Smyrna times., 1859-12-22

8 ed at the mint last month. The mint receives
Spanish coin in exchange for cents, at rates
which afford large gain to the former. The
cents. however, are produced in such immense
quantity, and so little pains are taken to push
them off into the interior, where they are
really wanted, that the channels of circulation
are choked with them. The butchers, bakers,
grocers and retailers generally, are overrun
with them. The brokers deal in them at a dis
count.
| DEAR SMOKING In a window in Chestnut
street, Philadelp pha there are displayed pipes
of meerschaum at 800 each. People who have
spent the last six months in endeavorlng TO
color" a three dollar article, will see the
cause of their failure by a single lance at
these elaborate articles. Between meerschaum
| pipes there is as much difference there is be-
tween pure Arabian and the horse driven by
an oyster warbler.
THE cotton factory season is over, and it is
estimated that the crop will be four and quar-
ter millions of bales, which at last years aver
age prices, will bring two hundred and twenty
millions of dollars, and yet it will fall short Of
paying for our Imports some $50 millions.
A LATE celebrated Judge, who stopped very
much when walking, had a stone thrown at
him one day, which fortunately passed over
him without hitting him. Turning to his
friend, he remarked, " Had been an upright
Judge, that might have caused my death :"
IF four dogs, with sixteen legs, can catch
twenty-nine rabbits, with eighty-seven legs, in
forty-four minutes, how many legs must the
same rabbits have to get away from eight dogs
with thirty-two legs, in seventeen minutes and
a half!
The Charleston Is. c. NewS advocates the
expenditure of 100000 by the State, in the
purchase of cannons rifles and revolvers! The
excuse is that (" no one knows what twelve
month may bring forth"
The homeopathic physicians of Philade phia,
are making efforts to have that system Of medi-
cine introduced into charitable institutions and
prisons. They claim that they have in that
city some 70 homeopathic physicians, with lOO,-
900 patients.
lT is estimated that the Brown military dem
onsation in Virginia will cost that State $780,
600. Gov. Wise will probably levy another
tax upon the Virginia oyster beds to meet the
expenses
The one hundreth anniversary of the intro
duction of Methodism into the Uuited States is
to be appropriately celebrated by that denomi-
ton sometime during the coming year.
TIE Methodsts have encouraging reports
from their mission in India. Four persons
have been baptized in Lucknow--three Mo-
hammedans and one Seikh soldier.
The Rev. james Peelcr, of Tallahassee,
Florida, has invented piow Of which he has
sold the patent right in twelve States, reali- |
zng therefor $25l 900 lie has given away
of this sum S2O0,000 for church purposes.
SEN BREcKINRIDGE. from Kentucky. appears
to have avowed his opinions in favor of a slave
code for the Territories, before he was elected |
A CARGO of African cotton has arrived in
Boston, and is said to be equal to the best Mis-.
slsslppi for length and fineness of staple.
SweDEN and Norway are slowly being lifted
out of the sea at the rate of from one half to
one tenth of an inch per annum. The West
coast OF Greenland is as gradually sinking.
PERsIMMoN beer and brandy is being manu-.
featured in considerable quantities. Mr.. Schlei-
der, of Louisville, Ky, has made two barrels of
brandy from the product of one tree.
ANDREW HoLT LErcHER, aged 10 years, Sc
cond son of Hon. John Letceer, gov'r elect,
died in Lexington, Va, on the 4th inst, from
lockjaw, superinduced by splinter wound in
his hand.
THE Union seems to be at great discount
amongst the South Carolina Legislators just |
now, but we don't observe any sinking in the
price of her stocks in the New York market!
WAsHINGToN IRVING leaves large fortune
to be divided amongst his nepheMs and nieces. |
For the last eight or ten years he has probably
received from his books alone an averane annu-
al income of $50 1000.
Mr.. SMITH O'BRIEN has been lecturing in
Dublin, on America and her lnstitutlons.,'
Mrs. WooD, the wife of Fernando Wood,
Mayor elect of New York, died in that city
Friday.
LEARN in childhood, if you can, that happi- |
ness is not outside but inside. good heart
and a clear conscience bring happines; no
riches and no circumstances alone ever do.