Des Arc citizen., 1866-08-18
NEWS ITEMS.


 Mrs. FLoR1DE CALHOUN, widow of JNo c. CALHOUN, died July 26th, at Pendleton, s C., aged 75.
 - The small pox is raging violently at Pensacola. Bishop Quinlan, with sev- eral Priests and number of Sisters of Charity, have gone over there from Mo- bile
 - The Johnson Convention at Phil adelphia excitcs 8 great deal of alarm in the breasts of our Hoy al" brethren. And nobody need wonder thereat. Radicalism is 'not only DOOMED but DAMED. "-Ea.
 - The Indians on the borders of Kansas are on the war path, robbing and outraging the settlers in the most horrible manner. Troops have been sent to the protectiea of the settlers.
 - Gen. Hindman, in retort upon Henry s. Foote, says: "fIis own are the only hands vile enough to end his exist ence, and the maw of the carrion crow is his natural place of sepulture"
 
 - The Richmond Board of Trade re- cently raised, by subscription, a sum of money necessary to procure for Mr. Davis a comfortable chair. It will be purchased and forwarded to the distinguished gentle man at once
 \ Philadelphia barber named Hull has had his wife arrested for conspiring with some negroes to murder him. Mon ey was the object He had $3,000, and the negroes were to get $500 for putting him out of the way. But he wouldn't be put
 The latest style of bonnet is a large variegated butterfly. It is worn fas tened to white string carried around the head and fastened below the chin with a breast pin The hair, waterfall and side combs make hp the remaining finish of the head.
 - The Richmond Whig of the 2nd inst, says that General Tery's order pro- hibitine volunteer colored companies from organizing and drilling, has removed se rious cause for alarm throughout Vir- gihia
 ----- The Augusta Constitutionalstsays of the statement ia the Boutwell, report, that Mir c. c. Clay's ayerment, that he was not in Canada at the time of Lincoln's assassination. lis shown to be false hood;7 that hundreds of respectable citi- zens of Augusta will swear that Mir. Clay was in that town at the time specified. E1 uno disce onnes.
 - A young man lately called on a couple of ladies in Chicago, who, not liking his company, invited him to leave. This he declined to do, when one of then caught him around the neck in loving embrace, pulled his head in the direction of the floor aud got him into the exact position a schoolmaster would desire to get a refrac- tory boy, while the ether piled cane with vigor until he was willing to leave the premises
 NEGIfo RIoT AT HELENA The off, cers of the Molle Hambletou report that as they passed Helena, Arkansas, Tuesday evening, the 56th United States Colored Infantry, which was there awaiting trans portation to St. Louis, and thence to the Plains, had taken possession of the town and were firing indiscriminately upon the whites They swore they intended burn ing the place, and that they would kill eve ry white person there. One citizen named Galbrcth was fatally wounded. The cx- citement was intense, and the citizens were fleeing to the woods for safety.
 The National hatcll'gencer, thus notices the adjournment of Congress and dispersion of the members:
 This Congress will ever be most eonspIc- uouslv infamous in the category of the worst organizations having governmental functions that have dishonered and shamed enlightened society in all the worlds his tory. Its dispersion from the Capitol to widely separated and remote localities IS welcome relief to apprehensions arising from the bodily presence of concentrated mischief, such as in the material world