Smyrna times., 1859-11-03
VARIETIES.

BLACK OR BROwN.-The Hartford Times
suggests that, as the Republicans do not relish
the prefix Black" they may with propriety
change their party name TO BrOwn Republicans,
in consideration of the exploits of the " Ossa.
wattomie " champion.
AN ir bridge has been constructed bv a
New York firm for the Southern Railroad in
Chilli. The bridge is twelve hundred feet in
length, and is divided into eleven spans. When
completed, the bridge was tested by a railroad
train weighing two hundred and twenty.four
tons, which did not appear to affect it in the
least
Mrs Mary STEVENS, who died in Savannah
few days, bequeathed residence valued at
$1,000, and seventeen slaves, to the Methodist
Church OF Savannah, of which church she was
a member.
THE Herald tells us that Bishop Onderdonk
has resolved to bring an action for damages
which he has sustained, through the depriva.
ton of his Office, and it's immunities, privileges
and perqusites.
THE Republican Association of Washington
city, disclaIm any completely or sympathy with
the ''mod, wicked and bsurd schemes of the
" Harper's Ferry affair" The IntelIigencer
thinks that the character of the Republicans of
Washington stands in no need of any such ex-
culpation.
THE WEDDING TOUR.-Perhaps, after all
there is soIne sense in wedding tours. At first,
the attention is drawn away from ach other by
the change of scene, and afterwards by the du.
ties OF life. IL let's them down easily. Itis a
dssOlving view that imperceptibly dscloses a
stern reality.
My experience makes me an enemy alike 10
premature marriages and to distant engage
ments. The first adds to our individual cares
the responsibility for the beloved and helpless
pledges Of our affections. and the last are liable
to the most cruel ppolntments.-Sir Walter
Scott
If men could find The fabled fountain that is
said to restore youth and health and beautv.
with what eagerness they would rush to drink
its waters. Yet with scarcely less esgerness
do they now rush to drink of waters that bring
upon them premature old age and disease, and
loathsome ugliness.
A MAN falls in love just as he falls down
stairs. 1t is accident, perha ps, and a very
probable misfortune; something which he
neither intended, nor ioresaw, nor apprehended.
But when he runs in love, it is as when he runs
in debt: it is done knowingly and Intentionally,
and very often rashly, and ioOlishy, even if not
ridiculously, miseraby and ruinously.
From NEBRASKA we have the announcement
of election frauds aud ballot. box stuffing on a
par with the notorious swindles pepetraled
in Oxford and KlckapoO districts, in Kansas
Also of the discovery of band of robbers
there, among whom the ex. Speaker of the Ter.
ritorial Legislature, and an ex.sherlff, held
prominent positions.
THE French editors of San Francisco (there
are no less than four French papers there) are
in a state of bitter warfare among themselves,
their hostilities not being limited to words but
frequently proceeding TO bodily attacks. The
cause seems to be that some of them are op.
posed to the " code," while others insist ON that
prerogatlve.
LOUISIANA and MARYLAND wind up the Sou
thern elections for the present year. MARYLAND
voted on Wednesday, and the Louisiana elec-
ton for Governor &C., will take place on Mon.
day next, the 7th INST
GEN. PIERcE.-Sundry statements have been
set ahoat M the newspapers of the country that
a well. organized movement was on foot for the
denomination Of General Pierce. The New
Hampshire Patriot emphatically contradicts
them.
: The Boston Evening Transcript says that
more than twoihIrds of the suicides in the
! cities of the United States this last sumner
have been occasioned by delrium tremens; a
. large proportion have occurred among the for
: eign population and the names of Germans
: predominute.
II THERE is relief in rdcule and good naturet
e satire. Laughing at the misconduct of the
), world WILL in great measure, ease US of an,
disagreeable passion about II.
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