Smyrna times., 1857-04-15

very letter thrown into the box, places il ~,
Ter the stamp, where it receives the p.s,,a',.
md date. and throws it out again for dpliro,'
10 its destination. The general post otFco ~
made trial ofthe invention, winch has ,n,n'I
out satisfactorily, and it is now in treaty. vM
Nj. Sales for machines to be furnished 10 aM
the priAciPal post offices throughout France
SHOCKING MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI r,
Grenada (Miss.) Republican of the ~, ~,
gives the particulars Of the murder Of " ~
Hale, of Carrollton, on the 9th, by four tnnn
way negres. two men and two women !,
seems that having OveStaken and Captured ~
negroes, he was on his way hons. when ~
tween Troy and Carrollton, on the Trov roma.
the negroes attacked and murdered him ~:
then concealed the body iAthe woods, and m,%'l
their escape. The negroes were lodged :,
Jail.
0@T The reigning Emperor of China. Helm
Foung, ascended the throne in the wear Is5I
at 46 years. of age. HeiD-F Foung is the sevent
Emperor Of the reigning dynasty. or Tartn,'
Mantchou dynasty, whose Chief Tchoun-Tch,
was proclaimed in l644. According 10 ms
Chinese historians, the organization Of tho r.
lestial Empire dates from 3000 years before nm,
Saviour. The family of the reigning Er,na,a,
is composed of four sons and daughter. Tba
elder, YIh-We, heir to the throne is now 10,
years ofage.
The FLORIDA WAR.-A letter from " :be se..
OF war;" published in a New Orleans Journ.I
says:
"Gen. Harvey went out to the Cypress with
forty men, and returned on the Doth His in.
tentlon Is to capture the women and children.
If possible. lfthe Indians are not brought To.
terms before the middle of May, it never can
ho hoe
that experience and ingenuity can suggest. nnJ
We await the results'
great nation, it seems, cannot subdue tbo.
handful of savages left in Florida.
A REWARD FOR GEN WALKER.-It is stated
by the deserters from Gen Walker, that Gen
Mora the Commander of the Costa Ricans. has.
offered $4,000 for Walkers head or S20.OOO
if he can be captured and brought into their
camp alive. Furthermore, that il is the wish
of the Costa Rican government to Offer all Of,
Walkers men who desire to avail themselves
of it, an opportunity to leave their chief and
thus escape death.
THE VERMONT SUGAR CRop.-A corrcspon..
dent of the New York Express, writing from
Springfield, VT, says:
| have been a sugar maker for hirty.6ye.
years, and have never known so great run of
sap as we have had for the last seven DAYS
Much of 1t has run on to the ground for want
of proper receptacles to store it,
! | think Vermont will produce enough for her
own consumption, with some to spare.
0ST II twenty-seven inches of snow gives
three inches of water, how much milk will a
COW give when fed on rula-baga turnips. Mu-
tlpiy the flakes OF snow by the hair an the cows
tail; then divide the product by turnips; add a
pound of chalk, and the sum will be the an
swer.
OF Rev. DR.. I. T. Cooper, who took a SUE
pernumerary relation at the conference Of the
NJ. Church, held in Wilmington, has removed
to a place styled "Pigrim's Retreat" n:ar
Village Green, Delaware county, Pa.
MONEY FOR KANsAs.-In the Massachusetts,
House Of Representatives. on Friday, the resu-
lutious granting one hundred thousand dollars
TO aid the Free State settlers Of Kansas were
ordered to third reading by FOG yeas 10 Luz
nays.
Speaking of the effects of the Maine Liquor
law, the London Saturday Recleu says: -Scor-
land consumes more ardent spirits than any
other extant community, Geneva is the capital
of irrelgion, and New York of immortality"
0T The English Admiralty have taken up
80 first Class sailing ships fos the conveyance
of stores to China, evidently proSIdug for a
war OF some duration.
| o. BY a collision on the Columbia TaN
Railroad on Monday. four freight cars were de.
molished, locomotive destroyed, and Mr.. John
Huston, fireman, instantly killed. One person
was thrown over the telegraph wires
OF A negro slave at Louisville, Ky., drew
a prize of $1,000 in lottery, from whiclhis
master deducted the value OF the chatte4 and
gave him the balance and his freedom.
o. There were 126 deaths in Buffalo dsr-
ing the last month from scarlet fever. Lart
week 40. This is large mortality, from one
disease, when population IS taken INTO account.
0T II is said of the French ladies', that their
i fondness for effect runs to such an excess that
widows, who have lost their husbands, practice
attitudes of despair before looking-glass.
OF A breach of promise case has Just termi-
mated in Utica, N. Y, by which Mary Aram
gets 81 800 Of r. r. Jones for not marrying
her, as he promised to do.
or The Ohio Legislature has refused to
pass an amendment to the Constitution, requr-
ing adopted citizens to be residents of the State
year after procuring their naturalization pa.
pers before they are entitled TO vote.
/ 0T Recreation is a second creation, when
WEAKNESS has anuihiated ones spirits. 1t is
the breathing of the soul, which otherwise;
would be stiAed with continual business.
0ET Gibraltar is rock about three miles long
and halfa mile wide, connected with the main
land of Spain by a small sand beach. Many
Of the batteries are cut out of the solid rock,
and the guns are so arranged that at least one
hundred can be brought to bear on any given
point in the harbor.
6F The Chesapeake and Delaware canal is:
in navigable order, and boats are passing
through it bound to Philadelphia and other
points. ...t..
The six thousand Italians living in New
York, most of them in pov rly, have an opening
10 obtain an honest livelihood in the new street
sweeping operations. Italians are exclusively
employed, and they are said TO be excelle0f
workers.
A CoMET.-There is a telescope comet now
in the northwestern part of the sky, moving
eastward. II was observed through the arg'
equatorial Ofthe National Observatory at Wasll-
ington.