Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-04-13
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 The Aueussse eos.) ) Chronicle and Sentinel estimates the number of the disfranchised elassss In that State at STA
 The late Confederate secretary of state, Gen. Toombs, wac in attend ance upon the superior court at War renton, Ga, on the 9d inst.
 "A southetn paper says "New England fears an Alabama cotton min more than she fearsd oil the regiments that Alabama sent to the field during the war.
 "A loan asked for by Pennsylva- nia for S230, ,000,000 was all taken on Monday. ~Ffve per cenf. bonds were taken at par, and six per cent. bonds at E per cent. premium. z | - The Dem mocrats of Chicago have nominated Francis 0. Sherman for Mayor; and in . series of resolutions thank the Democracy of Connecticut for starting the ball in motion, which is to crush out Jacobinism. g
 "A clerk named Joy, at Ellson's dry goods store in Memphis. received severe cowhiding on the 3d inst, by a gentleman whose sister Joy had in- suited, The affair rcrcated great excite mcnt. s4sr ,f,ssi 1, ls--t 'f.'-
 - A great revival, recently took place in the county of Sterling, Scot land, in the region of the iron and coal mines, originating, 1t is said, in the open air preaching of one or two Evnagelists from Glasgow. The meet ings have been conducted by fishermen of various denominations. s.ss 4i
 It will give some idea of the enormous taxes levied by the United States governmentto state that the sim gle town of Danvillc, Va, pays, we un- derstand, tax of THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on the manufacture of tobacco the tax being forty cents per pound.
 "A Washington special says that Seward has telegraphed to Minister Campbell to send message to Juarez urging that all possible lcniency be shown Maximillian in case the Liberals capture him, and Campbellrcplied that his request hadebeen complied with.
 It was Doddridgc who said that the d-dest scounclrcls turn States evil dence. The aphorism is verified by the testimony of Butler and Bingham given against each other and their co-murder- CTS and conspirators, in. the House of Representatives.-St. Louis Times.
 -Ih England doubts are still ex-- pressed as to the truth of the reports of the death of Dr. Livingstone, the Afri- can explorer. The London papers contain letters from several persons who think the report untrue, and the English Government is said to have re- ceived dispatches from Zanzibar, stat ing that the Arab merchants there dis believe the report.
 The New York Commercial says that there are one hundred and forty nine correspondents of provincial journals" One of the numbcr--a lady who occupies an eminent position in the literary worlds the correspond ent ofno less than twenty newspapers, the financial return amounting to about $50 per week. Her letters are mostly duplicated.
 -The New York Evening Gazette says that in many families this season dancing has been discarded. In its place more elegant and intellectual di- versions have been given, and with great success. Fine readings and reel tations, ending in some cases with fine suppers, the whole entertainment be- ing over by midnight, have been the novelty.
 -The question of Gen. Sheridan's power to remove State and municipal officers, and to appoint civilians in- stead of military men in their place, under the Reconstruction act. has been formally discussed by the Cabinet. Itl is considered quite certain that there will be no interference on the part of the Administration. The Reconstruc- tion law will probably be first inaugu- rated in Virginia.
 The Southern blacks are giving their Northern cmancipators much trouble already. The Radicals begin to be alarmed at the prospective use the blacks will be apt to make of their political power. Already the idea is thrown out that the blacks will be used effectually to repudiate the National debt. Why not? It is just as illegal as it was to finally abolish slavery.
 -Paris correspondents write that that city is at present flooded with Commissioners to the Exposition" from the United States. They come by hundreds, the greater part of them bearing commissions issued by the State Governors. France, it is said. will only recognize the forty. whose are made from Washing ton. so that the others will have to do without official positions.
 -The Hon. Louis E. Parsons, sem ator elect from Alabama, commenting on the course of the late semi-radical meeting at Montgomery, thus express es his opinion: , m
 "Why should our people hasten to make this monstrous act of congression- al usurpation their act, before its con- stitutionality has been passed upon ?- If we adopt it, it becomes ours, and from that moment we preclude our selves"
 - It is stated by good authority that as many as 25,00O negroes have left the Carolinas and. Georgia, going to the West. So great has been the loss that steps have been taken 10 arrest, in some places, the tide of emigration.- In Charlotte, North Carolina, a society has been formed by the freedmen to discourage their race from leaving their former masters, and the lands with the tillage of which they have become fa- miliar.
 -Vera Cruz is in state of siege, 1900 men, with five pieces of artillery, are inside. Provisions are high, but no blockade from the sea side. Outside of the city arc 5000 men and four small