Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-07
News Items.

Lieut.. NJ. F. Mamy, of the National Oo- servatory, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address at the State talr at Nashville on the 11th of October.
 The cholera has made its appearance again in England.
 Editor Wise of the Richmond Enquirer and editor Old of the Examiner have been indulging in a little harmless pastime by shooting pistols in each others presence
 Blondin, the rope walker, having carried a man on his back across the Niagara, now proposes to walk the rope with hands and feet manacled After that he is to carry small cooking stove out on the rope. make a fire and fry pancakes. A Mons. DeLave walked across a rope stretched over the Tennessee falls at Rochester The latter feat is said to be the more perilous one
 The history of suicides furnishes no case more singular than that of DeMarbais and his wife in Cincinnati The woman was said to be very beautiful Before her mar riage with DeMarbais she was tile mistress of wealthy man in California DeMar- bais, it appears, had been tried for forgery in Philadelphia and acquitted Himself and wife, who appear to have loved each other devotedly, wandered to Cincinnati, where he procured a situation as clerk in drug store. Here fellow clerk and he qualreled, and the former succeeded in hay ing him turned out of employ. Not con tent with this, he appears to have per~ecut- ed the unfortunate couple till, out of em- ployment, absolutely starving, and no hope of honorable employment she agreed to go to a house of ill-lame to procure the means of living. The letters written to each other reveal singular state of things. They ap- peared to have loved each other with an unselfsh devotion, romantic ardor that we were led to believe existed no where but in French novels. She repeatedly requested him to kill her and expressed wish to die with him. On the night of the l6th Au- gust, he went to the house and asked for her. She was in bed, but arose, dressed herself and came down, when he said to her "I have come to kill you," and asked her to go with him. She cheertully put her arm in his and after proceeding short distance he shot her in the breast and himself in the head
 The Great Eastern steamship is finished and was advertised to leave for Portland, Maine. A comparison of the steamship with the Bible measurement of Noah's ark, shows that the steamship is the larger yes sel of the two. Think of vessel propelled by power equal to 5000 horses!
 Some years ago, while witnessing duel, Hon. Reverdy Johnson of Baltimore was struck in the eye by ball from pistol which glanced from tree. It has become necessary to remove the ball of the eye, and Mr. Johnson is now on his way to Paris, to have the operation performed
 Dickens has proposed to give sixty read dings in the U. S., for which he is to re- ceive $25 ,000 cash and one fourth of the net profits.
 The French government has succeeded in making a treaty with the Hawaiin king dom that gives them complete control of the Sandwich Islands. Their final acqui- sition by France is simply a question of time, unless the United States interpose
 Commodore Stockton, at a political meeting in N. J., opposed all parties but know nothings, denied that he, like the great body of his party, would affiliate with the black republicans, and advocated the claims of Fillmore in 1860. '' Poor old Commodore" He complains that his par ty have left him for Seward
 A pleasant party was broken TIP at Sara toga recently. X party of gentlemen were drinking ana telling stories untii late or rather an early hour, when stately lady appeared, seized one of the jewellers ny the arm, who happenel to be her hu. .band and marched him off to bel The reminding guests were rendered very melancholy by this circumstance.
 Ohio raises thirty millions bushels Of wheat this year.
 In California they call choking man. compressing his windpipe." nNcw Or. leans they call it $ era king"
 One of the New York papers asserts that the prize fighter Tom Heenan is backed by Henry Ward Baecher in arranging fight with Tom Savers, the English pngilist.
 Everett in one of his Mount Vernon pa pers, says that he- one day met Bond, the astronomer, and his Hweet calm face glistcn- ed with triumphant joy, like an ange's.- Perhaps it had been greased, but it would gratify Harrison, the perfumer, to know ,rbo+ tLo opral frro,ro1 ,y;+l