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New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20

CLARK, DOD Z & CO.,
~ BANKERS AND DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
Nc. 81 Waist, Wiiian-st, ". Y.
H.yinf correspondence in al the Principal Cities Of the Union
sd the B.h Provinces enaed 70 neso,se Eschsage
,pd make collections the favorable terns
DRAFTS for SALE IN 10 suit al the principal points
STOCKS and BONDS Oevery description boush, and .old
Con mission
z CLARK, BROTHERS Co, st. Lou's, No.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20

CLINTON COUNTY COAL CONPANY.-A
reens Of the s,oiholdss and Bondhoirrs Of the Clinton
County Ccs Company viii b. held a. the oce No 10 Wal
on MONDAY the I'd inst u O'Clock consider proposals u
suc. interest a CONCERNED which vii theu be presented
By order " JOHN G. AALLOf, President. .
kSewYork, Feb. 10, leS.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20

' EDWARD K Collins, No: 50 Val ct. Hs~.fS<k-
B2OWN SHIPLEY Co, Liverpoot
a. WAINWRIGHT Coz Psia
ne owners OF thsse ships viii not o. so0oonHos f 81
" VI , su.d thereto. and be yAss hsfecf sxpressi
New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20

CLAsGOW AND NEw-YORK STEAMSHIP
" CONPANYs splendid and po.rrfdi s'eanss's sasar'
FRos NEs fosEs -
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EEnrNptspca C,.nmin. . " WEDNESDAY, April H. st II n
Rare. q Passage CABIN srs Third Clsss foaHa "a ss's
prOvi.on 80. Fst fe,sh, >, g,sfs sS :, Rr.Av,,
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
nj | 5 G. T. l. l. A N ECU S,
A Literary Omnibus Driver.

| The New York correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier relates the following biography O
an omnibus driver, whose acquaintance ht
made during night ride on enc Of the lines il
New York:
"Talking as two people will naturally dc
when jOurneying together, it was inpossb G
not to notice that the driver of the cal had seen
better days, and had pursued very different avo.
cations. The comet was blaziny away in The
western sky. This furnished topic of con.
VersatIon. Instead OF trying to illuminate the
driver on the Causes, conditions and theories of
these curious celestial visitors. | now learned
that he knew more about them than did He
went beyond this topic, aud began to discourse
meterology, astronomy generally, mathema ties,
&s. HIS wonderful learHing, the extent and
thoroughness of his reading, almost bewildered
me. But my surprise could not be imagined
when, in illustration of some thought, this dri.
yer OF an avenue car.quoted line from VIRGIL.
Horace, too, afterwards furnished one or TWO
sentenIious sayings to this educated driver.
1t was natural desire. but very delicate
matter, to learn the history of such a person.
Slowly and timidly the facts came out. He
had been in better circumstances. Though
never a student at any college, he had used
every dufdhtdRc tnat OHereu, ana graSped at
The fruits Of knowledge wherever they hung IN
he garden of his experience. AT first, in mer.
camille business. he was swindled by partner,
md left almost without penny. He made
another effort, and went on swimmingly for a
while. Ia this hour Of sunshine, he got mar.
ried. The crisis of last tall came, and again
everything was swept away; and instead of
standing alone upon the desolate shore Of life,
he had another TO look after and care for, even
more elpless than himself The thought of
his wife being left to penury and misery buoyed
him up to do anything TO spare her these inflic.
tions.
There were several kinds of employment at
which he could make a small pittance, though
many OF them were precariOus. As driver on
public car he was sure of 81 80 day, though
the business was labOrIOus, and 10 him almost
degrading. But even these objections had no
terrors for him, when he thought of her whom
he had pledged to protect. And every day,
from eleven O'Clock in the morning till twelve
O'Clock at night. this accomplished driver is
making his trips up and down the Sixth Avenue,
taking in his five cent fares with the euuanimi.
ty of philosopher. | wonder if the persons
who travel with him ever imagine that the Jebu
over their heads could instruct them in the clas
sizes, or unfold to them his wonderful stores of
knowledge. This is 10 romance. The facts
were derived from The driver himself and il is
another instance of what man could do, how
ever low he may have got down in the world.
1t he only makes up his mind to conquer or die"
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
Indian Troubles in New Mexico.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1853

/
Through the courtesy of the War Depart.
ment, am enabled to furnish you the following
highly interesting extract from the despa tches
OF Colonel Miles, now commanding the United
states troops In the field against the Nava joes
The dispatches are dated at Fort Defiance, the
extreme frontier fort west of New Mexico. The
Colonel says:
Ell have 300 men, rank and file, and off.
GERS The war opened on the 9th September
at Canon de Chelly, (pronounces Chay.)
passed this awful hole in the earth without To-
sing single man. This Canon is, in many
places, 800 feet deep; men on the top look
like plgmes, and mules like rats. 1t is not
over $50 yards wide, with immense boulders,
which almost meet, oVerhanging. The Indians
poured their arrows inle US, but before they
reached US they lost their momentum, and fell
harmless. Horizontally their bullets did the
same thing. They rolled down immense rocks,
which, by the resistance of the atmosphere,
burst into fragments, and reached the bottom
almost dust. 1t was sometime after | got into
this place before found trail to get my in
fantry on the top. When they did get there
they swept off the Indians like chaff. We
killed six, wounded many, and captured ten.-
Those we killed had plenty of powder and ball.
These Indians can bring into the field $500
warriors, many of them.a rmed with rifles. They
possess 10000 horses, the best ard leetest |
have ever seen, and at least half million of
sheep. We took from them 5000 sheep. The
Navajoes have now no common head, or chief,
but a continuation of hostities, for a short
time, will allay their ealousies, and unite their
strength under single leader, and then we
may expect to see the Florida war re-enacted,
at the cost of many millions Of Utdollars At this
time an efficient force of fifteen hundred men
would speedily terminate the war;
The War Department is preparing for vi
gorous campaign against the Navajoes, so soon
as the Spring opens, as The present season is SO
far spent that the troops must soon go into
Winter quarters.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
The Sabbath Bells.

There is something beautiful in the church
bells; don't you think so, dear reader! Beau
tiful and hopeful!
They talk to high and low, rich and poor in
the same voice. There is a sound in them that
should scare pride and envy, and meanness OF
all sorts, from the mind of man; that should
ke him look upon the world with kind forgiy-
ing eyes; and make the world ieel at least for
time, holy place. Yes there is a whole
sermon in the very sound of the church bells,
IT We only have the care to rightly understand
it.
There is something exceedingly impressive
in the breaking in of the church bells on the
stiffness Of the Sabbath. Perchance this feel.
ing is rendered even more SO in the heart of O
populOus city than anywhere else. Who has
not felt thrilling inexpressible feeling of SOL
emnity and awe in walking the streets of a
city when the peal of the early Sabbath bells
ring out loud and clear on the morning air, as
if trying to recall our thoughts from the transit
ent scenes around Us, while calling with loud
voice, " come to the temple of God"
| But perhaps quite as beautiful and purifying,
is the sound Of Sabbath bell in the country, aE
the music comes floating to US from the dis
lance, stirring the dew drops on the morning
flower, and breathing JOY and gladness-en,
!Ivening the Imagination, end giving voice Of
! harmony to the silent beauties of nature.
The mellow cadence of church bell give,
to the close of a Sabbath in the country holi.
ness that only the most desperate and ice
bound heart could be insensible TO. 81 aa
FANNIE.
Milton, Oct. 1858 ..E....
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
WHOLE NO., 399.

FEMALE UNION PRAYER MEETING.-This is a
new meeting which has been commenced at the
John street Methodist Church, and which is of
great interest. 1t is meeting for sewing
gIrls' and female operatives, in this quarter of
Inc city. II is free from any denomina tional
pecularties, and is under the management of a
corps of Christian ladies' of different denomina-
tons-who, in turn, attend and conduct the ex-
ercIses. The meeting is held in the lecture
room OF the Church, from IL a. m. to l23 p. m.
None but females attend. There is a good at
tendance daily. This is most important
moVement-when we remember that there are
not less than seventy-fve thousand to eighty
thousand female operatives in the city of New
York. We ask OF the benevolent and Christian
ladies' of the city, if they ought not to establish
similar meetings in various sections of it, &C.
cesslble to the large masses who are engaged
IN the various industrial occupations. This
John street movement is worthy of commenda-
tlon to all.--IntelLigencer
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
How the Price of Bread is Managed in
Paris,

Every bag of wheat, four or meal that come:
to the city must be brought to the Halle au Bic
or Grain Hall. This is an immense area, en-
closed with circular wall, and covered by q
huge dome, and beautiful proportions, lighted
from the top. Various stalls, with desks, form
the offices of the clerks and employees. On
the floor of this hall are piled up, cob.house
fashion, IN huge piles, ten to twenty feet high,
the bags of grain, presenting to the visitor q
striking panorama ofsolid plenty.
The city of Paris is surrounded by wall,
not for defence. as it is comparatively slight,
but simply for police, revenue, and other mu.
nicipal purposes, one of which is the rugula.
ton of the bread market. Barriers, that is
gates. with police attendants and revenue off,
GERS, form the only entrances to the city, ex.
cept the river Seine, which hos also it's qua rds.
Every bushel of wheat or other grain brought
to the city for sale, must be registered and
stored at the grain hall, under heavy penalties.
This regulation is rgidly enforced, which it is
easy to do, at the barriers, with so bulky an ar
llcIe; especially as the bags must be of uniform
size.
From this register of the daily supply, the
government Of the city know at any hour lust
how many pounds or pecks of any kind there
are in Paris. From the accurate statistics re-
qulred to be furnished, they know how much
flour or meal is baked daily at each bakery, and
how much bread of all kinds is consumed.-
They are therefore able to fix the weight and
price OF lOaVes, each size and shape of which
has its appropriate name, according to the ratio
between supply and demand, allowing fair and
just profit to producers, traders. and bakers, no
more, no less. This price, thus fairly gradua.
ated, at short intervals, is fully proclaimed to
the public, the dealers, the bakers, aud the po.
lice.
The police are authorized to drop in, at any
time, into any bakery, or breadshop, wherever
bread is exposed for sale, and weig h the loaves.
There is also a special inspecting officer ap-
pointed for this express purpose. His visits
are not stated, that they may not have things
got ready for exhibition instead of inspection,
according to the English and American fashion
Of doing such things. If the inspector finds the
weight deficient, or the price of particular
kind of loaf too high for the grade, all the bread
in the shop is swept off at once, and distributed
TO the hospitals and other eleemosYnary estab-
lishmenls of the city. Thus are the public pro.
Iected against private cupldity speculating in
the means of existence.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
A Letter from Henry CLAW.

The following brief and beautiful letter from
the pen of the Sage of Ashland, recently made
It's appearance, for the first time, in the columns
Of the Louisville Journdl
ASHLAND, July Z, 1916.
My dear little Namesake: Your parents
have done me the honor to give nv name to
you. On that account, and at the request OF
your good mother, | address this note, which
she wishes to preserve for your perusal, when
by the lapse of time you shall have attained an
age that will enable you to comprehend and
appreciate its friendly purport.
Your parents entertain fond hopes of YOU and
you ought to strive not to disa ppoint them
They wish you to be good, respected, eminent
You can realize all their most sangune hopes,
if you firmly resolve TO do so, by iudcious EN-
ployment of your time and your faculties
Shun bad company, and all ssipation, its in
evitable consequence. Study diligently and
perseVerlngly. You will be surprised at the
ease with which you will master branches of
knowledge, which, on first view, will brighten
you. Make honor, probty and principle your
lnvarlable guide Be obedient and always af
tectlonately respectful to your parents. AS
sIdlousiy cultivate virtue and religion, the sur
est guarantee of happiness both here and here
after. In your intercourse with your fellow
beings be firm, but at the same time bland,
courteous and obiging. Recognize at ali
times the paramount right of your country to
your most devoted services, whether she treats
you i'll or we'll, and never let selfish views or
interests predominant over the duties of patriot
ism.
By regulating yourself according to these
rules, you may become respected and great, be
an ornament to your country and blessing to
your parents. That such may be your destiny
is the sincere wish of their and your friend.
Ii. CLAY.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
Master Henry Clay =

CONsUMPrIoN.-Ergot of rye, or spurred rye,
has received the approval of the Academy OF
Medicine at Turin as one of the most active
remedies for consumption. DIR. Parola, the au.
thor, describes its action as infaible, if not in
curing the disease, at least in staying the pro-
gress of the pulmonary inflammation which
constantly accompanies the formation of tu.
bercles. DR.. Parola, administers two grammes
of the powder per day, and suspends it every A
or 5 days for AZ hours. When the stomach is
too weak, the resinous extract may be admins
tered in pills instead of the powder, to the
amount Of 40 or so centigrammes, or else as a
potion in solution of gum. Quinine. fox
glove. and even opium, may sometimes be ad.
ministered together with it. By this treat
ment, DR.. Parola has cured 16 cases out of 81
Of confirmed consumption in an advanced
state.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
must effect similar changes with. New Caledo-
MIA.
Portrait of French Woman of Genius.

"The celebrated George Sand never rises
before one O'Clock in the day her breakfast is
a cup of black coffee without sugar. AS soon
as she has taken it she descends to the garden,
and IT she is not too much pressed for time
takes hoe and goes to work at her flower
beds. She adores flowers, and has the finest in
her nsighborhood. She is fond also of animals,
and her habitaton resembles an ark. Her Ha.
'ana lap-dog, Marquis, never quits her; she
has Bengal parrots, native birds and chickens,
for which she has built palace; she has cows
and horses; but for several years has renounced
horseback riding. She has caprice fer tur-
Ties, and keeps small one continually on her
workable. AS soon as she gets up in the
worning she makes a cigarette, and never
ceases smoking till she goes to bed again, which
is not until ever so much o'clock in the morn.
ing"
Courage of Humility.
MIR. Everett repeated his Grafton on Wash.
ington at East Bridgewater recently. He al.
Iuded to the fact that more than forty years ago
ne taught school in the place.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

MONEY IN DEAD LETrERs.-The dead letter
branch of the General Post office has Just closed
another quarters work. During. the three
months which terminated on the Both uIt, there
were found two thousand seven hundred and
twenty-nlne letters, which contained money
amounting in the aggregate to $l2.92I 62.-
For the quarter which closed Both June last.
there were received four thousand five hundred
and forty-nine letters and $2l, ,49S IS in money.
For the quarter ending the Both March, two
thousand four hundred and seventy-two letters
and $l3475 Is in money. Quarter closed 3Ist
December, two thousand three hundred and
ffty.two letters and $l36l 90 in cash. Total
in the year, twelve thousand one hundred and
two letters and $64,239 ~ in money. It is
gratifying to state that, under the efficiency
and promptitude which characterize the finance
bureau, over nine-tenths of the whole amount
of cash has been restored to its original owners
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

LARGE CHUKcHEs.-At this time Mr.. Spur
geon, Of London, Mr.. Bcecher, of Brooklyn,
and Mr.. Cuyler, of New York, are making ef.
forts for the erection Of new and larger church
buildings.
MIR Spurgeon's people have lately purchased
lot tor nv" thousand pounds near the {" Ele.
Phant and Castle Inn" Mr.. Beecher's church
has raised @4l 900 towards the $4,000 re-
CURED Tor his new house of worship. Mir. Guy
Ter is gathering his uptown congregation in
the Cooper Institute. Each of these men
breaches TO thousands; the aggregate of their
Sunday congregations amounting to fourteen
thousand people.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
PO E Z [ G A L.
MODERN TRY.

How very absurd is half the stuff
CaIlsd Poetry nowadays!
The staazas. and 'epIcs,' and Odes,' are enough
To put every lover Of rhyme in huff.
And disgust cen old hens with their lays
One asks but cave in some forest del.'
Away frOa the cold worlds strife
Now the woods, IN fine weather, all very we'll.
Bu; give him six weeks rainy SPELL
Aad he d soon cave in,' IN his forest CELL
And be sick enough Of the life.
Oss loves e ho,p he loves y the glittering foam
And the mad waves angry strife:'
But take the young genius who wrote that pOme,'
.where the pillows dash and the sea-birds rOam.'
And he d give all the had to be safe at home,
And s,ay there the rest of his life!'
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

MASONRY IN THE UNITED SrArEs.-It sp-
pears from statistics derived from the latest in
formation contained in the proceedings of the
various Masonic Grand Lodges in the United
States, that there are in The United States
4,2O2 lodges, with 183,S33 members. The
number OF Masons, however, is probably much
greater than this table shows, as there are
many to be found everywhere who are not sf-
hliated with any lodge. The law of the fra.
tern:ty is said TO be, "once a Mason always
Mason." In Maryland there are 33 lodges.
with 1876 members in the District of Column
ba, ii lodges and 639 members; in Virginia
l26 lodges and 4GI4 members; in New York.
400 lodges and 10000 members, and in Penn.
sylranla, l50 lodges and III ,428 members.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

AILLIHG WITCHES IN THE CH0CTAw NATION.
Our friends and neIghbors, the Choctaws, must
oe deseneratng' for we understand they have
Commenced killing witches, or rather wizards.
as all that have been killed are of the male
gender. One man killed three whom he said
were witches, whereupon some enc said he was
witch, and killed him. We fear KILLING
witches will not step until The Chcctaw people
quit their strife and become reconciled. Tbev
are now far behind the times, and if they do not
set their difliculty at the present council, thew
never Will catch up with the times, unless thew
come under the Chickasuw laws, for it will be
evident that they are not capable of selfgov-
ernment. There has not been a murder among
the ChickasaWs for three peekS.-Chic. and
ChOc. Herald
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

The RAILROAD FROM Moscow TO ST.. PETERS,
BURG.-Bayard Taylor, in one of his letters
from St. Petersburg, Russia, gives an interes-
ting account of the railroad between that citv
and Moscow, in which Mr.. Thomas Winans.
OF Baltimore cty, is deeply interested. He
states that 1t is as straight as a sunbeam, and
that the Emperor Nicholas had it built upon the
shortest possible distance between the two
cities, by carrying it for hundreds of versts
through swamps where an artificial foundation
OF piles was necessary. Mr.. Taylor considers
1t the finest railway in the world.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

O~~" Arrah, Teddy and wasn't your name
Teddy D Byrne before you left old Ireland ~
Sure 1t was, my darlint." But, nv level
why then do you add S. and call it Teddy
O'Byrnes, now - "Why, you spalpeen.
haven't been married since came TO Liver.
pool! and are you so ignorant of graniaatics
that you don't know when one thing is added
to another it becomes Ptural!'
0E7- During the revolutionary war. the Earl
Of Dartmouth asked an American in London of
how many members Congress consisted. To
which the reply was, "Fifly.two." "Whv
that is the number of cards in Il pack" said his
lordship; "pray, how many knaves are therel"
"Not nne," returned the republican; please
to recolect that knaves are court cards.
o. The young ladies who rejoice in mnl-
tipicity of rings, chains, lockets, etc., 10 the
unparalleled extent now fashionable, should he
labelled, like watches in the windows" War
ranted full jewelled."
0<T When you doubt between words. choose
the painest, the commonest, the most idiomat-
ic. Eschew fine words as you would touge-
love simple ones as you would native roses on
your cheeks.
0~TA A gentleman at a musical party. seeing
that The hre was going out, asked friend, in a
whisper, "How can stir the fire without in.
terrupting the music 2" "Between the bars"
replied the friend.
0F"Will you have il rare, or we'll done z"
said an Englishman to an Irishman, IS he was
cutting a piece of roast beef. al love il well
done iver since am in this countery," replied
Pat, I" for it wGs rare enough we used to ate it
in Ireland.
o. An exchange says that il is just as SEN
sible move to undertake to get married with
out courting, as to attempt to succeed in busi-
ness without advertising. a.
OF The Methodsts of Alabama have raised
100000 as beginning for an endowment
fund for University at Greensborough.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

REVIVAL RESULTS IN PHILADEIpurA-Ror
George Dnfield, Jr, of Philadelphia, communi-
Gated some very interesting facts to the Fulton
street prayer meeting, one day last week. He
had been employed as one of committee 10
compile the facts of the revival, as pertaining
to that city. He had found that 3OlO had
been added by profession TO one denomination.
$500 to another, 1900 10 another, 1900 to ano.
ther, and so on. ill the aggregate was above
9,OOO, and over 10000 conversions had taken
place all within the current wear.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18
10000 Genteel People in London.

Emerson gives us the first census we have
ever seen of English uppertendom. He says ::
"a multitude of English educated at the Uni.
versites, bred into their society with manners,
ability, and the gifts of fortune, are every day
confronting the peers on footing of equality.
and Outstripping them as often in the race of
honor and influence. That cultivated class ia
large and ever enlarging. 1t is computed that
with titles and without there are seventy thou
sand of these people coming and going in Lon.
don, who make up what is called high society.
They cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an
untitled nobility possess all the power without
the inconveniences that belong to rank, and the
rich Englishman goes over the world at the
present day, drawing more than all the advan.
tages which the strongest of his kings could
command.
Smyrna times., 1858-11-18

Q~r"The wicked don't live out half their
days" said good man TO his negro servant
" Dat is queer" said Cuffy. "Him no live out
half his day! Den s'pose he die bout leben
o'clock 10 de forenoon"
o. A lady wished a seat in crowded hall.
A handsome gentleman brought her chair
/" You are jewel" said she. "Oh, no J am
jeweller; ] have just set the jewell"