Des Arc citizen., 1858-11-20
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.

TIE MEXICAN DEBT.-The London Times, which has long been urging the United States to annex the whole of Mexico, now charges us with the design of r-Pudating the debt of that country. It had better wait until we have assumed it.
 DEATH OF JOHN M. PATTON, OF VIRGINIA. Hon. John M. Patton, of Virginia, long a member of Congress during the Adnnistra- tion of President Jackson, died at his resi- dence in Richmoud, on the 29th ult., in the 62d year of his age.
 GEN. VIM. WALKER BOUND FOR NICARAGUA. Gen. Walker says he is satisfied, in his own mind, that there will be no interference with his lawful emigration to Nicaragua, on the will be no clashing of interest between the Southern emigration and the Nicaragua Canal Company.
 L1QUoR SELLING IN UrAH-The whisky market at Salt Lake City, Utah, is in a flourish ing condition It is retailed at D cents a drink, but the price does not seem to diminish the quantity drank.
 - The Emigration Commissioners of New York report the arrival of 8,6l2 emigrants at that place during the month of October.
 - The late terrible crimes in three of our principal cties-the attempted parricide, fra tricide, and wholesale murder in New York !; the brutal and cowardIy stabbing of Courte- gan in Cincinnati and the sutfocation of a man jealous of one mistress and the suicide of a rival mistress in Philadeiphia-are sad evil dences of the improper training of our young men.
 - The telegraph line from PlacervilIe, California; to Salt Lake, is now in successful operation, dispatches being transmitted across the summit of the Sierra Nevada. It is ex- Eol tha Iipo bo IoEo | by the close of the present. month.
 Wm.R. Hunt, who killed Mai Thomas Null, about a year since on board the steamer Kate Frsbee, was acquit ed by the Criminal Court of Memphis, on the 10th init.
 - The steamer Rough and Ready was sunk at Napoleon. by the Monongahela coming in contact with her too violently as she lay in port. Many better MAN has gone down from the SHOCKING effect of MoNoNGAHELA.-TP Pine Bluff Independent.
 WITHOUT c ovERNMENT. Chihuahua, Mexico, is represented as being without Gov ernment, The people were divided into scve- ral parties, without support from either the constitutional or Zuoaga government.
 - Senator Broderick's departure from California for Washington, by the Overland Mail, was an occasion taken by his friends to have high time. They chartered a steam, boat and accompanied him to Benlcla, hrlng sautes by the way and consuming forty baskets of champagne.
 TERRIBLE MORTALITY. - The deaths in New Orleans, from yellow fever, from June 27th to October 10th, inclusive, were three thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. The total of deaths for that period is SIX THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-sIX.
 - The State election in New York on the 2d inst. resulted in the success of Morgan, the Black Republican candidate for Governor.
 GzI' Sixty persons left Lincoln county, N. C., in one day bound for new homes in Ar kansas.
 NICARAGUA CoTToN. = The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of the 2d inst, has been shown a sample of the above cotton, raised by D. c. Gordon, of Wilcox county. The Mail says it has a silky appearance, with fibre of extra ordinary length. Good judges pronounced it worth 20 cents pound Mir. Gordon imported the seed, which are quite small; the cotton is easily gathered, and 1900 pounds of the seed will yield 800 pounds of lint.
 - The oldest Masonic Lodge in the coun- try is the St. Johns of Boston. Its charter was granted April 30, 1773, Henry Force, Esq, Master. The St. Johns was empowered to grant charters to other lodges 4+td' the first one was to Benjamin Franklin, then resident of Philadelphia.