Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-18
From Little Rock.
Correspondence of the Citizen-l
 LITTLE RocK, Feb. II, 1858


 Editor Des fire Citizen:
 Sra:-I arrived here yesterday morn ing-found the General Assembly all II confusion. Hon. o. H OATES has re signed his position as Speaker Of the House, on account of scruples in refer ence to the per diem question. The House resolcsd to have pay during th' recess from the 23d December until ths 18th January last, and Speaker OATES resofred not 10 sign the certificates.
 Hon. BEN. T. Do VAT, of Sebastian was elected yesterday to flI the vacancy created by MT. OATES resignation-a good selection, I think.
 Hon. FELIX I. BArsos has resigned his position as an Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court--to which he was re- cenlly elected-owiag, as common report has 1t, to a personal misunderstanding with Hon. HENRY M. REcToR, who has just been elected an Associate Justice, to fill the vacancy created by the death Of Hon. c. c. scorr.
 The election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge BArsos, comes off today. Several gentlemen are spoken of, among the most prominent Of which Is Hon. B. C. ToTTEr of Prairie.
 It is runored that Chief Justice Eve LrsH will resign to-day, for the same reasons assigned by Judge BATsos's friends for his resignation.
 Hon. THOMAS FLETCHER, President of the Senate, will resign before he will cer- tify to more than the mileage for the members ofthe Senate, during the recess.
 The Des Arc, Dardanelle and Fort Smith Railroad Bill, as you have hereto fore learned, has passed the Senate. This bill has been read twice in the House and referred to committee, which committee has been broken up by DuvALL's promo ton to the speakership. A new commit tee, has, however, been formed, and will meet this morning. Hon. H. REyNoLns is absent on account of sickness in his family.
 The Des Arc, Dardanelle and Fort Smith Railroad Bill will have opposition 1T the House, growing out of the jealousy Q the South side Little Rock and Fort SmitE Railroad men.
 The new charter for the Town of De. Arc will pass both Houses like deer 1T a lope." As learn 1t was prepared un. der the eye of your Board of Mayor anc Alderman, ofcourse they must be held re. sponsible to the people for its provisions
 I have been an attentive observer Q whathas occurred in both Houses of ths General Assembly. They have got intc a decided .'fix."
 The runlor is rife that not only Judge ENGLISH will resign, but also all the Pen itentiary functionarics. The "whole thing to use a common phrase, ''is in snarl, butto-morrow will develope things nor, fully.
 Col. T. c. HiSDaAN is here, and vii make speech on Tuesday evening, upor Federal Relations and it's affiliations witt Arkansas particularly. HISDMAN is al untamed tiger, you know, and is so re garded by his opponents. So look out fol something rich. understand he makes war upon the Johnson party, and is dowr upon them. 1 admire his spunk, bu doubt his discretion, with the array he ha; against him.
 Judge TorrEN's friends are quite san- guine of his election to the Supreme Bench. Our old friend, Tom JOHNSON is in the field afresh, with clean shirt and new coat on. He has been in at- tendance at the Capitol building for 36 hours. and will be for the next II hours, unless the election comes off at l2 o'clock tomorrow, as designated.
 The Appropriation bill is before the House, and has strong opposition. l. will pass presume.
 The Des Arc, Dardanelle and Fort smith Railroad bill will be reported by the committee to whom il was referred, this evening. I fear its fate for reasons al- ready given.
 The Memphis and Liule Rock Railroad has received the forty-thousand dollars ap- propriaied, as also, the OuaehiIa Road - making SS0,000 as loan ntotheSe Roads.
 Yours in haste,
 OBSERVER.
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