TO THE EDITOR.
DeaY- Str:-A few days since, heard gentleman say, on looking over your pa- per, that he found not a single anecdote in the whole of it, and observed, he did not like 1t, and said that all 1t contained was dry matter; such as foreign news, debates in Congress, &c. This gentleman, too, was thought to be smart man.

 wondered he did not prefer solid news, to trifing matter. Too often we find that men, like children, want something to please, or they cannot read. They never once consider the improvement of their minds, as any advantage to themselves or posterity. They content themselves with taking for granted, every thing they hear, as the truth, and never investigate any thing.

 But If the people would quit grog, and the places where it is kept, and the money they spend Tn that way. Appropriate to the purchase of the Advocate, or some other good paper, or books, and the time they spend idly at the grog-shops listening to fun, appropriate to reading, the country would soon become so enlightened, that 1t would be hard matter to impose on them Tn any shape.

 consider your paper as a new light of knowledge just arisen in Arkansas. know not how soon 1t may set--but hope never. 1t has already taken a formidable stand and solong as you pursue the course you have taken, and stick by the princi- pies you profess, you will be popular and useful.

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