Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-29
c. LANGTREE, Sec
News Items.


 A battle was fought ou the Canadian, be- tween a company of Texas rangers under the command Of Captain Ford, aided by party ot friendly Indans, with the Cananche Ifdlans. The rangers loet two, and had several wounded. The loss of the Camanches was from seventy | to eighty.
 By all act of Congress, military bounty land warrants issued under the provisions ol the act of 1855, may be located "n lands within the reserved six miles limit of d railroad, at $l 25 per acre. Land warrants are also declarel per sona property. Heretofore, by decision of a secretary of the interior, they were regarded a, real estate, and the warrant belonging to de- ceased prrsor's estate had to go through long course "f equity proceedings before the partie, n interest could assign, or even locate it. Our courts persisted in treating them as personal property, while those Nho had the redemption If them persisted n treating hem as real estate. l These q faculties will he avoided hereafter.
 The locusts have al pcared iu Mississippi and he northern portion oi Louisiana in large num- | bers
 The governor of Tennessee has offered re- ward of $500 for the arrest of Dr. F. \. W. l Burton, the defauting secretary of state. IL | will be remembered, that after the discovery of 1 his detalcation he resigned his office, remained some time in Nashville and set up some sort of defence, vet no effort was male to arrest | him. h this connection it may be proper to s,ate that an attempt was made to charge neg | lgence on Gov Johnson in failing to take a ] bond of the secretary. Governor, now Senator, Johnson, shows that a bond was taken and pro- pei h!el, but as it cannot be found, that 1t was since stolen aud destroyed.
 New Orlcaus remains quiet It pretty we'll settled now, that Major Beauregard, is iu fact, the mayor elect of the city, The inspectors oi elections threw out, perhaps under some color of ini"rmality, about POO independent tickets, so as to give Stth, the know nothing candidate,
 majority of 13l. We have not been apprised whether the election will be contested or rot; probably, as the new mayor has declared lis intention to preserve order and punish crime, and as this was all that the independents requr d, they will be disposed to give him an oppor- tunity to redeem his pledges.
 The Mississippi river, when last heard from, was falling at Napoleon. All the upper tribu- taries have been higher than the great flood of 1844. Farms are submerged, fences carried off, | and h,re nf rla A | the rich bottom lands have been inundated- We could fill page with incidents and state me! ts connected with the great food Cairo is much injured the frame houses being wash. ed off and some of the brick buildings, under mined by the action of the water, have fallen. 1 Among these is the large new hotel in course of erection. Vas quantities of lumber, raits and other property, with dwelling and out houses have been hoated off Besides this great damage has been done, in many places, to railroads. and in some instances, large and ralu able bridges were swept away.
 A late humber of the Memphis Bulletin has this notice of the overland California mail: "Intelligence from Washington City has been received here to the effect that Postmaster General Browns reqnsition on MesSrs. Butter | hed & Co.,, the contractors for the overland mail to California, had been acquiesced in b, those gentlemen. he postmaster generals re. 1 quisiton was that the contractors should adopt the southern route, making Memphis the easterr terminus of the line. We also understand tha the mail will leave this city for the first time over this route on the lst day of July, instead of September, as before announced"
 The small pox is severely prevalent in DOT tions of the State of Mississippi