The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-11


 aIkrFEes AND THINGS n t;s.NEIs L. .alabana.--The following persons, who arc all in favor Judge White for President. have been elected 10 Congress from this State te;--Reuhen Chapman. Joshua L.. Martin. Joab Iawler. Francis S. Lyon, Dixon H. Lewis.
 North Carolina. @-Messrs. Deberry and speight have been reelected to Congress-, and Df. William Montgomery, of Orange county, has been elected over Gen. Bar ringer. The returns for the legislature, as far as received, show 57 for White and 45 for Van Buren.
 Col. Capnon's majority over Gen. Car roll fot Governor. in 56 counties. Is 1000. The four counties 10 be heard from will no doubt increase the majority.
 MT. Huntsman's majority over Col. Crockett for member Of Congress from the l2th district is 265.
 The subscription books of the Hartford and New Haven Rail Road continued open three days. The amount of stock, taken during that lime, was about six millions of dollars-being an excess of five millions.
 A FEMALE HdRsE THIEF.-A person by the name of Charles iSte.raaf, was con- vieted in the Court of Sessions. New York city, on Friday. on q charge of stealing 3 horse. After the conviction, says the Mer- cantiie Advertiser, the prisoner informed the counsel that she was woman, and on investigation it was found that her declara- ton was true. She stated that she was native of the Highlands of Scotland, and that she had resided on Long Island for the last four years in the garb of a man.
 Rhode Islaad Journal.
 The New Orleans Courier. of the 1Ith inst. says, "Col. s. A. Austin, of Texas, has arrived in this city. in eleven days from Vera Cruz.n
 The widow of the celebrated Capt. Cooke. died at Clapham, near London, on the 18th May, in the 94th year of her age, the 54th of her widowhood. and the 42d after the death of her last remaining of six children. Capt. Cooke was killed at Owyhee in l78O In the ordinary memoir of Mrs. Cooke, it is stated that the King of 0wyhee, who vis- lied England some years back, presented his surgeon with an arrow made of the leg bone of tbe great navigator.
 Public .Laads.--Within the last ten years, 723 333o. .e17 acrea of land have been purchased by the United States govefn- merlt from different Indian tribes. At SI, 9 per acre, these lands arc worth more than S9o, o,ooo,o ,ooo.
 During the last two years, the banking capital of the United States has been in- creased one half. h the Jackson States, it has been increased twice as much as in the Whig States. At this rate how long will 1t be before we shall have the purely metallic currency promised us by Jackson, Benton, and the Globe?-Lou. Jour.
 4 letter directed to lady in New Bruns- wick, and which was lying on table in a house destroyed bythe recent tornado, was picked up the next day in garden in the rear of q gentlen1an's house at Jamaica Long Island. He had the curiosity to pro- eeed immediately to New Brunswick, and there ascertained the circumstance already mentioned. The distance between the two places is about seventy miles.
 RoBBERY.-The trunks of four passen- gers were lately abstracted from the stage between Nashville and Florence. near Mount Pleasant, in Maury county. They were silently cut from the boot while the stage was in progress.-.National Runner.
 Among the many wagons conveying mov- CTS to the west, which daily pass through this town, was one on Tuesday attended by thirty-tiye persons, twenty-six of whom were upon |; ; the others followed on foot. They were five families from the western shore of Maryland, who had united in chartering single wagon, the upper loading of which was bedding piled to the height of l2 feet from the ground, on top of which 26 women and children were perched. On tho next day, four families, containing 20 persons, with single wagon, followed from the same neighborhood. d.-Whceling GaSetts.
 Ne learn (savs the .N;orfoM He,,ald) that WILLIAM GwYNN JoNEs, who was lately committed to jail for robbing the Baltimore Post Office, has been released from prison, on giving bail Tn the sum of S6o00 to appear at his trial.
 Mob law continues to be the order of inc day. There was a considerable riot in