Smyrna times., 1855-08-29
B r T. YITIE s.

valued at $l45,l2O.
0~F The Bounty Land Warrants issued up
to the 2lst of August, number 20,586. The
number OF applications received is 206,SO0
0CF Forty-fivc recruits for the United States
Cavalry have lately been obtained at Westmin-
ster, Virginia.
0FThe corn crop is superabundant in Scott |
county, KY, and contracts are ina king at fifteen
cents per bushel
0~r The Missouri Wine Company at ST. |
Louis are manufacturing champagne from
grapes grown in their own States.
G.7- The cholera is said to be gradually spread
ing over the south of France.
0CF Several men to Join the Kinney expedi-
ton, left Chicago a few days ago
61- NJ. A. Dumas has been appointed by
the French Government TO collect all the popu.
lar ballad poetry of the South of France.
VI The Carolina Times noninates Judge
Douglas for President, and James l.. Orr, tor
Vice President.
W The Tioga Pa.) Agitator places at its
head the names OF S. p. Chase, of OHIO for
President, and David Wlmot of Pennsy lyania,
Vice.
! 0N3- On the 9th of June 232, ,4G3 acres ofpub-
lie lands were sold at Dubuque Iowa, for 25j,-
5Sl in cash.
| RELTEF-At a town-meeting in Baltimore
S2,3U5 were subscribed for the yellow fever
sufferers in Virginia.
(EF In 1915 five Methodists settled in Phila-
delphia and formed the first Methodist Society
in America. ln lsJ5, one hundred years la
ter, the Methodist Church in the United States
numbers over tour millions Of worshippers
OF We perceive by the St. Louis papers
that Mr.. Elliott of Baltimore, the renowned
grOnat, was to make ballun ascension from
that city on the 20th, Oh horseback
0r The Newport Ne0S announces as the
belle of the season, Miss SchaumUcrr, O, Pn.la-
delphla. Fortunate creature.
G5- The Lynchburg Vrgiman reports that
the tobacco was sold IN that city on Wcdncs-
at the high figure of S52 hundred.
0C.T' Our very manner is "A thing of inpor.
lance. A kind no Is often more agreeable than
a rO gh ycs.
0'F The Colonization Hcrald, for August.
, informs us that Mr.. Brantord, Of Richmond.
Va, who lately emanclpated and sent to l.lbe-
; ria, c0lOred family and five children
has caused to be erected for them suitable
; buildings, with all the comforts OF life.
) o. why don't you get up earlier, nv
son - said an anxious father =. Don't Won So,
I the flowers spring out Of their bed at dawn :!
: ." Yes, father, see they do; and | would do
I the same If / had as dlrlya bed as they nave
~ According to the Albany Express, tho
\ total investment in railroads in the State o
New York ~ Sl3O 900 600
E3- The following toast was recently river
! by "strcken" young man: The ladies'
may we kiss The girls we please, and please th,
girls we kiss.
63- Woman's eye appears most beautiful
when 1t glaDces through a tear, as the light o
, Il star seems more brilliant when it sparkles OF
a wave.
. OF Mr.. John e. Hamilton is about to pub
llsh the remaining volumes of his father, Alex
ander Hamilton.
: 0I- Innocence is n flower which wither
when touched, but blooms not again thousI
r watered with tears
Treat ladies favor with respect,
Good will OF women necr neglect
No man e'er sighted woman vet.
, But found good cause for sharp regret.
: = 0E~3- The prisoners confined in the iail a
Toledo, Ohio, set it on fire on Tuesday n,pb
i with the hope of escaping; some of them com,
= near suffocating, but none escaped--the flame,
were subdued with but slight damage.
0r5-' Do you think" asked Mrs Pepper
rather sharply, "that little temper is a bac
thing IN woman ~
= Certainly not, ma'am," replied the gallan
nhllnSnnhnr. -
ought never to lose it
Mrs p. did not consider that this view O
# the subject exactly met her case, but she tool
n the philosophers arm, and went down to supper
e with hlm quite graciously.
Ger all the world four things we find,
Which leave no mark or trace behind.
The eagle soaring bold and tree,
b The ship which ploughs the ioaming sea,
/ The snake as Ger the rock he slips,
And lovers kiss o er maiden lips
" soldier on trial for habitua drunken.
ness, was addressed by the preside Mt: 4" pris
I Oner, you have heard the prosecution fo- habitb
5 a. drunkenness, what have you to say in de-
e fence I"
;. +" Nothing, please your honor but an hab:ua
thirst"
+ " Money IN your purse will credit you
a wisdom IN yonr head adorn you-but both il
D your necessity will serve you.
o. Have sufficient courage TO speak to .
poor friend, even in the street and when a ricL
one is nigh. The effort is not so great a,
many may imagine, and the act is worthy of .
l King.
G~ Iionors come by diligence-richnes.
springs from economy.
" Ovid says, "love is kind of warfare. ~
, Well 1t is: 1t sOrter "knocks Teller.
Not by strength, but by Oft falling,
The water wears the stone:
Not by force, but by oft reading,
Is learning made our own. ,a...s..
" No man would overcome and endure