Smyrna times., 1859-09-01
p e r S ON AL.

A BOOK has actually been published contain.
ing biographical sketches of the prominent can.
uiua'es Ior lne Presidency in 1860. The gen.
tIemen thus honored are messrs. Seward. Dong.
ias' Chase' Bates, Dickinson, Bell. Hale. A. II
stephens, Banks, 10. Lane, Mclean. W;oe
Iiunter, wilson, Davis, Orr, Bolts, Hammond
Cobb, breckenridge, Fremont. Here ara 81"
certainly enouge to choose from.
A LETTER from Raleigh, N. c.. dated Aro
18TH, says that about noon on that dav . son Of
the Hon. Kenneth Rayner a fine. nromising
YOUTH about thirteen years old. was hunting
win shotgun, in Company with his brother
seVsIai years younger than himself The gun
went on accidentally, the whole load passing
through the head Of the elder, and producing
bAYARn TAYLOR's California lecturng spec
ul"''oh Will probably be the most lucrative en-.
PAgement OF the sort ever yet made. He is TO
receivs five thousand dollars for what he does
IN San Francisco, and will make five thousand
more in side lectures. Ten thousand in three
months is pretty fair pay-more than B. #.
ever expected to get when he worked at case
at thirty cents thousand ems
Mr.. LA MOUNTAIN, it is said, will make an
ascension from Saratoga, n. Y. in two or
ing monster balloon, one-thrd larger than
the Atlantic, with which to cross the ocean.
The New Orleans Delta thinks that The
Spcakersh:p of the next House of Representa-
tlves lies between the Hon. VIM. Etheridge of
that State, and Hon. Tom. Corwin, of Ohio.
BISHOP SIMPSON, of Pittsburg, has returned
from the East Tennessee Conference which
closed Its session last week. He leaves shortly
tor his new home in the West.
| FRED DOUGLAS is ma king ARRANGEMENTS for a
visit to Great Britain. He is to sail about the
beginning of September.
JAMES LONG, of Greencastle, Pa. though SO
years DID, mas never tasted spirtuous or malt
liquors In his life, neither has he ever taken a
chew of tobacco, or smoked cigar. A most
wonderful man.
DR. HAYES, one of the companions of DR..
Aane, Will organize shortly another Arctic ex.
pedltIon, Under the auspices of the American n
Scientific Association.
RAREY, the horse tanner, has got the London
cavalry under his charge, at good price,
A MAN named Adam Dutz drank eigbt pal.
Ions Of lager beer on a wager, at Indianapolis.
Ind, last Wednesday. When he had finished
drinking the eight gallons he was still unsatls.
ned, aud called for more lager which was re-
fused him.
Mrs. BAYARD TAYLOR accompanies her hus.
band to California They are to be absent 3
months, leaving their one daughter with her
relatives in Pennsy ylyania.
The Trustees of Henry Ward Beechers
Church have decided to enlarge that edl6ce.
instead OF building new one.
That Hybrid Fanny Fern, says, "this world
mas been set a-going, and it has got to 90 on -
Ihat don't necessarily follow. Every thing has
oeen gong on tick so long that general lOind.
Ing up would not be out of place.
ALFRED TENNYsoN, the poet, talks of coming
10 THIS country. An opening for toadies.
E. X. V. WRIGHT has been nominated for
Governor by the Democrats of New jersey.
WALKER. the 6Ilbuster, has Just Joined the
Sons OF Malta, IN order, no doubt TO convert
them TO his Misunderstanding theory. So they
say.
The Louisville Democrat SAYS that Major
A. J. Donclson died recently in Louisiana. ot
erysIpelas. MIR. Donelson was formerly the
private secretary OF President Jackson, and
editor OF the Washington Globe, and subse.
quently OF the Union. In lS56 he was candl.
date OF the American party for Vice President.
lie removed from Tennessee to Louisiana few
years ago.
MAssAcHusETrs is moving for the erection
OF a statue IN honor of Horace Mann: but some
OF the papers say that If he could speak he
would protest against IL.