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Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
Original articles.
Written for the Smyrna Times
WHAT I SAW and WHAT THOUGHT.

saw fast young man riding after pair of
fast horses, and thought he'd better 90 and
pay the tailor for the coat he had on his back.
saw speculator gambling in Railroad
stocks, and thought he'd better pay the butcher
for the last pound of beef he bought.
saw farmer having an elegant sofa and a
costly centre-table placed in his parlor, and
thought he'd better pay his poor neighbor for
chOpping wood for him six years ago.
saw young mechanic buying an imported
silk tor his dear wife, and l thought he'd better
hire physician to go see the sick babe he left
at home.
saw gentleman purchasing a rosewood
piano for his daughter, and paying a French
master to teach her music, and thought he'd
better pay for the tow frock his servant cast off
last month.
saw young gent flying around with the
girls, and spending lots of money at parties and
watering places, and though. he'd better pay
his washcr-woman the little bill she had asked
him for so often.
saw another young man going in debt for
fine carriage and long whip, and thought
he'd better buy, and read, and remember the
sayings Of a certain defuuct individual know
as " Poor Richard
| saw a minister shaking hands with his
friends at a political meeting, and l thought
he'd better be at home comforting the family
of his poor parishioner who died that morning.
saw a laboring man sitting back at club.
room, smoking cigars and drinking champagne,
and thought he'd better be at home making
fires for his wife, while she darned his stock
ings,and patched the children's tattered clothes
saw an affectionate father striving to OBJ
tain clerkship for his son in the great city,
aud thought he'd better set him to digging up
the stumps in that piece of new ground of his
in the country.
/ saw a fond mother filling her daughter s
head full of French and the fashions, and
thought she'd better be teaching her how to
sew and support family.
| saw soting papa preparing his children
to attend the village dancing-school and /
thought he'd better keep them al home, and
teach them good morals and respect to their
seniors.
saw a husband attending parties, and smi-
ling and saying pleasant thiRgs to all the girls
in the neghborhood, and l thought he'd better
keep part Of his love for his wife, who was at
home taking care of the children.
l saw a wife futtering around among her
neighbors, and spending her time on Crotchet
Work and Greek Embroidery, and | thought
she'd better 60 home and mend that big hole in
her husbands drawers.
saw daughter staying up all night at a
fashionable ball, and thought she'd better be
at home, nursing her sick mother, who was ex-
pected to die next day of consumption.
l saw ffteen-year-old boy attending col
lege, and studying Latin and Greek. and
thought he'd better be at home, learning how
to read, and write, and cipher, and helping his
father dig potatoes and ausk corn. 5.
Isawa great many other things, and thought
I'd say more about them some other time.
Respectfully, SPY.
Smyrna, November 9th, 1857.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

AN EXTENSIVE FARMER.-A correspondent OF
the silver Creek Mirror says that Col Jacob
Carroll, OF Texas, is the largest farmer in the
United States. He owns $50 600 acres ofland
(nearly 800 square miles,) in this and ad Joining
counties. His home plantation contains about
5000 acres, nearly all valuable bottom land,
along the Guadalupe river. On this farm he
has over 600 acres in cultivation, on which he
raises annually about 800 bales OF cotton. worth
at the plantation from $S75 TO $500 per bale,
and 10000 bushels of corn, worth about 81 80
per bushel. lie has force of about fifty field
hands, and he works about sixty mules and
horses, and fifteen yoke of oxen.
Col. Carroll has, on his immense ranges of
pasture lands, about one thousand horses and
mules, worth $4,000; one thousand head Of
cattle, worth $1,000; six hundred hogs, worth
$4,000; three hundred Spanish mares, worth
$4,000; fifty jennles, worth 81 900; fifteen
jacks, worth $4,000; and five staIions worth
$2,5OO. Colonel Carrol's property, in stock
and negroes, is worth at least $l50,000; and
the value of his landed estate will swell the
amount to over half a million of dollars. His
annual income from the sale of stock amounts
to from $4,000 to $4,000; and from the sale
OF cotton, to from $4,000 to S20,000.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

OuR FOREIGN. 500 immi-
grants from Europe, arrived at New York DUR
ing the month of October last. Increase over
October, 1856, LIPS. Panic, or no panic,-
hard times. or soft,-our " foreign relations"
are bound to come. Where the bread that is
to feed them is coming from, this wintcr,--if
they stay III the Empire City-and have not
brought it along with ihem-is profound mys-
terry (which mnst be left to the Ten Governors
10 solve. iis ga1o.u431 I3d - s..3...
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

RETRENCHMrNT.-As rettenchment is the
ordcr OF the day, We would advise economy
where least injury will inure TO the people
The public printing plunder," according to
the statement Of United States Senator, now
amounts to two millions of dollars for one Con.
gress!
Ten years ago the cost Of the printing for the
two Houses Of Congress, for both sessions, did
not exceed $270,000. This included paper,
binding, and all other expenses.
The expense Of the Superintendant's office
alone now costs the Government over $4,000
for each Congress, which we consider SO much
money thrown away.
Vi has been asserted that sufficient number
OF members of Congress have been secured TO
continue the "printing plunder' under the
present system. We do not believe it; but,
on the contrary, we feel confident that Con-
gress will cause general reform to be made
before another printer is elected Washing ton
States.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
OSe

BURGLAR IN THE House OF JUDGE-A
Foot Race . BY the Court. The Buffalo pa
pers say that a bold but odd sort of burglary
was committed at the residence of Judge Mas
ten, on Thursday morning, between two and
three o'clock. The burglar effected an en-
trance into the kitchen by pryIng into one Of
the windows. He then ransac cked the kitchen
pantry, gathered up the provisions it contained,
put them in a basket, and took them out of the
back door to the gate, where he had also placed
a fine buffalo robe, pair of Judge Ms boots,
and the burglars shoes. From the kitchen he
proceeded to the cellar, where he eat part of
loaf OF bread and drank part offs pan of milk
His next move must nave been through the
kitchen lut0 the hall, where we're hanging five
overcoats, which the artist gathered up and
laid by the parlor door, convenient for transport
tatIon. Just outside the door he had placed
large plated water pitcher. HIS last Journey
was into the Judges bed room, where, as he
was placing his hand on a table, wakenCd the
Judge. Supposing it to be his daughter who
had come from the adjoining room he asked,
Who's there's" THIS unexpected and proba-
bly, unwelcsme interOgatory startled the indi-
yidual, and off he ran. ... ...........
Justice was not bindSolded Just then and
gave chase TO the thief The fellow ran
" the Court, mot in judicial ermine but dressed
in pure white, (night-shirt) took after him down
the lawn, and over the fence into Franklin
street. 1t is supposed that the foot race down
franklin was one of the prettiest specimens Of
pedestransm ever known in this region. The
Court was gaining on the burglar. but the lat
ter stripped to it as he ran, throwing oil his
coat and rushing across the street, jumped over
Mr.. Grosyenor's fence, and ran into the large
vacant lot in the reaF. . The Judge being bare,
foot and no. in running costume mere aoanaonea
the pursuit, and returning picked up the fellows
coat and car; !; the latter a peculiar one, which
very likely may lead TO his detection. In his
coat pocket were found the plated spoons all of
lwhiOh had been taken from the KITCHEN Closet
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
Choice Poetry.
Wriuen for the Smyrna Times.
T r A G. III K MT,

lis said, we've Virtues walk--a path of bliss
In which all may tread, beneath the skies,
And foreaste The sweets of Paradise.
Then, happy. happy sphere-a world like this -
Where rich flowers bloom. where Pleasures rare
May illumine hearts and Danish care.
No clouSs desponding ought The sky psrvade,
And Hope, like musIc's voice from heaven,
Should soothe when strongest ties are riven;
Whilst wicked angry strife ought ne'er degrade
And pOute the earth, the air or sea
Where the LORD is wont that PEACE should be
RAMBLING JOE.
Smyrna, November 3lh
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

0EF The financial revulsion has not only
greatly checked The tide of emigration, but has
also occasioned the return- of lJrge number
of recent emigrants to their own country
Numbers are lesving from our ports. The
Dreadnought, hence for Liverpool few days
since, took out $40 emigrdnt passengers. most
ly destined for Ireland. II is thought that the
tide of Irish emigrants will hereafter be chiefly
directed TO Australia. .''f'A a'' ''A- y '''of,
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
Manufactures in California.

People have long ceased wondering at any
accounts OF progress in civilization IN CalItur
MA, since 1t was known, almost from the start,
that the wealth ofthe State attracted towards
it all manner of luXurIes. AT later date we
were amazed by Its extraordinary fertility, the
great variety OF soil, climate and organic pro-
duCtions which it presented, and the prompt
ness with which agriculture had developed
them, so that IN a very few years it will proba-
bly, present wealth of vegetable production
unknown to any country in the world out ofthe
tropics. Our last wonder, and by far our best
reason for cOngratulatng the Eareka State, is
TO be found in its advance in manufactures.
AT the Mechanics Far lately held in San
Francisco, specimens OF native manutactuT
were exhibited, the list OF Hhich presents many
curious items In il, according to alphabetical
order and the great source OF prosperity of the
State, the first item is that OF "essays and as
saying implements" Ales of different kinds
testify to brewing, while awnings, ambrotypes,
and artificial flowers show al the very outset
progress IN luxury. Bat this is characteristic
OF the whole list In ii we find the fullest in
dcatluns OF a sound, healthy, industrial de-
vclopment with corresponding degree OF art.
1t Is evident that machinery Is made in great
variety in CaiItcrna, and that all varieties OF
metal work are perfectly understood there
Steel engraving, stained glass, paao,fortes,
cameos, ivory work, pcrlumery, wall paper, and
even "toys of all kinds" seem in company with
every kind of manufacture known TO cur East
ern cities, singular indications of progress in a
country which was ten years ago u bowling
wilderness. They may not seem strange to
those familiar with the country; for to nothing
does the mind SO readily accustom itself as in
dustrIal progress aud prosperity but 1t is worth
noting, since it is beyond dispute that, in the
entire history of mankind, there is no instance
of advance in manufactures recorded to be com.
pared i'll the slightest degree with that Of Cali
tornla.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
WHOLE NO., BAT.

The DECAY OF THE As1ATIC RACEs.-The
Friend Of India, by far the ablest of the papers
IN India, some months since had very able and
eloquent examination of the hitherto dominant
races throughout the whole continent of Asia.
1t showed that all were sinking away from in
herent and circumstantial reasons Since then
the Bengal mntiny, which must end in giving
British India completely into the hands of its
conquerors, serves 20 confirm the following con-
cluslOns of the article referred to-
"All history shows that indigenous Asiatic
races require the direction of a dominant class
Industrious, hardy, and with many of the quali-
ties essential in the development of civilization,
they seem to lack social force India was in
the days OF AurungZebe what she was in the
days of Ram. China is now what she was
thousand years ago. The Greek rayahs of Tur-
key are what the Greek peasant was in the
days of CantacuZcne. Their numbers even do
not materially change. They do not advance,
and need the directing force of a progressive
race. 1t remains but to speculate on The races
TO whom this high function must be assigned
They must be Europeans, for Europeans alone
have acquired the necessary superiority in arms
OF Europeans the English and Russians alone
display capacity for the permanent administra-
ton OF subject people. 1t is to their hands that
we beive Asia to be ntrustcd. The advance
OF Russia will be checked by no humanity and
few scrnplcs. That Of England may, but she
obeys the irresistible impulse the more thor
oughly for her occasional recoil. Year by
year the TWO powers close in toward each other
and ii the future may be predicted from the ex-
perlence of the past, another century will see
this quarter OF the globe governed from London,
Washington and st. Petersburg.''
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

"WoMAi'H FEATuRE- OF THE TuMuLr.-
Lola Montez, we see, is delivering public lec-
lures in Philadelphia, on Woman, and other
such thing" If Lola were in New York now,
she would have free field for the exercise of
heripeculiar genius Only one woman, as yet.
has made her appearance in /" the Park, +" and
Tompkins Square---Mrs.R Rank. l.-.a ~
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
TRUTH.
HERALDRY Us. AGRICULTURE.

1--WE may talk as we please of lilies, and
lions rampant, and spread eagles in dor or
Farg ent, but if heraldry were guided by rca-
son, plough in field arabic would be the
most noble and ancient arms. ."-COwley.
Schiller used to say that "he found the
great happiness Of life, after all, to consist in
the discharge of some mechanical Duty"
Haztitt, too, one of the finest critics and es-
sayists Of England, says: " Incidence is de-
llghiuI but distressing state; we must be doing
s'mething to be happy. Action is no less
necessary than thought to the instructive ten
denotes OF the human Frame"
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
Miscellaneous Arttcles.

The GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA sent in his an
nual message to the State Legislature on the
9th. 1t devotes considerable space to North
ern AbolitiOnism, which, we are told, as yet
abates none of its hostility to the South and
Southern institutions. On the contrary, it is
manitesting new UiruS, and growing into era
bly, insolent, &C., &c. The proposed remedy
is embodied in this-the concluding paragraph ::
"We will plead the Constitution, as long as
there is hope; we will cooperate with our
Northern friends, as long as, by such organiza-
ton. we can preserve our rights we will cling
to the Union, as long as it shelters US from ag-
gresSOn. But it all these fail, and we are
compelled to choose between dishono", and the
alternative Of the Georgia Platform we will
lace the storm, with the unfnching iirmness of
a martyrs courage"
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

UPsHOr OF THE KINNEY ExPEDIrIoN-Ac-
cording to the following extract from letter
dated San Juan del Norte Oct. B, the coup de
grace has been given to Col. KInney's famous
scheme OF colonization in !, caragua:
Advertisements in English aud Spanish are
p sted up about town, notifying the public that
all the certain property, &c, known and de-
scribed within certain boundaries, or all right
title and interest Of Elehry l.. Kinney therein,
will be offered for sale at pdbIIc auction on the
Sd day of November ncXi, ~ virtue OF a mort
gage duly recovered and held by Samuel S.
Wood & Son, of this town. Alas how are the
mighty. Even the title OF Colonel is dropped
from the name Of Kinney. The last known OF
the obscured lunnary he was at Rua,an, money
less, shoele>s and despairing. The notice OF
the sale of the property, which consists of a
house, caused quite sensation among a few
enrolled under the title Of the Kinney Union,
who have managed to keep possession by hook
or crook, but are now warned to leave on the
ID proximo."
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

or Henry P. Brooks, who ran for Congress
in the Fourth District of Maryland, and was
beaten by Henry Winter Davis, will contest
the latter to his seat in Congress. 1t is useless
for Brosks 10 .truygle against Winter. 4 li.Ia
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

CHLoROFORM OUrDONE M. Duchcsne, a
medical dentist, has recently invented a simple
but ingenious apparatus, to obviate the danger
OF ether and chlorotorm in painful operations,
live drawing teeth /; it consists of two little
balls, from the centre OF which, by pressure, "a
fluid can be elected through small tube, by
the ear, directly upon the nerve, producing
temporary insensiblty to pain, during which
the teeth can be extracted. BY this means pain
can be avoided without affecting the general
system.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

PnLANrHRopY.-They got up " "fugitive
slave case" III Lawrence (Alass.), Monday
but it was "no 60" A Southern family stop
ping there had slave named Betty. The
=" friends of freedem" found this out,-and
hadGesed corpused hcr,-in the usual way
But Betty begged SO hard to go wrth her missus,
that Judge Shaw, without hearing counsel on
eIrher side, made out an order, letting Betty
have her way. This last abolition dodge, Ike
the Republican elections lately, was dead
failure:
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

ELECTIONS for members Of the House Of Re.
presentatives Of the next Congress, have now
been held in all the States of the Union. The
Washington Union figures out clear demo
cratic majority of l4,--giving 92 members tc
the Black Republicans, aud IA to the Ameri
cans. At f .HosI@e 7ei-a'r aa $3.50
vfs>n sstn9 H-a fssea.I saI 10 t.e.. .st .
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18

APPROPRIATE TO THE TIMEs.-We copy the
following from number of the National In.
teIig gencer, dated August %, 1923:
A Fourth Of July Toast drunk in Virg mia
Why is the community so much embarrassed
Because banks lend money that have not got il
to lend, and because people spend money who
have not earn'd it to spend.
Remedy.-Own the money before you lend
it; earn the money before you spend It.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
rouR INGREDIENTS IN CONVERSATION.

FOUR INGREDIENTS IN CONVERSATION. ~.
The first ingredient in conversation is
truth; the next good sense; the third, good
humor, and the fourth, wit."3-Sir William
Temple.
Smyrna times., 1857-11-18
PH ais I'll Z
Farn,stcd for tie Times, BY TnEoRIus

A~'"tSttU yO' tft 4 tHtc"i III i HEoklGS.
FIVE GREAT OBJECTS OF LIFE.
Speaking Of these, Sir William Temple, one
of the best English EsSayists, says: "The
greatest pleasure Of life is Love tae greatest
treasure is Contentment; the greatest posses
SION is Health the greatest case is Sleep, and
the greatest medicine is true Friend''
PASSING ONES TIME.
mo saying shocks me so much as that which
very often hear, that a man does not know
now to pass his time 1t would have been but
Iil-apoken by Methusalah in the nine hundred
and sixty ninth year of his life. '-CoW!ey.
TRUTH.
"When a man has no design but to speak
plain TRUTH he may say great deal in very
narrow compass. Steele.
BuLUer says: "One of the sublimest things
IN the world is-plain truth"
DELICATE PRAISE.
When Sir Matthew Hale was made Chief
Justice, his commission was brought to him by
Lord Clarendon, who told him, that if the
KING could have found out an honester and
filter man for that employment, he would not
have advanced him to it,
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-04
BEST HAIR DYE IN TIE WORLD.

This strong language, yet BOGLEs ELECTRIC HAIR DY
recenty mproved) proved to be by the judges
the late Mechanics Fair held in Boston among whom
Dr. Hays, the eminent chemist and State assayer) wb
awarded 1t the PRIZE MEDAL AND DIPLOMA, over tn
choicest Hair Dyes exhibition from parts Ofthe UniOr
Its unparalleled superiority consists st Theingreden
nourshing to the hair not destructive, Others q
Does stain hurt the skin 3d. Is easily applied
dyes the hair any color required, from delicate brown
deep black, natural to appear marvellous. Manu-
actured sold and applied by WIN. BoGLE, 277 wsshngto
street, Boston. dec10-tillmay81
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A RELIC OF A CESTURY.-We were shown SUIT
urdsy copy of the Pennsylvania Gazette, pub
lished and printed at Philadelphia, by Benjamin
Franklin, in the year 1855 one hundred years ago,
nearly aquarter Of century before the Revolu-
tonary war. This venerable sheet bears date Of
January 18th, and sets forth under its title that it
contains " all the Freshest Advices, Foreign and
Domestic" Among those advices the latest from
Boston bears the date of December 26th, 1857, and
those from New York are up to the 9th of January,
showing that nearly month was necessary for the
transmission of intelligence between Boston and
Philadelphia, aud that it took ten days to commu-
nicate news between the latter city and New York
at the time the above paper was issued. The follow
ing advertisement from the columns of this ancient
sheet will be read with peculiar interest at this
time:
Philadelphia Stage Woggon and NeW York Stag
Boat, perform their Stages t0sce neck.
John Butler, with his Wagon, sets out on Monday
from his house, at the sign of the Death OF the Fox,
! in Strawberry Alley, and drives the same day to
Trenton Ferry, when Francis Holman meets him
and proceeds on Tuesdays to Brunswick, and the
| passengers and goods being shifted into ne wagon
of Isaac FitZra ldolph, he takes them to the New
Blazing Star TO Jacob FitzrandOph's the same day,
\ where Reuben Ftzrandolph with boat well fitted,
will receive them, and take them to New York tia
| night. John Butler, returning to Philadelphia on
! Tuesdays with the passengers and goods delivered
to him, by Francis holman, will again set out for
Trenton Ferry on Thursdays, and Francis Holman
| &c, will curry his passengers aud goods with the
same expedition as above to New York"
Shade OF the mighty Philosopher who published
that paper; what would the people of that day think
were they permitted to revisit the earth and look
upon the wonders which time and progressive en-
terprise have accomplished? The steam vessels and
rail-cars, the fast Printing machines and the tee
graphic flashes which communicate intelligence
now in an Instant where days, weeks and months
were necessary then to accomplish the same re-
suit, together with the thousands Of other improve
ments which the result of mans inventive ge-
MUS, would so amaze them that it is hardly proba-
BILE they could be made to believe this the same
world which they had left What commen-
tary upon the age in which we live is suggested
by the contrast between this newspaper of 1853
aud its namesakes 10 the same city at the present
tnd
This old relic lis the property Of Mr.. Cbas. w.
Smith of city, who intends to present it TO the
Tennessee Historical Society. 1t is one of the
most interesting and valuable acquisitions which
the Society has yet made.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

strength and Health Restored!
MR. JoHs DAvDsOz, living miles above Pitt burgh
the Pennsylvania Canal says "whea commenced taking
Berhave's Holland Bisters, / could hardly walk Now,
enjoy excellent health"
HEADACHE AND DEBILITY.
Mn. snAs J. LIscoxB, OF Birmingham says:
I" have found in Berhaves Holland Bitters 6 remedy
for Headache and Debility. Ny wife has also used with
the greatest benefit"
Mr. s. NICHOLSON: of Pttsburg also remarks that he
has experienced much relief its for headache.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS-A certain cure for sick Head
ache and disorders Of the Stomach Their virtue IN such
is in all parts Of the world. Those ain cted
with Liver and Bowel complaints and Indigestion, cannot
use so good remedy. Sold at the No. So
Maiden Lane New York and No. ga Strand London; and
by all druggists at 25c.. 62Zc., and 81 per box.