Des Arc citizen., 1859-05-11
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

- The State Department has received dis patches from Utah, coniirmatory of the news received by telegraph, that there is a conflict between the federal and judicial officers. The administration will sustain Gov. Cumming throughout, in his endeavor to preserve order. Judge Cradlebaugh's conduct is disapproved of, and he will be immediately recalled.
 - The Legislature of Maryland, at it's last session. passed a law prohibiting lotteries after the first day of April, 1859. It seems, however, that the law is imperative and worthless, by reason that no penalty attaches to it's violation.
 "A general convention of the negro voters of New England has been called, to meet in Boston, on the first of August, to take action in reference to the presidential cam paign of 1S60 Cologne will be in demand.
 - One avowed object of the proposed or ganization of new State out of the southern counties of California, is to unite the same with Arizona, bringing the whole into the Union as State, at an early day.
 - The New Orleans S Picayne" says that the Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi river are now freely navigable to the largest class of vessels.
 - The Legislative Council of Canada have taken a firm stand against death-bed be- quests -enacting that no bequest will be valid
 
 death
 - The trial of the crew of the slayer Echo, at Charleston. has closed The verdict of the jury was {. not guilty"
 - Joseph Woods, an old and highly re- spected citizen of Nashville, Tenn, died sud- denly, in Philadelphia, on the 20th ult
 - Mai R. H. Wall, an old citizen of Mar shall county, Miss, died at his residence, near Holly Springs, on the 2Sth ut.
 It is stated that Gen. Sam Houston is a candidate for the Governorship of Texas.
 - The State Department is confident that our Ministerto Switzerland will succeed in pro- curing the removal of the restrictions cons tained in certain cantonal laws of the Swis- Confederation, against Jewish citizens of the United States.
 The Calhoun (Miss.) Independent says that fourteen persons died recently in the southwestern portion of Calhoun county ill one week, of disease resembling black plague.
 - The Philadelphia Journal says that a number of southern merchants, who were there during the trial of the alleged fugitive slave, before Commissioner Longstreth, left for Baltimore in rage, saying that they would never buy another cents worth in Philadelphia.
 - The New York Herald states that, a few days since, western man was '' feeced D by gamblers of one thousand dollars, on a Hudson river steamboat The passengers, however, organized a |" vigilance committee, , and forced the return of the victims money
 At recent festivity in Paris, Louis Napoleon wore a sword whose scabbard and hit were covered with thirty thousand dol lars worth of diamonds, while the Empress disrlayed million of dollars worth of dia- mOndS.
 - The San Antonio Texan states that Gen. Twiggs has been dangerously ill, but is slowly recovering.
 - The Tennessee Penitentiary has al present three hundred and siXty-three convicts in it. Every cell is full.
 - The ladies of South Carolina have raised thirty thousand dollars toward erecting a monument in memory of John c. Calhoun