Smyrna times., 1860-02-23
WHOLE NO., Al.
Fractions of News,

- en OF the nlteen supervisors OF MH-
waukee county, Wisconsin, have petitioned the
State Legislature to reenact the formula of
the State Furnishing murder in the first degree
with death.
The Mississippi Legislature has taken
the plunge. 1t has agreed to serd seven dele.
gates to The new Hartford Convention, TO meet
at Atalanta, Georgia. on the 7th of June next, to
concert measures to dissolve tho Union.
As the Charleston Convention happens
OIL the birthday of President Buchanan, and
the Chicago Convention on the birthday of
! Gen. Scott, the committee of the Union Ma.
tlcnal party have called their Convention on
the 18th Of April, the birthday of Hehry Clay.
Efforts are making to hold the Convention at
Lexington, Ky, the home of Clay.
Tile news by the last steamer from Eu.
rope informs us that the Ultra Montane Jour.
nal of Paris, called the UniUers, has been sup
pressed. This ID the most significant fact which
we have yet recorded in regard TO the change
of pol cy VIII ch the Emp ,ror of France has re-
solved to make. The UniUers has long been
the most powerful organ of the Roman Catho-
lie Church in France.
The Warrenton IN. c. paper offers
prize for Southern gunpowder, the alarming
discovery having been made that all present
supplies of that article are from the North
which. in case Of a war to dissolve the Union,
would leave the South as badly off as our feet
that went TO Paraguay.
In New York the brokers say money is
easy, aud The merchants say business is good.
Real estate is Ii, ely, and there is a vast amount
Of tearing down aud building up, commencing
or the lst OF May, especially in Broadway
The property known as the " Chinese. Assem-
ely Rooms" which was sold some ten years
since, by The Coser heirs, for $40, 600, has re-
Gently been sold for $lYG,U 900.
-An appropriation has been made in the
Maryland Leg stature to erect statue of Gen.
Washington IN the Senate chamber, upon the
spot where he stood hen he resigned 10 Con-
gress, on the 23d OF December, 1888, his COM
mission as commanded n-chief OF the army of
the Revolution. The statue to be Of American
ofan American artist.
-Virginia has sent home Embassador
Memminger, from the empire of South Caro-.
lima, with that jamping individual known as a
fiea," IN his ear. She won't hear of meeting
the convention Of traitors at Atalanta.
Prof Youmans contends that the sun.
beam is "the grand motor of the earth's life.
scheme that if it were not for the suns rays.
The earth would be consumed by its oxygen,
that the vegetable lite is called into existance
by the union Of oxygen and Il e solar rays, and
that the animal world has it's origin in the
plant.
The frankng privilege originated in
England in the year 1860. Under it, members
of Parliament used TO frand entire bucks and
packs Of hounds"
Stevens and IIazlett, the Harper's Ferry
insurgents have been sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th day Of March next
Seven out of our fifteen Presidents never
had any cheren. sinnuor lot that, out of
SO many millions Of fathers in our land!
Two NJ. l. churches in Accomac county.
Va, have seeded from the PHILADELPHIA 10 the
Virginia conference.
The discovery Ofa Venus in Rome has
set everybody TO digging in quest of other trea-
sures, and the consequence is that the gardens
of the MANAGE at last dates were entirely up,
turned. Many rare things have been found.
"A Spauiard recently took poison in the
Jail OF Hayane, after avowing himself to be the
murderer of % people. Who can deny, after
this, the doctrine of human depravity!
The papers are furious about the Bible
burning at Bogota. in New Grenada. Foolish
as that was. it is not half so bad as the habit.
uul neglect of Bible reading in our own coun.
try.
The English have real way ofsignify-
ing their gratitude to their benefactors When
Golden carried the anti.corn laws they gaze
him nearly half a million of dollars, most of
which he swomped in the United States securi-
ties Recently, for his conquest of the French
despot to the free trade policy, they have gireu
him buarter of a million of dollars.
1t is stated that three.fourths of the mem.
bers of the House Of Congress are lawyers, the
other fourth is composed of manufacturers,
merchants, and business men. Nearly all the
great business interests OF Masssa chnsseIts are
represented.
The Kirghises of Liberia, one Of the
widest tribes of that quarter OF the world, have
ubolishad slavery.
How differently men appear whee seen
and scanned by different eyes! We are all de.
wills to those who hate us. and angels 10 those
who love US. In the pure eye of the All.See.
ing, let as hope we may all appear as in the
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