Des Arc citizen., 1860-01-25
NEWS ITEMS, &c.

DIRECT IMpoaTATioN OF CoFFEE.-The Charleston Courier states that the wholesale grocery dealers in that city are adopting mea- sures to secure and promote the direct impor- been carried on for years, and with success. Merchants, or their agents, have gone there, from cities North and South to attend the coffee sales.
 -"Drmming" seems to be costly past time in Mobile. Fifty dollars is the standard fine imposed by the Mayor on all the northern specimens brought before him, for exercising their vocation. In Montgomery, though, they are more lenient; and the "agents" thrive apace. According to the Mail, one agent has sold in montgomery this season, twenty y-five thousand dollars worth of hats, enough, one would think, to cover tip all the excitement and all the indignation that all the heads therebouts contain,
 ----- The Washington states says letters are into Washington from all parts of the South conveying the important informa- tion that the citizens of that division of the Union are firmly resolved to utterly suspend commercial relations and travelling intercourse with the North.
 NORTHERN FuGrftvEs.-Careful observa- tion and calculation from reliable statistics show that more wives of Northern men, in proportion to the number, annually run away from their husbands, than there are of slaves who flee from their masters.
 - New orleans. just now, is very gay. Money plenty; health never better; weather magnificent. Hotels overfowing with visit ors. Two operas and several theatres in full blast.
 The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph, a black republican paper, says; s'The colored population of Harrisburg exceeds that of any other town in the State, and this class is made up to great extent of indolent, incorporate, worthless and disorderly persons of both sexes, some of whom are before our magis- trates almost every day in the week."
 - The members of the General Assembly of Tennessee paid theft respects in body, on the Sth inst. to the widow of the late James K. Polk, at her residence in Nashville.
 - A negro preacher has been fined $50 in Detroit, Michigan, and in default of bail, is to be imprisoned ninety days, the penalty awarded by law for preaching in that State. The Free Press says, the authorities are de- termined to prosecute every violation of this law.
 - The Hartford Times says, gentleman called at our office on Monday, who i, about to start for the State of Alabama, to com mence hatters' shop and factory there. The trade from this quarter having been much in- jured, he removes from Connecticut and takes away the business and the hands employed 'here In this way Connecticut is made te suffer.
 TIE WHEAT CRop.-The Athens Post, of the 30th ult., says: "There is complaint among the farmers of East Tennessee gene rally, that the young wheat has been seriously damaged by the late severe weather. We In cline to the opinion, however, that the injury though bad enough, is not so universal as is apprehended."
 -----s Barclay Coppie, one of the Harper: Ferry invaders, it is said, was present at hi brother Edwin's burial, at Salem, Ohio, short while ago. He kept himself closely mufiied up to avoid detection. He was well armed, and says he will never be taken alive After the funeral he left for Canada, wfler' Browns son, and others of the insurgents ar' still skulking.
 -- Ireland was an inhabited country a the earliest period of recorded history. l was well known to the Greeks of the time o
 Aristotle, and is correctly described in tn
 Roman geographies. The tradition is that i was conquered by Spanish adventurers abou 1000 B.. C., and that line of one hundre and seyenty-one kings descended from the in vading prince. The Greeks name of Irelan
 was lerne.
 l DoN'r BELIEVE WORD OF IT.-The Lon
 don correspondent of the New York Heral ststes that one million of dollars had been SC apart by the British Government in order t 1 influence the next Presidential election In ia
 vor of the antl-slavery candidate.
 -aAn abolitionist," says the Petersburl
 (Yirginia,) Express, ''whose name we al
 not learn, was detected in the act of tamPer ing with the negroes on MT. B. Richardson, farm, one day last week. He was seizeo
 tied to tree, and tickeled on the bare back
 with a cow-hide, imported from New Eng
 land. That is action, not words.
 - Two men, named Crux and Gargue
 have been arrested in Fairfax County, Flr
 rinia. for circulating Helpers book throns 1 fhe postofIice. Crux, who was examined be fore justice, and held in the sum of S2,ooi forfeited his bail.