Des Arc citizen., 1866-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.


 pfn-s A little girl was strangled to death recently, near Milton, Pennsylvania, by a huge blacksnakc coiling itself around her throat.
 peg~ The Democratic papers in Maine charge the Mayor of Portland with using the funds sent from all parts of the coun- try to relieve the sufferers by the late fire, for Radical electioneering purposes.
 pes- Mir. Davis stated on the 18th inst. to Bishop Green and Mir Keely, that ap- peaIs to President Johnson for his release were and would be unavailing. He must be tried, and had no hope of release.- UConnor and Reed, Mr. Davis attorneys, had exhausted appeals to the President.
 1es5~ Late Mexican news indicate that there is considerable dissension among the Liberals. The Imperial forces arc con centrating at San Louis Potosi, and great consternation prevailed among the Liberals at Monterey, who were expecting an attack momentarily. The levy of forced loans by the Liberals at that place was exciting a controversy by the military on both sides of the Rio Grande z
 HegF" One of the convic's of the Wes- tern (Pa') Penitcntiary named Holmes. on Thursday morning indulged in tue most blasphemous language, cursing everybody, cursing Christ cursing God, and pronoun- cing God the author of all sin, and ridicu- ling the Bible While uttering his blas- phemy he was suddenly struck down with apoplexy and remained unconscious until he died, at F o'clock, noon, on Friday
 gsg~ It is rumorcd that Henry J. Raymond will be appointed minister to London, in place of Charles Francis Adams, deceased.
 ney- The Memphis Avalanche csti- mates the amount ofcotton to be re- ceived at Memphis the current year, at 250,000 bales. We expect about that much hcre.--Mobile Tribune.
 Bs~ Rev. Bishop Greene. of Missis- sippi, an old and valued friend of the eX-President, is now on Q visit to him in his apartment at Fortress Monroe, and will remain with him several days. D
 g4% A number of Louisiana planters who went to Brazil, with the view of commencing the raising of cotton in that country, have written home that they have been disappointed in their expectations, and will return in short time.
 BgYy@ Mrs. Jeff. Davis writes to friend in Charleston thus. concerning her hus- band: INT. Davis is now slowly but surely wasting away; and I look for ward to his Makers release, if man does not soon afford him one It is very kind of you to ask what he wants, but beyond cigars and & little Madeira or Sherry wine, he seems to desire nothing"
 GS9pThc Philadelphia Press says, with eXultation, that not one tenth of the indignitics which have been offered to President Johnson in his tour to tlse NorthWest, have been made known to the public. 1t is but little to the credit of the Republicans that this should be so, and beautiful commentary on free speech. At Indianapolis. whore the violence was greatest and where life was taken. the President had not open cd his lips-so that he could not be charged with provoking #.
 BSss~ A New Orleans corrcspondent of the New York Herald, writing Sep teplbcr l2th, says: q have recently travelled over Virginia. Tennessee. Al abama, Mississippi and Louisiana. and everywhere observed peace and quiet, Wherever I have been, cx-ofiiccrs and Northern abolitionists arc treated cour- teously, and in all those States they are as fully protected as if they were in Massachusetts. failed to find any bitterness towards thc Government or Northern people. EX-Confedcrate sol diers are a unit for restoration and friendly intercourse with the North"
 TAX ON CorroN.-H Hereafter (savs the Baltimore Sun) the intcrDal revenue tax on cotton will be included in the price when sold. For instance, good laiddling, which was quoted last week at 2S cents, will hcncetorth be quoted, with the tax of 3 cents per pound ad- dcd, viz: 3l cents, if the price should not vary. Of course the producer, or owner of the cotton will pay the tax. &c. In future the Southern reports of the market will be in accordance with this state of affairs, as is the present custom in Savannah and Charleston.
 BIZ The Montgomery News says :: ''Ne regret very much to hear from the planters of our vicinity. such gloomy accounts of the destructive ravagcs of the boll-worm, which has Iately made its appearance in vast quantities upon many ofth plantations. Owing to the very wet weather early in the season. and the extreme drouth nmid-summer. the crop promised but a slender yield at best. l. will now, however be incal culably reduced by the operations of the worm, which, in many instances, has already shortened the estimated yield Q third to one-half
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 Beg@ There is not a civilized nation on the face of the earth that would not joyfully accept the Southern States as a part of its dominions and grant them equal rights with their own people, nor one that would not feel its strength and power doubled by tLe acquisition. Their immense and fertile torritory, the grand and wonderful heroism off