The Arkansas advocate., 1831-04-20

the Indian lands, opened the road 10 the l river, and laid off the village into town. The Indians are said to be highly exas peratcd, intend to apply to the General Government for redress, and declare that they will, in the meanwhile, destroy any buildings which the Alabamians may erect on the site of their village = Suchis the report, ard as such We give t. .1lifaeos Telegraph.
 Postoge.--As the question appears to be agitated in Congress, and in different parts of the Union, relative to the dis posal of the funds, when the National
 Debt IS discharged, why would it moi be good policy to relieve tine people of a heavy tax. by lessening the postage on letters and newspapers? Letter post age, although rated rather high, can still be endured; the major part of letters being, it is believed, received by men of. business, presumed able 10 encounter the expense. ltis the newspaper post age of which we most complain, and which we consider ought to be reduced at least ono half. It is more seriously felt Tn the country than in cities, and the
 whole burden eventually falls on the Printers. The prices of weekly country papers are established atfsco dollars per annum; but in orderto induce people to take the papers by mail, the publishers
 are compelled to reduce that paltry. sum oae qnrscr. We believe the pro- posed reduction might be made without materially affecting our national re- venue, and at the same time be the means of benefittingmany, whose useful- ness in society IS but too poorly recom- pensed-"l,ateligcnce is the life of Iiber- iy"--and the PRESS is undoubtedly it's greatestauxiliary. Every facility should, therefore, be offered for an extensive cir- culation of newspapers. [Plcbeen.
 It is the fashion all over the United States, to talk about tllc brevity of human life, the salubrity of this eli mate, &c. When we come to inquire, it will De found that there is as great an average longevity in this country per haps as in any other section of tile world.
 Tie lie ias ''iaiisit, offices il, the II. States make very small profit, calculating as the most of them do, or have done, up- on the English estimate Of the probable duration of human life. They have, it is likely, within the few last years, been acting upon different principle. Our! pension law, forty-sjx years after the re- volution, showed that one fifth of the whole army which fought in that reyo- lution, were living, though they had been exposed to the chances of a rapid diminution by poverty, exposure, and the bad habits acquired in camp. And when .sc ircoiiiicci. tilai many oi inc oi- iicers, from Various causes, did moi avail themselves of the law, we may safely ysay one-sixth of that gallant band survived. Out of 2C0,0G0 men, who first and last were under arms ii ii that contest, f ,600 applied for pensions. Noparticular in- stance of great longevity, in this State, occurs to us; but in Louisiana, although interspersed with sea-marsh, swanps, ponds, lagoons, and bayous, and subject to the periodical inundations of several lagc rivers, the average length of human life, particularly in the French parishes, isasgreat asin theva valleys of Switzerland. On Inc Techc, the La Fourche, and other streams, tls no utromraoD sirbt to sec grandfatl.ers, and sometimes great gFaDdsires, ningiing in tho same cotil-' lion with their childrep's children.
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