Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-06
NEWS ITEMS.

 ; sons have arrived in Galveston and Houston, Texas, to escape prosecutions of guerrillss in the interior. who rob and murder on both sides indiscriminately. for piunder. Affairs shrouchcut the State are daily becoming worse instead of better, and innumerable euiragcs are hourly recorded
 -Adolph Bernard Ticket Agent of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, absconded few days since, taking with him some slo,- 900 ofthe Company's funds. Detective Stone braker was soon on the track and secured Bernard at Chicago He is now in Memphis awaiting an examination.
 The State of Texas has rcommenced proceedings against Ebenezer E. B. Nichols, { to regain sum oftwo millions andtwentyfve i thousand dollars. Nichols was the financial agent of the State Government during the war
 President Johnson has csused to- be prepared silver medal and certificate of merit, which, together with one hundred silver dollars, are to be presented to IIookeap, a chief of the Blackfeet tribe of Indians, as q reward for noble behavior in 1861, in rcscu- ing white women from captivity. The medal weighs about half pound, and is appropri- ately inscribed.
 Victor Hugo does large part of his daily work before breakfast, gets up at five o'clock, and all that. He writes standing, and hlots, erascs, interlines, so that all his natter must be copied before it goes to tire printer. ss sls ;a N An Arkansas paper saysa gentleman was lately married to Choctaw belle, Miss Kath-ie-no-he, daughter of "Black Cloud" a Caddo chief. The lady is described as q full blosdsd Caddo, over six feet in stature, very comely, and straight as one of the pines of our Northern wilderness. At the wedding, the bride wore silver decorations in her hair wsshiag ever pound.
 ! "A Boston paper tells us that company of English capitalists, with capital of fwo millions, are about to start in Charleston s. C., an enormous cotton factory establish msnt for supplying European trade. They ase backed by the wealshies firms in England and France. Several other enterprises, 1t is added, are under consideration, which, if successful, will speedily render Charleston the leading city Of the South, The Louisville Courier wickedly says of Governor Brownlow. He is in the Notrh now making speeches, while his loyal negroes are dying by wholesale in Nashville and taking the train to kingdom come. which stops at the station he wants to get off at, and thh peo- pie of Tennessee, from Memphis to Bristol, arc praying that he may get back to Nashville before tho cholera leaves
 We learn from the Jackson Miss. ] Clarion, that tho High Court of Mississippi has decided the Civil Rights bill 10 be uncon- stitutional. The decision, which is to be delivered by Judge Handy, will be promulga- ted in . day or two.
 A letter received by we'll known physician from Mrs. Jeff. Davis states that her husband is rapidly failing in health, and expresses doubt that he will live till winter.
 Two hundred and forty miles of the Union Pacific Railroad have been completed and accepted by the Commissioners.
 Late Mexican news contradicts the re- port that the Marquis de Monthalon, French Minister, was shot by the Liberals.
 Stamped envelopes are to be supplied by the Postcffce Department at S32 80 per thou sand or $a 28 per hundred.
 -Telegraphc communication between New Brunswick and Prince Edwards Island has been accomplished by the laying of a ca ble across the Straits If Northumberland.
 The Cairo and Fulton railroad was pur- chased on Tuesday by Judge Rankin for S957, OO0.-
 ABThe radicals want to strike ten stars out of the American flag, and re- duce the States which the stars repre- sent to province, to be governed by military rule, as Austria governs Hun gary. sss1
 l@The Conservative gain over the vote of 1865, at the recent Vermont election is 8, 800. ~
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