Des Arc citizen., 1859-01-08
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.

David T. Ash, one of the founders of the legitimate drama in Memphis, died in that city on the 23d ult., from the effects of pis- tol shot wound, which he received in the act of raising a pistol from the floor where it had fallen from his person.
 - The Mississippi Legislature has rassed law granting divorce to all married couples who have lived separate three years. Col Titus, of Kansas and Nicaragua noto- riety, has quietly settled down on ranch in Arizona, where he divides his time between raising stock and working silver mine. He is said to behave very civil in his new home
 - Senator Slidell, in card, denies the charge that he spoke of Douglas slaves in Louisiana as being badly treated, and con cludes by saying: "Mr. Douglas has, by au- thorising and countenancing anonymous at tacks on me, through person officiating as his private secretary, lost all claim to the explanations that I would otherwise have promptly volunteered to give him."
 "A resolution has been introduced into the Georgia Legislature to prevent the crcu- lation in that State of the pamphlet concern ing the Brownlow and Pyne slavery discus sion, on the ground that it is dangerous doc ument for the slave population to get hold of. CoTToN IN CuBA.-Cotton is now grown in Cuba with excellent success A Havana correspondent of the Savannah Republican speaks of cotton field on the island that the year 1858 yielded nine hundred pounds to the acre, and second crop of bolls are now on the plant.
 HoN. JAMES B. CLAY.-The Louisville Courier contains letter from this gentleman, in which he declines reelection to Congress. It is manly, eloquent, and to the point. The Democracy are for MT Clay to man and if he had consented to make the race, the Free Mig ger party would have offered him but feeble opposition.
 MISSISSIPPI STEAMERs.--The total value of steamers afoat on the Mississippi and its trib- utaries is said to be more than $60, 0,000,000 and number as many as fifteen hundred; more than twice the steamboat tonnage of England, and equal to that of all the other parts of the worldly. o. Bulletin.
 A NEW BASIS FOR BANKING.-We see it stated in an exchange paper that banking firm in Indiana has issued twenty five thou sand dollars in promissory notes, based upon live stock-ten thousand head of hogs, and one thousand two hundred head of cattle, deposit ed in their own pens.
 - Horace Greeley lectured on the 18th ult., at Goshen, Indiana. An Elkhart county editor, in noticing the event, says: 'Modesty prevented us from attending the lecture on Great Men,"
 SANTA ANNA.--The renowned ex-Dictator of Mexico is still at St. Thomas, West Indies, having recently purchased palace and grounds for which he paid $40 ,000. Sonora Santa An ma has quit, gone to Havana in disgust. Senor s. A. having gone into the multiplicity busi- ness of Bro. Brigham Young's style.
 - The latest novelty iii the way of con- ventions, is the convocation of the sporting fraternity, or gamblers, from all parts of the country, at Chicago. The Democrat of that city says that the city has been tsfast filling up'' with delegations from different States, sent to attend this convention.
 The Hon. George Eustis, ex-Chief Jus tice of Louisiana, died ill New Orleans on the 22d ult, in the sixty third year of his age.
 The Macon (Miss.,) Star, says that not withstanding the Methodist Conference had been in session there one week, there was one chicken heard growing in town! The Paris correspondent of the London News says: ''It is true that a battalion of h. fantry and three battalions of artillery, with horses and equipments complete for service, will embark at Toulon for the coast of Central America"
 It is announced in Texas that General Sam Houston will be candidate for Cover nor at the next election. The General was defeated by Gov Tunnels at the last election.