Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-09
NEWS ITEMS, Sc.

The papers at Augusta, Ga., notice tue receipt in that city, of flour made from new wheat. Some of the flour has been shipped to New York.
 -"T The London American" has made its appearance. The project of starting an American journal in England is thus to be tested
 It is thought, by several men of science, that 1860 will be marked by more tornadoes, storms and high winds, than have occurred Tn any year of the century.
 The slaves of Huntsville, Ala, recently made common purse and purchased splen- did hearse, to be used for the interment of their dead Df
 --In the Sunday School procession at Washington on the 21st ult., a Baptist school was out in strong force, and like another among their banners and emblems, bore rep resentation of the flag of Japan, in honor of our visitors, having attached to it streamer, with the words, "To far Japan give light divine"
 -Within the last sixteen months, eigh- teen cotton laden vessels, valued at S2,452,- GOO, were destroyed by fire, in the ports of the United States. It is supposed by the h. surance Companies that a large proportion of the fires are intentional, and one company, the ssGreat Western,'' offers a reward of S1O00 for the detection and conviction of an incendiary, at sea.
 Nh. Rarey has returned to England from his travels in the desert among the Arabs. He is to give fifty more public exhibitions in England and then return to America.
 The Spirit of the Times states that the great match between tho race-horses '' Daniel Boone" and 'Planet," over the Ashland Course, Virginia, for S20,000 Con the latter) against S15 1000 on the former, has been made, and will come off on the 18th October next.
 Ton Hyer, the noted pugilist, was one of the Republican delegates to Chicago. He is an active Lincoln man, and was the leader of grand procession at Chicago, on the night following the nomination.
 The New York Journal of Commerce says, if on the assembling of the Baltimore Convention, intense partizanship shall be found on one side, and unyielding hostility on the other, {" there can be no course for pru- dent men to pursue but to look for solution of the difficulty through the nomination of some man whose record is fair, and who will not be obnoxious to any large portion of the country"
 -Letters from Annoy, China, dated Feb ruary, state that the Chinese authorities were taking the most cruel measures for the sup pression of the coolie traffic, and the punish ment of those engaged in it. One Chinese woman was sentenced to be crucifed and fayed alive for kidnapping thirteen China men. Two men were burned at the ankles, hung by the toes, whipped with one thousand stripes, and then beheaded.
 Is IT FACT ?--The New Orleans Delta says that in Cincinnati there are manufacto- ries for old barrels, to contain good old Ma deira wine, which has lain for an age among the dust and cobwebs, in some ancient cellar. A new barrel, fresh from the cooper's hands, is made to undergo remarkable metamor- phosis in short time. exhibiting all the evil dsnces of antiquity, stained, and having the marks of the French and Spanish custom houses, and the imperial arms nearly worn off, and even cobwebs drawn across the bung