Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-07-10


ample is worth score Of definitions ana
The following example all will allow to he
a good one. The anecdote is given IN 81.
Pierre's Studies Of Nature.
In the last war in Germany, captain OF
the cavalry was ordered out on torag'ng
party. He put himself at the head OF his
troops, and marched TO the quarter assign
ed him. 1t was solitary valley in which
hardly any thing but woods could be seem
In the mids' stood little cottage ION per-
ceiving it he went up and knocked at the
door-out comes an ancient Hernou'en,
with beard ,silvered by age. Father
(says the officer show me field where
can set my troops toraging. present
ly," replied the Hernouten.
The good old man walked before, and
conducted them out of the valley. After a
quarter of an hours march, they found
fine field Of barley =" there is the very
thing we want" says the captain. "Have
patience for a few minutes" replied his
guide, "and you shall be satisfied. They
went On, and at the distance of about a
quarter OF league farther they arrived at
another field Of barley. The troops imme-
diateIy dismounted, cut down the grain,
trussed it up, and remounted. The officer,
upon this, says to his conductor. " Father,
you have given yourself and US unnecessa-
ry trouble-the first field was much better
than this" "Very true, sir" replied the
good old man, I" but it is not mine"
Such an example Of honesty. lrepeat, is
worth score of definitions. Here we have
not an abstract notion Of honesty, but we
see it as it were embodied. Here we be.
hold the express form and visage of genuine
christian honesty, acting on the principle
OF loving ones neighbor as ones self. And
what though the eXemplar was an obscure
and lowly man, distinguished neither for
parts nor learning? In the moral frame OF
his mind there was a nobleness far supe-
rior to eminent natural parts, which belong
alike to the best and the worst OF human
beings.
LETTERS FROM LOUISIANA.
From gentleman nozU IN that country 10 has
friend IN the piliage Of Springfield, Mas
sachusetfs.
My Dear Sr,
The public buildings in the city of New
Orleans, with but one or two exceptions,
are indeed very POOR, and scarcely worth
noticing. as you pass them in the street,
much less to trouble you with description
OF them.---Contrasted with the public
buildings in Boston or New-York, they
bear no comparison whatever. The Thea
tire, which was nearly destroyed by fire,
shor: time since, is again rebuilding with
considerable additions, and when finished,
will be nearly as large, | should imagine,
as the New-York The atre. 1t viii be
fine, large, spacious building, built entire
ly with brick. Adjoining to this is the
Newt Orleans Hall, OF as it is more gene
rally called, the "Orleans Ballroom"
which appears but indifferently as you pass
it in the street, being built CT wood and but
two stories nigh. The inside OF 1t, howe
yer, upon the second story, - all IN one
large, spacious room, about 80 feet long,
should think, and about 40 feet wide, eie-
ganty painted and ornamenied and hight
ed with about 25 or 80 large beautiful
chandeliers, which make every thing ap-
pear to great advantage. 1t is, however,
private properly, and owned at present by
an American gentleman. Here are held
what are called the CoNDE BALLS, to which
apy person of decent appearance can be
admitted. as at the theatre, by paying h's
dollar at the door for ticket. Sometimes
on particular occasions, the price IS two
dollars. which was the case when curiosity
that most expensive and troublesome III
gredient ofour natures, among many others,
directed me thither. 1t was the evening OF
Washing.on's birth day-of course, every
thing was fitted up in superior style was
much delighted with ii, and for lew hours
thought was about TO 'shudle OF this NOR
tai coil" to inhabit region of fairy land.
Blu, however. Notwithstanding all lis daz'
zl,nr splepdor OF elegance and beauty,
If. :. .ho,t ton o'clock. and went home 10
my lodgings with one of old solomon's de,
clarations in my mouth, call is vanity and
vexa,ion of spirit" The city contains no
other buildings either public or private