Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-04-21
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eastern terminus of the NJ. 0. x R. R. rail road has been christened Eunice."
 In Tioga county, Pa., the authorities have ordered tax upon cats and dogs.
 The executive committee of the Ameri- can Colonization Society have appropriated ten thousand dollars to aid the free negroes expelled from Arkansas to find homes in Liberia. The committee thought they were doing wonders with their appropriation. To our knowledge several free negroes left this State with much larger sum than that appropriated, and if they had desired to go to Liberia, could have gone on their own hook. They all had moro or less mo- ney.
 During the month of February the over land mail carried 38,674 letters to, and G3 ,O36 letters from, California. On late trip it brought nearly ll,000 letters from San Francisco.
 The Louisville glass works are turning out glass collins, capable of being hermet-. rically sealed. Here is chance to show off as a handsome corpse.
 The public printing of the State of New York costs over hundred thousand dol lars yearly.
 We have never alluded to the great prize fight that came off, or was to come off in England, on the 16th inst, because our tastes did not run that way. It has been the staple of conversation among q class at the North for months; tlashy newspapers have had columns filled with letters und articles relating to it; the pictoral papers have given us all sorts of faces as vcritablc portraits of IIeenan and Savers, the com batants, with all the belts, pitchers and .other trophies won by the champions. All Yankeedom seemed stirred to it's utmost depths, at the prospect of the meeting of the two bruisers. It IS singular that in the West where an athlete is prized, where the |"best man" is the term for one ol phy- sical powers, and where strength is most to be valued because most useful such fights rather disgust than please; while at tho East, among the so-caled moral people, and where cunning serves in lieu of strength, they create an intense excitement.
 Municipal elections were held on the Sd inst, in the cities of St. Louis and Cincin- nati The black republicans carried five Awards in St. Louis and the democrats only three wards. In Cincinnati the whole de- mocratic ticket was elected by large ma iority. A better feeling prevails in the latter city with regard to the South. Runa- way negroes are promptly arrested and de- lvercd to their owners without a noise made about 1t.
 Arizonia is to be called by that name no longer. Tho proper name and tho one de- cided upon by Congress Is Arizuma.
 James k. Paulding, at one timo secro- tary of the navy, and an author of somo repute, died recently.
 The white slaves at the North are badly treated Not content with putting them in factories to work, which fall upon and crush hundreds, while others are burnt alive in the ruins of the building, they have l lately been burning them alive, ten or q dozen at a time, in the tenement houses in New York These houses are built for the purpose of being renteQ, by rooms, to the poor so that twenty, thirty and sometimes as many as sixty families occupy one house. When fire occurs, numbers are burnt If such things happened at the South, we should not hear the last of it,vent at the North it is only few poor white women and children.
 Let it be remembered that Buckingham, the newly elected Governor of Connecticut was nominated by the black republicans and also by the Americans.
 The English manufacturers were in the habit of cheating in putting up cotton cloth -a package they labelled 100 yards con tained only 90-50 yards only 10. The Yankees have got at 1t, so that our friends who buy domestic and calico by the bolt would do well to measure 1t.
 The Boston Post is the best paper in the United States.
 Julien, the great musical conductor, is dead He died in ad-houso, af1er an intellectual attempt to commit suicide Did you ever see him? He was most magnificent dandy.
 , Carstang vs. Shaw. "We the jury do find for the defendant" We the editors find |" served her right'
 In twenty years, the American coal trade rose from $50 tons to 6O,o00,00 tons.