Des Arc citizen., 1858-12-11
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

- Mr. Neafe, the tragedian, is playing in Columbus, Georgia.
 -A Another flibusiering expedition against Mexico is said to be on foot in Texas.
 - The black-tongue has been prevailing to large extent among the cattle in Texas.
 DEFEATED. The proposition to establish State University in Georgia, has been de- feated in the Legislature
 James Fulton, of Tennessee, has been appointed purser in the Navy, vice J. $. Danforth, Jr., resigned.
 - It is stated on high authority that Hon. Howell Cobb, now Secretary of the Treasury has accepted the position of Minister to France.
 It is stated in London that the Roths- childs have advanced S500,000 to the Zuloaga Government of Mexico, on the security of certain church properties.
 - Hon. Paddock Pratt, of New York, says he has tanned one million of hides, and is worth just five millions of dollars.
 - Postage stamps have been introduced into Spain. They are square. and the colors are pink, green and brown. Within circular border is a representation of the head of Queen Isabella.
 A VETERAN DEAD.-The Navy Department is in receipt of advices of the death of Asa Curtis, the oldest gunner in the American Navy, which occurred on board the frIgate St. Lawrence, at Rio Janeiro, sn the 1lth Of September last
 CONVICTION Bartlett, charged with stealing $500 from Geo. w. Barbour, was convicted at Helena, Ark, last week and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
 SUICIDE OF A You've LADY.-Miss Anna Vandervett, beautiful German girl. twenty one years of age. committed suicide in St Louis on the 26th inst, by drowning herself in cstern.
 - Speaker Orr has arrived in Washing ton, preparatory to the resumption of his du- ties in the House. On Saturday evening week he received the compliment of a serenade at Browns Hotel.
 MAIL RoBBERY.-The Lexington (Miss.) Advertiser. of the 18th inst, says tWenty-two mail bags have been found in a field twenty miles from there, near Coia. They had been rifled of their contents, Ten were letter bags
 DEATH OF AN EDrToR.-Col. Samuel s. Sibley, late editor and proprietor of the Tal- lahasse (Fla.) Flrolidian, native Of New Jersey, but for many years citizen of florl- da, died last Thursday, in Savannah, Georgia.
 EARTHQUAKE IN PoRTo RICo.-The port of Aquadila was visited by a severe hurricane on the 24th ult.. attended with shocks of earth quake. One or two lives were lost. The shipping escaped with slight damage.
 AN ECCENTRIC MAN Bennett Aldridge, an old citizen of Petersburg, Va, died there on the 22d ut. Among many eccentricties of the deceased was that of preparing grave for himself in the cemetery, and leaving dying request that w-citizen-not minister should ofIiciate at his funeral.
 TWENTY MILE RAcE-At the race course near Richmond, Va. on the 20th nlt., four nags entered for trot of twenty milestone gave ont on the fourteenth and another the seventeenth mile. Two came through. the foremost one doing the twenty miles in har- ness in T minutes and 454 seconds.
 ANOTHER SUBMARINE CABLE.-The work of laying submarine cable from Havana to the coast of Florida will be commenced forth with. the whole amount of capital having been subscribed, and placed at the disposal of c. C. Walden, Esq, of Philadelphia. who has been appointed superintendent of the line.
 MARINE DrsAsrER.-The schooner Migno- netle from Charleston, South Carolina, bound for Baltimore, Maryland, with cargo of molasses ard rice. put into Norfolk, Virginia, in distress, and leaking badly. Out of deck load of seventy five hogsheads, sixty ight were thrown overheard. as well as some other cargo The rice and wheat were badly dam aged, and she will have to discharge.
 SrRANGE.-A very singular circumstance happened to young lady in Cincinnati few nights since. The evening, or rather all the day previous, she had been complaining of a severe pain in the head and eyes, more par tcularly the latter Judge of her astonish- ment and that of he friends, to find the follow ing morning. that during the night she had become completely cross-eyed. The transfor- nation occasoned her no additional pain. and has been since, a matter of much speculation.
 - The career of the American chess player in Europe, has excited an extraordinary interest in the game of chess in this country. A Philadelphian. writing to he N. Y. Tri- bune, says: The type foundries are selling quantities of chess type, and the makers and importers of chessmcn cannot supply the de- mand which the late excitement has created. Chess tables, too, are extensively fashionable.