Des Arc citizen., 1866-03-17
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 NEWS ITEMS.

-Major General B. F Cheatham, late of the Confederate States Army, will on Thurs day next, wed Miss Robertson, wealthy lady of Davidson county.
 -Gen. w. J. Hardee has been elected President of the Selma and Meridian Railroad
 It is stated that Gov. Brownlow has refused Captain Patterson his commission as Sheriff of Davidson county, on the ground that he had served in the Confederate army.
 The new iron bridge over the Tennessee river, at Decatur. will shortly be put up. It will be one of tue finest structures of the kind in he Southern country. It will not cost less than slSo,ooo.
 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is confident that treaties between the Indians that are yet hostile to the Government can be consummatcd early in the spring
 The Meridian Miss. Tropic records gen eral complaint of the scarcity of many articles of prime necessity. especially corn In Cam ton corn sells for $l % bushel, and in Bran don for about $2 At the latter place a few weeks ago. it sold for $2 50 bushel.
 - Eight or nine young men were arrested in Louisville, last Sabbath, for using vulgar annoyance of churchgoers.
 ----In Georgia, the Legislature is discussing a plan of fasolishing the Milledgeville Peniten- tlary, and setting tie convicts at work in an extensive quarry on Stone Mountain, to yield the State revenue.
 "A Washington telegram states that a resolution is to be offered in the United States House of Representatives proposing that the Government shall guarantee the bonds of the Irish Republic.
 Eleven men were frozen to death short time since in the night) near Hamilton, Minn. Six of them were frozen to death while passing along the road Another man was found frog en in standing posture with his hands oyer his face, and only three or four rods from q house.
 - good deal of excitement is accustomed in Macon, Ga., by the discovery of several
 
 ding which was undergoing repairs The building was used for a hospital during the war, and it is supposed the money was put in the wall by soldier who is, perhaps, dead.
 ADVICE TO BE HEEDED.-The advice of Madison to regard the disguised enemy of the Union as ''the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise, should be needed at the presant time, when Stevens and his crowd of venomons reptiles are crawling and hissing around the Constitution. l CHANGE OF PRiNcIPLE.-Our fathers carried through the revolution of 1776, on the princi- nle of mo taxation without representation. J The radicals are trying to change that sonnd doctrine into the absurd one of staxation and no representations Fanaticism makes nc distinction between right and wrong. EXCLUSION OF SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVES FROM CONGRESS-. following House con current resolution, excluding Southern repres- entatives from Congress, passed the Senate or the 2d by 29 ayes against IS noes
 Be it resotved, By the House of Representa- tives, the Senate concurring, that in order t' close the question which seems likely to dis turb the action of the Government, as well a to quiet the uncertainty which is agitating tn n;,,ds of the people of the eleven States whicl ,,ovo been declared to be in instruction, n sanator or representative shall be admitted either branch of Congress, from any ofth sal States until Congress shall have declared sue I s,a,ss entitled 10 ssch representation yg--