Smyrna times., 1879-04-23

The Republicans of Congress have appointed their
Campaign Committee.
Secretary Sherman has issued a call for 100000
ten-iorticS for redemption on July Is
permanent association has been organized at St
Louis to aid colored cmigrants to the West.
The banc of our politics is the fact that we are all
the time in the midst of Presidential campaign.
Tie nation with which all the monarchs of Europe
sooner or later will have NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Snow fell very heavily on Friday in the New Eng
land States. 1t feet deep in places along the
Hudson on saturday.
The Talmage trial daily decpens the conviction that
the churches need to devise method of washing
tleir dirty linen in private
The talk is now that the President has his backbone
suHeued TO the point of veoing all general legsla
tion that is bundled into appropriation bills
The Baltimore Seaidy telegram says ii you will
serdtinizc the anti.Tilden Democrats you will find
large majority of them were old lying wings"
Gen. Beauregard is quoted declaring the Eads
jees. at the South Pass of the Mississippi zone of
the greatest and mos, perfect works of the kind in the
history Of hydraulic engineering"
The Colored Convention at New Orleans on Satur.
day pissed resolutions advising the negroes to emf
crate. said during the speeches that some of
the COngressmen's credentials were written in the
blood of the coored men.
Buenos Ayrcs affords striking illustration of the
effect of an irrcdeemable currency. Sixty dollars
day is common price FOR mechanics but as a paper
dollar is worth about three cents in gold it costs
about SIS 10 buy yard of cotton cloth
Ex-Congressman Small says the negroes of South
Carolina have caught the emigration fever and are
only KEEP, from starting in great numbers for the
West by their lack of money. He declares that they
are willing to live tenpenny nails till they can
save money enough to pay their fare.
The war between Chilli on the one side and Peru
and Bolivia ON the other is not be alone contest
OF the soldiery of the three Powers Chilli has credit
both of the other nations without it, The result
will be likely to prove that the little republic has all
ally more potent than unpaid battalIons.
writer who saw Gen. Butler in court says that on
his watch chain there hung bone whistle mounted
with gold. Florida bean. heavy seal ring and
several other trinketS which during his address to
the jury danglsd against his round, full stomach,
making noise like the jingle Of q car bell.
The setting aside Of reservation for Chief Moses
and his tribe in Washington Territory Is Just and
proper. Now let the Government see to it that the
lawesS brood Of squatters and traders s kept away
and that nothing is done to disturb the Indians in
their new possession and there will be no further
trouble with them.
The bid for $3.50 100000 of the new four Der cents on
Thursday. which more than sufces to close out the
entire list of tenCrteS is said have been as great
a surprise TO Secretary sherman as il was TO the
country at large. l. is notable event, and gives
hatIering proof of the estimate in which the Govern
ment credit is held.
The Gar has promptly carried out his threats that
repTeSsive measures would be adopted He hast prJ-
Claimed martial law in six great centres Of popula-
ton. including the cities of Moscow Kef Warsaw,
ST. Petersburg. Chariot and OGesha. General amaze.
ment is evinced by London journals at the rgor Of
the military sy stem which the Gar has established.
It Is regarded as relapse into practical barbarism,
and an admission that dsluyulty is deep and wide.
spread throughout the Russian Empire
The Chinese question has rather dropped out of
public attention Of late. but the negro exodus from
the South Is beginning TO revive its discussion in
"a" 4O'H4 lHc NlCkSDuIS HcFUq. one OF the lead
Ing papers in Mississippi in recent article reviewing
the NGrthward movement from its section plainly de-
careS that ii it continues it will reopen the Chinese
immigration question with tenfold force California
may not want the Chinese but if the South is rot
bed OF her labor She will and what is more she will
have them"
II any man ever had reason to curse the day that
nephews were invented that man is Ex-Governc r
lie fr..y, , .1,o;
matter Of history Mayor Cooper has selec ted another
Of his nephcws for Police Commissiouer-thus iden.
tifying Mr.. TilGen with his doubtful Quarrel still
another nephew. who is in the paIentmedcine busi.
ness with his uncle. has been sending of patent
medicines without the internal revenue stamps that
ShouId accompany them In the latter case it Is al.
legged that the stamps were provided but stolen by
wicked packing clerks. This may Le true; but none
the less do Mr. Tildens nepfrws turn I'D in unex.
pected quarters to defeat their uncle and amaze tie
world,
The United States Senate on Monday was occupjed
IN discussing the army appro priation bill, Messrs
Bayard and Maxey advocating its passage as It came
from the House During his speech Mr.. Bayard
Characterized as foolish ard inconsistent" the
attempt of the Republican side to raise the cry of
reFoiution because the Democrats following long
established usages proposed 10 attach legislation to
appropriation bills, and he pronounced the pending
section regulating the use of the army as entirely
germane.
In the House nearly fourteen hundred bills were
introduced under the call Of States The bills em.
braced wide range Of subjects the financial bills
numbering nearly one hundred
II cannot he expected that the civilization of the
- ~ which We live. says the Philadelphia Record
VIII stop where it now Is, and II mechanical inven
u"n has contrivcd 50 many labor saving machines
i' or e steam and electricity are doing so
th4t oyerproduction" causes enforced
'ees' and the distress and embarrassment of which
60 many complain. how are we to hope for improve
feht IN the condition Of the large body of people
VINO deIend upon the labor Of their hands for sun.
port IN The future? II we cannot find new branches
o. INDUSTRY nor very largely increased demand for
inc products which machinery now brings forth tho
number OF unemployed or uselessly employed hands
must continue 10 increase But it cannot be that IN
our vast country containing undeveloped resources
incalculabe In amount. there can he n lack Of worL
If there be high order Of intelligence engaged IN
finding H.
Every EueHing calls attention to the fact In condo