Des Arc citizen., 1859-06-15
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

= MT. John Osborne, who with brother and Daniel Boone, discovered the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, died short time since on the coast of Louisiana, at the age of 94 years.
 -The Mobile Mercury says that there are active movements going on in that city looking to secession from the Union.
 DEATH OF Mas. KEY.-The Baltimore Pa- triot announces the death of Mrs. Key. relic of the author of the Star Spanged Banner" and mother of the unfortunate P. Barton Key.
 TIE LAST WoRDs OF HUMBOLDT The sun shone brilliantly into the room where HUM BoLpT died, and it is reported that his last words, addressed to his niece, were " Vie herrlich diese Strablen: sic scheinen die Erde gum Himmel gu rufenE' [How grand these rays: they seem to beckon earth to heaven ]
 - Messrs Burton and Spoke, the African travellers. have arrived at Alden from Zanzibar. They penetrated into the country about 700 miles from the coast, and surveyed the famous Lake Uniamesi, and several other lakes in the same longitude. Their researches tend, in some degree, to dispel the doubts which have so long hung over the sources of the Nile
 MORE TEA SEED.-The Agricultural Bu- reau of the U. S. Patent office has received an additional supply of twenty-nine cans Of tea seed from China.
 The General Assembly of the Cumber- land presbyterian Church, recently in session at Evansville, (Indiana,) adjourned on the 30th ult., to meet at Nashville, In May, looo'
 Rev H. Cox is writing series of let ters in the American Presbyterian, designed to show that the Apocalyptc battle of CAT mageddon'' is, in all probability, at hand, in the grand rupture of the peace of Europe now taking effect.
 - President Buchanan has accepted the invitation of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, to attend the Commencement at Chapel Hill in June. A portion of the Cabinet will accompany him.
 - Letters from General Pierce say that he will probably remain another year abroad in consequence of the improvement of Mrs. Pierce's health.
 - Large quantities of marble are being shipped from the famous quarries ot East Tennessee to Washington, to be used Tn hn- ishing the Capitol.
 There are no less than 4,600 Lodges of Free Masons in the United States, nearly all of which are said to be in an unusual flourish ing condition.
 It is a singular fact that the number of emierants now going from the Eastern States to California is, by actual count, greater than it was during the height of the gold fever. IRIPLETS.-MdrSQdu county, puiSo', 10 only a productive. but great and proiihc county also. On the farm of Hon.. A; M Clayton, is a cow that lately gave birth to three fine calves-all now living and doing well.
 THE PosrTIoN OF SPAIN.-Minister Preston writing from Madrid, states that considerable feeling was manifested at Madrid, growing out of the belligerent aspect of affairs through. out Europe The sympathies of the Spanish people were with Sardinia. and the Emperor'' (Napoleon's) course meets the heaIty appro' val of the people of Spain
 We learn from Southern paper that the most extensive plantation in Louisiana | managed by woman-Mrs. A. E. Filnt During the last year she raised eighteen hun dred hogsheads of molasses and four hundred bales of cotton --the largest crcp produced or any plantation in that State.
 - The Logansport (Ind. Journal say l that gold has been found among quartz, at Ilp pecanoe river, two miles from Winnemac (which has been Ftested," and proved to be O a pure quality, rating as high as twenty car I ats, or only four carats from perfect purity. | III fares the land, to hastening ills g prey, Where gold is plenty and the psepls hay t, no RAY.