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Smyrna times., 1856-09-17

Nv ELL AND WISELY SAtO.-Mr. Underwood,
OF hentuckys commenting on the philippe of
Mr.. Cragin, of New Hampshire, made the fol.
lowing admirable observations -
go further than this: | recongnize fully,
and do all justice to the fact, that the white
laboring classes ofthe northern States are. in
many instances worthy and estimable people.
have passed among them in nearly every one
OF the northern States [ have cOnversed with
their husbandmen and mechanics II know them
10 be, IN many instances, respectable, trust
worthy, aud Independent. Yet further than
this have explored the depths of northern So
clety and L declare here, on the floor of Con-
gress, that never saw so much, moral and So
clal degratlon among our slaves as have seen
IN your large cities of the North, among the
large classes of white people, who dwell in
cellars and III garrets, in the heart of your
cltIes. have never seen anything like it in
the condition of slaves. | cannot say less. |
VIII not say more, on the subject. | say :his
much for the purpose of appealing to those who
are constantly Interfering with our institutions
10 pause, and see the folly of their supposed
philanthropy. You are mistaken in it. Sir,
do not know any greater or more fatal injury
that you could inlct on the negro than to strike.
as youa are pleased to call it, the shackles off
the slaye." Fhere is a problem which a dis.
tlngulshed gentleman on thls-hoor MIR. Banks
supposed, at one tune, was not settled; but,
SIR, think it is settled in regard to this ques-
tlon and that problem is as to the stronrei
race tramplmg down the weaker. 1t has been
SO 1t viii be so; it must be So And wher.
ever nature and God have marked difference
OF race, and have manifested the inferiorty o
the one, you cannot establish anything like
equality between them whilst living on the
same soil, 1t cannot be it must not be have
seen 1t attempted often; | have seen the ne
gro educated | have seen him gifted with for
Iune, blessed with atfiuence, and elevated b,
education beyond many thousands of white peo
pie who surrounded him, and after few year
have seen him again relapse into his natura
condition of settled interiority, aud social
pecunary and moral degradation. .... :.
81 long, then, as these relations exist, S
long as the line of demarkation fixed by tn
Almighty between the different classes of th
human family exists you must make CORES
PondIng DETERMINATIONS in your social organ
zallons.-AlO6iIe Daily State Register. i.
Smyrna times., 1856-09-17

f.ra.s - 60 l4 O. b
THE MooN.-Dr. Scoresby, in an account he
has given of some recent observations made
with the Earl ot tRosse's telescope, says 81
with respect 10 themoon, every object onIitsl
surface of one hundred feet was now distinctly,
to be seen, and he had no doubt that under fa-
vorable circumstahces, it would be SO with OBJ
ieets sixty feet in height. ''Oaits surface were
craters of EXTINCT Ivoloa noes, rocks and masses
of stones almost innumerable. He had no
doubt that If such a building as he .was,then. in
were upon the surface oil the moon, it would be
rendered distinctly visible by these Instruments
Bot there were no signs of inhabitants such as
ours--7no .vestige of.archiiecture Temainsl 10
show that the moon is or ever was Inhabited
by a race of morlals similar to ourselves. 1t
presents no appearance winch could lead to the
supposition. that it contained anything like. The
green fields and lovely yerduTe of This. ,beautir
| fuI world of ours. There was no water visible,
not a sea, ,or, river, or even the measure Of a
reservoir for supplying town or factofyA-all
seemed desolate.n .su assaa1us odi hnG ,hHe
i f.s-, ,fs II Il -frT-~.rsr.T --rfN hisq o3i1,
i or The gardeners at Cincinnati complain
that the crop Of fall cabbage has almost entire.
ly failed. Bad news for krout eaters. ''''''
1d6S- Stephen Coma, a ffee negro, bass beer
detected in Mobile, Ala, in circulating aboli
! tion documents, and ordered to leave the city
J in two days. sslF F-~.exoi4aA EiHorpo 3HT
OF A Heather Proverb---By the ananersao %
, tbs, child we may Judge of the ssnper0f ah'
'Io'is no''"q"s dlaos. bua sasibpl 'siao 's.asTi'
. N 1seaiaO 40 oaElq -
Smyrna times., 1856-09-17
Effects of Practical Joking.

Among the students from all parts of France
and, indeed, all quarters of the globe, who
come to Paris to enlOy the benefits of science,
the love of practical joking is passion. A
young gentleman from one of the provinces,
MIR. Henri, B., had come 10 Paris 10 pursue his
medical studies. lie was, unlike many of his
class, quiet, Industrious aud studiOus young
man, anxious to make all the progress in his
profession possible. Some other students, lodg-
ing in the same hOtels had taken a dislike to
him, because he refused to join in their orgies.
They gave him the nickname of" Mademolselle
Henri" They had also played him several
tricks, at which he only laughed: But, at last,
they practised a joke upon him of which the
consequences have been grave, and which the
young gentlemen engaged IN 1t now heartily
deplnre.
a few evenings ago, Henri B. went to bed,
somewhat tatigued, and was already half asleep,
when he heard slight rap upon his chamber
door, "Come ip," said, he. The person who
had knocked entered the room, without speak
ing, and advanced straight toward the bed
The next moment Henri felt a cold hand placed
upon his face. :" " Who's there I" demanded he
endeayOring TO overcome some 7n2 2tHral alarm
No answer lie repeated the question in a less
firm tone. Still no reply. A serious, terrible
4 terror seized upon the young man, in feeling
upon his face the cold hand, which seemed L
search for his throat. He seized the hand will
his own to push it away. Horror! This human
he nd detached itself from the arm and fell ,witl
dull sound, upon the bed At The same mo
ment voice whispered in the young mans ear
81 am HeIoise, to whom you were afianeed.-
You reiectedmy hand hut love you and agail
) offer it to you!" .,...... s
! Henri uttered shrek and tainted. From
that moment his fife has hung upon thread
and the physicians called, despair ofbeing abl
to save him. 1t is needless to add that tn
authors of the catastrophe had brought wit
] them an arm from their dissecting room, an
0 calculated only upon having little sport at III
|, expense of their fellow student. They had ne
counted upon soterrIble results and now re
penl their foolish conduct. 1t is to be hoped
d will serve them asa lesson for the future. =,
Smyrna times., 1856-09-17

.ea.ss yssai diis t''a a''i sai
Smyrna times., 1856-09-17

a.'0ssT- Gen. WALKER 'bas give6' otders to close
all the Iiqaor' shops IN Granada. mo Inoreil lii
qaor .eah he iobialned there for howe or, nloney.I
n In .-a..ah---.l Al y. L----.-..-L -.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

that in this object 70 succeed, ws shall have
ieIrsa Deneat On the State on religion and npon the
which must always arise from paupsr population; on
religion BY removing from the dsmorslzng Influences Of
tanning them within the salutary Of ths church
ana schools on the individual by providing for him =
home and restoring to him the long forgotten ties of
To .sain this desirable result desirable alike to the
christian and statesman, and TO the req usite
which are respectfully submitted to you In the 90.
proved report OF eur COMMITTEES Finance.
A vast mass Of most valuable Information laid
before our committees on lands In the United
states and Canada is intrus.ed to the discretion
OF the Directories OF several countries who charged
they exort you the class specially interested by the
strong claims Of kindred blood creed for your own
credit Of the Catholic character for the Of he
Lh name for the removal of reproach in the high
places 70 act with us will act with you ia good
isth with one another, and with all the world until
last every second man amongst you who the At
lsntc in search Of Independence ssy with truth
that he has found 1t.
Secondly, we address ourselves to thoes Of our
brethren more favored by fortune who have already
secured for themselves those social advantages which
our object to extend to all We ask of them their
aens; We ask The benefit Of their experiences and tn
what no may do much to expedite this movement
40 ich in this worlds goods exalted In station
who will be affected either Tor good evil by the re-
suits which must theteirom flow.
Lastly, srdently desire, in this great enterprise
that invaluable episcopal sanction which with
held from any lawful effort to promote the we'll being of
the fiiendiess and the poor, In the early days of
Europe that same sanction gave to England her
civilization to France her government to Germany her
unity, and to all the continent ages Of progress
We are Low iu early days" in America and both
hearts and intellect instruct look to the
orc or TOR the highest ,i,n If goOd works aud the
warmest approval Of grduous duties, undertaken in
spirit Of Christian charity. Conscious OF motives
nSH we a, no other ends than such a. our
ing 10 employ only such as are lawful peecexble
and jnstwe presume to invoke tho Deasng OF God on
this work for whose greater homo and glory II now
deli osla ely Undertaken. E. MCMAHON, Chairman
After the adoption OF the foregoing the Convention ad
Journea sine die subject TO the call OF Supreme d.
tectory.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

A WINDFALL FOR THE ORPHANs.-Mr Thomas
H. Beveridge, his wife and her mother Mrs. Margaret
Beekey, living with them were all swept off by the
days, leaving two fine little boys one seven and the
other ten years old, sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. b., who
were taken into the Howard Asylum. The family
were very poor, and their effects amounted to mere
trife Some articles Of old furniture appraised at
thirty dollars, belonging to Mrs. Beekley, were or
dered by the Court to be sold for the benefit Of the
children and were accordingly sent to Merwin &
Harrington, auctioneers, to be Sold Among the
articles was an old mahogany bureau, with desk
drawer at the top and for want OF the key the desk
was forced open previous to putting 1t up for sale,
upon the suggestion that it might contain something
Of value and such was the fact, for on opening it
the pleasant discovery was made Of one hundred and
fifty dollars in gold neatly tied up in little bag.
or course the money goes To the poor little orphan
boys,--NorfoM Herald.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17
A Soldiers Plan for Cleaning the Streets.
TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERALD.

Knowing you to be protector of the public in
terest, l have taken the liberty through your
columns of making suggestion TO the municipal
authorities regarding the present condition of our
streets, of what they might be made by direct ap-
plication through proper channel. There are
thousands Of able bodied persons receiving support
through our Commissioners of Emigration, and
have computed that support at not less than thirty
seven cents per person day, which we tax payers
therefrom. Now, If the proper authorities would
but put every able bodied male pauper that are now
receiving such benefit on our public streets, with
shovel in hand, and together with proper overseer
it actually costs to support them in idleness in
my opinion there would not remain single street
within the jurisdiction of this great metropolis that
would not be perfectly accessible. At least. think
Broadway should be cleaned in order that the mill
tary may have ground sufficient and passable to
enable them to pay those respects to the memory of
Washington, the approach Of which natal day they
will greet with an American welcome on the 22d.
PRIVATE OF SEVENTH REGIMENT, N. G.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

The Terpschorean exercises continued with un-
absted aest until the small hours Of the morning began
quickly to roll past and not until four O'Clock
A. NJ that any Of the happy folks thought Of departing
for their homes. As the company by left the
sscon, with sweet music ringing softly in their ears not
few glances were thrown back towards the windows of
the Illuminated building, where the forms Of those de-
termned on remaining behind up to the last moment
might be seen gracefully moving in the steps Of the
" "varsovianna" and !" "EsmeraldA." The Metropolitan
e will be long and avorably remembered BY those who
ments Afforded Thursday evening last. Vive e Car
naval Vire le danse
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17
Fashionable InteIlireuo..

Fashaonable Intelligence.
GRAND BALL OF THE METROPOLITAN AssoCrA r7oH.
Never, perhaps st. Valentines evening looked for
with such anxiety and pleasure upon the occasion Of
the grand ball Of ths Metropolitan Association At shsk
pere Hall, Thursday last. The event was one which
viii b. long impressed upon the minds and hearts Of tae
gay and fashionable the ball Of the seasonths grande
patie de par Of 1885, The evening chosen for the oc-
casion most fitting one-that Of St. valentne's
Dsy-when all tbs youth and beauty Of the metropolis
are alike enchaned In Cupid's fondest smiles; when
the fashionable gent,
In all the flush OF modern taste,
Oft turning, II the day be fair,
To view his shadows graceful air,
inagines himself fitting Bridegroom for queen, and
Struts In all the joys Of show
That tailors give or beeux can know.
cay when lovely women,
- Through the airy region stream so bright
That bircs would sing ana thiuk IL was not night
think only Of the ways and OF fascinating "some
particular star In ioveI ornament, without at
fordDg the fortunate but perplsxed swain the slightest
clue to the object of all his happiness.
1t was with feelings of than ordinary graffca-
ton, therefore, that pursuance of the following nvi
tation attended the ball Of the Metropolitan Asso-
ciatton:-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17
Obituary.

mond, Va, died on Friday, aged sixty-eght years.
The deceased was wounded in the attack on Tripoli
in 1904, while serving as a mdshpman. In the war
Of 1872 he was with the Richmond Light Infantry
was State Senator and at the time of his decease
was Major General in command of the eastern div
sion Of Virginia militia.
JAMES BALLARD, soldier of the Revolution, died
in Spottsylyania county, Va, the LIST inst. He en-
listed at the age Of le, and served for two years in
the patTiQtRTpy,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

THE NEXT New YORK STATE FAIa-At
the executive meeting, it was determined to
hold the next Fair Of the State Agricultural Society,"
on Sept. 30, Oct. l, 2, and 8, at Watertown, pro-
the Executive Committee, before the LIST Of April
next,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17

Rev. J. Britton, Jr., now OF Williamstown. has
concluded an arrangement to become the pastor Of
the Universalist Society at West Concord, Vt
church building effort is in progress in London.
England with the view Of collecting the largo sum
OF f600,000 to build one hundred churches, Lord
Robert Grosvenor being the moving spirit The lis
OF subscriptions commence with the Crown, 100000:
the Duke OF Bedford, 100000; the Marquis Of West
minter, flO 900.
Some fellow who ia good at figures has cyphered
out "a room sixteen feet wide' for everybody that
goes to heaven. Here is the way he doesit:-
"Apd he measured the city with the reed twelve
thousand fur.ongs The length and the breadth and
the height of it are equal."-(R REV. 2l:l7)
Twelve thousand furlongs, 1920, 900 feet which
being cubed 496 1853 0ss 096 600 900 900 cubic feet.
Half Of this will reserve for the Throne Of God
and the Court Of Heaven, and half the balance for
streets, leaving remainder Of 1874 l9s, ,272 900 O0O
100000 cubic feet Divide this by 4096, the cubical
feet in room sixteen feet square, and there will b.
30,32l 843, ,750 100000 rooms. We will suppose
the world always did and always will contain 9O0y-
600 900 inhabitants, and that generation lasts for
$50 years, making in all 100000 900 every GEN.
tufy, and that the world win stand 400 900 years
making in all 27O 600 900 900 goo inhabitants Then
suppoee there were one hundred worlds euuaI "a
this number Of inhabitants and duration of yeara
making a total of $1,000 900 900 900 900 persons
Then there would be room sixteen feet wide for
each lersop, and yc! there would be room.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-17


FELLOW CouNTRYMEN AND Co REIIGIoNHTS-Deeply af-
hcted BY the sad condition Of many Of race and
creed whom poverty and social persecution have driven
from their homes in the old world to seek home the
new, but Who too oen from causes 10 needless here
recapi ulate have never known the realization of their
hopes end who still remain the shores Of this great
continent house hapless, misappreciated we
irrhmen and Catholics have met together In the le-
gtms exercise of n6oubed rights citizens and
fIeemen TO see whether With the advice Of
clergy and invoking the beapsing of God upon abor
means nigh not be devsed and machinery In scon
TO smeliorate in mediately and permanently the cond
ton moral and material, Of the Catholic immigrant
America We are agreed that the social condition OF
many Of the Irish iansed AmericA 10 time is
what beneath that Of emgrants from other countries Of
equal opportunity and much below that of natives OF
no greater industry and In diligence. We agreed
that although there be and continue to be great
prejudice against this people that si can by the
Of our emancpated energies, materially
nera,ion We are agreed that to mplsh this most
reecfu change, II is necessary to concentrate all your
hearta and wills the special duties which waited
vben We landed on these In this project all
orders OF society, rich and poor, whether nstve or
foreign born, are alike interested We rowing In
cur MIDST state OF things not unsmilar to that which
N the Old world menaces order morals and Christian
civilization. II is fact admitted by the writers tie
political economy Of Europe that the social fabric
css 10 whom the acquisition of land is absolutely i'm.
possible and who have NJ hopes Of permanently i'm
proving the condition OF themselves their poterty
such class In such country this ought to be for
ceme unkno~H We have the land; there exist the
rtr which that land may be made accessible TO the
!" i..6 ~ our population; TO apply these means TO
IT, "a the great object of our convention Assuming
New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-23

We give to-day additional letters from Kansas
in which the fearful condition Of things In that
Territory is painfully apparent. The whole plot
by which it is expected to eliminate the tree'Soh
element from the Territory is now evident Inc
same means of force and violence originally en-
ployed to FIX upon Kansas bogus Legislature, IN
the election OF which the resident inhabitants were
allowed no participation, are now directed against
the doomed City of Lawrence, to reduce it TO i'm
plcit submission to this usurped authority. The
detcstsble attempt, which failed last Winter,
seems now ON the point Of more successful accom-
plisbment All the more active and conspicuous
of the Free State leaders are hunted down Ike 30
many wolves-pursued, seized and detalned-no~
by volunteer mobs which do not pretend to any
authority except their own will and pleasure, and
pos by similar mobs assembled posses to sheEfis
ard marshals Gov. Robinson, seized without the
least lawful warrant for il by mob at Lexington,
Missouri has. il is said, been sent for BY Gov.
Shannon to be carried back TO Lecompton 70 an
aver 10 an indictment for high treason. We con-
iasr him in danger of assassination at any moment
he ,ba villains into whose hands be has fallen.
Gov Reeder had ned for his life. AT the ia" &c
commit. he had not been taken, and We trust he Will
succe.d in efiectipg his escape and in reapPearng
a, Washington, there to make known to the House
Of Representatives what respect has been pad 70
their safe conduct, under which he mus' Dc
considered to have revisited the Terrific
~ to prosecute his claim TO seat
in the House. Lawrence is surrounded, as II was
last winter, by bands Of desperadOes who stop 'ra'
elers examine wagons, plunder their contents ana
arrest wlom they please. Nor is this confited 10
the vicinity Of Lawrence. The sa he thing Is 60
ine On throul hout the Territory. Editors OF Free
State papers are especial objects OF search sud
seizure. &r. Brown, the editor Of the Lawrence
New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-23

'rsry, like the Epicuresn philosopher described ~
Lucretius sts apart elevated on the lofty and eser-
nal rock of Straight whiggey, above the vulgar
tumut that rages below, its principles having been
all out and dried for il in the resolutions of sundy
Wing caucuses held from ten to twenty years since,
and it's candidate nominated to its hsnd by tho
South Americans who controlled tho late Phila-
delphis Convention.
what blessed thing" eIclaims The Com.
rntreiaI almost out Of breath at the sight Of the
tumult about it" What blessed thing just now
"to be Wing, and under nc obligation to present
ga candidate for the Presidency" But while
The Commercial thus comfortably sips its old
Straight. Whg Madeira, leaving the country and
the Presidency to go to ruin, it does profess
to feel some little touch of sympathy for its Whig
friends who have gone into the Republican move
ment. 1t fears they are engaged in pursuit Of "a
"pkantom that will ever evade their grasp" The
phantom" as The Commercial esteems it, Of
which the Republicans are in pursuit is an honest
and able administration of the Government for the
equal benefit of the whole country. Such pur-
suit. even if unsuccessful, is, 10 our opinion, far
more credtable than tamely to resign the admins
tration of affairs as The Commercial would have US
do, into the hands of whatever political gsmester
may happen to control the Cincinnati Convention.
New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-23

The Legislature of Connecticut failed to elect o
L. S. Senator yesterday, through division be-
tween the American" and the Republican"
members. We deeply regret this and think the
Republicans" are making mistake which en-
dangers the State in the Presidential Election.
When a majority of the Anti-Nebraska members Of
the Ohio Legislature last Winter nominated Sem
ator Wade-whois a Republican and no" Amer
ican"-,he Americans" generally and promptly
came to bis support and elected him on the first
ballot though some of them preferred another.
Now that the tables are turned in Connecticut we
exhort our friends there to do Likewise. They
might probably by persistence force the "Ameri-
cans" to drop Mr. Dixon and take up some one else;
but that would cause a hesrtburniog which It is
their interest aud duty to avoid. They are doing
the work of Fillmore and Douglas at present, and
pladdenng the hearts of their btterest enemies
throughout the land. We pray you, friends, not to
doom the champions of Free Kansas to see the
name of Isaac Toucey standing at the head OF the
poll for single day longer.