Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-28
NEWS ITEMS.

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 The Radical majority in Penn I sylvania last,year on the Congrcssions
 ticket, which was the true test of part strength, was only ll,0o0. The Demo crats of thc State have strong hopes O ! carrying tho election.
 Official returns of the Main
 election, received at the office of tn Il Secretary of State, from one hundre,
 and forty towns, give Chamberlain 56, | 406, and Pillsbury 4,702; majority fo l Chamberlain, 11,70t .smsAsssasssh 3 | "A train on the Northwestern
 railroad, in the western part of Iowa
 was, on Saturday, delayed one houl and q quarter by grasshoppers, wlicl covered the track so thick that the en zine drivers slipped on the rail.
 -Dr. Belm has issued at Gotha the first ofa series of geographical an nuals. He estimates the population oi the globe at thirteen thousand and fifty millions, and gives apparently good reasons for his opinion.
 The St. Louis Democrat publish es letter intended to show that l Wilkes Booth is alive and that Presi- ] dent Johnson assisted him out of the country. Tbe attention of Stanton, Asl,ley, Holt,I Butler X Co. is invited to this.
 Among the last orders received at General Grants headquarters from General Griffin is one abolishing all distinction, on account of race or color, with passengers on railroads and steamboats.
 "A number of emigrants are pre- pairing to leave Bremen on the 1st of October for Charleston, and another vessel will follow in November or De- cember A proposition is on foot at Bremento establish line of steamers between that port and Charleston.
 "A tract of land owned by Joseph Jones, of Warren county, North Caro- lima, which cost forty thousand dollars before the war, was sold for five thou sand six hundred dollars by the United States Marshal last week It is situa- ted near Shoekoe spring. sNs
 An Omaha dispatch saysa won- derfully thick vein of gold has been discovered in Colorado, only five feet below the surface of the ground. There is great activity there in mining oper- .,4.s-4. -@- --sses- ssls.sse sss9rs- cious metals is expected to be very large.
 F s--At the dedieatiouof the Nation .al Cemetery at AAntictani, the other day. President Johnson made brief speech, in the course of which, refer ring to the Union and rebel dead, he exclaimed: "Would to God we, of the living, could initiate their example, as they lie sleeping in peace in their tombs," S
 Mi. Bernard Avegno, a New Orleans broker, the other day bought S265. .oe0 of eight per cent. Confederate bonds of 1861, and S3o0o00 of 1863, to fill an order from the North or from Europe; supposed to be for the same parties who advertised for such bonds in a Washington paper lately. It is supposed some spcculatiyopersons ex- pect 10 be able to realize on that kind ofpaper, in some way, as an offset in the settlement of the Alabama claims.
 A Richmond (Va, } dispatch of the 7th says: Yesterday negro named Howe, who had bought frst-class car through ticket north of Washington, was put of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Poto- mac cars near this city, having refused to ride in the negroes ear. He was about to sue the company, but to day it compromi- sed the matter by payiug him s2oo dam ages. This is the first case south where negroes have recovered damages in such cases.
 
 Wendell Phillips firmly believes that impeachment win follow immediately on the reassembling of Congress, and that President Johnson would not so persistently court such . course aif not prepared and determined to resist it. He believes McClellan's reported recall has something to do with it. The late amnesty he considers Unreasonable, and an effort to build up another rebellion, He favors neither Chase nor Sheridan but Thad. Stevens for President. \ 1.-The estimatednumber of hostile fIndians IS 22,000, underline sway of Red EClond, chief of the Upper Brute Sioux Red Cloud is reported to have said .swe don't want peace when we are al peace we are too poors now we ar' rich. The. Kiowas profess greai friendship for us, ard promise to urg' huponthc different southern tribes t'
 meet the peace commissioners at th' grand council in October
 N --At anieeiing ofthe Grand Lodg of Odd Fellows Of New YorA, Sept. ls the resolution for the admission of II 1 beneficiary members, was lost II wa
 resolved to revise the German transla If ton of the written work of the ordel land the matter was entfpsted to committee Representatives, consist ing of Muck of Wisconsin, Dietz z i Georgia, and Garry of Maryland resoluiirn against the abolition of tn degree of Rebekah, and providing fo : more thorough organization of tll