Smyrna times., 1860-03-29
WHOLE NO., 81.
Fractions of News.

The one cent ferriagc bill, for the Brook.
lyn ferries has been defeated in the New York
Legislature, by which the menopolies will put
million of dollars in their pockets in ten years.
"A New York jury, last week, awarded
Thomas Kelley $4s6 damages for beng bitten
by David TiltOn's dog.
-Whconsin has abolished the system Of
collecting debts by execution. The State mus,
hereafter be considered the heaven OF debtors.
Alexander Cummings. late OF the Phls.
delphia Bulletin, and J. r. Spalding, late OF
the New York Courier and Enquirer, ars about
TO start a new daily Religious paper in New
York, with JOINT stock capital OF $200,OO0.
The bids for printing the Post Office
blanks were opened on Wednesday, at Wash
inglon, and two offers were received to exc
cute The work done for NINETY three cents, and
the other for Ninety: four cents less in the dOI-
Tar than the government has heretofore paid.
-Alcohol is a bill drawn on the human
health. and the bankruptcy of the body is more
to ensure.
The tsxation question ID stirring up the
people of Virginia from the very depths. We
should not be surprised TO see q revolution il
the one per cent bill becomes law.
--AdVices from Texas state that Governor
Houston is actively engaged in raising minute
men in each county. travelling day and night
The Governor is at San Antonio, acting 10 con.
cert with Colonel Lees operations on the Rio
Grande. Col. Lee will leave on The 18th fog
active work. Five hundred Rangers are in
the field. TAs indians are again numbering.
plunderng and burning.
| Some member of the Missouri Legisla-
turs, objecting TO the continued changes of the
ground around the State House, moved bill
the other day for6idding more than three
changes weeks, SO as TO save The wear and
tear TO the dirt.
The interest Of 100000 cotton plsnters
will probably defeat Mr. Morrilrs new Tariff
Bill. which would infuse joy aud hope Into the
hearts OF IL millions OF working people. aud
add hundred millions yeur TO the earnings
and wages OF labor. "a
THE New York Times, in commenting
on the schemes To reduce tire free negro popu-
Iston OF the slave States to slavery, hits the
head in this vice: g The un,utored cruelty Of
the human heart ls incapable to actr so shock-
ing 10 every instinct OF nature. Nothing but
an inverted ChrIsIisnIiy--s civilization turned
backward upon itselt-a cruelty born Of logic
aud trained TO herdy defiance OF conference
and OF all human feeling could ever prompt
| ~ An q xo NJ fhs asa
est principles OF justice and OF common right"
The city OF Vera Cruz ga ks as the fourth
port IN the Mexican CouirdeTslIon cspuIco,
Mazaiiau, snd San Bias. surprising it in com
inercial importance. It's castle. which COM
pletely Commands It, was 10 ken by the French
in 1929. II was next bomba rd ed aud taken by
the United States forces, under command of
General Scott, in le47. Its populs lion ~ 1854
: !. was liuls over S,UUO, having dwnaled 10 That
o point within quarter of century iron 2UUOO.
It principally drawn off by the more healthy aud
e rising town of Tumplco, 2l5 miles north. west
- Vera Cruz, on The lake OF the same name.
l. The Independent says that the remains
:. of Stevens and Hazletl (whose real name was
Harrison) lie at Eaglewood. side by side be-
N tween the graves OF James G. B,rney. Abol,-
I'd and Arnold Buffum, president of The America
q Anti.Slavery Society. sa
a. Richard Taylor, son of Presideut TIA j lor.
d. 10 one of the delegates to the Charleston Cone
ss vention from Louisiana. A letter writer says
- that he is wealthy, looks much like his father.
= and is opposed to Douglas. ral8
,v Col. Colt. who makes all the shavp
shooting irons. recently discharged several
-e, hundred hands from his extensive msnuiaciory.
The heaviss, discharge of Coli we have head
Of 4 Aa Ks
he The u. s. Senate has go smended O
House bill in relation TO postal affairs, as 10
!, provide that publishers Of newspapers and pc.
riodcals may add TO the address to subscribers
il letters and figures to show when their sub.
scrip.ions expire. An amendments was also
10 adopted giving 10 carriers in towns of drop let.
ters what is now charged as postage on suci
in. letters.
-There was about S5O0.00o worth, (sl
ae- told) taken out at Pixies Peak last year. Al
the mint in Philsdepha i, is worth $40 pei
y. oz. Thsyear there will probably be four lilne
N, that amount taken out.s
H THE Albany Times publishes the namsl
yer Of forty Southern joatnals who are oa. favo
Use Of the nomination Of Daniel s. Dickinson 70
President.
did
our The Republicsn Clsss of Chicago ar
her taking sieps 10 erect public hail capable q
holding from sevea to tan thousand psrsons.
Ma. RYAN. Of Philsdspha. who sndersoo
mo. 10 contest ,he seat Of Col. Flofeace, Of th
fIsuss Of Congress, ssvs !, ap a. hspelsss