Des Arc citizen., 1859-04-22
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.

- The citizens of Georgetown, D. C., are taking steps to become annexed to Wash ington.
 = The " OPPOSITION , party, as its called, has elected it's Mayor in Cincinnata. Chase, Giddings and Wade command these forces.
 - There is decided movement in Ken lucky, the home of Hon. JAMES GUTHRIE, and there-about. in favor of that gentleman for the nomination by the forthcoming Democratic National Convention, at Charleston, as the candidate of the party for the Presidency
 - The Mount Vernon Fund will presently all be paid. Sl5s,333 have already been paid; leaving but S4l ,666 68 to be paid, and this not due until 1862.
 - The Galveston News, of the 10th ut, learns from Col. Lock- idge that train of six wagons and thirty men, of his ''expedtion," left San Antonio week ago, for Arizonia, and that large emigration will go this spring from Houston.
 -A letter from Rome says: GA solemn act of adhesion to the Roman Catholic faith has just taken place, and caused certain sem sation It was that of Negoussie, King of Tigre and Semen, in Abyssinia.
 "Who is President to-day?" is the usual salutation among Mexicans.
 - The vicksburg Sun says that w. D. Walker, recently appointed U. s. Consul at Genoa, was. to leave Vicksburg on the 12th, with his family, for Europe.
 BATEsvILLE TNsTITUrE.-The contract for re- building this edifce has been letto Womack & Welch, at $16,S00.
 T. M. Tucker. formerly Governor of Mississippi, died iii Marion county Alabama, on the 3d inst.
 The Savannah Geo. Republican says the Grand Jury of Charleston have found a true bill against the prisoners taken from the Echo. The case will now undergo judicial trial and the constitutionalty of the law de- claring it piracy befully and authoritatively de- cided.
 -Ex- Governor David Campbell, of Yir- ginia, died at Abingdon, Va, on the 18th ult aged eighty years. "A child recently died in Saint Louis with what is called the blue sickness. Black instead of red blood circulated through it. system.
 The locusts are beginning to come III l in Virginia, and in several instances have proved fatal to the hogs that ate them. - The San Francisco Herald, of Marcl 9th, announces the death of the Hon. W. Wal ter Hawks, son of the Rev. Dr. Hawks, who has for some years been one of the most gif ted, eloquent and popular men of Califor mia.
 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SoUTH.- The net increase of the Methodist Episcopa Church, South, during the past year, has beer 43,39S, making the present total membership 690,175.
 - The Mayor of Jackson (Miss. has ap- pointed fifty delegates to the Southern Com- mercial Convention at Vicksburg.
 - The San Antonio Texan says, that LOG bales of cotton have been exported from that city to Mexico during the past year.
 - The failure of the Pacific Railroad Bill to pass Congress has produced great excite ment in California.
 "A German naturalist has described COG species of flies, which he has collected within a district of ten miles in extent. Thirty thou sand different kinds of insects which prey upor wheat have been collected.
 - An Alabama correspondent of the National Intelligencer says, that the question respecting Andrew Jackson's birthplace is set tied by his proclamation elicited by the Soutf Carolina ordinance, which begins, E'Fellow Citizens of my native State."
 - The production of maple sugar in Penn sylvania and Michigan this year is said to b, largely in excess of any previous season. One county in the latter furnished half million pounds.