Des Arc citizen., 1860-08-08
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.


 BH The Governor of the State of Mis- sissippi { Pettus is private in volunteer military company in Jackson, and drills regularly and punctually in the ranks.
 gaT Hon. Cave Johnson, of Tennes- see, has been appointed by the President, Commissioner to Paraguy.
 Rsas~ MT. Abbott has raised some cotton in Vermont as white and as nice as that in Georgia.
 B@ Greeley in speaking of the South ern Democracy calls them e Calhoun Disunionists. Horace has forgotten that Mir. Calhoun is dead, and Yancey is the name by which the Southern Opposition now attempt to fright the souls of fearful adversaries.-[ Union and American.
 TIE Ex-PREsIDENTs.-Three of the four ex-Presidents of the United States have been in New York, Messrs Van Buren, Fillmore and Pierce, and all of them in excellent health. MT. Van Bureu is aged 7S; MT Fillmore aged 60, Gen. Pierce aged 56.
 A MILKING MAcHINE-Mr. L. O. Colvin, of Cincinnatus, New York, has in- vented milking machine. It milks any COW in three minutes, and the COWS like to be milked by it.
 FALLEN NEss.-Soulouque the ex. Emperor of Hayti, lives in the city of Kingston, Jamaica, in mean and wretched poverty, spending most of his time in gambling with few low Haytien rene. gades.
 N% The United States Court of Claims has adjourned to meet on the 18th of Oc- tober next. But little business has been transacted during the present year; counsel, in many cases, preferring to await definite action on the Congressional bill proposing to change the law establishing that tribunal so as to make its awards final, and givng the right to appeal.
 A VISIT " HoME." "-Gen. Lane wis. ited Buncombe county, N. C., and the place of his birth recently. On the same day he was presented to circle of twenty five blood relations, whom he had never seen, and who had grown up around the old family tree. The emigraling fever makes strange changes in families. RULING PAss1oN.-When boy Ste phen A. Douglas worked at cabinet-ma- king three months and quit the trade.- He has now entered upon similar ap- prentice ship, and in little more than three months he will quit in more disgust than ever, and leave the Cdbinet-makine business to MT. Breckinridge.-[ Dispatch THE CATTLE DISEASE IN CoNGREss.- The following resolution, on motion of MT Delano, of Mass, was adopted in ths House of Representatives:
 Resolved, That the Committee on Ag' rieulture be instructed to inquire respec ting the novel and alarming malady now prevailing among the cattle In certain To- calities of the United States, known a: pleuro. pneumonia; that they consider whether the infection has or is likely tt become so general as to be subject o national concernment; and to recommend any action which it may be competen and expedient for Congress to take, witt view to arresting the ravages of so de structive disease.
 TIE OLD SOLDIERS FOR GEN. LAME A gentleman writing from Delaware county, Indiana, to the Richmond Enqul Ter, says: "Mr Lane will get every Mex iean war soldiers vote in the State, fires pective of their political principles. heard strong Republican, a soldier, captain with Lane in Mexico, say tn other day, that he would vote for Jo Lane at the sacrifice of his life." | PRospEcr OF CoMBINArroN TicKE 1siNEw YoRK.-The latest news receive at Washington from New Yorkis said indicate that the efforts being made l that State for the fusion of the Douglas Breckinridge and Bell parties, for tn defea, of Lincoln, will be successful.