Smyrna times., 1860-01-19
WHOLE NO., 46O. E.
Fractions Of News.

in Dallas, Texas. When the news of MIR.
Wigfali's election to the U. S. Senate, reached
that village, thsy kept up an anuilading uli
night which is the loading of the hole in an
anvil and shooting off the charge Big guns
seem to be scarce in that region.
-The tax of 10 per cent laid on grog shops
IN New York, yielded some $4,000, last wear,
in aad Of the Inebriute Asylum at Binghampton.
The whole Of this tax ought to be devoted to
It's sustainment. 1t is as little as the State can
do, to force the drunkard makers to cure their
victims.
President Buchanan attended the u.
5. Agricultural Society on Thursday, to re.
cclVe his diploma an honorary member. The
President of the Society. in delivering it, said
that 1t was strange coincidence that every
President of the United States had either been
called from the plough, like Cincnnatus, OF
else retired to it al the expiration of his term
office.
-One OF the Republican members of the
New Jersey Legislature, appeared a few days
ago. in h seui, clothed in a suit in which there
Another one, addicted to tobacco, has given
up chewing any Of the weed grown in the slave
States.
We learn from the Houston TELEGRAPH
that, during the late cold weather, there were
from fifty to sixty persons frozen 10 death in
Texas, at least forty of whom were under the
influence of liquor when frozen. There were
also many thousands OF hogs, cattle and sheep
frozen 10 death in that State.
The Pope has responded TO the counsel
OF France, to reform his administration, by ap.
pointing commission of Cardinals, who have
reported their fret reform, to wit: that any
lady who shall 60 to confession with bare arms
or low neck dresses or in crinoline, shall not
be shriven by the priest!
1t begus to be felt in Europe, that JOS.
eph, of Austria, is to be cheated by his brother
despot, OF France, and not the Italians. That's
historic justice.
"A traction engine, for common roads,
capable of dragging thirty-fve tons and one
hundred and twenty men on a level, at the rate
OF five miles per hour, has been shipped from
England to the Mariposa copper mines, on the
great desert, near Fl. Yuma, to be used on this
desert, sixty miles across, in Transporting cop
per, &c.
--Msjor Schoonover, the Indian Agent.
who has $1,000 Indians under his care, saws
the Yellow Stone is the real Missouri, and that
1t IS navlgable nine hundred miles above the
confluence with the main stream. Stores might
be landed within four hundred miles of Salt
Lake city by this route.
The Italians have organized legion of
400 boys, from l3 to ii years Old to fight the
battles of independence. That's the old Ro-
man spirit revived.
Il Univers, the organ of the French
Catholic Church, argues from John Browns
raid, the superiority of Catholicity over Pro-
tesiantlsm, aud says that such an affair could
never hav taken place had the United States
been Catholic.
The white working men of Western
North Carolina are out in force in favor of tax
ing all kinds of property alike. This strikes
at Slaves, who are now favored in the tax laws
to large extent.
"A house has been opened in Richmond,
the object of which is to furnish to Southern
buyers a test of all the merchants North, who
are with the South on the slavery question.
queen Vcturia's second son, Prince
Alfred, recently received a sound lhrashing
from brother MILDLY, while lying at Beirut,
and when it was over he had the manliness to
confess that he was in the fault.
The New York Times very Justly re-
marks that most conversions nowadays is, not
to holiness, but TO a refined toorIdliness. Hence
the millions so uselessly equandered on church
architecture.
-Casslus NJ. Clay spoke, on Tuesday, TO
a vast audience, from the portico of the Ken
lucky State House, the doors of which had been
closed against him. lie avows himself an
emanci ipatIonist, and vIndicates The patriotism
of Senator Seward.
Ninety five thousand Sewing machines
have been sold in the last six years in this coun-
try. Mr.. Howe's income last year, from trib-
ute upon them, was $l43,000. More tha n two
the manufacture Of them.
Hon. Judge Macon, of Iowa, who made
himself so popular with the inventors of the
country while he held the Office of Commissions
or of Patents, has, we learn, associated himself
with MUM s. Co, at the Scientific American
office, New York.
The Charleston Mercury says that care
full observation and calculations from reliable
statistics, show that more wives of Northern
men, in proportion TO the number, annually run
! away from their husbands than there are slaves
|. who flee from their masters.
-----Hon. John Bell has been nominated fol
f the Presidency BY the Opposition members o
1.-THE Legislature OF Tennessee. 'fa
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