Des Arc citizen., 1860-01-11
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.

Tn letter frcm China, it is stated by Mir Reeds recently ratified treaty with the Chinese Government, the opium trade is again legalizcd. As the American treaty is the only one in force, the English are said to be already taking advantage of it's provisions to revive the opium trade. re'fsf
 The Georgia Methodist Episcopal Con- ference lately reprimanded. minister for attending a circus, and subsequently unani- mouslys resolved that minister or layman who visited a show of any description should De excluded from the Church.
 --Thirty-six persons arrived in Gin cinnati recently, from Kentucky. having been driven from the latter State for attering abol lition sentiments.
 ----There are more than l ,000 different reli- gious beliefs prevailing among the children of men.
 ----One farmer in Illinois has sold 250O head of his cattle this fall, yielding him $75,0o0 They were all fattened on his 5000 acre farm in La SalIe county.
 ----The bill for the prohibition of slavery in Nebraska, which passed the lower branch of their Territorial Legislature by vote of 2l to IT, has been defeated in the Council by a vote of ' to 6.
 --~A letter from Mir. Ward, Minister to China, says the Russian Envoy sat Pekin at the time he'was there, but so strict was the surveillance of the Chinese government that il nt t,lI hal, foe oh ofb exchange of several private notes, however, was permitted.
 --~A bill is before the Minnesota Legsla- ture, the object of which is to prevent the immigration and settlement of free negroes in that State. Also, resolutions condemning the Harper's Ferry conspirators and their attempt to incite servile insurrecton, and affirming allegiance to the Union and Constitution.
 Wendell Phillips, says the Boston Jour- nal, now denies that he had any Knowledge of old Browns invasion of Virginia, and says he ever discountenanced the stampeding of slaves. Prof. Whiteney, of Yale College, is engaged in the translation a~d publication of Hindoo work on astronomy. -->-The Nashville Banner has placed the name of Hon. John Bell at the head of its columns as a candidate far the Presidency. forthcoming work on Nicaragua, by no less a person than Gen. Vim. Walker.
 ---In South Easton, Penn, recently, an itinerant peddler of the Life of John Brown k.ao fod to Iach op ha hn ck nd ordered out of the town.
 -----The reports from two hundred and fifty plantations in Louisiana, it is stated, show a yield of only 7,950 hog ,heads of sugar against 10 000 last year.
 ONLY A. SAMrtR.-The New Hampshire member of the National Republican Commit tee, recently in session at New York, is MT George c. Fogg, editor of the Concord Inde- pendent Democrat, which has expressed the opinion that the only way to get rid of slave " is to foment rebellion among the slaves.- Hartford Times
 The fame of John S. Rarey has travelled to Egypt and fired the zeal and ambition of the equestrian lords of the desert. The viceroy, has sent Mr.. Rarey an offer of twenty five blooded horses, as good as can be boughtin Egypt and Arabia, if he will come Ito Cairo and give instruction in his art to him, his ministers and army officers.
 "A Wisconsin paper boasts that it is located in one of the Western States, whose chief productions are pretty girls. railroad bonds, mink and other skins, seed wheat, Sons of Malta, tax titles, corner lots, and white fish.
 The Coopcrstown Democrat states tha monument to Cooper is to be erected in that town, at cost of $3,2oo. It will be located in the beautiful Lake Wood Cemetery, be- tween Lake Otsego and Mount Vision and Prospect Rock, and near the spot of the ttPanther scene.3