The weekly Arizonian., 1859-06-02
Various Items.

Anotner Ok tnoSe numDug cOncernSi bCyieu "Southern Convention" is soon to assemble at Charleston, South Carolina, where there will be the usual display of rant and nonsense concern ing "disunion" Several southern States, Ken. lucky among the number, refuse to send del egates.
 There are in the State of Oregon l35 -four mills, with capacity of producing 2,500,0o0 barrels per annum.
 An English newspaper has been stated a. Constantinople. Itis called the Levant Herald.
 Anew breechloading rife has been invented by MT. Gould, of Buffalo, and IS said to be wonderful weapon, surpassing anything of tho sort extant.
 A committee of three Captains ofthe engineer corps has been selected by the Secretary of War to examine the Rock Island railroad bridge, end determine whether or no it is really an impedi. mcnt to navigation of so serious character as to demand removal.
 All sorts of crime in the United States goes by fits and epdemics., Since the murder of Key by Sickles, not less than five cases of similar character have occurred in various parts of the United States. e..
 The journals from the southern States speak very encouragingly of the cotton, corn, and wheat crops of that section of the Union. We have not much agriculture in this Territory to talk about. There is land enough, such as it is, but of water, the supply is not very abundant
 The last session of Congress appropriated 1 Si0,000 for the purchase of agricultural imple- ments for the Pimo Indians They will be sent out and distributed at once.
 John Mitchell, the Irish exile, publishes in Washington, D. C., Q rabid disunion paper, called The Citizen. This mischevous alien, banished from his own country for treason, commences his profession in the land that gives him refuge A halter would be too good for him.
 Sardinia has succeeded in negotiating loan of $l0,000 000, and has also contracted for large supplies of arms, among other things 30O00 revolvers, to be made in France.
 The course of popular education is receiving great attention in Texas. The public school fund is said to be sufficient to maintain schools in every town in the State. In many of the southern States such thing as public school is unknown. Texas is setting noble example
 Popular education is the main safeguard of } free government
 Large fields of bituminous coal have been dis covered on the Kansas river, and companies are { forming to work the mines. , An effort is being made in some of the eastern j. States to resuscitate the old Whig party! It's - no use that party fulfilled its mission, and is now among the things of the past
 The measured distance from Leavenworth
 City to the gold mines is precisely five hundred 4 and ifty-seven miles The air line is as fol- Q lows: Leavenworth City, longitude west, 94 l degrees, Al minutes Mouth of Cherry Creek, E ongitude west lO5 degrees. Difference 10 de- n grees, l6 minutes, 52 seconds--553 miles:
 The Richmond Dispatch, on the authority oi e gentleman residing in that city, who has re- 'r gently been residing some months in Cuba,
 states, that with the exception of a few persons m engaged in the American trade, the opposition n