The Arkansas advocate., 1835-05-01

1 The Branches of hesstate Bank of h. diana, at Indianapolis, Madison, Lawrence burg, and Richmond, have been selected by the Secretary of the Treasury as deposi- tories of the public money.
 Cons.-Why is a postilion, driving pack horses, the most likely person to give Lee lures on Phrenoloeyl Because he Calls and Spurzheim.
 Why is oak the worst wood to make wooden leg? Because 1t produces a corn.
 Boston Transcript. 1 .an aback t-Major Barry, it seems, is not to go out of the post office department until its affairs are all in a safe and sound condition. Van Buren is loo'd again. He abandoned Barry in the hopes of getting ii..i ii..i i ReaftlsIoy, but, failing in that, agreed to take Kendall, in order more fully to com init the kitchen 10 his desinies. Now il seems he must put up with Barry.
 .Make your mark.-No less than 3l ,99s persons have signed a memorial 10 the Pennsylvania Legislature, urging the abol- ishment of public schools. No wonder that state goes with the Albany regency. iSirtg- SIG of the above not being able to write made their mark.
 Earl Nelson, brother of the hero of Ira falgar, was by the last accounts dangerous ly i'll.
 A substitute for ineigo, and for which Ma poleon offered a million of francs, has, it is said, been discovered in England. A com pany, on the strength of 1t, has been form ed, called ''The substitute for indigo Brit ish Company
 50,000 acres of settled land in Tiirginia are advertised to be sold at London.
 From Vera C,uz.-A letter from Vera Cruz, of the 8th March, states that the soldiers in the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa had declared against the government the day previous. They fired about POO shot in the city. An American soop of war ar lived off Sacrificios on the 7th. The only vessel in the port was the ship Mexican, to sail for this port in few days.
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 Charles l.. Coltnan, member of the common counil of Washington City, is ar raigned before that body for suborna:ion in the late atroeious conspiracy against Mir. Poindexter.
 The following, we should say, is "full team," though we have some faint recollec- ton of ideas not utterly dissimiar expres. sed by some bar-room orators on this side the water:
 Election Eloquence.- address of Corew 0'Grady to the country of Cork hogs all competition to pieces. He says, "I told the electors of Limerick that there was a pennmbra of independence in the county of Cork which was not then able to lisp freedom on it's tongue" s'This is no epoch at which men should be steady, when we see our winter fields irrigated with human blood, and top-dressed with human brains.n s'If you return any ex- cept an unconditional Repeater, you send a walking monument of Repeal extinction, and carve on 1t this cription-Ht jaeetn l We have heard of the water freezing "down east" as 1t issued from the tea-ket- ties, but this is not primi,9 to the follow ing from the west:
 The Illinois Gazette and Jacksonville i News says :-One of the drivers from Pe- oria to Springfield had one of his eyes fro- zen out. This was caused by wearing a mask with eyelet holes, by which the action of the wind was concentrated on the eye, and destroyed it's power of yision." 1 The last accounts from Persia, via Erze- roum, state that Prince Mohammed has as- cended the throne-not only as the declar- ed successor of his grandfather, but chiefly through the kind and all-powerful offices of Russia and England.
 Don Miguel is living at the Palazzo Ma rescotti. at Rome, and through he frequent l ly appears in the ceremonials of the church, his habits, it IS asserted, are not of the most sancti6ed character.
 THE FIGURE HEAD.-We have 1t in our power to state, says the New-Y orl1 Com mercial of Saturday evening, .sthat anoth- CT Figure Head of .4adreao Jackson, has been secretly carved in this city, and is to be placed upon the bow of the Constitution frigate, in the course of this day and the gallant frigate, disgraced by the idol, Is to put to sea at daylight tomorrow morning. We lament the spirit of man-worship which could place the statue of any living man on the bows of national ship. But since the image is to goup, nolens uolens, we only regret that the work could not have been done again in Boston," So do moi we.
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