Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-24
NEWS ITEMS.

five days of the week were S2,500,oo0.
 pag~The receipts from internal revenue last week were s3,744,4oo.
 BE- Peaches are abundant in the New York market at cent apiece
 s1s~One man in every seventeen in Paris lives upon public charity.
 Eor Gen. Sterling Price and son are still at French Lick Springs Indiana.
 --An Alexandria dispatch says the Manassas Gap railroad is tp be rebuilt.
 aA-The yellow fever continues its rava- ges at Galveston There were twenty -one burials Friday.
 Hag-Thc New Orleans press speaks very disparaginsly of the prospects of the cot ton crops in Louisiana.
 DA~ Empress Carlotta is in better spir- its, condition is slightly improved She knows that Maximilau is dead bu, fancies he died with fever.
 sA- Advices from Mexico annoance that the Mexican Government has refused to deliver the body of lNaximilian to the Aus trau Government. It is buried at the Cathedral at Queretaro.
 Alvin Flanders, the newly elect ed delegate to Congress from Washington territory, was once Q member of the Cali fornia Assembly, and was connected with the San Francisco Times.
 An English merchant of Matamo- ros has been informed by the authorities that he must consider himself Mexican, and subject to all liabilities of native citizens that only Americans are to be treated as foreigners
 The following is said to be the la, test style of visiting cards in fashionable circles: {" A plain card denotes passing call, lower right hand corner visit, lower left hand corner business, right hand up per corner condolence, left hand upper corner adieu." t
 - The Livingston (Alabama) Jour- nal regrets very much to learn that the army worm has made its appearance in several of the finest cotton growing neigh borhoods in Sumter county. As yet the number is too small to do much damage, but there is great fear that owing to the lateness of the crop, very material injury is likely to ensuc.
 --Monteomery Blair, in speech be. fore tho members of the Maryland Cousti- tutonal Convention. Friday, charged that Stanton suggested the clause in the Tenure of Office bill regarding Cabinet Ministers, to Williams, of Pennsylvania. its author in the House that afterward, in the Cab. inet, Stanton denounced the clause as treading on the rights of the Executive that the President then asked him to write the veto, and that duty was imposed upon Messrs. Seward and Stanton.
 S1-A Montreal correspondent says the story of Mr. Davis being hooted by the people of Stranstead is nature
 sE-Jadge Holt is granted leave of ab- sence until September 5th. It is reported that the Presidents order, transferring him to other duty, will be issued in the meantime.
 The New Orleaus Crescent regrets to learn that tho factors of that city are not in receipt of favorable intelligence concerning the prospects of the cotton crop.
 ---Dr. Frederick Berger, formerly of New Orleans, and q confederate surgeon during the war, but late druggist in Green wch street. committed suicide Thursday night on account of loss of property.
 Gen Pillow says he will make 200, ,000 bushels of corn this season.
 --Gen. Breckenridge has not advised the South to accept the situatiou,' as represented hy the Reconstruction bills 1; nor do we believe that he will do so s "A private letter from Arizona says that the hostile Indians in that Territory are worse than evor, being now constantly engaged in murderiue peaceful settlers snd .tfslirr r1;'lc