Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-11-09

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the approaching canvass will be warm and AMI
mated, whenever gentleman Is nxeu upon "
run against the present member.
We published in Yesterdays Gazette ieter
giving a glowing descriptionsof the city OF I'm
cinnati, and of the Prosperoas condition OF 'nf
West generally. The statements there contained
are undoubtedly correct. What glorious land
do we live in! By the aid of steamboats,, the ad-
yenturer is now in few days transported 10 new
and rich countries, fertile in soil, bounttul III
products. with delicious climate, and win q
line, healthy and growing population. lie quits
the worn out fields or the crowded cities OF the
! Atlantic States, and in little better than week
| is set down where the plough has never yet bro
ken the ground, and where men are just begin
ming to lay out their infant towns lie leaves
old age and decay-and comes to dwell with
youth and vigor. These causes operate power
fully, with a people with temperament ike
ours. and the tide OF emigration continues to set
strongly and stedfastly Westward. Nor IS
the emigration directed to one particular SPOT
The hardy yeomanry who quit their homes scat
ter all over the wide extent of country beyond
the mountains. Each State receives portion
of this new population every year. \ letter from
Lewsburgh (Va.) published in the Fred'rcks,
such food of emigration as is nowpourng west
ward-and particularly to Missouri. There
is scarcely day but more or less are passing;
and have counted ten wagons in the streets OF
this small village. at one time. moving westward.
Such a tide of emigration must soon plant the
fertile lands of Missouri ;5and if her soil and
climate are equal to representation. she GER
tainly bids fair. ere long, TO be one OF the first
States in the Union"
! We have seen other acc0unts from other
| States which show the same facts as regards
themselves. 1t will be many years before this
annual migration will cease, draining as It does,
some of the old States, of their best citizens
The introduction of those beautiful ANIMALS,
which are now so common, into the literary mar
ket, has had some. bad effects along with many
good consequences. Writers. whose aim it is.
to have, their productions enshrined on hot pres
sed. Gilt edgetLpaper, in embossed morocco, are
apt TO think more of jingle and surface. than of
depth OF solidity. Hence we find many of the
articles in our Souvenirs, Aippantly dressed up.
apparently with the design of making them as
much like theHprinting and binding as possible.
lis a pity that some stern critic would not un-
dertake to apply the correcting rod-but no man
| likes to kill butterflies.
| Praise, however. where praise is due. We
have read both good poetry and good prose, in
our late Aunuals.
We are speaking, be it remembered, altogeth-
err of the literary merit of these works. The me-
chanical part is generally all that we could wish.
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A letter from Paris states that General LAFAY-
ET1E is in excellent health-that he even appears
much Younger since the Revolution. We have
no doubt the event has contributed to recruit his
health and spirits, and may be the means of pro-
longing his life. by calling again into active excr-
else his powers of body . "e'' as ct mind.
The English papers complain of the attacks
made upon English and Grammar by Mr. GAIT,
in his Life of Byron. A .jeu desprn in Dub,
lin Journal is headed alarming intelligence
Revolution in the Dictionary-One GAIT at the
head of it,
There schoold, with rsbhle of wa rds at command,
Scotch, English, and slang in promiscuous alliance
He at length, amt syntax has tax en- his stand.
And sets all the Nine Parts Of Speech at defiance.
What his meaning exactly is. nobody knows,
As he talks Gin strain of int nse bo,heration)
OF iyficai" ichor,"' 4" gelatinous' prose
And III; Xure called "sinber immor,aIization ..
ho,o he raves of bard, he once happened TO meet
Seated high among ratings" and churmns'' a |
sonnet;S
Nco talks of. Mystery, wrapped in sheet,
With a halo 10y way Of a nght.cap) upon i,p'l
We shud,ler in tracing these terrible lines;
something bad they must mean. tho We can't make
tout;
For whateer may be guessed Of Cats secret DESIGNS
'hstthey're all AnH English no Christian can donb,'
That dark diseased ichor v hich colored his efru.
Sions."- Gai's Life Of Byron >''"'
inat keiatlIUuS character of their efIne;or. - |
Ibid. N"u''o''
t 1.-THE poeticaI embament, or rather amber i'm.
Ibid. " |
s'sitting amidst the shrouds and ratings, churm.
ne an inarticulate melody "-Ibid
tie was mystery in a winding sheet, crowned
With a halo Ibid
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A correspondent Of the Telegraph thinks that
he election in Orange County, (va) where r.. I
BARBOUR had majority of the votes given in {
lganast him, g will be claimed as tremendous t
iclory oydhe papers opposed to the Admlnistra
lon.' He deserves leather medal! |
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