Smith, the name of four counties in the United States.

I. A Central County Of Mississippi

A Central County Of Mississippi, intersected by Strong river and drained by the head streams of Leaf river; area, 620 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 7,126, of whom 1,711 were colored. The surface is generally level and the soil poor. The chief jn-oductions in 1870 were 144,688 bushels of Indian corn, 28,286 of sweet potatoes, 45,040 lbs. of rice, 5,666 of wool, and 2,411 bales of cotton. There were 1,065 horses, 2,027 milch cows, 4,308 other cattle, 3,694 sheep, and 11,254 swine. Capital, Raleigh.

II. A N. E. County Of Texas

A N. E. County Of Texas, bounded N. by the Sabine river and W. by the Neches, and drained by the sources of the Angelina; area, 900 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 16,532, of whom 7,131 were colored. The greater portion of the surface is prairie land, and the soil is fertile. It is traversed by the International and Great Northern railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 420,646 bushels of Indian corn, 22,017 of barley, 54,987 of sweet potatoes, 100,856 lbs. of butter, 1,878 gallons of molasses, and 9,322 bales of cotton. There were 1,988 horses, 1,189 mules and asses, 4,975 milch cows, 9,954 other cattle, 2,726 sheep, and 22,658 swine. Capital, Tyler.

III. A N. County Of Tennessee

A N. County Of Tennessee, intersected by the Cumberland river and drained by Caney fork; area, about 300 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 15,994, of whom 3,536 were colored. The surface is rough, but the soil is generally fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 126,837 bushels of wheat, 888,078 of Indian corn, 72,528 of oats, 17,996 of Irish and 15,163 of sweet potatoes, 2,250,202 lbs. of tobacco, 32,674 of wool, 255,723 of butter, 39,061 of honey, and 40,344 gallons of sorghum molasses. There were 4,857 horses, 3,715 milch cows, 6,117 other cattle, 17,591 sheep, and 33,687 swine. Capital, Carthage.

IV. A N. County Of Kansas

A N. County Of Kansas, bordering on Nebraska, and intersected by the N. fork of Solomon river; area, 900 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 66; in 1875, 3,876. The surface is undulating and fertile. Capital, Smith Centre.

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I. Seba, An American Author

An American Author Seba, born in Buckfield, Me., Sept, 14, 1792, died in Patch-ogue, L. I., July 29, 1868. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1818, and settled in Portland, where he edited the "Eastern Argus" (1820-'24) and the " Courier " (1830-'37). In 1842 he removed to New York. He published " Life and Letters of Major Jack Downing " (Boston, 1833), a celebrated series of humorous political letters; " Powhatan," a metrical romance (1841); "Dewdrops of the Nineteenth Century," miscellanies (1846); "New Elements of Geometry" (1850); "Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life" (1854); and "My Thirty Years out of the Senate, by Major Jack Downing " (1859-'60).

II. Elizabeth Oakes (Prince)

Elizabeth Oakes (Prince), an American authoress, wife of the preceding, born in North Yarmouth (now Cumberland), Me. She married Mr. Smith at the age of 16, and about the same time became an anonymous contributor of poems to the periodical press. After her removal with her husband to New York in 1842 she frequently appeared before the public as a lecturer. In 1843 appeared the first considerable collection of her poetical pieces under the title of " The Sinless Child and other Poems," and her metrical contributions to the magazines have since been numerous. She is the author of " The Roman Tribute" and "Jacob Leisler," tragedies; " The Western Captive " and " Bertha and Lily," novels; "The Salamander, a Legend for Christmas;" and children's books and miscellaneous publications. In 1851 she published " Woman and her Needs," a work devoted to the rights of woman, which Mrs. Smith has at various times advocated by her pen and as a lecturer. Among her later publications are: "Hints on Dress and Beauty" (1852); "Shadow Land" (1852); "The Newsboy" (1855); " Bald Eagle, or the last of the Rama-paughs" (1867); "Two Wives" (1871); and "Kitty Howard's Journal" (1871). She now (1876) resides at Hollywood, Carteret co., N. C. SMITH, Sydney, an English author, born at Woodford, Essex, June 3, 1771, died in London, Feb. 22, 1845. He was educated at New college, Oxford, where in 1790 he obtained a fellowship of £100 a year.

He took orders, and in 1794 became curate in the parish of Netheravon, in Salisbury plain; but three years later he went to Edinburgh as a private tutor. In 1802 he was associated with Murray, Jeffrey, Brougham, Horner, and others in establishing the "Edinburgh Review," to the first number of which, as editor, he contributed seven articles. Soon afterward he went to London, where his sermons attracted large and fashionable congregations, and in 1804-'6 he delivered courses of lectures on moral philosophy before the royal institution. A posthumous volume, entitled "Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy" (1850), contains the substance of these. Upon the return of the whigs to power in 1806, he was presented to the living of Foston-le-Clay in Yorkshire, worth about £500 a year. In 1807-'8 appeared anonymously his "Letters on the Subject of the Catholics, by Peter Plymley," which, owing to an admirable mixture of sound sense, irony, and pleasantry, had an immense circulation; and his efforts in the cause of Catholic emancipation were never relaxed until that measure was accomplished.

In 1809 he published two volumes of sermons, and in the summer of that year removed with his family to Heslington, near York, where he resided for a few years, in the hope of being able to exchange Foston-le-Clay for some more desirable parish. Failing in this, he turned his thoughts toward Foston, the forlorn condition of which he characteristically described by saying it was " actually twelve miles from a lemon," constructed a parsonage, and in the spring of 1814 moved with his family into his new quarters. In 1828 Lord Lyndhurst appointed him canon of Bristol and rector of Combe-Florey, near Taunton, and three years later he received a prebendal stall in St. Paul's. The remainder of his life was devoted to the discharge of his official duties, and to literary labors; but he wrote nothing for the " Edinburgh Review" subsequent to 1827. Having come into the possession of a considerable estate by the death of his brother Courtenay in 1843, he invested largely in the public stock of Pennsylvania; and the neglect of that state to pay the interest on her bonds called out his " Petition to Congress" and "Letters on American Debts," writings overflowing with humorous invective.

His humor never left him, and under the last regimen of his physician he expressed his longing for " even the wing of a roasted butterfly." A collection of his writings, comprising his review articles, "Peter Plymley's Letters," and various pamphlets and miscellanies, was published in 1839-'40 (4 vols. 8vo; afterward in several other forms). He left also in manuscript an account of English misrule in Ireland, which his widow was advised by Macaulay not to publish. In 1855 appeared a memoir of him by his daughter Saba, the wife of Sir Henry Holland; and a volume of his writings and sayings, entitled "The Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith," was collected with a memoir by E. A. Duyckinck (New York, 185G).