Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1858-06-24
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600. The Gotten destroyed by the overflow on
the banks of the Mississippi. 1t is said, will be
100000 bales--worth probably about $4,OOU-
600. In the Wabash Valley, AS represented by
the Evansville Journal, the losses by the farm
ers and property owners will certainly be equal
ly as heavy.
PROFESSOR AGAssfz, in spite of his former
refusals of Louis Napoleon TO take the Direc-
torship of the Museum Of Natural History at
Paris, has been won by the offer Of salary OF
twenty-five thousand francs, and the immediate
Senatorshlp, which brings another thirty thou
sand francs and at last lie has consented to go
over to Paris for verbal and personal negQtia-
tion.
THE FLoeD AT CAIRo.-~The water made
clear sweep right through the town, and poured
into the Ohio river on the other side, washing
away one thousand feet of the railroad track
The houses were tum5ling over and washing
away, aud the most sanguine Of the people did
not expect that any bulldogs will remain stand
ing. Two hundred men tried TO stop the gap,
hut without effect, and the Citl2ens hurriedly
carried away ther goods.
DURING the present month, great cOmblna-
ton of Science, Capital and Enterprise max
an experiment of the most momentoHs imPOr-
lance. At the very time We are writing, Anne
rican and English war-steamers are paclfically
engaged IN the Atlantic, in conveying the teIe-
graphic cable, which, almost as rapidly as
Thought, is TO make nations converse across
the ocean. by the Fourth of Iuly-as our cal
cul1tion runs-ihe electric communication be-
tween ireland and America will be completed.
We should not be surprised at receiving the
news ON the Fourth.
The PRINTING of the thirty-third and thirty
fourth Congresses cost the Government over
$6000,000 The sum would have constructed
fifteen or twenty frs;-cass steam sloops-ot
war, or built three hundred miles of railroad to
the Pacific; yet the amount has principally
been squandsxed in useless picture books
THE CRY OF SALT LAKE When Governor
Cumming reached Salt Lake, he discovered
that extensive preparations had been skiltuliy
mlde to give the city to the flames, a Ia the
Russians at Moscow. Large quantities Of dried
fence wood had been arranged in mrDy houses,
which match would have kindIed to confla-
grafton. Young had gOne far as to station
a guard in Salt Lake City to prevent their be-
ing burned. The Mormons have entirely evacu-
ated the city.
LETTER PosrAGE.--Many persons. in some
measure misled by an article in the Phlladcl-
phia Ledger, are under the impression that the
amendment to the post-offce appropriation bill,
Increasing the rate of letter postage TO five
cents, passed both Houses. THIS is a mista re.
The amendment fell in the House, and The SEN
ate had 10 recede. The rates Of cheap posta ge
therefore continue, and the Washington thieves
will have TO look in another direction for the
plumber which they wished to take from the
people in-the form of tax upon knowledge
THE UNEMPLOYED IN THE WEsrERS CITIES.
Buffalo, Chicago and other western cities, il
appears, are overrun with laborers and mechan-
les, who are unable to find employment. In
the former place last week, several hundred of
this class paraded the streets, demanding work
or bread" In Chicago, the demap for labor
by poor people has been so great that the street
commissioners have been enabled to supply
each man but two days in a week, at seventy.
five cents per day. II is now thought best to
cut wages down to .G(ly cents, and put one
third more men into city service. At fifty
cents per day, says the Democrat, the city will
be overwhelmed with applications for labor.
The City Directory. in New York, shows
falling off from last year of 4O40 names below
Fifty second street, aud the record Of names
does not go beyond that point. This is attri.
buled to the commercial reyulsOn, causing sus.
pension and permanent withdrawal from busi-
ness.
The CHILEAN Government having lost, within
six months, four British steamers which they
had purchased for their navy, it is said, now in
tend 10 order some Yunkee steamships, rs there
is but single good ship in the Chilian navy.
The QUARREL BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND
THE CIVILIANS IN PARIs-One of the English
papers says:
A serious degree Of alarm is felt in Paris AT
the proportions now assumed by the quarrel
between the military and civilians. At the !
military entertainment of Hyene and his Sc
conds, the toast, " To the total annihiIation of
journalism and journalists throughout Europe"
was drunk. De Pene was completely exhaust
Ell by an fucmPt to take his deposltons on Sat
uEday.
The Hera!fS Paris correspondent says sew
eral hundred students have sent round robin
to Figaro and other newspap ors, conveying
challenge 10 the suba llern officers nf the or,ny
The authorities have iGterfered.
A Paris letter of Monday says sqnabbe be-
tween the military and bourgeose took place
last evening at a cafe in the Rue de Bondy.--
The military expelled carpenter from the
cafe, but he returned with some of his fellow
wnrk9en. and the troops were in their turn ex.
PEELED by the Peguins.
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