Smyrna times., 1855-05-02
General 3nteIIiqente.

ORA London letter by the Nashville STATE.
that the tone 0f the American papers, in refer
ence 10 Cuba,ls beginning to cause great uurn
slness III commercial circles in England. Ioni.
Napoleon Is said to have Il far stronger nr,u-
dice against any interference with Cuba. than
the English GOcvrnmcnt, but there is no GtuLt
that they will act together.
GS7-A correspondent of Hunts Mercbant
Magazine expresses the belief that the table
salt OF our market will, in three years, be sup
piled by the Virginia salt mines; and even now
grocers cannot do bett,,r than to send to the.
salt mines OF Vrgiania for pure salt, for the
supply OF their customers who want a good ar
tlce.
o. The Van Buren, MteLigencer Of March
3Oth says that it has been mathematicallV lr,y.
ed and practically demonstrated that the Ar
kansas river will no more be fit for ma vi.g;i,ion
The banks have fallen into such an exten, ps
to widen the bed Of the river immeasurablu
requiring larger body of water than usually
come down in ordinary rises to furnish its thir-
ty bars and to fill up the bed The oniv d.
pendance now is the Railroad
0@F' G. A. Evans, arrested in Richmond .,
few days ago, charged with ATTEMPTING to n,,.
$500 counterfeit note on the bank NJ E,.tn,,
Md, on Mr.. f. Slaughter, of Frcdrricksburo
has made his escape from the jail ol that CITY.
III company with another prisoner
o. Letters from Shanghai of late date
received at New York, report that the French
were preparing 10. make another attack nno,.
! the city The blocade OF the CITY mort was
maintained. From Canton it is reported that
The rebels held the approaches to the city, but
had recently met with several reyerses.
/ " The amount Of gold shipped from Mel
bourn Australia, and Geelong, since the di.coyr-
ry of gold to 18th Of January lS:lj, reaches the
enormous sum Of G24, 73s, l00--ncarly $I2O.-
OOOOO0.
G1l~Dr. Peck publishes in the New Oriesn,
papers an extended statement Of his arrest and
Imprisonment in Cuba. lie states that his tr,ar
mrnt very harsh aud Ie na k,s a claim oIa
the Spanish Government for compensation.
o. Orr, (alias the Angel GabricO has goe.
IN trouble at Grecmock, Scotland. Sont To-.
prison for sixty days His friends, eco. .ONO
srong) tried to rescue him--but did not sue
cecd.
BOUNTY LAND APrLIcArIdYs.-We learn
from the Washington Union tiai the vhol.
number OF appca'ons for bounty land und,r
tho act of March B. lSj5, received at the PEN
sion Office up to this datc amount to ninety
thousand six hundred.
67~An intelligent farmer of Virginia has
informed the Fredericksburg HeraId that he
Is satisfied from careful examination. that the
JOINT worm is peculiar to wheat, rye &C. and
could be destroyed if the farmers would plonrb
IN the stubble before the 18th OF April when
the worm is hatched. The least moisture de-
stroys them.
/ 1t was seventeen years last Monday. since
the first Atlantic steamer arrived at New York
The Sirius, Capt. Roberts, who was subse0uen,-
I ly lost by the President, arrived early in the
morning, and few hours afterwards the Great
Western.
| OF BY law recently passed in Michigan.
married woman may receive, buy, sell, devise.
mortgage, &c, her real and personal pronertv
without the consent of her husband. and also
sue aud he sued, without joining the husband
! IN the suit in either case.
6- James Little and David Jacobs, married
men have been arrested,a are in Jail at Bloom
ngton, Indiana, for eloping with Anpeline
kmberin and Mary Wisely, two girls whose
heads were turned by reading ronances Tho
two men are likely to go to the pemitentiary.
0%-7- 1t is said that large number of the.
! population of Rochester, n. Y. are about 10 re-
move to Canada, owing to the passage SS the
/ Maine law.
C65-About one hundred and fifty men paraded
the streets of Buffalo on the 10Th instant. ON y
strike, not for an advance of wages but ns
their banners indicated, .'cash for their work
and no orders''
W Orders have been issued to the police of
/ Boston. TO arrest all female street walkers az
ter dark. They are to be brought mn ON the
New York plan.
! 6T The Legislature of Louisiana enacted
severe penalties for carrying concealed wea-
pons.
0e5- In Orange county, Florida, which has
/ population Of four hundred persons. thor. has.
not been death for twelve months
U2- The San Francisco San, of March, ii.
states that htty-twO murders had been commit.
ted IN that State since the first day OF February
averaging more than one a day.
O3- The Newport Ne,rs saws that Mr.. Strat-
ton, the Snowman, the father of the well known
Gen. Tom Thumb, is an inmate of the Iartf,r3
Lunatic Asylum.
OJ~A specimen ofpaper manufactured from
the common cane, the bamboo of the Mississin-
Pl river has been exhibited at St. Louis. and
is highly approved.
81 St lons contains a population Of over
| IOO'OoO souls, and its merchants are not at this
Time Time able to supply the demands for goods from
| Western merchants.
o. Eleven huge blocks of Tennessee mar.
( Bile, tor the Washington National Moup,,,.n,