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We are authorized fo announce Row LAND HOWELL, Esq. as a candidate for the Legislative Council, from Jackson county. THE PRE-EMPTIoN LAW-AGAIN.

 Inonr former remarks upon this sub- 5ect, we were disposed to believe, that we had satisfied even Col. Sevier's most clamorous adherenis, that the late Pre- enptien law, was not measure of his ozcn origiaation, and that therefore, he 1uas not entitled to tue least credit for its pas sage. But 1t would seem, from the com plexion ofan Editorial article in the last weeks Gazette, that the Editor. sIto Keep z;p taae iasd tiiat tiiiatt iie was the .father of said law, has been compelled to resort 10 his old practice of deception. The proof, letters, &c. that Mir. Woodruff talks of and produces, to the contrary notwithstanding, we again distinctly re- peat, that so far from Coi. Seyicr's being the 'slather and originator" of this law. he had no more to do or say in its pas sage than we had, who at the time were in Arkansas. This law, in the first place. was draugiited and introduced in the House of Representatives, by Mir. Clay. q member of Congress from Alabama, and having failed of success in that House, it was afterwards introduced in the Senate, by Mr. Mckinley, from the same State, when it finally passed both Houses of Congress, and became law. Another fact in relation to this matter ls, that Congress was nefnoriaiised by the Legislature of this Territory, on hiS pery subject, which may be seen by q re- ference to the Journals of that body.-- If Arkansas had ony hand at all in the passage of this law, (wt.ich IS neither. more nor less than an s4la5anpa apeasurc,l credit is due to the Members of our e. gslature, and not to the Delegate, NIr. Eeyier.

 It is not our wish to detract from the merits of our Delegate, but when efforts are made by his friends to deceipe the people, we feel it our duty to correct and paralyze them f possible.

 The Steamboat Laurel, from the Mouth of White river, arrived here on Thursday last and departed for Fort Smith, on the Saturday morning follow 1ne