Des Arc citizen., 1859-07-27
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

l --10e graSslOpperS Tn ceTlalH parts VI Virginia have taken to chewing tobacco. They wheat &c.
 + The editor of the Camden State Rights uEagle has been presented with a cucumber { measuring 37 inches from end to end. 1 LAGER BEER ADuLrERATtoNs. Hunts 1 MERCHANTS MAGAZINE enumerates no less than thirty-eght substances which are em- ployed to give potency, flavor, conscience. and other desirable qualities to this detestabe form of grog. Among them are chalk, marble dust, opium, tobacco, henbane, oil of vitriol, copper as, alum, strychnine, and other deadly drugs.
 The entire distance travelled by the ball loon Atlantic, in the late voyage from St. Louis to the point of landing, in the State of New York, was one thousand one hundred and fifty
 miles, which was done in nineteen hours and fifty minutes, being nearly mile per minute.
 THIRTY-sEvEN FIRES IN ONE pAY.-In the city of Baltimore, there were no less than thirty seven fires on the Fourth of July, occu- pving the firemen constantly all day and most of the night All but three of these originated in fireworks, and twenty-eight were roofs of houses mostly set on fire by skv-rockets. The roofs of eleven adjoining houses on one street were burnt off,
 -Thc remarkable exemption of the city
 of New Orleans from yellow fever this year thus far, it is believed, is due to the long con tinued overflow of the Mississippi river. The
 theory that overflows are preventives of the disease is strongly defended in The New Or leans Medical Review, and is daily becoming stronger in the public mind.
 The Detroit ADVERTISER states that seventy fugitive slaves arrived in Canada by one train, from the interior of Tennessee, re- gently.
 It is stated that the account between the overland mail company and the post office de-
 partment will stand thus, at the close of the six months' account: Expenditure by the depart ment, $3, ,600,0 ,000; receipts, S90,000; showing
 clear loss from the route of $3,5l0,0O0. EXPENSE OF THE MoRMoNs.- cost of the Utah army up to the end of the second quarter, was oyer $5,000,000, and add to this the estimate of the fiscal year ending June 1st, and the expense of that army for one year will range between seven and nine millions. | Victor F. Ward, of Louisville, the boy
 who was whipped by Butler, the school teach CT, which whipping was the first act in the Mat. Ward tragedy, died on the 26th ut. Mat. F. Ward, formerly of Louisville, joined the Catholic Church in Pine Bluff, Ark recently.
 -Brevet Major Ridgeley, of the Fourth l Artillery of the army, died, on the 7th inst,
 at Georgetown, District of Columbia. John Nugent, editor of the San Francisco | Herald. has been nominated for Governor by | the Democratic State Convention of California, over two competitors.
 General Pierce expects to return home next month, recent indications in Mrs. Pierce's
 health being the less encouraging than hereto fore.
 l TIE OLDEST ORAToR.--The venerable Da-
 vid Smith, D. D., who delivered speech at
 the dinner of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, was probably the oldest person Tn the country who made an address on the 4th | inst. He was lad of nine years when the Declaration of Independence was signed. l -Honorable John w. Underwood has
 been nominated for Congress in the Fifth Dis. Itrict by the Democrats of Georgia, in place ol | MT. Wright, who declines running. l "A horse thief in Illinois, named Gus
 Graham, was recently shot dead by mob, ir
 Randolph county. Upon seeing the crowt approach, Graham drew his pistol and dis charged it's contents at the crowd, but scarcely had the smoke of the pistol died away ert
 Graham fell a corpse-shot by several persons at once.
 | MouNr VERNoN.-The Alexandria Gazette
 says the home and tomb of Washington vii
 soon pass into the possession of the Indies Mount Vernon Association. Various repalr
 were commenced on Monday, the 1lth instant
 under the superintendence of Col. Charles 5 Price, of Alexandria. The carpenters tool
 imported from England by General Washing
 ton, during his life time, have been preserved and will, in all probability, be used now il
 making the contemplated repairs
 The Democratic Convention in tn I Third Congressional District of Georgia ha
 nominated Alexander NJ. Speer, of Macon, fo Congress.
 -The London Times in describing tn opening of Parliament makes this happy allu sion to the United States Minister. SSAll tn
 space allowed to the Diplomatic Corps Git says is full of blazes at every point with ribands stars and orders of every kind. Conspicuon among them all, in his plain evening dress an tsnow-white hair, is the American Minister
 Mr Dallas, striking type, if we may so cal him, of the simple institutions of the grea
 Republic which he represents so we'll" I MErrERNrcH AND THE PRESENT WAR is said that the dying advice of Prince Met ternich to Francis Joseph, in relation to tn
 present war was this: ssDefeat is not destruc tion; city, fortress, may be rebuilt---a I empire never. Listen to no adyice-hearke to no proposition of peace--and. above al enter into no treaty whatever, either with th
 Bonapartes or the House of Savoy"