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 ed early on the following morning, for the Mississippi.

 By the following communication, ad- dressed fo the Editor of this paper, 1t will he seen, that ere we have scarcely reached the sixth No. of our paper, we have been sadly complained of, not by subscriber, but by one who is called a 's smart nan." The complaint alluded to, is an unpardona- able neglect on our part, to serve up in our columns, suitable quantity of dnee- dotes, Robinson C1usoe tates, S1c. for the edi6cation and amusement of this smart span," aolo reads at fhe expense of others.

 As proof of his !" smagtaess,' he says, our paper is < filled with dry matter, such as foreign news, Congressional debates" 6c. This, we are constrained at once to admit, is an incontrovertable evidence of his superior | saartpesso and iatedeet.- Sure enough, why should such dry and use- less matter be admitted into the columns of 2 newspaper z-lt IS enough to crush 1t at once, in the estimation of every ( smart man." What paper to be filled with such dry stnf, as Congressional debates, and foreign news! It is ridiculous What does ( smart man'' care to know about what is going on, or doing in Europe, or even in the National Legislature of our own country Not fig!

 But to be serious-When we entered on the discharge of the duties incumbent up- on us as the Editor of the Advocate. we did

 not anticipate so soon to be complained of, nor were we so vain as to believe, that we possessed the happy talent to please euerg body-a talent which no Editor has ever 5 yet had the good fortune to possess. When we entered upon our duties as Editor, we promised, that all our time, and whatever . of talents we possessed, should be devoted to make the columns of the Advocate. use- ful and interesting, and so far as it has been in our power, we have strictly com piled with that pledge.

 Perhaps it would not be amiss to men, ton at this time, for the information of this ts snafR aaaa3a,'' that VIC have never figured in the Colleges of the East--on the con trary, we have been nurtured in the forests of ARKANSAS, and raised among her eommoners; and what little of ftalent we may possess, has been acquired by our own individual exertions, or in other words, we are self-taught altogether. Therefore should we be remiss in our duties, orshould not such judicious selections be made, as would pass the criticising eye of C smart maa," he must attribute 1t to our want of capacity.

 1t should be remembered that new pa- per labors under many disadvantages. It requires a considerable length of time, Especially in so remote part of the U- nited States as Arkansas,) to receive pa- pers in exchange, from almost every section of the Union, from which to make selections. It is therefore, not to be ex- pected, that paper, for the first ten or twelve numbers, will contain as great a variety of matter, as one which has been established for years.

 With these remarks we leave the sub- iect.