The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-19
Some intelligence from our neeocia.

SClle Intculge1ce from our nenOclas tons with Great Britain is expected in q short time; whatever this may De, fa- yorable or otherwise, will require so,ne- thlng to be done by Congress before the adIoufaaieat. The Prcsldentis in much better heaIth, slaasi lslt has bssess tft,i s eral years past. It is probable the Bill contemplating the establishment of q na- tiehal road from this place to New Or leans, will not be finally acted on at the. present session.
 The late act of the President in promptly striking from the rolls of the Navy some young offers who were con- cerned in duel with citizen in which the latter lost luis fife, is worthy of high. eommendation, and meets with the ap- probation and applause ofhis worst ene- mics.
 The House of Representatives have assigned Wednesday IIth inst. 10 hear Judge Peck of Missouri in opposition 10 the report of the Judiciary eonasaittee recommending to the House an I1l- Peachment against him; of the nature of this case know nothing--therefore can form no opinion of tine result.
 iolpr7soatnaent for debt.-A writer has made all energetic appeal to the Legls- lature of Pennsylvania, to induce that body to abolish imprisonment for debt. lie has presented the following cogent faets-
 most astounding and revolting fact has been just presented to the pub- lie by the indefatigable agentof the Bos- ton Prison Discipline Society, lone of the most philanthfopiu ard beneficert societies i'll the eountry,) respecting the state of imprisonment for debt in the ci. ty of New ! ork. IL appears,
 :" On the authority of Mir. Rowen. keeperof thedebtor's apartment in that city, that the number of cases of inpris- onment for debt] during the year 1898. was 1885! The debts together amount ed to S25s409, the damages to S362, 076!!! The amount paid in jail, ,S2o5! which bears to the amount of actual ldebt, the proportion of l 10 l3l3!!-- Fourth Report ?. r.
 <" Probably among the variety Of a. buse attendant on, and inseperable from, l loivii authority, u more iTiofsttfous or shocking fact cannot be produced one more at variance with our boasted civilization.
 "Tfe facts in this eonnexion in our Ieity are not quite SO reVolting--but they are sufficiently so to call for a radical remedy. It is too late in the present session to go into the general question. particularly when we consider the be- setting sin of legislative bodies in this Z Icountry, naaltiloqaocafy. But a short law oftwenty lines, aboiishing rnprison- ment for debts under five dollars, which might be passed in three days, without Interfering with the great State objects before your honorable bodies, wouldre- move some of tie most crying enormi- ties of our present system.
 The number of persons imprisoned in the debtors apartment in this city from June {, 1929, until Feb. II, 1850, was ST, of whom there were .3t whose deDfS were below dollar.
 233 above l and below dollars. : I74 above and below 10 dollars f 140 above 10 and below % dollars. -l l42 above 20 and below 100 dollars.
 95 above 100 dollars.
 
 : 8l7
 ss0f252 of those unfortunate people, the debts were s663, and the costs S448. l 0f64 the debts were $5s, and the costs
 Sl209' v. Q. paper. Capt. Robinson of the packet ship Charlemagne, states, he has brought f over with him three Osage Indians, who, with three others, were taken. 10 Trance
 about three yearssince, by q Frenchman, named Delaunay, whoexpected tomake money by publicly exhibiting then-
 The exhibition was prohibited by the police, and the Frenchman getting into |pecuniary difficulties, abandoned the h. : dians, who have since been roaming in Z great distress through Italy, Germany ,i