Smyrna times., 1860-02-02
WHOLE NO., 462.
Fractions OF News.

! three hundred thousand new inhabitants. Pa.
rs now contains population of a million and
half When completed, the new city will be
30 miles in circumference with % gates.
--Durng The last three months, the car
r.rs Of the Philadelphia Post Office delivered
newspapers.
The bill for the expulsion Of free me-
groes from the State of Tennessee, passed the
House on the l2th inst, by a vote of 40 to 27.
Free homesteads would soon reduce in.
terest in the West 10 a reasonable point, and
hence they arc declaring in every direction for
the Homestead law.
-The Federal Government is running in
debt a the rate OF 30 millions year, while the
whole California gold crop is exported for
goods that could aud should be made at hume
-Engund took $4,000 barrels of flour
from in lo58. but last year it went up to 49,
600 bdrrela!
The ice dealers of Philadelphia have
succeeded in storing during the present season
7S,30O tons Of pure ice. There at this
time sixteen ice houses on the Schuylkill with
a capacity for storing 90, 500 tons.
"A Mississippi paper remarks, that no
power can break the bonds of the slaves"
whereupon Prentice gays, it is pity the same
result did not attend the issue Of her repudiated
Bonds!
"A sgnetic locomotive of21 tons weight
has recently been tried in New Jersey, and it
did the work of one of 80 tons. The wheels
are magnetized, and thus made to adhere to the
rails.
The number of Patients treated in the
Womans Hospital of New York, under the
management OF Mrs Cadwise, Astor, Minturn
and others was lbs last year, at at expense of
$500. The State has given them $4,000
for buildi g.
The Central Park of New York, when
finished, will cost 81 millions of dollars. That's
the way to do such things
IN the Rhode Island Legislature Thurs
day, an act was passed making the twenls-se-
cond day Of February legal holiday, instead
OF the first of January, as the law now provides
1t is said that there is young mana
repotIer-connected with one of the Troy pa
pcrs. who eau write out a whole speech, sermon
or lecture from nemory, and he never takes
notes.
| The 22d of February, tire anniversary of
the blr!h of Washington, will be great day
/ Ihls year for the holding OF State Conventions.
! The Opposition Convention OF Tennessee will
meet in Nashville; the Democratic Convention
of Iowa will meet IN Dcs MoInes: the Demo-
cratic Convention Of Michigan will meet in De-
trnlt; the Wing Convention Of North Carolina
VIII meet IN Raleigh; The Republican Convcn-
tlon Of reunsy ylvanIa will meet in Harrisburg;
the Opposition Convention OF Virginia will
meet IN Richmond, and the Republican Con-
ventlon of Indiana Will meet in indianapolis.
--The people of Vcksburg instead of dis
solving the Union, are dissolved IN teaTs at the
PembertOn Mills calamity, and raising money
Tor the sufferers, thus showing that blood is
thicker than wafer.
The New York Times endorses Doug
las plan 10 crush out the autI.slavery extension
sentiment OF the Free Stulce, by Federal legis-
Iaton, or Congressional Slave Code for the
States.
-Mr Sherman has been sustained in the
course he has taken by the unanimous voice of
the Opposition members of the Leg gislature of
~ ba il
certain of his lection, that he has imported 20
cases of sparkling Catawba from Ohio, for the
! celebration OF his triumph.
The New York Herald is out for the re-
nomination OF Mr.. Buchanan by the Charleston
= Convention.
The hire of slaves in the South has gone
up l5 per cent, owing TO the demand Tor them
on railroads and in other lines OF labor.
. The Governors of Tennesse and Missouri
y have vetoed the recent Bills for driving free
negro labor out of those States.
n The signers to the New York Union
Meeting have been printed alphabetically at an
II expense of 10000, just by way of advertising
| their soundness on the negro question.
y The laws of marriage contract in Mas
sachuselIs have been so amended, that divorce
. can now be obtained on the ground of extreme
cruelty, desertion for five consecutive years
N aud confirmed habits of inioxieation contracted
is after marriage
a suit was concluded in New Orleans
50 ON the 18th inst before Judge Engleson, il
m which it was decided that Baltimore city o"eC
New Orleans $5O,O0O, one-half of the expense
tn of 300 600 incurred by New orleans in settling
lis the McDonough estate. An appeal, it is sup
posed, will be taken.
. ., -" Bob Ridley" singular character
died in Ilarrisburg,.Pa., on Tuesday.