Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS
 The arrivals at Pike's Peak and the vii cinity, at the last accounts, were at least two thousand day.
 We accidentally omitted to credit the account. of brig having arrived at Cam den, in this State, to the Herald of that city. A sail vessel in the interior of Ar kansas, is indeed novelty.
 A Whale, forty feet long, was lately cap tured near Beaufort, N c.
 One of the jurors empaneled in the Sick les case at Washington, endeavpred to ex- crse himself on the score of relationship to the'accused. On being asked what the re- lationship was he said that heeoo was a married man.
 It is very certain that the power and in- huence of Brigham Young is on the wane The policy pursued is beginning to have good effect. The troops and the citizens arc mixing freely, though their harems are kept closed. Young cannot command the obedience he could before the army went there, and now has agents in Mexico and Central America, prospecting for new situation.
 The directors of Girard College having decided that an orphan was child with out father or mother, an appeal from their decision was taken, and the supreme court of Pennsylvania decided that "an orphan is fatherless child"
 Whisky is worth SS gallon at Pike's Peak
 Four hundred negroes were recently bought in Spanish war steamer to Porto Rico and sold at $25 head, for term of six years. Was that piracy?
 Barnum, while attempting to deliver a lecture on "money making" at Oxford, England, was hissed and pelted till he was compelled to desist
 The post-ofice department at Washing ton issued an order to the effect that clerks who leave during office hours for the pur- pose of taking private drink, do so at the risk of removal from office.
 To show the growing importance of sheep raising in our sister State of Texas, we cite the fact that in the last number of the Aus tin Gazette, we find that Marcus Radiche  advertises that he has reached that vicini- ty with five thousand sheep, which are for sale
 Halls Journal of Health states that of the 5000 persons tried last year before the New York court of sessions, only ninety four were sober when arrested!
 One hundred and twenty negroes were about to embark at Baltimore, for Liberia Ninety of these were manumitted slaves.
 Methodism is on the increase Tn France. The Methodists have 152 churches, III preachers, 1,5OO members and 2,000 Sun day school scholars
 A company of 1 ,500 men has been form ed on the frontier of Texas, for descent upon the lower Indian Reserve, near Bel knap. "Lol the poor Indian.''
 The Parrish will case has been before the New York courts about three years and the will has not yet been admitted to pro- bate. Sl9,0O0 costs were allowed in the beginning and soon exhausted, and S1S,- 900 more paid out of the estate. Other costs, amounting to S44,000 have been rendered, amounting in all to SS1 ,000.
 Last week we referred to murder com mitted in the State of Maine We were incorrect as to the place, the number of persons Killed and the amount of booty.- The murderer killed his mother, two bro thers and a nephew, at Lee, for the sum of two hundred dollars. 1, He has since con tessed the crime. This specimen of north ern morality bears the name of Marshall Potter.
 Jim Steel, a negro who ran away from South Carolina, and whose escape was aid ed by Judge Culver of New York, creating Nsome stir at the time, died in Canada, last month, from starvation and cold.