Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-30
News Items.

synopsis is given in another column, has been postponed until the next session
 By the falling of the floor of St. Mary's church, at Oswego, N. Y., several hundred persons were precipitated into the basement. A number of lives were lost and many persons more or less injured.
 The legislature of Louisiana passed a joint resolution requesting the Governor of that State to correspond with the Cover nor of Arkansas on the subject of levees. The object, we suppose, is to have a con tinuous chain of levees and water defense on the Mississippi river.
 Isham G. Harris has been re-nominated for Governor of Tennessee.
 Owing to Instructions at the mouth of the Mississippi, 5000 bales of cotton, bound to Liverpool, are detained there.
 A man in Massachusetts led a blooming bride to the altar on the 9th day of the month, became a father on the 10th and, on the 1lth, advertised that he would pay no debts of his wife's contracting
 Bronchitis is alarmingly on the increase among the preachers at the north. Upon the departure of their pastor for Europe, such a trip being indispensable for the cure of that disease, the women of the church all kiss him. The handsome ones are all lowed two kisses. The new House of Representatives of the United States, when full, will consist of 237 members, including one from Ore gon and two from Minnesota. S7 are vet to be elected It is supposed that no party will have majority, unless the South Americans carry ont their bargain and, in consideration of the speakership, sustain the black republicans.
 The black republicans have carried the elections in New Hampshire. One by one the links of the Union are snapping
 They had a regular fight in the Indiana Senate lately A member, day or two afterwards, ofered a resolution that no weapons should be permitted in the Senate chamber, which was promptly voted down by 30 to9. If that had been in Arkansas,
 President Fillmore, in a late speech at the Burnet House, in Cincinnati. stated he had retired from public life forever We know of several in his fix.
 The aboitonists at the north are getting very sick of their colored brethren. We have no less than five different accounts of runaway marriages of white girls with buck negroes. Occasionally rape or seduction by negro occurs. Negro servants in fla miles where there are daughters are at a discount. The evil has become so alarming that the legislature of Wisconsin has had to pass a law prohibiting the marriages be- tween whites and blacks
 Geo. F. Morris, the song-writer and one of the editors of the Home Journal, has been appointed consul to Havre.
 The American bark, s. A. Rawlins, was seized lately in ft. Joseph's Bay, on sus- picion of being shaver.
 The upper Mississippi was rising at the last accounts
 According to the last census there were 238, l37 free negroes in the slave holding States
 Gen. Wm. T. Haskell is dead.
 Hon. Mike Walsh, of New York, was found dead in the streets of that city. His person had been despoiled of his watch, chain, rings and other valuables, which strengthens the suspicion that he was mur- dered
 In Michigan, they have dispensed with grand juries.
 Trautwine and Leile, the boy murderers, of St. Louis, who killed drover in a barber's shop, have had the sentence of death pronounced against them, commuted into Imprisonment for life
 It was Col. Richard D. Gholson, ol Ballard county, Ky, who was appointed Governor of Washington Territory, and not G. w Gholson of Miss.