Smyrna times., 1858-02-04

spicuously. The Queen and ladies have adopt
) ed the fashion. Lady Gore Ouscley has intro
duced it at Washington, and among the Broad
way promenaders, in New York.
o. 1t will be remembered that years arr
the Ohio Legislature passed law denying the
use of the jails of that State for the confine.
ment of fugitive slaves. The present LegiSla.
ture, it seems, is disposed to repeal the law.
and bill to that effect passed the House on
Tuesday week.
V- white woman named Peters, and her
brother, have been fined $1,000, and sentenced
TO jail for one year, in st. Louis, for cruelty
whipping slave girl. Several ladies', who
were in church, heard the blows as they were
inflicted in house next door.
" correspondent of the Philadelphia In
qutrer, writing of the visit of the United States
steamer San Jacnto TO japan, last year, says
the Japanese fired salute OF tweny-onc guns
on Washington's birthday and on the fourth of
July.
tE- 1t is stated that the b. S. Senate COM
mIttee on French spollations have decided TO
recommend that Congress appropriate five mil
lions OF dollars, IN five per cent. STOCK for their
liquidation.
VI7A letter from Florida, dated The Sth ult !
says: 1t has been very warm all winter:
peach trees are in full bloom, and all kinds of
trees are out like May. People are very busy
gardening.
61- Probably the largest sale of slaves ever
made IN Virginia, lately took place in Bruins
WICK county. Nlnety-six, of all ages, sizes
and conditions, were sold at the unprecedented
aggregate of about $4,000.
0r Green peas aud new potatoes are said to
be abundant in the vicinity of New Orleuns.-
On some plantations the orange trees are put.
ing forth their blossoms, and in others are
yielding an abundance of fruit.
" On Tuesday week last, a mob at Loo.
ller, Indiana, arrested three counterteilers and
lung one.
W The steamboat Fanny Fern exploded
Ter boiler on the OHIO river. eighteen miles be.
ow Cincinnati, on Thursday afternoon, killing
itteen persons.
W The ship Kate Hooper, of Baltimore.
rom Macao, bound to Havana with a car.o q. /
'oolles, was the scene OF a mutiny among the a
;oolies last November. They set the ship on c
re three times, and the officers we're obliged :
0 shoot fifty Of them before the revolt could be i.
ubdued. .
SUCCESSFUL AERIAL SHIP.-Much inter- .
ST has been excited in France by the nrlal ship e
vented by NJ. Gayarni, the artist, and whose "
alloon has sailed from the Park of Ferrers. 9
tuated In the centre Of France, direct to AL "
lers, distance Of 1900 miles. in eiohtren :,
ours, and made the return voyage IN sixteen u
ours After studying for six years, with the e
occurrence of fortunate circumstances. NJ a
aVarnI succeeded IN completing machine, at ),
cost of three hundred thousand francs The :,
achlne consists of two spherical balloons. n
Sed together, and made of q catlshe," covered ,'
lth three double hides of "verns caouIcb. "
&c" each OF them containing one hundred n
Iblc metres of pure hydrogen gas. The pro- III
'lllng power is obtained by peculiar sort of or
rev. reaching as far as the car, which is pro- pc
ded with a rudder made of whalebone. bv =,
cans OF which the balloon can be steered IN is
cry direction. The inventor lets her ascend be
thout throwing out any ballast, which gene y
lily takes away the resources of even the est ~ ~
loon, and makes long voyage impossible m
ne gas which escapes is re-supplied by secret re
emIcal process, invented by M. Mlgeon, and W
50 by means of Il small instrument of Al Vi
,,..,, ..t '"' Vi W. AT
IvarhIS invention. The old system is fol- ii,
wed as regards descending. The valve is =
ened' portion OF the gas escapes, and the pl
scent takes place gradually. nc
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