Smyrna times., 1856-09-10
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Mons DIsUNsoN Preston s. Brooks, in
speech at Columbia, South Carolina, Angus
y9th uttered most rash and reasonable sent
meats IN case the pending Presidential conteS
should be decided adversely to the wishes @
the South: 'ast ..s.. ....
Why should we refuse to take part in tn
battle! five are bound to have civil war
and if we must dissolve the Union, we must Il,
it with full appreciation of the consequences
lie thought there would be no chid's ola,
when the conflict did come
On the second Monday in November mex
the great question would be decided. For hi:
part, if Fremont, the traitor to his section
should be successful, it was his deliberate opin.
ion that on the fourth of March next the peo.
pie of the South should rise in their might.
march to Washington, and seize the archieves
and the treasury of the government We
should anticipate them, and force them to at
tack us.
BARNUM AGAIN IN CoURT.-Mr. Barnum was
again" hauled over the GOALS in the Proba te
Court, Stratford, Ct, en- Wednesdav,-the
c use being his application for the benefit ofthe
new Insoivent act. In consequence of the alb
sence OF his counsel, he asked a postponement,
which was not opposed. But nine of his credi-
tors appeared, and then made no opposition to
Mr BIS application, and it is believed thew
evil not. All now seem to consider him, as
ne himself expressed it thoroughly stripped
and squeezed out.
10 The National Intelligencer says:-
d" The length of the first session of CONGRESS
followed by the coercive attendance of the
members in an arduous and fatiging extra. ses-
sion, made them, at its close, SO eager to return
TO their homes, that we doubt if there is sim
gle one of either House remaining in the CITY.
except the Hon. John NJ. Clayton, of Delaware.
who, we regret to say, is detained by indis.
position from which he has suffered more or
less, during large portion of the session."
FxLLING OF THE BROADWAY THRATRE-A
portion of the Southern wall of the Broadway
Theatre, about thirty feet in width, and the
whole depth of the house, fell on Thursday
morning, with great crash. The destruction
was caused. by the excavations for Bowen 4, !
McNamee's new warehouse, though thew as |
sert that they are not to blame in the matter. |
There was much excitement on the subject in
the neighborhood of the Theatre on Thursday
night.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS mounted reoi.
ment OF United States troops have been ordered
TO New Mexico, and three companies of drap
oons to California, and four companies, under
Major Steen to Tucson.
~ Colonel H. D. Clayton, with a comnonv
Of iOO emigrants, left Nashville, Tenn, last
week, for Kansas
" An exchange says that down in New
Orleans it requires three persons to start a
tlrm; one TO die with the yellow fever one 10
get killed In duel and the third to wind up the
business.
Ut There was melancholy .humor in the
proposal, by an Irish member, to make suicide
punishable with death; but it appears that in {
England an attempt at suicide is a msdemean-
or punishable by imprisonment
W The first regular deer hunt of the sea.
son 10 Augusta county, Va, took place Ia
week. Thirteen deer were killed
OF" What is your incomet" asked tax.
payer Of red nosed citizen, with pondcrous '
punch. "Guess it's nearly two hOgsheuds I
year" t
0N7- hundred and fifty swindlers have been !
caught at the Astor House alone, by one of !
the waters, within six months past, trying to |
iefVe without paying for their n2eals
0J- Misers are like patent-leather boots :
the longer they last the brighter they become. a
FT Why is milkman like sailor! Be- d
cause he gets his bread by gater a
OF Gded roofs will not shut out sleepless t
nights. C
6F The rice crop of Georgia will, it is said.
be above the average this year.
W What man is there who, had he win ,
dow: dow IN his breast would not speedily close the
" The mortality among the children in $
our principal cities this season, is appalling. O
HoRRIBLE.-Six drovers were scalded tc
deatn on FRIDAY evening, in consequence of
collision on the Central Railroad, near Port By
ron. n