Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-13
News Items.

The Ohio House of Representatives pass ed bill making seduction a penitentiary offence We wonder if the penalty is te be inflicted upon both parties, for, nine times out of ten, the guilt is mutual Gen.? Wm. Walker has joined the Catholic church and the Propagteur Catho- lique, southern journal, is our authority for saying that he has determined to enter religious order and become priest. A young lady named Clark, was ab. ducted from her home in Albany, N. Y., week or two ago. She was taken at mid night, and though her cries for help were heard, no one appears to have had the cou- rage to attempt her rescue. She has not since been heard of
 Quite reaction appears to have taken place in the views of the Cincinnatians in regard to runaway slaves. Not long since, the authorities refused to provide for the wants of some negroes who were on a tramp to Canada, and now we see that several runaways have been arrested and remanded to the custody ot their masters They were taken back to Ky, without any attempt to take them from their owners.
 They make near approaches to the Mo- saic law in Utah. A Gentle of Frog town took a Mormon young lady to Provo to live with him. A Mormon mob col lected. advised the young man to leave and then took the young woman out and pub licly whipped her.
 The wife of Jacob Abbott in Golconda, c. w., presented her husband with eight children at a birth Two have since died and six are yet living This is vouched for by respectable witnesses.
 A photographer in Pittsburg, offers to take first class portraits for ten cents.
 At late festive occasion in France, they killed little OK weighing 2,600 pounds. The press noticed it as marvel. It is nothing extraordinary to find cattle in the west of that weight. Lately an OK passed through Atlanta in Georgia, on its way to Augusta, which, when weighed pulled down 3,l00 pounds. Georgia is ahead of France by 500 pounds.
 At Buffalo, N. Y., and partially at other places, the dry goods merchants have sub- stituted female clerks for those of the mas culine gender. Why not here? It does seem ridiculous that it should require a strapping fellow, " bearded like the pard'' to sell a1ady thimble, yard of tape, ol roll of ribbon. We never see one flour ishing the yardstick behind the counter cutting off dress for a lady customer, thar we think their sides of the counter should be reversed
 There were over 300 persons burnt tc death in the United States, during the year 1858. A large proportion had their dresse, to catch fire
 Among the notices of returns of negroe. to slavery, we find an amusing accout O a negro who belonged to Mr. Gross O Ky. He was sent to cut some wood bu kept on and finally reached Canada. Si, or eight months after somebody was seer cutting wood at the wood-p pile. It proved to be the runaway who had returned almost naked, half starved and heartily sick of so. called freedom.
 Miss Maria Tingley, aged IS, recently ran away with Mir. John Sophia, aged 9. Maria was pretty white girl who left very disconsolate parents" while John was so black that charcoal would not make mark on him. Both resided in Pennsyl- vania. We often read of these affairs at the north, and strangely enough, the black is always male and the girl is white.
 The world progresses. A writer ob- serves:
 1.-Two centuries ago, not one in a hun dred wore stockings. Fifty years ago, not a boy in thousand was allowed to run at large at night Fifty years ago, not one girl in thousand made a waiting maid of her mother Wonderful improvements in this wonderful agen'