MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL.
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ed 10 learn, that this boat, which was snag- ged and sunk about 40 miles above Arkan- sas Post, on the l4th inst, has not broken aJs faco, as stated in our last on the authority of gentlemen who passed her since the ac- cdent, but who were misnformed with respect to the injury which she had sustain ted. When last heard from, efforts were making to raise her, which we hope will prove successful Gaz.

 The Legislature of Louisiana have pass ed an act prohibiting the licensing of Gambling Houses, as heretofore, and making gaming in every shape a penitentiary of fence, extending the imprisonment even to twenty years.

 Gen. CARROLL IS announced as candi- date for reelection as Governor of the State of Tennessee. Richard c. Dunlap, j. of Knox, and Perry ". Humphreys, of ] Montgomery, are his competitors.

 The Miami of the Lake, published at Perrysburg, Ohio, states that preparations are making to open a direct and unbroken route between Buffalo and Fort Wayne, by placing steamboat on Miami river, above the rapids. There will then be but Is miles of land carriage between Fort Wayne and l Buffalo. It will be great accommodation to emigtants. It is impracticable to run steamboat from Fort Wayne to the rapids.

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 The Legislature of Lower Canada, ad- journed rather unceremoneously worn out with perpetual contentious, and the bitter cold weather combined. The Quebec Mer- cury addresses the deserters after this wise =

 !" It may be we'll if some of the more re- fecting amongst their constituents, should cooiy ask the queston-'Well, gentlemen, what have you done ?''-the honest reply would be; we met-we talked-oh ye gods how we did talk-we did-what have we done confrere? Endame! nous avoals f,'ae oussi to pipe-Ah that is true We have talked and smoted-and thus has passed the FIRST session of the XY Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada" FRUIT TREEs.-Apple trees have been known to be thousand years old; and, if we calculate the fruit which such tree may be supposed to bear annually, we can but think with astonishment upon the pro- dgiors feeundity of single pippin which would be sufficient to furnish the whole of Europe with fruit of that kind.

 A man that used to get drunk, when he came home widowed about the floor, and said he paid rent for the house, and would 1 lie where he pleased. At last he fell into the fire, and the maid ran to her mistress and told her she could not get him out. 1"Let him alone,' said she, she pays rent for the house, and may lie where he pleases.n The Hon. Gabriel Moore, U. s. Senator 1 from Alabama, has addressed letter 10 his constituents. giving an exposition of his political faith and practice. He Is in favor l of the leading measures of the present ad- {mnistratlon, but denounces Van Buren in language the most contemptuous.

 "There cannot now be the least doubt that the American indemnity will be voted 1 by the Chamber, since the members of the Commission elected on Thursday 10 report on the question, are unanimous in it's favor. l The vote of the United States Senate, which subsequently arrived, must remove most of ] the objections raised by the hurt pride of the French agalnst the payment of the claims. Hence il IS probable that the treaty will pass without any paragraph throwing blame OH the Ministry. ."- Correspondent Q / the London Morning Chronicle.

 Ludicrous.--A writer in the Salem Land- mark, speaking of the impropriety of cler- gymen using tobacco, exclaims "what a splendid figure the apostle Paul would have made, had he gone about to proclaim the sublime truths of Christianity, acith quid of tobacco and c long aaiae an his moattlt!"

 The late Judge Dooly, of Georgia, was remarkable for his wit as we'll as his other talents. At one place where he attended court he was not well pleased with his er- tertainment at the tavern. On the first day of inc court, hog, under the name of pig, 1 had been cooked whole and laid on the ta- 1 ble. No person attacked 1t. It was brought the next day, and the next, and the next, and treated with the same respect; and 1t was on the table the day the court adjourned. As the party finished their din- her, Judge Dooly rose from the table and in a solemn manner addressed the Clerk "Mr. Clerk,n said he, ssdismiss that hog upon his recognizance until the first day of tho next court. He has attended so faith fully during the present term, that don't think 1t will be necessary to take security" Steanaiao a,s. Asid.-Calcutta journals