Smyrna times., 1865-12-20


In describing the scene at Central Park, a
New York paper says -" Parsons and par
SONS wives may be seen there i'll fashionable
drags, putting three minute and tWo'ior-
ty horses to the very top OF their trottlhg
speed, wheel and wheel with fast actresses ana
rich philanthropists, who profess to belleVe
that the republic owes its salvation to the ne
gro, driven by black fellows with the badge oI
servitude on their hats and collars, sweep along
in the same column with gamblers, and painted
women several degrees below the grade OF the
demimonde. We speak by the card, tor we
have seen this beautiful moving mosaic h2lf-a-
dozen times within the past month, and are
free to say that, SO far as outward gauds were
concerned, it was difficult to distinguish plety
and phllantrophy from prohgacy and plunder-
mOngcry, or the professional fast women from
the yirtuOus matrons and maidens who wed
with them in the theatrical style OF their COS
tunes and surroundings. "-BOstOn POst.
Il FENIAN FUNDs.-There are facts to show
that at the time of the quarrel between the
, Fenian chiefs, in New York, the contributions
from the Circles Of the Brotherhood and SIster-
hoDd throughout the United States amounted
to : 50, 900 month, or at the rate of nearly
81 ODO, 900 year. With such an income it IL
not wonderful that luxurious mansions are lcas-
ed and furnished by the head men, that they
) rcvel in costly wines and cigars and that the
t funds are wasted in private speculatiOns, as
disclosed during the quarrel Nor is 1t won
/ dcrful that the cause itself should be degraded
. from an effort to do good for Ireland into a
h fight for the possession OF the money. The
: question for the poor and hard-wOrking Irish
) people who furnish the funds now is, whether
+ they cannot put their money to better uses
i ! 1t IS said that the aggregate sum collected
since the Institution Of the Fcnlan order in this
/ country is less than five million of dollars.
+ WELL STATED. - The Springfield Republiear
u thus tOrciby contrasts the two political parties
of the country:
The Republican party was the agenc!
which the people used to carry through tn,
3 war and save the nation. 1t did its work trl
umphantly. The Democratic party was tn
y. political agency which the rebels used to Stol
IL the war and dismember the nation. The pee
s. pie, in their rage, ground it to powder vt tn
y, polls. There is nothing in the history Of hu
re man audacity and folly so audacious and foo
is ish as the demand that the people do now re
ut surrect this Democratic party and commit
a it the interests of the country which it lahore
in to destroy"
Us rs The Augusta Telegraph says that Hon. /
- NJ. Bruce, formerly member of the COnfedC
,h rate Congress from Kentucky, now banke
" = and cotton factor in Augusta, Ga, has sent t
l la Gen. John G. Breckenridge, now an exile frol
~. ~ the land of his birth, check for 300, ,000
" Mr.. Bruce is understood to have speculate
"a largely and successfully during the last ye,
=" ~ of the COnfederacy.
n A very exciting scene, involving heavy 10
m of property, occurred at St. Louis on Frid'
he last. The ice which had been damned L
in just below the CITY, and accumulated in la1t
ch masses along the docks, suddenly gave wa
to and with so much force as to break loose We
Yin sells of every size, crushing and sinking man.
lut and otherwise causing immense damage. III
he dispatch gives rough estimate of the loss
vas as amounting to more than 100000.
la All kinds of Clothing furnished 10 order
ne Baggs & Cotton.