Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-06-07

IL
says that If there is any man who is philoso- }
pher, it is barber. Ii there is any human be. 7
isg who has a better chance thar another of I
studying the idiosyncrasies of bis race, and the
ins and oats OF his daily life, that nan is the :
barber. He, of all others, can tweak your
nose, and SO test year temper, or pull your ears
and SO try your patiesae. Ia his hands the
beard of the President and he stubbie of the
bod carrier are reduced to The sane level. Ills
manipuiative fingers and keen glsieGing razor
are as quick and expert at their task aboGt the
countenance of the aristocrat as the counte-1
nance of the pGruenue. The ready six-pence
produces the same soothing, cleany result to
both.S We have come to regard barber as
man Of the world, whose knowledge, and OPP
portunities for gaining knowledge transcend
those possessed by any other mortal---not even
excepting the pawn-broker The barber is n
encyclopedia of universal every day knowledge
such as the gossiping newspa pers would be
glad to publish under the generic head Of "per-
sonal," did their proprietors not have horror
of libel suits and canings. He is an epitome of
tattle. His shop, 10 use a aphor, is a har-
Dor into which the flow in the tide Of town talk I
brings the floating waits and shreds of news,
rumors and gossip of the times, which he gath
ers up and dispenses freely to his PATRONS
The occasional customer, the stranger, is not
i
and only gets such bits and fragments as may
not be likely to be ofimportance to the "regu-
lars" The stranger only learns sufficient to
whet his appetite-just enough to make him
come again, and again, until at last, lapsing
4 through sheer force of habit into an habitue OF
that particular shop, he is admitted TO full COM
munion and confidence.
SLAVES AND THE SLAvE-TRADE.-Still an
lxxtl A Gle - Mo.., oh
Times, has been captured off our coasts by an
American man-of war, and her unhappy human
freight discharged at the government station of
Key West. More than seventeen hundred ma
tive Africans are now assembled at this point,
awaiting the action of the authorities at Wash
ngton in their behalf. Disease is busy, we
are assured, among these wretched beings;
and the rapid increase of their numbers testi-
fies not more eloquently to the activity with
which the Internal traffic in human flesh is car
! ried on under the protecting flag of our Repub-
= lie, than does the suffering and unhealthy con.
dition Of the victims to the unchanged brutality
with which this atrecious commerce is still
accompanied. Ii is to be hoped that for the
honor of the nation, if for no higher and more
: Christian motive, there will be no time lost at
/ Washington, first, in providing for the restora-
|, ton Of these captives to their own country
Presidents recommendations and Mr.. Wilson'S
: bill, for the immediate employment of the ma.
tional power in the most efficient directions fol
;, suppressing the abuse ofour national flag and the
) d;shonor efour national name by the scoundreli
who are daily pr0stltutng the one and the othe
: in the reckless pursuit of their cruel and COW
i aFdly trade.
A YOUNG man entered chapel patronized b!
- the nobility and the wealthy, and marched u
the broad aisle without pew being opened {
him. Having gone to the furthest extent Q
the aisle, he wheeled round and marching bac
again to the door, disappeared. In few miu
!. utes be reappeared, bearing on his shoulders
10 butchers block, under the weight of which b
le, staggered. All the time his countenance wa
immovable. The people stared, and some
Il fright started from their seats, with Bibles an
- prayer-books in hand. At length he place
ca the block in the middle of the aisle and q
upon IT, The reproach was felt-every pc
-, door few open to him. But no-the strange
neither moved nor smiled, but preserved Il
~ utmost decorum until the conclusion ofthe Sc
ew vice, when he shoaldered his block aud slow
marched out of the church.
A CERTAIN REMEDY TO PREVENT CATERPI
LARS FROM CoMISG.--As most farmers a
aware that caterpillars are very destructive
ase trees, flowers and other plants, the folowin
"a if followed, they will find to be a sure renee
against their depredatons Go in the Fa
De autumn, or early Spring, and pull off the bu
lew which you will see on the twigs of the tre
hanging by web. These burrs are four
lce- upon examination, to be composed of SIN
,wn eggs, which, ifleft until warm weather, "
-. hatch, producing gang Of young caterpilla
sls, This has been experienced by Perry Hamiltt
la lfutn fha airw cd Lao
from Blackbird to Smyrna, about three mi
i from the latter place, and is found to be
iole easy, cheap and sure remedy.
I in
er's THE course pursued by the Covode Comm
tee in refusing to allow Gov. Winslow to g
ara puna witnesses, to prove corrupiions inthe
Why ection Of some Of the members of the Rep
lican Party, will damage the Party material
and the more moderate portion of them tots
zen zen disapprove of Covode's operations. Il is
snoP leved that it can be successfully substantial
nat that several of their Members of congress fl
hal Pennsylvania were elected by the use OF /
any ney, including Messrs. Scranton, Moorehe
and otherE.
Eu- LADIES AND FLowERs.--" Red cheeks
en- only oxygen in another shape. Girls anxi
war to year a pair will find them where the re
ex- do--out Of doors' Will they, indeed -
that marked Miss Josephine Hoops, as she laid Dc
&C. the number oflhe paper containing the extr
the Well, ifdoing as the roses do will help |
ford, to color, one might as we'll never get up al
wood for I'm certain sure that the flowers sta,
efore their beds all the day Now, if I'm ever M
ut s morphosed into anything horticultural, In
it will be into camella--they are the
,bs vegetables that ever get chance to 90 to
= an. opera-gracious goodness"
~ o. The Governor of Massa chusetts estim
cattle the number Of neat cattle n the IJn;,ed q,
ct on at twenty millions. He urges the imports
ofchecking the contagiou; suggestsa thoro
b The investigation of The character Of the disc
~ % thinks that the transit Of cattle through
,rs ofI several towns may require additional leg
!. aitv ton, and leaves TO the wisdom of the Leg
n ture the subject Of enlarging the number Of
board Of commissioners and of increasing