Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-05
NEWS ITEMS.

- The Secretary or the Ireasur. has suspended the sales of Governmen gold, and the probability is that the, will not be resumed until after the pay ment of the interest on the five-twen tics, which fall due in November.
 The London Times thinks Sew ard is delighted to have new Foreign Secretary to wrcstle with. It says h' resembles lawyer who desires to pro long litigation rather than obtain judg ment. The Times is amused at tho calmness with which he alludes to wal as "local disturbance.
 President Jaurez has issued all order repeating the general edict oi confscation against the property ofthe Imperialists. He has, however, con. fiscated and sold at public auction the finest printing establishment in Mexi. co, that of Senors Andrade by Esca- lante, in the capital.
 The Mobile register, of the 23d, ult., says: We understand, from cot ton factor who has just returned from an extensive tour through this State and Mississippi, that the prospects for crop are much better than was antic- ipated some three or four weeks back. If the warm, dry weather continues, the worms will entirely disappear.
 
 - Maximilian's body has not left Queretaro. His remains have been most shamefslly treated. The coffin was placed in filthy, dark bodega, and all who desired had free access. The glass cover was broken, his beard and hair cut of and sold, as we'll as pieces of his blood-covered garments, and no one would recognize in the contents of the coffin the body of the murdered Maximilian.
 John W. Murdaugh, of Ports- mouth, Virginia, and George A. Der chert, of Savannah, Ga, ex-officers of the Confederate Navy, commissioned by President Gutierrez to go to Car thagenia and investigate some rob berries committed upon tho steamer Rayo, were killed by the populace. Thos. L. Dornin, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Phillip Smith, of Fairfax county, Virginia, were wounded. All of them were at tho time in the Granadian ser- vice. Up to the 18th ult., no arrests were made, and no one dared to speak of the affair. The dead bodies were stripped of everything valuable. The dispatches and letters of protection they bore were delivered next day to the President of the State sll bespat- tered with their blood.
 -Dr. Luko P. Blackburn deemins himself safe under the recent amnesty proclamation, took the necessary oath before the United States Consul at Toronto, forwarded it to Washington, and reached Louisville to the general joy of his friends on the 25th ult. We regret to say he was little too quick in his movements, as on that very day the Secretary of the State officially de- nounced him to the President as de- testable felon, and his oath was order ed to be returned to him. All this per secution of hightoned gentleman arises from a foolish and malicious charge that he had engaged with the Confcderacy to infest the ''loil' states with yellow fever during the war.
 Secretary McCulloch has issued an order forbidding clerks in the treas- ury department furnishing information to persons connected with the public press, unless by permission of the sec etary or his assistants. A violation of the rules subjects the offender to dismissal.
 - Mexican advices say Vice-Ad mirsl Tegehoff is determined to return 10 Austria whether he receives the re- mains of Maximilian or not. Efforts are being made by him to secure the liberty of Father Fisher. Maximilians's confessor. The father was authorized by Maximilian to publish all cores pondence with Napoleon. Bozinc, it it is said, recently refused 100000 francs, offered by French officer, for the documents. It is considered more than probable that Marquez is still con- cealed in the city of Mexico.
 Parfiero Diaz has accepted the nom- ination for the presidency, and his ad- herents were organizing for the cam paign.
 Princess Salm Salm is still living at Queenstown, where her husband is