Smyrna times., 1860-01-26
Fractions of News.

The Agent of the Rothschilds in New
/ York has half million of Post Office orders
drawing interest 1t is the conduct Of capital
lists in cashng or rather shaving these orders,
that hlnders the organization of the House.
The Governors of Ohio and Wisconsin
are out in favor OF colonizing the free negroes
IN Central and South America. Why not At
rica Why not rally round the Colonization
Society, and create inducements to the free ne.
gro to return to his native soil! 1t would be a
more statesman.like movement.
The Postmaster General, having some
music in his soul, has lowered the price on sheet
music sent through the mails, valuing it by the
ounce net by the sheet. The composers should
forthwith celebrate his praise.
The annual meeting of the American
Colonization Society was held at the Smthso.
nan Institute, at Washington, on Tuesday
evening. There was large attendance.-
The report shows the receipts of the year at
nearly $l5l.OO0; the expenditures, $64 900.
About three hundred immigrants were sent TO
Africa during the same period.
The defenders of New Orleans had
grand blow out on the Sth inst, at which old
Jordan" the drummer, was present. The
Mayor proposed his health, to which Jordan
responded, and closed by saying Je vous SOU
bate beaucoup de retours de q lours. The
PicGyune says il was one of the best speeches
of the evening. Jordan is a negro.
Tx Governor Wise, of Virginia, has re-
turned to the practice Of the law, and will con.
tinue the defence of Walter s. Land, charged
with the murder of Benz. F. Flanagan, whose
trial will take place in February next Rhet-
orical Sky-rockets may be expected about that
time.
The PIllsbury Abolitonists in their re-
cent Buffalo Convention, have resolved dis
ruptlon Of the Union. Extremes North and
South have met at last on a common platform
with Plllsbury and Garirel.
The Methodist missions in India, China,
Africa, Bulgaria and Denmark seem TO be
f1ourishng at the last dates though the prog.
ress is painfully slow. They are expecting
that the field will be open in Sweden next
spring.
From recently published dais it seems
that iE Lima, Peru, there is an average offorty-
five slight shocks of an earthquake a year.-
Agitation is the order ofthe day there. and We
presume that all the vocalsts are adopts at the
shake, the tremolo being chronic.
1t 10 believed that there are great many
people out of employment in New York at the
present tims. An advertisement for 4 porter
and an office boy attracted three or four hun.
dred men to a store in Broadway on Monday
morning, blocking up tie sidewalk TO such an
extent that the police had to disperse them.
The use of the decimal system, as re-
CARDS measures Of length, is TO be obligatory in
Portugal from the first of January next
DIR. Livingstone, in Africa, is thought to
have thrOughy ''seen the elephant" He writes
to London society that somewhere, upon some
river, about 500 hundred of these noble animals
ing quite a noise.
The Sbarp's Rifle Company. at Hartford,
are now turning out an average of $50 of these
effective instruments Of death per week.
MIR. Joseph Simpson, deceased last week
in Elliot, Me-, aged SO years, was born in Char
lesion Mass, and his grandmother, whose name
was Bunker, owned The tract including the hill
which gave it it's name.
The New York Times proves by the fig.
ures, that the trade OF that city with the South
has not fallen off at all, but that it never was
sounder than at present. OF course.
The members of the General Assembly
of Tennesse paid their respects, in a body, on
The fifth inst, to the widow ofthe late Presi.
dent, James K. Polk. al her residence, iu Nash
vile. This mark of respect 10 Mrs. P. has
been observed annually by the Legislature for
several years past.
1t is stated that Lady franklin will pay
a visit TO this country within few weeks. and
that she will be the guest OF leading citizen of
New York. distinguished for his philanthroPie
exertions in prosecuting the search for Sir John
Franklin.
! H. l.. Stuart, of New York, in his sd-
dress before the Natlonat AeacheTs AssocA-
tion at Washington. takes high ground for en-
. bracing, in Common School Education, instruc
o ton n all the arts and pursuits Of life.
1t is ascertained that the Meteor Of Au'
gust last was seen over an area off 5000 square
h miles. The specimens found indicated that il
was silciods, not metallic substance. ea.F
!, ALL the Alpine rivers in North Italy tent
r to produce goitre, when used as drinking wa
u ter. ss ~ e.s .aa aa fa-t ...fa
Il DIR. Cornay, Of ROchefOrt. in France
II proves that by the abstraction Of certain ana
% glands from the bodies dogs, cats, muskrsts AM
= = other high favored animals, they can be mad
= excellent food .s.. 80, III.
:. The Academy of Berlin has complete