Smyrna times., 1860-05-10


IMpoerAsr yELopMENrs--Legislators IN
Troubls.-'rhe New York Sun Of Tuesday
says: attorney General Myers has been |
furnished with evidence believed TO be sufi-
cent to secure the Indictment and punshmentl
of six State Senators and eight Members of AS
sembly for corruption in the performance of
their Legislative duties, during the session
lust closed. The names of these wrong-doing
Legislators have been rnished ne. but, for the
present, WE Withhold them, trusting that The
necessary evidence will accumulate, so as 10
cut off every possible chance of escape.
" The list comprises men whom, until now.
we had supposed above suspicion, and the most
/ painful part of the story is that against one of
Them the evidence is most conclusive But on
this very account we urge the Attorney Gener-
al the more strongly to perform his whole duty
| in the premises. Good names must be no
shield TO crime in high places"
j 1t is to DO hoped tnat this attempt to expose
and punish legislative corruption win not be
allowed 20 end in "Smoke." Legislative
bribery has become by-word and reproach to
the State and Nation, and common decency
calls for the exposure and punishment Of the
guilty parties. s.
SARDNIA..-Deducting The 100000 persons
transferred to France by Sardinia she gains
within fraction of 4,000,000, by the recent
annexations, and added TO the population of the
Sardo- Lomhardlan State, give her q total Of
Ii $50 900 Or thereabouts. This is jump in
deed upwards from her 100000 of popula-
, tion. - sbaf el5i fs,sfs.s-sae afat
Ifthe revolution should progress as il has
begun, aud Venelis, with her 2,5O0,000 peo-
ple,, the States of the Church with their remain
ing 2,OOO,OOO and the Two Sicilies with iheiI
|. 100000, be incorporated into the new King
: dom. Iken will united Italy number nearly
s %, ,O00, 900 under one government. There il
: nothing to prevent this consummation but the
unjustifiabIe interference of foreign powers
This result may be baptised in, blood, but II
a is, it will perhaps only be the more priced by
!. the downtrodden populations still under the
8 iron heels Of Francis Joseph, Pic Mono anC
!. Francis Roulba.
Napoleon has it 10 his power to move the
wand, and the work will be done, but will hi
!, consent to erect an empire on his South. East
d almost equal in population to his own! If pro
eress, even under dispotism, be his real. pur
;, pose, he will do il, but il not, not
THE correspondent ola literary journal la
ments that the day of poetry is dead and ask
WAY have we no more of the soul strain
e which were once breaihed by the old masters =
t. We will inform the gentleman. Soul strain
Is don't pay. Poetry has become mere question
:, of bread and butter. Our bards do not strai
:, themselves with soul-strains" " for the reaso
II that they could net sell them for enough t
P, keep their Pegasus in oals, or themselves
n- troWsers. Again, this is not poetical age
The real is asserting itself to the exclusion {
the IDEAL And the music Of the present da
70 is condensed in two bars-iron rhymes-whic
or stretch themselves from the Atlantic, beyon
be the Missouri, and nigh unto the shores of th
D. Pacific. People hurrying to their goal, th
attainment of wealth, with the whistle of steal
= in their ears, have no time to listen to the p
" pings of reed, or rhyihmical discourses to th
ae moon. AK, alter all, il is better TO live poem
10 than it is to write them. gs sa t1s,
he THE Japanese have discovered that fe
seconds previous TO an earthquake, the magn'
MS Temporarily loses its power, and have ingen
'1 ously constructed light frame supporting
horse shoe magnet, beneath which is cap
% bell metal To the armatnre is attached
n weight; so that upon the magnet becomr
be paralyzed, the weight drops, and striking 4
IA cup, gives the alarm. Every one in the hou
q then seeks the open air for safely 9'+E'ls1
i, TAG GREAT EAsrERs.--The London Obse
Il, ! per states that there exists no doubt whaley
oy that this great steamer will be ready TO test /
- powers BY o trip across the Atlantic towar
ia the closa Of Nav.