The Arkansas advocate., 1836-12-16

had no effect on the printed portion o the notes. It was also fully shown by the bank assayers that copper had this effect.
 If the high prices of pork prevent our having flesh, there IS at least reasonable prospect of plenty of fish, The eastern papers slate that the mackare has closed prosperousy, and that the vessels engaged in that business have lately brought in excellent cargoes This will be good news for cold water drinkers.
 The Baltimore Transcript says, "The carease of ihe Elephant lost from the Royal Tar is said to have been seen drifting l5 miles at sea-" The account published by us a short lime since, of his reaching the shore in safety turns out, then, to be untrue.
 The celebrated tarf horse EcIrsE has been brought to Kentucky, where he is to reman.i
 large alligator was lately captured in the Delaware river, near Kings point.
 The t. s. Mint IS about to issue 50 cent pieces of a new and beautiful coinage.
 The Erie Canal is being deepened and enlarged so as to admit vessels of l50 tons
 The territory of tho United States contains two and half millions of square miles, It is calculated that t capable of accommodating at least five hundred mil lions of inhabitants. We shall see. The editors of the New York Mirror pay for literary contributions engravings and music, the large sum of 15,o0o dollars annually! We should like to swap few of our subscribers for some of theirs.
 Messrs Stephens $ Co. of New Castle, are con structng locomotive for tho Emperor of Russia, the speed of which is warranted to be 60 miles an hour. 
 decree has been published at Warsaw, forbidling the Polish Jews to use Christian baptsinal names for their first names Tbe object is to bring them more completely under the surveillance of the police.
 land proprietor in Russia has presented 10 the Emperor Nicholas Amethyst found in Siberia, which weighs two hundred and eighty pounds.
 letter from English gentleman at Nineyeh, on the Tigris, communicates some particulars of the Turk ish army under Roschd Pasha in the subugaon of the Kurds. The Pasha mpaes all the Kurds who fall n- to his hands, while the Kurdian Chief burns alive all the prisoners he takes from the Pasha. This is what we call hot real 'sptting and roasting affair."
 
 The cholera is making dreadful ravages in the king dom of Hungary. In upper Hungary is as fatal as i'll 1881; but IS still worse below the Yhes, where aI- most the entire population of places has died of it In 1881, the great mortality was ascrbed to the wet nclement season--now, it is dry though coo and yet the disease is equally fatal
 The editor of an eastern paper spurrng up his de- nquent subscribers, says that he will take any kind of 'country produce' in payment except children.
 There is great 'pressure" in the pampkin market down east. The editors of the Boston Courier and the Portland Times are really to be ped Their lachry- mal seremiads on the scarcity of pie, (not pi,) are enough to melt the heart of turnip.
 Dr. llsly, of Patterson Maine, has discovered new cure for the tooth ache. Itis simply this Fill the mouth w''h cream, and then bump the head against wall till il turns to butter.