Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Pittsburg Gazette. May 4.

The arrival of Mr. West's corps of Equestrians among us, brings to our minds the subject most dear to us; the advancement and growth of our western section of the continent. Thirty five years ago, a gentleman* of high standing in our country, predicted in a large company in Philadelphia, that he should live to see the day when a mail should cross the mountains once in two weeks! He was viewed as a wild enthusiast. A revolution of affairs has made this accomplished citizen a resident of an estate he held 17 miles west of Pittsburg, and before he left this world he had the proud satisfaction (for he was an enthusiast in every thing relating to the west) of receiving his papers from New-York and Philadelphia, and of seeing a rapid mail stage from the east, pass his door three times a week!—He was still more gratified, for he lived to hear of the manufactures of Pittsburgh being wafted to the shores of Europe, in ships, built at the spot where his early patriotism had been devoted to protecting the frontiers: and conciliating the friendship of an Indian population.

* The late Col. George Morgan, of Morganza, who in early life filled a number of the most important stations under the old Congress of the United States.