Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-22
News Items.

Gen. Geo. w. Clarke, formerly editor of the Van Buren Intelligencer, then Register of one of the laLd-ofices il Kansas, has been appoint ed Purser in the United States navy, and his appointment confirmed by the Senate.
 ButterfeldS Overland Mail Company to California have issued scrip, which is current in several localities.
 It has been ascertained that sixty per cent. of the money ra.sed lor charitable aId religious purposes Is used for office expenses, and to pay the salaries of those who collect the money. The Baptist Examiner says that out every hun dred dollars donated for the benefit of the heather, sixty dollars are spent in the United States
 A New York poet, in view of the conversion of Awful Gardner, thus furnished portion of a revival hymn
 :. We sing and shout our grateful thanks,
 hat Awful ia'duer'S joined our ranks;
 hat as the amp holds 1ut 10 burn.
 There may be d eNanee for Patrick Hcarne:
 And as his meEcy's all onauling
 We may even hope for John Van Duicn."
 The losses from high water, in the State of Louisiana alone, it is estimated, will exceed twenty millions of dollars.
 A terrible tornado literally destroyed the vil- lage of Ellison, H., on the 30th ut. Four teen persons were instantly killed, and fifty wounded. So terribly violent was the wind that the bodies of those killed were not only lifted up and borne for considerable distances but were actually dismembered, or, in the lap- guage of the reporter fragments of bodies were found in all directions" Sixty or seventy houses were literally torn to pieces and their contents scattered. Horses, cattle and hogs were carried up and dashed to the earth and what appears almost incredible, an iron safe, weighing 900 pounds, was lifted up and carried thirty feet.
 New wheat has arrived in the St. Louis mar ket and sold for g 25 per bushel.
 A committee of the board of health, of New York, have been visiting the swill. milk daires. They found things in horrible conditiou.- Diseased cows, propped up to keep them from falling, fed on swill and the refuse of the city breweres with other disgusting details were published and the consequence was that the citizens refused to buy more milk Rather a bad time for milk vendors in that city
 The democratic Senators and Representative voted for the admission of the new free State of Minnesota, a,--consolidato Senators and Representatives against it. The democratic Senators voted for the admission of the free State Of OregoD-conso,idation Senators against 1t.
 Col. Richard Ten Broeck has named Boyltor and Belle for the Epson races, in England. and has also made two nominations for tie Good wood cup, which Prioress ought to have won last year. Charleston and Prioress will nc doubt be his entries at that place.
 The French are intriguing at Nicaraqua and have managed to secure contracts for canal. route over the isthmus. This was one of I,ou;s Napoleon's favorte projects, while prisoner in the castle of Ham, and it was there that he re. duced his statistics and collected materials to a shape. His agents are now on the Isthmus and have everything their own way. He pro- poses to cut the, canal by the labor of African apprentices, and of course, they will be exported from the French settlements on the African coast. The policy is deep and in its scope. a comprehensive one. We wait further develop ments with some anxiety.