Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-12-14

struction," us it is called, is most gross and flagrJnt usurpatidn.
 -Thc Senate on Friday confirmed I the nomination O. John :. Waldron as ! Treasurer ofitlIe branch mint Ut New i Orleans.
 Girls are seized in tue streets of l Utica. New York, and their long, beau | tiiul tresses cut or for surrcptitious 1 sale.
 -Brig. General Reynolds, com mandant at Austin. Texas, has issued | an address preparatory to turning civ iEaE prisoners over to the State courts ! for trial.
 i --The list of counterfeitofs par doncd by the President will be pre- ! scntrd Ito the Senate in Il few days. IL embraces only about thirty-tive names.
 --l'lrcrc is proposition before the i Louisville city council to license exporting houses of every fdcscrip- ! ton Tho pasSes, tic Courier says, 1 seem lU .aNo. Il.
 - Ya...,n ', ,s!.an's friends claim l that he is gainin@ in iha race for the 1 Senatorship every heur. while Thur man friends t!iinl. d;Aslcntly.
 ---Genoral Grants order assigning Brevet Major General Buchanan 10 command ti.e s,h-disirfct of Louisiana is suspended wuil further orders.
 ----The Senate of Tennessee has postponed, until the 10th of January the bill comforting on negroes the right of holding office and sitting on jurics.
 "A letter from Madrid, received in New York, says that the Spanish Cabinet are considering tlrc cesson ot Cuba To the United States for S200,- 0e0;@00.
 - More money was made from the wheat sowed last year in Marshall the empire county ci Mississippi, than from the cotton, though the latter was a better crop than in most parts of the State.
 It is said that General John NJ. 1 Palmer, who will probably be the Re- pmbican candidate for Governor of 1 Illinois, will go into the canvass pre- ! pared to stump the State in favor of negro suffrage.
 One of the largest claims now before Congress is that of an Indiana firm, for hay purchased for the Gov ernment, but destroyed by John Nor gan, on the way down the Ohio river
 Among the possible successors to Plus TX. is the Cardinal Andrea, a man who espoused the cause of the Italian Government in it's late Roman complications, and was therefore de- prived of his office and emoluments by Plus K. He is now living at Naples on pension from the Italian Govern- ment and is the recognized candidate of that power for the Pontillcate.
 There Is Gnitc sirlit in Nashville ! in the radical party, Secretary Fletcher being at the Lead of the opposition fac tion. That iunctionary has called a 1 Convention 10 appoint a Radical Gen. ti'ai Committee in opposition to the one already appointed. There is good deal of bitterness manifested by the op- posing clique.
 -Within the Metropolitan district of London, there are twenty-one cem- eteries, comprising 5T7 acres of ground. In these cemeteries there have already been about halfa million interments, and at least 10000 are added to ticm every year. They are drained into the '. sewers, but in some cases the drainage is empticd into the Thames. -The New Orleans Republican of Friday, commenting on Gen. llancock's negro jury order, says: We think it is about tmete inlpcach Andrew John son. We also think it is about time for the political organizations, known us the Republican party and the Grand Army of the Republic, to be on the alert. Their ballots will soon be need ed very badly.
 "A London correspondent states that it is impossible for the London 1 Times 10 become il penny paper, for ti- mancial if for no other reason. We be- lieve that every sheet of the paper on which it is printed costs one penny wand a third. and in every number there are two sheets, one being entirely filled with advertisements. The paper of the Timcs office is all made of linen rags.
 ----- An important resolution WAS of ierrcd in the House of Representatives, Friday, by Mir. Hooper, ot Massachu- sets, declaring that the amount Of in- ternal taxation should not exceed S300.000.0oa; instructing the Ways and Means Committee to report such re- vision ofthc laws as will yield no more than that amount: aud directing the Appropriation Committee to limit esti- mates in bills reported. including inter- est on the public debt. strictly within the same figure. That would leave the entire amount of the customs revenue to be applied 10 the extinction of the public debt