Smyrna times., 1859-04-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Advices from Venezuela chronicle another
revolutionary outbreak. About seven hundred
rebels attacked and dispersed the government
troops stationed at Paito. The latter retreated
to Valencia, and the victorious rebels also re-
treated to Moran.
Washington despatch says that the State
Department is in receipt of letters, brought by
the last European steamer, from our Ministers
in England, France, Madrid, and Vienna. The
indications, write Messrs. Dallas and Mason, are
anything but peaceful. The impression is uni
versal among leading men that general Eu-
roPean war will sooner or later eonvulse the
entire continent of Europe; that the Peace
Congress which is about to assemble may post.
pone, but cannot prevent it.
Mr. Blbcock, the keeper Of the Utica, New
York, Jail, was attacked by a negro prisoner on
Friday last and severely wounded by knife
In the night several prisoners endeavored to
escape, but the keeper, with an assistant, kept
the prisoners back, but not till Mr.. Babcock,
with his left hand, had shot prisoner named
Glazer twice, wounding him severely.
New Orleans papers of the l1th contain the
details of the news by the Tennessee. The lib
eral army, thirteen thousand strong, nearly
surrounded the city of Mexico. and had sue
ceeded in cutting off supplies, provisions. and
water. capItuIa;ion is expected soon TO take
place; if not great battle Is anticipated, both
armies being reinforced. The liberals are con.
ident of success. The whole country is in
deplorable condition.
In Charleston, en- Saturday, the jury in the
case of the crew of the steamer Echo. charged
with piracy, brought in verdict of not guilty
The commission of Commodore Charles Stew
ART, under the act of Congress constituting him
senior flag officer of the United States navy, is
now in course of preparation, 1t is said, and
will soon be delivered to him. The effect of
Ibis act wsll be to place Commodore Stewart at
the head of the active list of naval officers, and
gives him an honorable grade preceding that
of all other captains IN the service.
The Bangor Wing contains the confession
of Marshall Potter, who murdered his aged mo-
ther and two brothers, and boy, his nephew.
on Wednesday night last week, at Lee, Maine,
and then set fire to the house. It i. one OF
those horrible crimes which, from time TO time,
occur in our New England towns, surprising
in strocity anything we ever find in the cities
among the worst portions of their heterogene-
Gus population. The villain is a graduate of
the State prison, and has long been an object
of general aversion and distrust. His object in
these terrible murders was to graft
fy g. slight quarrel with his mother, eighty
years old, wh1 threatned to deny him further
TO the house, in consequence of his
bad conduct, and also to get possession of 5000,
which his brothers had by them, and 800
which his mother received few days previous,
her pension as the widow of a Revolutionary
soldier. The examination of the mutiated
and charred bodies confirms the account of the
manner in which the murder was effected, even
that of the boy, whose jaw and face is horribly
crushed. The murderer is 43 years of age
He shows no particular sign of feeling, but
seems rather Indifferent than otherwise.
A few days ago, a man by the name of Rob.
bins, indicted for bigamy, was tried at Raleigh,
N. c., and convicted. On the following day he
was branded with the letter B on the right
cheek, in open court-the brand leaving a mark
that he will carry to his grave.