Smyrna times., 1860-07-05

UNHAPPY PoRTLAND.-Portland is indignant |
at the course which has been pursued by the |
managers of the Great Eastern. II is well |
known that the big steamer promised over a |
year ago to sail directly to that pleasant port,
but for sundry weighiy reasons her owners
subsequently changed their minds. The fall
ure to. keep their appointment was the means
Of causing people of an enterprising and spscu-
latiye turn of mind there not to lose exactly,
but not to make the anticipated little fortunes
which were so earnestly desired. Some of
them threaten to prosecute the Leviathan for
q breach of PROMISE" and it would not be sur
prising If they were to send an officer with a
requisition to take the monster to Portland. !.
The Next CEssus.--The new plan of pay
ing the United States Census Marshals a spe.
Gifted sum per name collected, will, il is said by
those who. ought TO know, insure more COM
pleie returns than we're given under the last
reg ina. The old plan was 10. pay the Mar.
shals hy the day; the present one makes il an
object 10 Them, to collect as many names as
possible In their respective districts. Some of
the best informed Marshals, who have diIigent-
lily pursued their Investigations, express great
surprise at the unexpectedly large number of
| families found in localities with which they
supposed they were previously familiar, and in
which they believed there were few persons
residing.
THE Breckinridge and Douglas parties in
| Washington have organized separately and
distinctly for the campaign, and disbanded the
old National Executive Committee entirely
They both deny any purpose offusing, or coun-
tenaacing any proposition to that effect, no
i matter under what sanction it may be urged.
Each claims TO be regular, and denounces the
other as irregular.
WEALTHY PHYSICIAN, residing in Arch St,
Philadelphia, refused, the other day, to give &c
the census taker the value of his real estate
and suit under the law has been commenced
agsirist him. He avows his determination /,
defend it,
Edward It. Rodney died on the Goth ultimo
from the. effects of wounds received by the &C
cidcntal discharge Of his gun, on Fenwck Ia
land, on the 18th uli. His remains were in
tered ia the Episcopal churchyard at Lewe'
ONE great difference between Japan and tn
United States 10, that, if you insult man j
: the former, he rips his own bowels out. If 20
(; insult one in the iatter he rips out yours.
: sAxosY. no larger than Rhohs Island Q
/. Connecticut, keeps 2,500,00 sheep; Englsn
!. and Wales %, 100000, and the whole of th
: United States only 2l,000.0O0.
AMONG the JUNIOR class VINO oelVereu honi
% rary oraiions at Princeton College, on the 25i
t. ultimo. we notice the name of Charles Beasto
e. Jr., Of this State.
hi The watering places are beginning to 6
se up. The hotels at Niagara Falls already ha'
A. & goodly number Of inmates.
q. THE Hon. Humphrey Marshall, OF Kentuck
has declared himself Ia favor Of Breckinrdl
and Lane
~ THE election in Oregon is doubtful, but {
c- probabilities are that Logan, Republican,
q elected to Congress.
III A Dairy MAIL. between Smyrna and CHI
tertowns Md, commenced on Monday.
THs growing crops In Ireland promise II
no. uriant harvest.
adj. Chicsgo. by recent census has populat
of l50. 600.
A vERv large Breckenridge meeting '
hsld in Philadelphia Monday night
- SENATOR DouaLAsIs now in New York.