unit'
an. States. The subject, after an harmonious sc
here sion, was settled 10 the entire satisfaction
ta,iv all parties. The amount allowed to the Sout
e dc erh Church III money WAS $S0,UUu OeS!GeS del
due IN the South to the amount OF $l2,0
more.
the
'say -ACll"N foR bAMA"i'9,--'lI' - H. 1 l'iiio o'
mon Principal OF the Mddiet0wn Academy, Ii
d to written ii lclter 70 the DoVer hepoFHT' neh
,rr,t ing the authorship of the letter which appc;
RS or I'd in the Delaware Journal of the 9th ms
an purpo ting To have eranated from his pen.
bceu says the letter is false copy, and its auti
lass and the editor of the Journal will be dealt W
,hich according to law.
, i,n'" tyrn The LAST OF BRADDocK's DEFEAT.-Died
,rneJ WIllamstown, Mass, January 27th, Ishm'
states AituS, oo'oreu' % 'ne eN''"'lun"iy asc VI
fling or lIU years ne was oo[ sia'G III y, nl[s
expedition, the master of Ishmael was emp'
ed by the commissary to transport subsisteI
wing stores for the army, and took lshmael with h
~, SAILORS RIGHTs.-Mr. Summer has int
news uuoou ni'l i','o '"o o"''ou ''.%t0o' ~ H''o
.. .,o the United States it being an act for the p
1,"n = m ment of wages, in case of ships being lost
'Ia, This is now done under the English law.
NO. Summers bill provides that seaman shall
- paid their wages down to the time of the
reoJ. Of the ship in case they serve faithfully to
last.
L To CURE TOoTHACHE-Take paper OF
bacco, pour upon it wine glass ofwarm wa
y " squeeze out part of the moisture, anc after
li'uu cling the pulp upon slice of bread, apply il
u! 1 I plaster to the face. There is nothing ik
"ot'' .t for the toothache-and it is the only rem
y" ' for it in its worst form, the ague in the face
on the Sorc,r Go,xc The Atlantic which sa
curl ,rom Now York for Enrone on Wednes
Oh the last carried ont 81 .326 l67 ia. which is
largest sum ever sent out by single stean
show IL occaSioneu consioeraole tSih ." van s'
liquor but no uiaVoraO'e .iiuei'e VI" ''ie '''"ey
the market was perceptible.
an life m. c,...... t,,or, p,,, Tho h;u
J',u 'inra hbting the selling of liquor on Sunday