Smyrna times., 1860-04-12
WHOLE NO., So.
Fractions of News.

! a Louisiana court has mulctsd the New
Orleans and Jackson Railroad Company out Of
$4,000 for landing passenger so miles below
his point of destinaton-in marsh.
-California yeast, the product Of vsge-
table has been very fatal in Tennessee, produ.
cling death from swollen stomach. s sac
The New York Commercial Advertiser
quiets the nerves of certain old ladies', who are
fearful OF the supply of coal giving cut, BY
assuring them shat there is enough in This ceun.
Try alone to last thoussn nd millions of people
for 10000 thousand years to ecne
There were 1900 male. and l42 female
prisoners locked up in the Sing Sing, New
York State Prison, on Saturday, being the high.
est number that has sven been within the prison
walls.
There are men now trying to prove be-
fore the Patent Office, that Morse is not the in
Ventor OF the Magnetic Telegraph. Can impu.
denee be more brazen.
-Windham county saved Connecticut
from the Democracy, at the late election. bx
giving 800 majority for the Republicans more
than last year. New Haven and Hartford
went heavily Democratic.
The late Virginia Legislature aided the
cOvington aud Ohio Railroad, aud passed law
allowing the expectation of Virginia -four, with.
out inspection, if fur-fiflhs of the vessel ara
owned in Virginia.
The new law in Congress for the pro-
lection of immigrant passengers, especially Ee-
males, from the assaults of ship-masters, onlv
needs to be enforced to effect a most desirable
change in this thing.
We are glad to see that the necessary
money will be voted by Congress to pay ths
expenses of the Japansse Embassy, now daily
expected.
The President has sent to the Senate
the voluminous correspondence bstween the
Secretary OF State and the ambassadors abroad
upon the subject of diploma tic costume. Inter.
estlng study, that, for tailors!
Three thousand FIVE hundred dollars have
been subscribed in Washington, towards a sta.
tue OF Henry Clay, to be executed by Brown.
a new textile material has been brought
out IN Russia, which is highly sulogized a.
substitute for cotton. Russian is said Ca
have discovered new and successful method
ior dressing It, so as to render il very valuable
The plant isa species Of silk week, (Asclapias0
There are no less than three varieties found
throughout the middle and southern States.-
One variety is called the milk weed" and
another the butterfly weed" and its roo, the
"pleurisy root"
The Philadelphia Inquirer saws thar
there are now, in that city. in active operation,
nineteen passenger railroad Companies, who
transport, from one section Of the city TO an.
other, daily, between one hundred and forty
and one hundred and fsrty-fve thousand per-
sons, and receive from seven 10 eight thousand
dollars per day, which would exceed two mill.
ions Of dollars annually. i'N'9 s>es
r A writer in the New York Evaneelist.
3 just returned from European tour, states that
there arc many revivals Of religion in progress
in multitude Of places in Great Britain, and
remarkable waking up to the Importance OF
spiritual things.
Twenty-Five thousand converts have been
added to Calvanistic churches in Wales the
past year.
s The war with Morocco is estimated to
have cost Spa $2O.OoO.OoO and $4,000 lives,
for which she has conquered a city no. worth
the keeping.
d Rev. Daniel Worth has been convicted
!. in Randolph county, N. c., of circula ting the
"Helper book, and sentenced to be impris-
9 oned one year. An appeal, however, has bees
Z taken.
The National Union convention, to meet
= in Baltimore on the 9th of next month, has SEE
cured the Front stree, Theatre for Ave days,
l. at the rate of 500 per day. The front sier Of
ID boxes 10 to be devoted exclusively to the use
y of the ladies who may wish to be present.
-The following steamers are announced
to take visitors to the Charleston conventon,
ly and TO furnish board during its session at the
as sums siipulaied--ihe s. r. Spaulding, from
% Boston, $l00 for the round rip; the Keystone
= = from Philadelphia, $50; tie Yorktown, Rich.
ts mond, S50 the CoatzacoaIos. from New Or.
al leans, $50 the Augusta, from Savannah, $50,
I'D with an extra charge of $3.50 per day for every
day that the session shall continue beyond one
!. week.
in The New Orleans Picayune ofTuesda,
L. gives statement made by Captain Swssy, Q
bs The ship Masconomo, from Liverpool. that o,
4 the 9Th of March, whils passing of the coas
/, of Cuba, his vessel was chased and fred at by
H. H. war steamer, carrying the Spanish colors.--
pm The Masconomo bad the American colors an.
sse her private signals flying all the time.
100 There are handreds Of thousands of bush
els of produce waiting for shipment down tn
ted Des Mones river. The water is so low at pre-
hofl aant thai ma hnafe car naviunfa II