II M.ArrERs AND THINGS IN GENERAL.
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"A public meeting was held at Fayette- vile, on the 8th inst, to express the opinion of the people in relation to the propriety of making immediate application for the ad- mission of Arkansas into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. The meeting was unusually largs, and resola- tons were passed in fdpor of .State Go9elqs- ment, WITHOUT 4 SINGLE DIS-s SENTING VOICE. .''-.4rk Gas.

 Missouri The election for members. of the next Congress took place on the Sd inst. In nCape Girardeau county, (the only one from which we have seen returns,( the vote stood as follows A. G. Harrison 505, ". H. Ashley 4s2, G. F. Strother 4o2, J. II. Birch 2a9.--i6,

 Pensacola, as we had been. expecting to see, begins to agitate the question whether she also, lying as she does with her superb harbor between New Orleans and Mobile, rfiay not contend with those rival cities for the great and golden prize of the trade of the Mississippi valley.-The more the competition the better, and we think it will result in this; that d great rail road will cer- tainly be constructed across tRe cotton re- zion of the States of Tennessee, Missis- sippi,. Louisiana; Alabama and Georgia, 10 some point on the Atlantic, in the Gulf. Mexico or north of Cape Florida. It is d work that must be done.

 By letter in the Vermont Chronicle, from one of the American Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, we learn that there are two nea1spapersp published there. The natives however, feel little or no interest in them.

 The oldest woman in the world is now exhibiting at the Masonic Hall, Philadel- phia. She is one hundred and sirty-one yeals 9 age.

 .Not Bad.-The following toasts are from Virginia:

 By Student. The People: Who are the PeopIel-The newly imported banditti, who flock to plunder like yultures 10 car cass?

 By Joseph B. Lindsley. Virginia She was found in the uon struggling for liberty --she will be found in the rear in the strug- gle for Van.

 The United States Bank have declared semiannual dividend ofthree and half per cent,

 The Lynchburg Virginian of the 2d ut. contains quite lengthy description of the destructive storm with which that section of thecountry was recently visited. The entire strip of.country which was within the track ofthe sform--supposed 10 be mile and half in width, and probably from fifty tossixty miles in length exhibits a most distressing scene. of desolation and ruin. In Lynchburg it IS supposed that not less than 20, 900 panes of glass were shattered, and the damage done IS estimated at more than S100,000.

 MT. Latrobe. who travelled with Wash ingfon Irving over the praries, has publish ed his tour. It is highly spoken of.

 A young lady of New York lately recov- cred $500 in an action of breach of prom ise. 1t was proved that the gentleman had gallanted her twice ffon camp-meeting tent to the altar, picked up her handkerchief three times, gave her a kiss Ia sugar one, and called her Mary, instead of Miss Mary Tubbs. Have care ye camp-meeting eallaDts.