Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-28

the Mississippi present to the eye one
uniform and dresry waste, UNMARRIED BY
single vestise Of culture. without even an
Indian hut to enlighten the scene the an
nual overlooking Of the river having de-
,srred the hand of enterprise from plant
rg the standard Of civilization on its
hores. But the reign Of nature there, Is
alpos, at an end. This proud monarch
IF rivers has TOO long tyranized over the
fairest portion ofthe American continent
The art, rising in Their majesty to as
sert their rights. will ere long SLY to this
great western Nile. " thus lar shalt thou
20. but no further" Then shall its
shores, which seem now to be erstanPed
with law Of perpetual desoIatlon. TEEN
with the sons Of industry, the citizens OF
free government
This is not fiction Of fancy, but ratio
nal calculation, sounded upon the fairest
principles Of analogy. When De Scot'o
discovered the Mississippi he nis'sok 1t
tor q great inland lake, such was the u
surpation OF its waters Would he have
been persuaded that at this time, thai
immeasurabIe waste of inundatiOn could
lie transformed into a continued village
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, front
ed by delightful orange groves, and or
nament gardens bordering he margin OF
he water; and that by means of the
steam engine, that stupendous discovery
10 mechanical philosophy, the traveller
weuld be propelled at the rate OF four
miles an hour against this angry and over
whelming current, surrounded BY all the
rlegancies and lsxuries Of modern ho'
tel!
Sreing these things, can we be called
extravagant for induIgiug the anticipa-
ton, that in less than half century,
new source Of oppulerce will open upon
New-Orleans, by all the unapproP'iated
lands between it and the mouth OF the
Ohio being redeemed from inundatiop, q
mad e subser,ient to the purposes OF hus.
oandryl
The greatest extent of inland naviga.
ton known to the world, is between the
cities Of New. Orleans and New-York
there being but o. miles land carriage ID
that great northern route of near 1000
miles. This communication, thong at
present but little, il at all u.ed, was evl
IDENTITY intended to answer some wise
purpose, as nature never eIerts herself in
vain and may in the course Of human
events, become a chain Of social union,
and a high road Of commerce, between
Those remote sections Of COR vast and
growing republic
Lake Poncbartrain, approaching the
city on the west, and communicating
with it through canal into the Bayou
St. John although already important, will
assume a new character in relation to
New. Orleans when the F.oridas are
made component part Of the United
States.
With the most unparalleled endow-
ments, New.Orleans languishes under
all unwise administration. The last sum-
mer they were scourged by the Yellow
fever still no effort is made to pave the
:treets, or improve their cleanliness
when BY Disbursement Of 300, 900, wa.
ter might be conveyed to the door Of
every citizen.
Cadiz is little more remarkable for the
number of assassins who infest its cor
ners there has scarcely been night du-
ring six weeks | have been here, that one
or more murdered are thrown into the
ground, and there is not enough Of police
spirit to enquire their names ; or without
public justice once deisning to turn her
head to see who committed the outrage.
The hospital, a tolerable commOdious
building. an institution that might be ex
tensively useful, is the mS t melancholy
Iazar house ,hatever generated contsgion
a mere nursery for the g svc. The general
government, could they see their sailors
diving for the want of such an institution