Des Arc citizen., 1859-04-08
PRE- EMpTIoN coLoNIsTs.

The grand overland wilderness at the head of the Gulf of California will soon be invaded by solid army of " pre-emp- ton colonsts"
 Parties of armed Arizona emigrants, mounted and equipped for a long march and settlers homestead in the richest heart of the silver mountains, are gather ing in Texas from half dozen States, north and south.
 The main body, under General Hen. ningsen, wil collect at Galveston or some other convenient port in Texas, and take up the line of march some time in the bi,he month of June. At this season hunting and paslurage are good, and a
 trip across the prairIes is but a pleasure excursion, and when that may be con cluded with the possession of farm with perhaps, rich mine upon il, 1t Is not sur prising that General Henningsen's call for associates has been so widely answer ed.
 The pre-emp.ion advantages to actual settlers is the basis of the whole move ment. That inSures to the hardy adven-
 urer sure equivalent for his labors, while a strong organization, which aids and pro- tects each Individual with the whole strength of the united company, enables him to penetrate al will to the hitherto in. accessible treasre-caverns of central Afi- zona. They can carry their machinery where small detached parties would be swept away in week by the Indians. They work for themselves, too, and no, for distant spectators, and any of them may light on mineral deposits equal to the richest in California, which will be his own to retain against all corners, even on the Mexican side of the line. The laws of Mexico grant pre-emption right in mines to the dscoverer. even when found on pri- vate property, and Henningsen's pre-emp- tors wll be as competent to protect their own legal rights as they will be careful to respect those of others.
 A pioneer company of ninety mounted Texans start the 18th of this month to !" make the lrail' for the main force, which will follow some weeks later Judging from the announcements in the Texas papers, and what we learn here of the purchase of machinery, tent-carts and agricultural implements, there will be from 900 10 2,000 men on the march before the middle of June Many are going to Galveston and Indianola by twos and threes, to be on hand and secure their horses by the middle of May. The move- ment is very popular in Texas, aud seems to be regarded there as the incident of the coming summer.
 That 1t is at once the best system of border defense, that these compact bodies l of armed settlers will be barrier line of permanent posts to cover over our land routes to the Pacific, is self-evident, and in that aspect the entire West accepts the !" Arizona Emigration" impulse with warm and universal iavor.- .- Washington States. OuR NAVAL HERoEs A Washing, on correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, describing the old building still occupied by the Macy Department in Washington, says: " Nearly all our naval heroes of 1872 are now gone, having lowered their flag 10 the great conqueror, Death. SHUBRIcK, who, 1 think, was an active officer in the glorious old Constitu- ton, has gone to Paraguay 10 lead the forces against the freebooler LOPEZ. Commodore SKINNER has retired to Slaun- ton, Virginia, where he enjoys otium cum digRdate. Commodore JOSEPH SMITH re- mains here in the Department an excel lent man and an industrious officer The portraits of some of the heroes, such a: HULL and DECATUR, may be seen on the
 walls; also pictures of some of the most celebrated engagements of the war ol 1872. Trophies of victory. in the shape of British flags, etc., are also in possession