'a'EHAs. ADVOCATE.

LITTLE ROCK, JANUARY 2. Is8s.
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By gentleman, just arrived from Wash ingten city, weiearn that four companies of $. troops have, under tlte orders of fhe President, been removed from Old Point Comfort to Charleston, south-Car- olina, and that Gen. Gaines has been or aered to repair immediately to Charles ton, and take charge ofthe us. Arsenal. We further learn, that the President has. by proclamation, declared all the ports of fSoutll-Caroiina to be in state of block ade, and directed a sufficient naval force, to enforce the same.

 Such promptitude of aetion as is display ed by the President in the affairs of So,fth- Carolina, must merit and will receive the approbation of every lover of the Union.- Let the monster, nullification, be stran- gled in his birth, and the refractory spr- Its which have engendered him, be held up as demons of discord and ofdisappoint- ed ambition, whose just reward will be the contumely of every honest citizen and the yirtuous indignation of every patriot.

 We lay before enr readers the message of the President to the National Legisla- ture. It is short and pertinent, giving a brief but satisfactory expose of tlle nation al prosperity, and suggesting divers sub lects of legislation of vital importance to the peace and harmony of the Union. It is in fact m,tita,n i's fafso, and as such will be read with great atinterest by all our western citizens.

 The steam boat Little Rock, Rudd, as- rived on Wednesday from New-0rleans, discharged freight, and on Thursday morn ing departed for Fort Smith; out from the low stage of the water was unable to proceed more than 8 8 miles. She return ed on Friday morning, deposited her load ing, and departed for New Orleans.

 The steam atsry Clarkson master returned on Friday evening from Fort Nioson, and after short detention, con- tlnued on her way to the Mississippi.