Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-28

oA hao DeeH uiscoVcreu at ' HuDertS settlement on the Little Wichita river. | There IS a heavy emigration there from, Texas.
 The deck of the steamship Great Eastern contains the same number of surface feet that an acre of ground does.
 Until lately divorces could not be obtain- ed in England, unless at great expense- Since the passage of the new divorce laws the number of applications has been so great that seven judges are found inadeouats to the discharge of business.
 A returned Californian brought homo with him Sl6,O0O in gold. Not liking tA trust the banks, he buried the money but failing to tell his family, was thrown from horse and killed before they had learned the secret of the hiding place. They are doing considerable digging in the vicinity of the house in which he resided.
 A laboring man can live comfortably in China on food costing one cent a day.
 Eleven theaters are now in full blast in the city of New York.
 The Turcos in the French army have become troublesome Numbers have been shot for committing outraces, and the French people are earnestly calling for their removal to Algiers.
 There is an aerial ship or balloon in course of construction near New York. which, 1t is expected will be completed early in October next The dimensions of this airship exceed those of any balloon previously built. The capacity of the gas receiver is 725, ,000 cubic feet; the height of the balloon from the valve of the boat is 300 feet: the diameter 130 feet Mir Lowe expects to reach London from New York in from AS to 60 hours
 The " mode' in Paris just now is to have the little toe on each foot amputated to make the foot appear smaller and point ed Old and young are having their feet mutilated. Will American women adopt or follow this absurd fashion? Or will they keep their present footing in toto?
 A man named Rossean and another named Morse, with the wife of the latter, were lately carried over the Niagara falls.
 The smallpox is raging at Liberia and the free-negroes who never provide for the future are being slaughtered by this terrible disease.
 A correspondent of the Memphis Ava lanche calls T. C. Hindman "the Eagle Orator." He means "Spread Eagle"
 The owner of Taylor's saloon in New York cut his throat
 Mile. Al(onzo. the richest heiress in France, is about to marry an Amercan.- This is reversing the rule which was to give our heiresses to foreigners.
 Mrs. Stowe has fallen below par in Eng land. The nobs have cut her and of course the snobs follow suit.
 Robert Wicklihe, of Ky, who died re- gently, was said to be the richest man in the State He was remarkable for his le- gal ability and his uncompromising hos tility to the Clays and the Breckinridges.
 A train of emigrants to Oregon, were attacked on the 24th of July, at Raft river, by band of Shorhone Indians, number of them killed and all robbed of their mo- ney, provisions and stock.
 Leigh Hunt, the venerable English au- thor, is dead. He had passed the allotted line of three score and ten. The formation of the new territory of Nevada bodes no good to the Mormons.- ' When the Gentiles surround them they 7 must migrate or go under. g Hon. A. B. Greenwood, Commissioner T of Indian Affairs, is on tour among the 0 Indian tribes of the west, to inform him if self of their wants and condition. A paragraph is going the rounds of the . press as something extraordinary, that 20 :, 900 acres of land were sold in one week al | the land office in Warsaw Mo. That is q e mere fea-bte. At the land offices here, several times 20, 900 acres have been sold in a day.
 The Michigan State prison more than pays its expenses. There are 21200 Free-Masons in the United States and the incomes of the lodges amounts to S6, 450, 900.
 The total cotton crop of 1858, in the United States was 3,S61 ,481 bales. This includes all shipped, stored and manufac- tured here
 Chatham, in Canada West, has popu- lation of seven thousand, of which one third are free negroes It is said to be the most demoralized and vicious place on the continent
 The Prince of Wales is about to visit Canada He may take notion to visit the United States. Won't snobdom be in a tutter? However, the northern people would make just as much fuss over an opera dancer, runaway negro or new singer.
 The wife of man living at Grand Falls, New Brunswick, was confined and present. ed her husband with a boy weighing II pounds; eleven days after she was confined again and presented him with daughter weighing : ] pounds.
 At Mt. Carmel, N. Y, an old man of 50 ran off with girl of 15, and escaped into Connecticut. Colt while you're young.
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