Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-14
News Items.


 EX-President Pierce and lady have return. ed to the U. $. The health of Mrs. Pierce is said to be greatly improved by the foreign | tour
 Of all forms of mania the tight-ropelsh seems to us about the most absurd. But our Yankee cousins are crazed on the sub- iect Children are found with broken arms and legs, oc asioned by falls from fences, clothes lines or ropes stretched for the pur- pose Two or three cases are given of deaths resulting from falls of this kind Blondin at Niagara and De Leve at Gen nessee, both Frenchmen, are about to be ecipsed by Professor Sweet, in Rhode Is land The Professors advertisement is curiosity, for he cuts as many capers with words as he promises to do with balanc ing pole The Professor, (we like that term applied to walkers) IS evidently a transcendentalist for he promises to give the people pancratical attitudes, "pal- liptian feats, 7" "a great tight-lope carnlyaF' and Ca splendid slack-wirc performance on a wire so small as to be scarcely precep.i- ble," and all this is to be done while he is dressed in Egyptian callacos." The feminnes, not to be outdone, are taking up the new trade Mrs Gantz is preparing to cross the GeneS>ee river.
 Henry Clay Erwin, grandson of Henry Clay, was found at the Galt House in Lou isvile dying The cause of his death is mystery.
 They have histrionic prodigy in Chica goi young girl named Mary McVicber. Her acting is said to show that she posses ses genius of high order Her initiative powers are said to be unsurpassed, as a proof of which she produces Rachel, Piccolomini, Brgnoli and other artists, both dramatic and vocal i'll a surprising manner. Several pieces, by known dramatic authors, have been written for her.
 There is a rumor traced as yet to no re- liable source, that the U s. frigate Con gress has gone down, ,ith all on board
 On the lst instant, law went into ef- feet in New Orleans, providing that all free negroes, arriving there must be lodged in jail and there remain until the boat or ship they came in leaves that port
 The aurora borealis seen lately forty or three successive nights was very brilliant As proof of its electrical origin and pow CTS the wires of the different telegraph com panies became so much under its influence that 1t was found at fist difficult and about midnight utterly impossible to communi- cate between the stations
 Broderck. who is doing in California what Hindman is endeavoring to do in Ar kansas, is stumping the State His attacks upon Senator Gwin have called that gentle men out, who, in his reply shows up the demagogue in no enviable light Dave like Tommy, will find out that the way of the disorganizer is hard
 The Great Eastern steamship will carry 10000 persons.
 The papers are quoting and trying to make something out of the speech of Tom Corwin, as if his opinions to-day were worth the air that inflated his lungs while he uttered them. This same Corwin once stumped the State against the republican speakers, and when the democratic elector came around Tom took the stump against him, using the same arguments of the black republican he had opposed few days be- fore.
 The ages of the probable Presidents are as follows: Hunter, 50; Breckenridge, 39 Dickinson, 50; Douglas, 46; Orr, ST. Among the opposition, Seward is 5S; Bell, 62; Fremont, 46; Crittenden B; Everett, 64 and Fred. Douglass, 46.
 Gen. Dodge. the democratic, and NIr. Wildwood, the opposition candidate for Governor of Iowa, had flare up at Oska- loose, thc other day. Dodge told Kirk wood he lied and if he repeated it, he ! (Dodse) would cram the lie down his throat, wheroupon the latter retracteI.
 At Raleigh, \. C., recently, sos of Hon Kenneth Rayner. about thirteen years ofage, accidentally shot and killed his elder brother
 They have a company of Creole zouavas in New Orleans, Capt. Henry St. Paul is chief officer.
 A black republican editor in New Jersey ran away with his wife's sister.
 Gen. Concha has resigned the Captain generalship of Cuba. It is supposed tha Gen. Prime will succeed him. The artesan well at the capital of Ohi, is now 2,13l feet. And they still kee] | boring like an egotistical politican wh bores continually with his cut and driet speeches.