The Arkansas advocate., 1833-08-14

As (As Rs EK1z1ES iSE3AN. A them like the patriarch of tle flock. and fiji. ; i Ttfdsizett ai my ideas Of iha ancient ana venerable character.
 ssliaging finished dinner. we retUaed te the parlor, and the evening passed in gener. Fal and agreeable conversation.
 At ten o'clock the next moFnino we q. gam met at the breakfast table, and after wards took 9 walk around the domains.- | The General first conducted US to pretty little building, with painted windows, in which was placed the Whitehall boat, called the American Star, presented to him at l NeWYork. Thence to an enclosure. where were beautiful American stag and 9 doe, presented 10 him from the JaroIin des }'lantes, but of American pagentaee.- ! l VIC then entered large y', surrounded ! hwhicr slitldlngsFos tl 44sil,5 5t one sidta g.1 wifich was the ayiary, containing number of very curious and beautiful binds. Then we were conducted 10 the yarioussheep- folds, which enclosed f1oells of naerisos, a= mounting, in the whole, to a thousand, all remarkable fer the fineness and beatty of their wool. Entering the farm-house we were shown to two fine cool dairies, phced half under ground, and like all the tther apartments which 1 saw, remarkably dean and niee.
 After having. seen all the different parts of the farm, we walked into the woods, which arc beautifully laid out, in the Gen. erals own taste; and great number 6f the trees were planted by his own hand. Our walk terminated at a pretty little artificial lake, with anisland in the midst of it and a pleasure boat for sailing. Returning to the cbateau, we took a run over the bBautiful lawn in front of 1t, with trees so planted in groups, as to afford open yistas bRtween them. After this we all separated, to pur- sue whatever occupation we chose.
 "And this is one of the great ch4rms of La Grange; all are left at liberty togo and come as they please, without any of1the re- stralats of ordinary visiting. Ton may read or write,-walk, sail or hunt, as the one or the other is most agreeable to your taste, until the dinner bell gives tie signal for again uniting. Itseems to make not the slightest difference in the arrangements of the family, whether there are twenty guests Of only one. All that come are cordially welcomed, and they have only to make themselves as happy, as the numerous at fractions of the place enable them to be.
 "At dinner we were pleased to meet MT. l Levasseur, who, with two other French gentlemen, had arrived during the day. The evening was spent in music and danc- ing, the young ladies taking turns to play fas each gthv~. The room, appNcpriatca for these purposes, possesses quite as many memoriaIs-of America, as the adjoining sa- loon. The most conspicuous object on one side was the 'star-spangld banner suspended between the portraits of Wash ington and Franklin, the latter painted by Madame Perier. There were also busts of John Q. Adams and MT. Monroe, q portrait of the commander of the Brandy wine, the Declaration of Independence, and Washington's Farewell Addess, toge- ther with two French prints, one of the Bastille and the other of the Champ dc .Alafs.
 "After breakfast the next morning, we were shown the little room, which they call the museum, filled with various presents made to the General in America. There were number of Indian dresses and canoes, a beautiful mahogany model of the celebrated water-works near Philadelphia, little box of birds eye maple, containing water from the Erie canal, a bitch-bark box filled with maple sugar, collections of shells, and other curiosities too numerous to men ton.
 "We then followed to the library, which adioins tho Generals sleeping chamber.-- Just outside the door of this room IS a small picture of the prison at 0lmutz, aid the jailer unlocking the door of the cell in which the General was confined. The bed chamber was adorned with prints and paint ings of different kinds; some of them por- traits of personal and family friends, and others of public characters, such as Gene ral Jackson, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford and others. There were like wise prints of the Hancock house, of RIr. Adams residence at Quincy, and the pie ture of a scene at Yorktown, with the fig ures of Washington, Lincoln, and Lafa- yette, among others, represented in it. Upon table was placed q splendid silver urn, present from the Officers of the Brandywine. On one side was seen the harbor of New York, at the moment of the Generals departure, and the ship just set ting sail. On the other was the open tomb of Washington, and three persons about to descend into 1t, namely, General Lafayette, his son. and Mr. Levasselr.
 1.-The library IS handsome circular room, containing a large number of beau- tiful books, conveniently arranged III open bookcases, and consisting of all the most