Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-09

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utes of greatness. No other cocntry can De
named, in which forty years have made so many
and such extensive changes. Our population
sweiied from 1000 to two millions--onr I'M
proved land from one million acres TO eiglit-5o
couht,es separately organzed-!57 towns
incorporated cites-one of which contains more
than two hundred thousand Inhabitants IS IN
corporated villages, manv OF which are popuious
and fiourishinp-several colleges, and numerous
inst itutions for instruction in general literature
and medica, srienCe--select, common and Tree
schools. sufficient in number to educate all me
children in the republic-penitentiary estao-
lishments, in which the great problem, whether
the ends of criminal justice can be united "i'n
the Moderation of the penal code, has at iens.h
bcvr solved and happily for mankind solved IN
the aflirmntiye-4s4 miles OF canal navIsa'ion
cons, rGsted at the pnbic expense. anu ""oe" ny
the state. and 81 miles constructed anu o"ieu
by an incorporated con,pany-salt springs, whose
annual produce amounts tohear million anu
half of ia s-tap6ppst oilices70sieam
pyinr Wholly or partIy liz the waters 81 the state
ell newspapers. Ii OF which are pablistted dai-
lv-al4 Incorporated manufacturing cGmpanies,
and several hundred manufactures owned by IN
dividuals or associations not ruraati--'i
banks and SIS insurance companies. no" III opera
tion-S5O turnpike and bridge companles-3
savings banks-numerous literary. scienilic anu
benevolent institutinns-and a militia of nearly
200. COO. These are seine Of the results to BE- re-
corded in the recent history Of New-York.-
The several steps in career so rapid and Illus
trious. ought not to b. unknown. We owe 1t to
ourselves aud to the world. to furnish modest
but faithful record ofcur progress.
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7ransiaed for Me y. T. .7n'e'icGn.
A SUDDEN ENGAGEMENr.-ODe evening
gentleman at Haymarket was suddenly smitten
with very pretty girl IN the next box TO him.
After exchanging numberless glance, thr gen
tleman wrote in pencil mark. on slip oil paper.
PRAY. fair lady .arc YOUR affections disengased!
He passed the paper to her, and she, alter
minutes conversation with her mother, wrote
back to him. Yes sir. my affections are olsen
saret-but why do you ask the question:
:. | am bachelor" replied the gentleman still
writing, IL have thousand pounds sterling
wear. besides very handsome house in a
fashionable part of the city: but all this does not
make me happy want gentlewoman for Il
wife, such as YOU seem to be, and then my hap
piness will be complete. Will you marry me?-
will promise tn be the most faithful. lndulgent.
and tender husband in London" The young
lady who. like all other Eng ish women, was some
what romantic, was so much struck with the
frankness and novelty of the declaration. that
she drew trumit happy inference for the future,
and finally wrote to the gentleman, that she
would be his wife. provided her parents con-
sented to their marriage few days after they
were married. -Iuyef de Lcndres.
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THE Ttco .Seres-The last number of the
Ladies' Magazine contains its usual variety oil
valuable and interesting matter. The following
true and elegant paragraphs are extracted from
an article by Mrs. Sigourney, whose mind Is the
dwelling of light and beauty:
MAN might he initiated into the varieties and
mysteries of needlcwork; laugh to have patience
with the feebleness and waywardness of infancy.
and to steal with noiseless step about the cham
Der of the sick: and woman might be instructed
to contend for the palm of science; topOur forth
eloQuence in senates. or to wade through fields
of slaughter to throne Yet revotings of the
soul would attend this violence to nature; this
abuse of physical and intellectual energy: while
the beauty Of social order would be defaced, and
the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.
1--WE arrive, therefore. at the conclusion. The
sexes are intended for different spheres. and con-
structed in conformity to their respective desti-
nations, by Him who bids the oak brave the fury
of the tempest. and the Alpine flower lean its
cheek on the bosom Of eternal SHOWS. But DIS
parity does not necessarily imply mferiori'y.-
The high places of the earth, with their pomp and
glory, are indeed accessible only to the march of
ambition or the grasp of power; yet those who
pass with faithful and unapplaudcd zeal through
their humble round of duty, are not unnotced by
the Great Task masters eye and their endow-
ments. though accounted poverty among men.
may prove durable riches in the kingdom of
Heaven"
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TIE SoIar Eclipse a February neri.--Ihe
American Almanac jos! published cor aims
great variety Of calculations relative 10 he grea;
solar eclipse which will be visible throughout
The United States on the 18th OF February next
These calculations exhibit very infinitely the path
of the central eclipse and of several of the igI's,
and the phase, of the eclipse is sill mare clearly
marked cut upon map Of the UnlfeA States. at
attached to- The Almanac for that pnrposc.
The central Eclipse will enter the United /!
States from Mexico; and will pass through the .
states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Aiabama.thr I
north part OF Georgia aud South Csyuiina. NQr;h !
Carolina aud the south eastern parts Of r'c',lia |
and Marvland: thenCe proceeding aic,lr i,e Al. /