Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-31
NEWS ITEMS, &c.


 = Orson Hyde, one of the Mormon elder at Salt Lake, 2rophesies three years' famine when all " Gentiles , who do not buy corn iron the " Latter-Day Saintso will starve. Tn, army in Utah is numbered among those who are doomed to perish. An officer of the army writing from Camp Floyd, intimates that tn, United States troops may put the {" boot on tn, other leg"
 - MT. Willard, in a letter from Liverpoo 10 the Boston Courier, states what does no appear to be generally known to our country. men-that in the examination of travellers luggage by the officers of customs, American reprints of English books are absolutely ex- cluded. They are taken away and destroyed
 - Oscar, the late King of Sweden, was a warm devotee of free-masonry, and for many years Past Grand Patron of the Order in his own dominious. The attachment he felt foi the institution may be partly estimated by the fact that he was elected, in 1851, an honorary member of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
 - Paris correspondent of an American newspaper writes of Louis Napoleon, that he IS by race an Italian, by birth Dutchman, by school education German, by military edu- cation Swiss, by political studies an En- glishman, and by his usurped crown he is a Frcnchman.
 - In Granville county, N. C., MT. Joseph F. K. l.. Y. Davis, son of Isham A. c. Da- wis, has been married to Miss Mary E. L. N. c. Perry. daughter of Mr. P. E. T. D. and Mrs. Agnes Y. V. o. Perry. "What's in a name ?"
 "A Zouave soldier lost one of his fingers at the battle of Solferino. "MoN DIEU r' he exclaimed-"i it is just my luck to lose the fin- ger upon which I wore my wedding g-ring. Now my wife will insist upon it that gave it to another woman."
 - Messrs. Craig & Fighter, of Cincinnati, have published card, in which they state that their work of removing the obstruc- tions to navigation from the mouth of the Mississippi river, has been accepted by the Government, and the money paid.
 --- It is stated in letter from Brescia. that large number of Hungarans are desert ing from Verona and Mantua; and that l" they have decided to emigrate to America, rathe than trust to any amnesty which Austria can grant"
 - The Turin correspondent of the London Post states that sixty Hungarians, who escaped from the Austrian army, were retaken, placed before battery, fired upon with grape-shot, and all but two killed.
 - A clergyman lately noticed deficiency in the collections in his congregation, and stated that, since the issue of the threecen coin, the revenue of his church had deere ased in amount nearly one-half.
 -L Lieut.. Maury, of the National Obser- vatory, at Washington City, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address before the Sta te Fair at Nashville, Tenn, on the Il lth of October.
 - Two members of the British House of Commons have been expelled from that body, for bribery-Capt. Schenley, who is we'll known in the United States, and Mir. Latham, brother-in-law of Mir. Bright.
 - The Austrian Consul, at New York, has purchased large American eagle, which he designs presenting to his Emperor, Francis Joseph. The bird was captured in Page county, Virginia.
 - The Postmaster General has announced that transient newspapers, which happen to get mailed without being prepaid, must be de- liyered on payment of the postage.
 - The Pacific Railroad is completed one hundred and sixty-eight miles, from Saint Louis to Syracuse, and within ninety miles of Kansas City, Mo.
 - The Belvidere (Ohio) Standard has nominated Gov. S. P. Chase; of Ohio, for President, and Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, for Vice President, in 1860.
 - A profane correspondent calls the ar mistice which was agreed upon at Villa Franca, by the European belligerents, "the peace which passeth understanding"
 - It is stated that Horace Mann did not die of fever, but of hard work--a disease which is not often fatal in this country.