Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-06

"springing up, carried the cloud far away.
"and they had neither HAIL, nor RAIN"
When he had finished, ventured to remark
that there was no one so dull as not to perceive
the application. Every thing in nature pro-
claims thar there is no good, wholly unaccom-
panied with evil. Liberty cannot be obtained
without danger, nor wealth without exertion.
The lofty flights of the orator may be mistaken
for fustian, his most pungent Phillipics for
empty defamation, and his attic wit for carri-
cature and ribaldry: But the fear of these evils
ought not to restrain him from INDUCING every
flight Of imagination, or prevent him from at
tempting to gain the public applause, though,
by doing so, he may be exposed to an OCCASION
al failure. Wisdom consists in just compar-
ison OF the advantages and disadvantages of
whatever may be attempted, and obey ing the
suggestions OF truth, reason, and experience,
instead Of taking counsel from our fears, or
OF following the meteors Of sickly fancy.
You have my idea, exactly, said the squire;
and am ashamed ofhaving said so much to
one whose good sense and accurate conce ptions
enitle him rather 10 give than ask advice.
Delighted with the last observation, for who
so humble as not to be willing to think we'll Of
himself, we gave the squire parting shake by
the hand-and, as we left him, entered into a
mutual compact, whenever, "we should hear Of
the Senses Ftsderis, "En,angling Alliances"
"Cuba," "Etiquelte,' or the BLACK Population"
to remember Simon AND The CLOUD"
RUSTICUS.
Ertract of letter from Dr. Felr Robertson, to gen
tenlaa in Nashville, dated
7oWn of Victoria, LetlVich's Grant.-Dear Sir
We have pitched our tents at the mouth of
Little River, twenty miles from our lower line,
and have a beautiful bluff prairie on the west
side of the river, where we intend to locate
the Town Of Victoria, in honor Of our patriotic
President The bottom of the river from our
line to above this place lies entirely on the east
side, the west side only affordIng high, healthy
situations, on which the Farmers cultivaling
the bottom may reside. In many places good
springs run out Of these bluffs; but the circum-
stance Of there being bottom on but one side
Of the river lessons the quantity Of good land
and number Of settlements. Above this, Little
River spreads to the west to either six or eight
miles of the Colorado, and hunters tell me, al
ford: great deal OF good well.watered coun.
Try, with springs and mill seats. Little River
affords as much water as the Brazos, but is not
80 wide and has more current and worse rapids.
The water OF 1t is transparent when low, and
the mud Of it is like Cumberland river. The
Brazos is clear when low, and when full it is as
red as madden. The river here is about 1870
yards from the top Of one bank to the other,
but runs somewhat less water than the Cum
berland. The banks are nearly fifty feet high,
and yet ii occasionally overhows part of its
bottoms below the mouth Of Little River; above
tina, il is said not to get out fits banks but the
bottoms are narrower than below. From this
down the bottoms are from three to four miles
wide-above this from one to three miles. The
Little Brazos is small stream that runs down
the back part of the Brazos bottoms for seventy
miles, running of course parallel 10 it and acting
as ditch or drain to the bottoms, & enters the
big Brazos four or FIVE miles below our line, as
marked for the No,eso on our maps The Nov
esot puts into the Brazos forty miles below that.
1t affords Blu, little good land and overAows very
much Several creeks which put into the Brazos
on the west side afford some excellent land with
good springs, and mill seats. One settler talks
of commencing the building Of a mill in a few
days on small creek or miles below this
nave tdheu every opportunity W dSSCI-
tain correctly the amount of'Cotton which may
be raised upon an average in this country, and
am convinced that from 25 hundred to three
thousand may be calculated as the crop per
acre have taken pains to measure the ground
myself wherever could, and have never found
any to produce less, if the persons did not de-
ceive me in the amount picked off Of it, The
land seems to produce every thing yet tried in
it, and have no doubt that il is one Of the
choicest countries 70 live in have ever seen,
and think the chance for health in this upper
part is good. The latitude Of this place is a.
bout thirty-one degrees. 1t is about so miles
from the Gulph-from three TO four hundred
it is said by water. There are many shoals in
the river in low water, all Of which it is believed
can be easily removed, the rock being very soft.
Steamboats, can ascend the river above this
place with few feet rise. 1t seems TO me 70
be as good river for navigation as the Cum
berland, at any rate to this place.
GREAT FRESHET.
L. falls TO our lot to record this week the
occurrence Of freshet unparalleled for more
than thirty five years. On Friday evening last
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