Smyrna times., 1857-04-01
Written for the SmyrMa Times.
Local -Thaddeus Endorsing the Views
CT Young America.

"a &AAiCI4Gds
Mr. EDI FOR Your intelligent correspon-
icnt who writes under the signature of " Young
America" has put the Old Fogies in terrible
state of uncomtortableness, as Mrs. Partington
would say, about the curtailment OF their rights
IN enjoying our little ci'y-improvements after
they shall have been consummatrd. | cheer
fully acqulesce in all he says about the Park,
Commerce street into a trottng-
course, and all the other things he SO intelli-
gently mentions. 1t really is amusing to be
present when the fever of Improvement comes
Oh these Old Fogies give them t-boitom
chair, alongside OF good anthracite fire; or
put them on a soft, pine b.x, on the corners,
where the NOrthwesters can't strike them or,
on hot day, where Old Sol can't smile on them,
and where a Southwestern, with soft zephyrs,
can gently cool their brows then, to hear them
build castles in the air One will commence
by saying that we ought to have Town Hall
IN place the size OF Smyrna,-the others will
cheerlully say amen to that enterprize. Ano-
ther will say,we ught to have a Market House
then we can obtain our butter and other cat
ables, in a better state OF cleanliness ,--and
another response of amen breaks forth (for,
mind, it doesn't cost any thing all this time). The
next question put by another fogy brother,
" What will these improvements cost !''-out
leaps paper and pencil and the estimated cost
is announced. After sometime one will say to
one of the brethren present, " how much stock
will you take !"-anothcr and another of the
brotherhood is asked the same question. Que
cannot take any stock for the reason he has Il
barn to build; another cannot, fol he has a
smoke house to build another cannot, for he
has use for what money he can command, to
pay for ashes to go on his corn; and, another
and another give their reasons mot one word
is said about the probable interest the improve
ments will pay, for that to them is of no account
All at once, one of them passes into Ward g.
Cotton's. to buy cents worth ofparched ground
nuts, with view of treating his wife and chill
dren, and, returns to the rendezvous md reports
that Eddy Ward is arranging the upper part of
his store for a Town Hall down to Wards they
his plans: one says, it is too high; another says
it is too low; another says, it is too long, and
another, that it is too short. After they arc
gone, Mr.. Ward asks his workman, what use,
in this world, is an Old Fogy!" The work
man replies. that he "6on't know, unless It is
to swell the population when the marshal goes
around taking the census" l must confess
was amused AT his reply.
After the Hall is finished, Mr.. Ward has it in
contemplation to charge Old Fogies double
price for admission; but | am opposed to that:
my notion is, that they ought not to be admit
ted at all, until Young America.--both male and
female---are comfortably seated then, if there
is room they ought to be allowed to occupy
stand-up in the back part Of the hall.
How the Gas Works and Citizens Bank will
come out, is hard to say. | wish our afflicted
friend, Ward, had Astor's estate, for the benefit
of our thriving little city; he would do more
towards the improvement of Smyrna, was go
iaa TO say, than all the Old Fogies in it; but he
DOES that already without any other persons
means than his own. .... ....-
The Market House. if ever built, will have
to be done by Young America, and think we
might as we'll commence at once. II we wait
for the Gas-people and Citizens Bank, fear
we shall wait until doomsday. My motto is